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X-kit Literature Guides explains the history, environment and the
story of the text in broad terms. It discusses every major
character and theme in the text in detail using pictures and
diagrams to explain concepts. X-kit Literature Guides provides
plenty of practise questions and answers and tips on how to tackle
your literature exam.
Unique selling point: • This book combines risk management,
cybersecurity and behavioral and decision science in one book with
case studies, mitigation plans, and a new risk framework to address
cognitive risks. Core audience: • Corporate and government risk,
audit, IT security and compliance organisations Place in the
market: • Cognitive Risks differs from competitive books by
reframing the role of human behavior in risk.
This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in
the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a
preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in
their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their
children despite rural poverty and the lack of opportunities for
women. The economics of widowhood is therefore a significant social
problem in less developed countries. The widows' predominant
economic plan was to combine rice cultivation with an assortment of
microenterprises, a "rice plus" strategy. Many widows were unable
to grow enough rice on their land to feed their families. They
filled the hunger gap by raising cash through microenterprises to
purchase additional rice. Gender work roles were both permeable and
persistent, allowing a flexible sexual division of labor in the
short run but maintaining traditional roles in the long run. Most
widows called on relatives or exchanged transplanting labor for
male plowing services, although a few women took up the plow
themselves. The study also explores widows' access to key economic
resources such as land, credit, and education. War decimated
widows' family support networks, including the loss of children,
their social security. The study concludes that Cambodia's gender
arrangement offered many economic options to widows but also
devalued their labor in a cultural structure of inequality. Gender,
poverty, and war interacted to reduce widows' financial resources,
accounting for their economic vulnerability.
Discusses the concepts of mechanical, thermal, and thermodynamic
equilibrium and their applications. Covers the molecular basis for
internal energy, entropy, thermodynamic equilibrium, and
reversibility. Enables the reader to model irreversibility and
determine the net loss in performance of a thermal system compared
to an idealized system and approach an ideal one. Demonstrates
entropy as a path independent property by use of reversible heat
engines and reversible heat pumps interacting with a process
between two states, the environment and the reservoir. Covers the
role of reversibility from a thermodynamics standpoint and relates
it to other areas, such as gas dynamics, combustion, propulsion,
power plant engineering, and engines.
Digital Information and Knowledge Management examines how academic
librarians can use knowledge management to provide an increasing
amount of electronic information to an expanding user base. Several
of the country's leading library administrators analyze these vital
issues from the perspectives of both information providers and
library users, exploring the challenges of selecting and managing
electronic information and resources, making the most of knowledge
management, and improving digital access to their users. Electronic
resources have given the library new roles to fill and created a
demand for librarians skilled in the acquisition, retrieval, and
dissemination of digital information. Libraries and librarians have
met the challenges presented by digital resources and have moved
from building collections of print materials into the growing field
of knowledge management. Digital Information and Knowledge
Management offers insights into how librarians are making that
transition to enhance the resources and services they can offer
library users. Topics examined in Digital Information and Knowledge
Management include: cooperative collection development the balance
of print and electronic resources the evolution of digital
resources in libraries the concept of knowledge management changes
in research libraries knowledge management in academic libraries
factors that influence the selection of electronic resources
disseminating information about scholarly collections the need for
a standardized method of information presentation successful
approaches to managing digital information the digitalization of
collections and historical materials how to maintain the
connections between academic disciplines and libraries and much
more! Digital Information and Knowledge Management is an essential
professional resource for senior- and mid-level library
administrators, and for acquisitions, reference, and collections
librarians.
Learn to better control costs for print and digital resources from
recognized leaders in library administration Academic libraries
have been using electronic resources for several years, yet library
administrators still find that the evolution from print to digital
takes meticulous planning. Collection Management and Strategic
Access to Digital Resources is a collection of eight presentations
from the 2004 University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference focusing
on the ways academic research libraries can successfully make the
transition from print materials to electronic resources. Respected
authorities offer effective strategies to efficiently coordinate
the use of digital materials in the contemporary research library.
As acquisition budgets tighten and fresh emphasis is placed upon
finding strategies to afford needed resources, library
administrators find it increasingly difficult to meet the challenge
of providing information to today's students and scholars.
Collection Management and Strategic Access to Digital Resources
focuses on innovative, practical solutions to difficult problems
facing librarians and library administrators today and in the
coming decade.The book is carefully referenced and includes tables
and charts to clearly explain data.Collection Management and
Strategic Access to Digital Resources presents and thoroughly
discusses: the impact of digital resources on libraries, research,
and learning in history and science open access of research results
beyond the print journal regime Association of Research Libraries
(ARL) and electronic journal subscriptions an introduction to
Ithaka a not-for-profit organization that acts as an incubator for
electronic projects and research for libraries evaluations and
innovative alternatives of the rules and beliefs of electronic
resource collection the historical and contextual considerations
that have made collections cooperation difficult to achieve and a
global resources network initiative that may answer the challenge
transforming scholarship's role by offering access to the raw
material of research offering new opportunities for access to a
greater range of information the responsibilities of research
libraries in a rapidly evolving digital world Collection Management
and Strategic Access to Digital Resources is essential reading for
senior library administrators in public, special, and academic
libraries, as well as acquisitions, reference, collection
development, and systems librarians.
Connect patrons with the information they seek with these promising
electronic tools! Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content
Selection, and Digital Information focuses on how you can improve
access to information using electronic reference resources. This
book features nine of America's leading library administrators who
give their perspectives, observations, and stipulations on how to
meet the research needs of patrons in a digital age. This timely
resource is relevant to senior library administrators in the
process of developing electronic tools and services. Improved
Access to Information addresses the current library issue of how to
utilize scarce resources to provide an ever-increasing amount of
electronic information to an ever-expanding user base. The use of
portals and their advantages are discussed in detail and from the
different perspectives of information providers and users. Several
authors offer instructive graphs, tables, and other illustrations
to emphasize their findings. In Improved Access to Information,
you'll learn more about: the variety of groups that libraries serve
cooperative collection development the balance of print and
electronic resources the evolvement of collection development in
libraries to the concept of knowledge development the
implementation of portals in research libraries the factors
influencing the selection of electronic resources digitizing unique
collections for preservation and improved access The product of the
2003 University of Oklahoma Libraries annual conference, Improved
Access to Information offers library administrators new approaches
for overcoming the proliferation of electronic information and
making it readily available to users. This book will help you
provide essential research services to your users and secure your
patron base.
Connect patrons with the information they seek with these promising
electronic tools! Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content
Selection, and Digital Information focuses on how you can improve
access to information using electronic reference resources. This
book features nine of America's leading library administrators who
give their perspectives, observations, and stipulations on how to
meet the research needs of patrons in a digital age. This timely
resource is relevant to senior library administrators in the
process of developing electronic tools and services. Improved
Access to Information addresses the current library issue of how to
utilize scarce resources to provide an ever-increasing amount of
electronic information to an ever-expanding user base. The use of
portals and their advantages are discussed in detail and from the
different perspectives of information providers and users. Several
authors offer instructive graphs, tables, and other illustrations
to emphasize their findings. In Improved Access to Information,
you'll learn more about: the variety of groups that libraries serve
cooperative collection development the balance of print and
electronic resources the evolvement of collection development in
libraries to the concept of knowledge development the
implementation of portals in research libraries the factors
influencing the selection of electronic resources digitizing unique
collections for preservation and improved access The product of the
2003 University of Oklahoma Libraries annual conference, Improved
Access to Information offers library administrators new approaches
for overcoming the proliferation of electronic information and
making it readily available to users. This book will help you
provide essential research services to your users and secure your
patron base.
Examine the effects electronic resources have on your library!
Electronic Resources and Collection Development examines how the
transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has
impacted traditional collection development policies and practices.
Nine acclaimed librarians present their perspectives on the growing
trend toward digital materials acquisition that is tipping the
scales in favor of access in the ownership vs. access debate. The
book provides insights on the use of electronic resources in major
research libraries from data collection by JSTOR, a leading
provider of digital resources to academic libraries. A rich and
diverse collection of theory, opinion, and observation, Electronic
Resources and Collection Development offers a unique understanding
of how libraries are meeting the challenge of reshaping their
collection development programs with electronic resourcesa process
that is quickly gaining momentum. Contributors are divided in their
beliefs on whether a balance is still possible between print
materials and electronic resources in academic libraries. Among the
topics they discuss: the growing demand for e-books the increase in
the use of distance education digitalizing special collections
building localized collections use patterns of electronic journals
and much more! Electronic Resources and Collection Development is
an essential resource for library deans, directors, and collection
development librarians as they assess the levels of change in their
libraries.
Discusses the concepts of mechanical, thermal, and thermodynamic
equilibrium and their applications. Covers the molecular basis for
internal energy, entropy, thermodynamic equilibrium, and
reversibility. Enables the reader to model irreversibility and
determine the net loss in performance of a thermal system compared
to an idealized system and approach an ideal one. Demonstrates
entropy as a path independent property by use of reversible heat
engines and reversible heat pumps interacting with a process
between two states, the environment and the reservoir. Covers the
role of reversibility from a thermodynamics standpoint and relates
it to other areas, such as gas dynamics, combustion, propulsion,
power plant engineering, and engines.
Unique selling point: • This book combines risk management,
cybersecurity and behavioral and decision science in one book with
case studies, mitigation plans, and a new risk framework to address
cognitive risks. Core audience: • Corporate and government risk,
audit, IT security and compliance organisations Place in the
market: • Cognitive Risks differs from competitive books by
reframing the role of human behavior in risk.
This volume has been developed as a direct result of a conference
sponsored by the International Academy for Research in Learning
Disabilities, held at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The text provides a review and critique of current research in the
areas of intelligence, social cognition, achievement, and subtyping
as they relate to learning disabilities. In addition, the concept
that social behavior is an aspect of intelligence and the
relationship between language and reading are discussed in detail
by noted experts.
This book, a survey of current practices in both planning and
computer aids, is largely confined to space projections, block and
detailed layout planning, material flow analysis, plan and
elevation drawings-the core activities of most facilities planners.
This book, first published in 1993, is a key resource in beginning
the task of re-thinking traditional methods of collection
development and maintenance. The contributing authors to this
volume provide thought-provoking chapters which touch on library,
business, and societal issues as related to work as a library
administrator. They advise on how to take a more economical
approach to developing and maintaining a great collection - with a
smaller budget.
This book, first published in 1996, analyses the most important and
relevant collection development and networking issues facing the
library community today. It explores the relationship between
electronic resources, resource sharing, and collection development
from the perspectives of librarians, vendors, and network
administrators. It also presents ideas for saving precious
budgetary dollars and improving collections by utilizing
resource-sharing technology to provide library users with access to
information.
This book, first published in 1987, is an essential volume for all
library professionals responsible for acquisitions. It explores
pricing from the publisher's, wholesaler's, and library's
perspective. Experts reveal insightful information on vendors,
approvals, acquisition costs, overseas monographic pricing, and
much more.
This book, first published in 1991, deals with the demanding
problems of smaller acquisitions budgets. In recent years
librarians have seen their finances diminishing while the prices of
serials and monographs have risen steadily. Now with major
decisions having to be made concerning such things as automation,
monograph collections, and subscription renewals, librarians are
having to assume the role of business manager and dealer. This book
takes an in-depth look at the situation and offers practical
suggestions for working through the lean years. Strategies for
getting the most for your money when dealing with vendors,
selective collection development and maintenance, and making
calculated decisions on how to divide the library's funds are just
a few of the topics covered in this helpful new book.
This book, first published in 1999, suggests proven, effective
strategies to deal with a librarian's most pressing problems. One
case study shows how Iowa State University turned a cutback in
journals into a new vision of what the library should be, involving
a broad-based committee in the project. Other chapters discuss the
specifics of budgeting for the unpredictable pricing of electronic
materials, the increased demands on library staff, and the
challenges of maintaining dual libraries-the electronic and the
paper-based-both facing expensive issues of preservation. Through
case studies and first-hand experiences, it provides fresh analysis
to guide the library into the electronic era.
This book, first published in 1996, explores the role of libraries
in acquiring, storing, and disseminating information in different
formats to make better use of technology in sharing scarce
resources and connecting library users with collections. With an
expressed goal of encouraging continued debate and further
investigation, this book presents developing strategies and
procedures to meet the challenges faced as a collection development
librarian. Among the vital concerns addressed are the competition
for limited resources, trends in document delivery, access vs.
ownership, the evaluation of document delivery products, and
libraries' options for the future.
This book, first published in 2002, examines how the transition to
electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional
collection development policies and practices. Nine acclaimed
librarians present their perspectives on the growing trend toward
digital materials acquisition that is tipping the scales in favour
of 'access' in the 'ownership vs. access' debate. The book provides
insights on the use of electronic resources in major research
libraries from data collection by JSTOR, a leading provider of
digital resources to academic libraries. A rich and diverse
collection of theory, opinion, and observation, it offers a unique
understanding of how libraries are meeting the challenge of
reshaping their collection development programs with electronic
resources-a process that is quickly gaining momentum. Contributors
are divided in their beliefs on whether a balance is still possible
between print materials and electronic resources in academic
libraries.
The Koreans, according to the Chinese chronicles, are 'the people
who enjoy singing and dancing' and who regaled their gods with
dance and song. Since then poetry has been an essential part of
Korean life and has been regarded as the highest of the arts. In
this first comprehensive anthology of Korean poetry in English,
first published in 1974, Peter Lee has selected and translated a
wide variety of poems ranging from the Silla Dynasty in 57 BC to
the middle of the twentieth century. The poems chosen reflect not
only the native Korean tradition, but also the great tradition of
Chinese poetry. They often possess a deep lyrical quality, many are
rich in religious overtones or derive their beauty from
contemplation of nature and through many of the poems runs the
feeling of the closeness of Korean life to the earth.
Since 9/11, the U.S. government and the private sector have devised
sophisticated ways of protecting people and assets. The threats
have evolved, however, becoming more insidious. They no longer
comprise just terrorists who target critical infrastructures. They
also include insider threats, such as PFC Manning and NSA
contractor Snowden who leaked classified defense information,
active shooter incidents like the Sandy Hook Elementary School
massacre, and the 2013 Boston Marathon terrorist bombing. These
events make it imperative for the public and private sectors to
engage in effective partnership to protect people, facilities, and
national infrastructure assets. Homeland Security and Private
Sector Business: Corporations' Role in Critical Infrastructure
Protection, Second Edition identifies the role the private sector
plays in securing our homeland and offers strategies to aid in the
fight against national and international threats. Addressing
mandates and legislation introduced since the first edition, this
new edition includes: Updates to the NIPP (National Infrastructure
Protection Plan) New case studies of both proper security policies
and procedures in practice versus costly security breaches Greater
focus on smaller business and practical "immediate use" guidance
New measures for assessing and addressing vulnerabilities and
threats New appendices with sample plans and practical checklists
Supplying tools that can easily be adapted and applied to every
business situation at all budget levels, the book helps businesses
counter the total threat, from traditional terrorists to inside
betrayers-providing a clear blueprint for securing people and
assets.
This book uses leading figures in the study of biological and human
ecology to evaluate the criticisms and propose ways to advance the
state of knowledge in ecological research. It examines the loss of
explanatory value when the ecosystem concept in anthropology is
applied to human systems.
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