ilość książek w kategorii: 458
Digital Libraries: Policy, Planning and Practice
ISBN: 9780754634485 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Libraries: Policy, Planning and Practice brings together a wealth of international experience in the planning and implementation of digital and hybrid library projects, providing a stimulating and informative handbook and reference for library staff and information managers. It consists of chapters contributed by leading specialists from Europe, North America, South Africa and the Middle East, who offer their insight into the decision-making processes that have shaped a variety of different digitization programmes. Beginning with introductory overviews of the digital library context,...
Digital Libraries: Policy, Planning and Practice brings together a wealth of international experience in the planning and implementation of digital an...
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681,40 zł |
Optimizing Academic Library Services in the Digital Milieu: Digital Devices and Their Emerging Trends
ISBN: 9781843347323 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The digital is the new milieu in which academic libraries must serve their patrons; but how best to utilize the slew of digital devices and their surrounding trends? Optimizing Academic Library Services in the Digital Milieu identifies best practices and strategies for using digital devices (such as tablets, e-readers, and smartphones) and copyrighted materials in academic libraries. Special consideration is given to e-books, iBooks, e-journals, and digital textbooks. This title describes how academic libraries can remain current, nimbly addressing user needs. An introduction gives an...
The digital is the new milieu in which academic libraries must serve their patrons; but how best to utilize the slew of digital devices and their surr...
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239,75 zł |
E-Learning in Libraries: Best Practices
ISBN: 9780810887503 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If libraries are to remain centers for lifelong learning, then that learning must increasingly be e-learning. But, where can librarians turn for the best ideas and inspiration on how to implement e-learning programs? This book features nine exemplary programs set in all types of libraries. You'll find proven, successful ways of introducing online credit-based information literacy instruction, innovative methods for teaching critical thinking skills online, ways of using open source software in interactive learning, step-by-step guidance for instructional screencasting, ways to work with...
If libraries are to remain centers for lifelong learning, then that learning must increasingly be e-learning. But, where can librarians turn for the b...
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433,40 zł |
Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content
ISBN: 9780838914144 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With first-hand profiles of 19 library projects, Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, from the broad sweep of vendors' products to the fine points of specialized holdings.
With first-hand profiles of 19 library projects, Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, fro...
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541,93 zł |
Learning Management Systems
ISBN: 9780838959701 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academic librarians have long sought new ways to reach out to their users and support those users' research needs. Now, learning management system (LMS) embedded librarianship is partnering with faculty to deliver research assistance for students right in their LMS course sites. This title describes the LMS environment alongside the larger online resource environment of academic libraries.
Academic librarians have long sought new ways to reach out to their users and support those users' research needs. Now, learning management system (LM...
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244,14 zł |
Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion: A Basic Guide for Library Staff
ISBN: 9780838913826 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In its new fifth edition, which has been completely updated and reorganized, this one-stop overview of all technologies used in libraries today is more comprehensive and compelling than ever. The perfect primer for LIS students, Burke’s guide should also be at the top of the list for any current or future library professional looking to stay at the forefront of technological advancement. It gives readers a sound and sensible way to consider, access, and use library technologies to better meet the needs of library users. Its incisive coverage includes: complete analysis of the librarian’s...
In its new fifth edition, which has been completely updated and reorganized, this one-stop overview of all technologies used in libraries today is mor...
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474,35 zł |
The Best 100 Free Apps for Libraries
ISBN: 9780810885820 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Librarian Jim Hahn has carefully culled the over 500,000 available apps down to the 100 that are the absolute best for day-in, day-out library services. The guide covers apps for Apple and Android devices, including tablets. Each entry in this long-needed guide contains: - a basic summary of how each app operates, - at least one example of how that app can be used by a librarian, - one example of how it can help a library user access library services, - a section highlighting critical limitations and apps that may better serve a librarian's needs, and - the next possible iteration of the app....
Librarian Jim Hahn has carefully culled the over 500,000 available apps down to the 100 that are the absolute best for day-in, day-out library service...
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433,40 zł |
Making the Most of the Cloud: How to Choose and Implement the Best Services for Your Library
ISBN: 9780810891098 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cloud computing can be confusing - the number and types of services that are available through "the cloud" are growing by the day. Making the Most of the Cloud: How to Choose and Implement the Best Services for Your Library takes you through some of the more popular cloud services in libraries and breaks down what you need to know to pick the best one for your library. Some of the cloud services covered are: -Email -Integrated Library Systems (ILS) -Backups -Project Management -Graphics Software -and much more... With chapters covering cloud topics from the definition of a "cloud" to security...
Cloud computing can be confusing - the number and types of services that are available through "the cloud" are growing by the day. Making the Most of ...
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369,03 zł |
M-Libraries 4: From Margin to Mainstream - Mobile Technologies Transforming Lives and Libraries
ISBN: 9781856049443 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An up-to-date showcase of the innovative and inspiring work that libraries are doing across the world to interact with their users and deliver resources via mobile devices. Mobile technology is now the norm for accessing information for a growing swathe of library users. As mobile devices become increasingly sophisticated and prevalent, so users' expectations of being able to access information and services through them are on the rise. Libraries and information centres must respond to the challenge with ever-more inventive and effective solutions for providing content to users anywhere and...
An up-to-date showcase of the innovative and inspiring work that libraries are doing across the world to interact with their users and deliver resourc...
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371,65 zł |
Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries
ISBN: 9781466647619 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As physical collections go digital, the organizational procedures, budgets, and usage patterns of libraries must evolve to meet this change by identifying the various issues that are essential in understanding the management of e-resources. Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries provides relevant theoretical and practical details from an international perspective on the current e-resources landscape. Through a detailed discussion of the specific aspects of e-resources management, this book is a useful source for library science faculty and students, academic...
As physical collections go digital, the organizational procedures, budgets, and usage patterns of libraries must evolve to meet this change by identif...
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972,67 zł |
Managing Digital Audiovisual Resources: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9780810891036 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The demand from library users for audiovisual materials and remote access combined with the unceasing deterioration and inaccessibility of many audiovisual formats requires libraries to adapt their collections to meet current and future demands. While this changing landscape of digitization and resource management may seem daunting, it represents an opportunity to bolster a library s relevancy and competitiveness. Managing Digital Audiovisual Resources fills a gap as a single concise guide for real world basics, broad concepts, and practical needs from technologies to collections to...
The demand from library users for audiovisual materials and remote access combined with the unceasing deterioration and inaccessibility of many audiov...
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345,35 zł |
Designing Online Information Literacy Games Students Want to Play
ISBN: 9780810891425 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing Online Information Literacy Games Students Want to Play sets the record straight with regard to the promise of games for motivating and teaching students in educational environments. The authors draw on their experience designing the BiblioBouts information literacy game, deploying it in dozens of college classrooms across the country, and evaluating its effectiveness for teaching students how to conduct library research. The multi-modal evaluation of BiblioBouts involved qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and analyses. Drawing on the evaluation, the authors...
Designing Online Information Literacy Games Students Want to Play sets the record straight with regard to the promise of games for motivating and teac...
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419,73 zł |
Digital Rights Management: The Librarian's Guide
ISBN: 9781442263758 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of users that routinely click "I Agree" buttons, librarians may be the lone voice raising an alert to the privacy, use, and ownership issues arising in connection with the design and implementation of digital rights management (DRM) technologies. DRM reflects the efforts of copyright owners to prevent the illegal distribution of copyrighted material - an admirable goal on its face. A common misunderstanding is that DRM is copyright law. It is not. Rather it is a method of preventing copyright infringement; however, if unchecked, DRM has the potential to violate privacy, limit...
In a world of users that routinely click "I Agree" buttons, librarians may be the lone voice raising an alert to the privacy, use, and ownership issue...
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292,22 zł |
Digital Rights Management: The Librarian's Guide
ISBN: 9781442263741 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of users that routinely click "I Agree" buttons, librarians may be the lone voice raising an alert to the privacy, use, and ownership issues arising in connection with the design and implementation of digital rights management (DRM) technologies. DRM reflects the efforts of copyright owners to prevent the illegal distribution of copyrighted material - an admirable goal on its face. A common misunderstanding is that DRM is copyright law. It is not. Rather it is a method of preventing copyright infringement; however, if unchecked, DRM has the potential to violate privacy, limit...
In a world of users that routinely click "I Agree" buttons, librarians may be the lone voice raising an alert to the privacy, use, and ownership issue...
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579,12 zł |
Technology and Professional Identity of Librarians: The Making of the Cybrarian
ISBN: 9781466647350 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The library profession has changed rapidly in the wake of advanced technologies. Once regarded as the gatekeepers of information found in books, today s library professionals are shifting from a traditional center of attention to a new focus on all areas of information studies. Technology and Professional Identify of Librarians: The Making of the Cybrarian brings into focus both the positive and negative aspects that technology places on the professional identity of librarians. Highlighting the new methods involved in data management, communication, and Library Information education and...
The library profession has changed rapidly in the wake of advanced technologies. Once regarded as the gatekeepers of information found in books, today...
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972,67 zł |
Multimedia Information Retrieval : Theory and Techniques
ISBN: 9781843347224 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novel processing and searching tools for the management of new multimedia documents have developed. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is an organic system made up of Text Retrieval (TR); Visual Retrieval (VR); Video Retrieval (VDR); and Audio Retrieval (AR) systems. So that each type of digital document may be analysed and searched by the elements of language appropriate to its nature, search criteria must be extended. Such an approach is known as the Content Based Information Retrieval (CBIR), and is the core of MIR. This novel content-based concept of information handling needs to be...
Novel processing and searching tools for the management of new multimedia documents have developed. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is an organ...
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297,74 zł |
Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration
ISBN: 9780810891012 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dozens of books about Wikipedia are available, but they all focus on the English Wikipedia and assume an Anglo-Saxon perspective, while disregarding cultural and language variability or multi-cultural collaborative efforts. They address the impact of Wikipedia on society, processes of mass knowledge production, and the dynamics of the Wikipedia community. However, none of them focus on Wikipedia's global features. This lack of attention presents a serious problem because more than 80% of Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English---in fact, Wikipedia includes articles in...
Dozens of books about Wikipedia are available, but they all focus on the English Wikipedia and assume an Anglo-Saxon perspective, while disregarding c...
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435,67 zł |
Outsourcing Technology: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9780810892477 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, acclaimed technology author and speaker Robin Hastings brings both her own experience as a library s IT manager with outsourcing technical functions including email and network backups as well as basic hardware maintenance and that of others in her network of library techies to round out the book to help libraries of all types and sizes save money and expand services. Outsourced functions covered here range from using an outside firm to assist in creating a new library website to outsourcing basic computer maintenance and network administration. Outsourcing Technology: A Practical Guide...
Here, acclaimed technology author and speaker Robin Hastings brings both her own experience as a library s IT manager with outsourcing technical funct...
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398,48 zł |
Online by Design: The Essentials of Creating Information Literacy Courses
ISBN: 9780810891111 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As more and more academic libraries consider offering online credit courses or converting face-to-face courses to online, instructional librarians need to quickly get up to speed about online course design and delivery. Even the most seasoned instruction librarian may be intimidated by the thought of converting their classroom course into an online course. Based on both sound research in the area on of online pedagogy and extensive teaching experience, this book includes ideas for: 1.Creating innovative and interactive information literacy tutorials that engage students. 2.Addressing common...
As more and more academic libraries consider offering online credit courses or converting face-to-face courses to online, instructional librarians nee...
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297,53 zł |
Discovering and Using Historical Geographic Resources on the Web: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9780810891449 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical geographic material, like maps, plans, and air photos, although collected and persevered by libraries, archives, and other heritage organizations, are often hidden from the general public. They can be difficult to find, access, and use. Fortunately, these caches of cartographic gems have been recognized and valued for their significant contribution to research. As a result, many of these collections have been recently digitized and made available to the public, directly and freely, online. Acting as a comprehensive guide to online historical, cartographic and other visual...
Historical geographic material, like maps, plans, and air photos, although collected and persevered by libraries, archives, and other heritage organiz...
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345,35 zł |