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In the five years since the first edition of Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults was published, numerous changes have taken place in the landscape of young adult literature and y……続きを見る

This book focuses on open issues of new intelligent control paradigms and their usage. Industry 4.0 requires new approaches in the context of secure connection, control, and maintenance of robotic s……続きを見る

Viren, Würmer, Trojanische Pferde, das Arsenal der Hackerangriffe auf IT-Infrastrukturen scheint unerschöpflich. Nachdem Computerwurm Stuxnet 2010 das Steuerungssystem eines iranischen Atomkraftwerk……続きを見る

A concise guide to managing your digital life. Today, we collect and store an ever-increasing volume of digital personal information on convenient portable devices and create substantial amounts of ……続きを見る

Libraries are supposed to serve all people in the community, but some still struggle to provide support for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In an age of increasing soci……続きを見る

Preservation how-to for every medium. Cultural heritage professionalsーmuseum curators, museum professionals, archivists, and librariansー use their specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of ……続きを見る

Has the art of accompaniment been lost in Western culture? Could non-judgemental accompaniment be the answer to rising levels of isolation and loneliness? Could spending time with others from differ……続きを見る

A significant shift is taking place in libraries, with the purchase of e-resources accounting for the bulk of materials spending. Electronic Resource Management makes the case that technical service……続きを見る

Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries surveys and evaluates the current practice of learning commons and research services within the academic library community in order to determ……続きを見る

Learning styles are highly relevant for students in the online environment. Designing Effective Library Tutorials provides examples of, and steps for, how to create tutorials that match learning sty……続きを見る

Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using read……続きを見る

Dall'autore del libro "WordPress dalla A alla W" e fondatore del portale "Il Bloggatore" (uno dei portali di informatica più importanti in Italia), ecco la guida di cui hai bisogno per diventare un ……続きを見る

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participa……続きを見る

What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in t……続きを見る

The demand for and technology needed to create effective distance learning programs are increasing at a breakneck pace. Is your institution keeping up? As educators, information professionals are fa……続きを見る

Gain an in-depth understanding of changes in technical services that have taken place over a quarter century and look at future trends and changes that may occur. Technical Services Management surve……続きを見る

This helpful guidebook makes it easy for librarians to select the most appropriate periodical or serial for their proposed articles. A subject index with cross references ensures quick access to the……続きを見る

Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling. Pleasurable reading is conceptualized as an important kind of casual leisure, experienc……続きを見る

Determine what organizations have issued position statements on a specific subject! A position document establishes the view of an organization based on its knowledge on the subject at that specific……続きを見る

Develop a library staff training program that really works! To stay on top of the lightning-fast changes in the library field and provide your patrons with the best service possible, you need to est……続きを見る

Retrospective Conversion is an essential guide for library catalogers and technical services managers in the process of converting manual catalog records to machine readable form. It clearly illustr……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library typesーschool, ……続きを見る

This book provides an original, impassioned exploration of memory studies and the uses of the past in the present. It capitalises on London’s global appeal and Big Ben’s iconic status. Moving beyond……続きを見る

This book presents an original combination of three well-known methodological approaches for nonlinear data analysis: recurrence, networks, and fuzzy logic. After basic concepts of these three appro……続きを見る

This English version of Ruslan L. Stratonovich’s Theory of Information (1975) builds on theory and provides methods, techniques, and concepts toward utilizing critical applications. Unifying theorie……続きを見る

The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompt……続きを見る

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. Considering recent gender and sexua……続きを見る

Na contemporaneidade, discute-se cada vez mais o papel e o lugar da memória, considerando-se, sobretudo, o privilégio da rapidez, da eficácia e da eficiência da informação, ao mesmo tempo em que se ……続きを見る

Is college worth the cost? Should I worry about arsenic in my rice? Can we recycle pollution? Real questions of personal finance, public health, and social policy require sober, data-driven analyses……続きを見る