ilość książek w kategorii: 488
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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463,14 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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420,56 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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314,09 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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362,00 zł |
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library
ISBN: 9780810892712 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and communities to successfully participate in the information society. This book is the first detailed consideration of digital literacy and digital inclusion as policy problems and as core issues in information policy and libraries. The unique features of this book include -drawing together the key themes and findings from the discourse...
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital in...
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468,47 zł |
Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World
ISBN: 9780810887329 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessible online. To compete in the digital age, libraries must provide outstanding customer service to their virtual users. In Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World, Donald A. Barclay carefully examines business literature to identify the best customer service practices of online companies and shows readers how to adapt these practices to the library environment. Chapter coverage includes these critical areas:...
Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessibl...
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340,70 zł |
Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World
ISBN: 9780810893177 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessible online. To compete in the digital age, libraries must provide outstanding customer service to their virtual users. In Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World, Donald A. Barclay carefully examines business literature to identify the best customer service practices of online companies and shows readers how to adapt these practices to the library environment. Chapter coverage includes these critical areas:...
Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessibl...
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585,59 zł |
Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9780810891265 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Web scale discovery tools index a vast number of resources in a wide variety formats and allow users to search for content in a physical collection, print and electronic journal collections, and other resources from a single search box. Search results are displayed in a manner similar to internet searches, in a relevance-ranked list with links to online content. Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a one-stop source for librarians seeking to evaluate, purchase, and implement a web-scale discovery service. The book breaks down each phase of the project...
Web scale discovery tools index a vast number of resources in a wide variety formats and allow users to search for content in a physical collection, p...
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362,00 zł |
Using iPhones, iPads, and iPods: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9781442226876 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apple Inc. has sold more than 500 million iPhones, iPads, and iPodTouches. Library patrons are increasingly coming to libraries with the expectation that their Apple devices will work flawlessly with library services or that they can find an iPad to use at the library if they don t have one of their own. Libraries and librarians today are expected to be adept with the latest technology and to be able to apply it to popular use as well as scholarly research. Using iPhones and iPads: A Practical Guide for Librarians offers library professionals a clear path to Apple readiness. The authors, a...
Apple Inc. has sold more than 500 million iPhones, iPads, and iPodTouches. Library patrons are increasingly coming to libraries with the expectation t...
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362,00 zł |
Useful, Usable, Desirable: Applying User Experience Design to Your Library
ISBN: 9780838912263 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Useful, usable, desirable, like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble. Every decision you make affects how people experience your library. In this useful primer, user expereince (UX) librarians Schmidt and Etches identify 19 crucial touchpoints such as the library website, email, furniture, parking lot, events, and newsletters. They explain why each is important to your library's members and offer guidance on how to make improvements. From library administrators to public relations and marketing staff, anyone concerned with how...
Useful, usable, desirable, like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble. Every decision yo...
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287,47 zł |
Using Massive Digital Libraries
ISBN: 9780838912355 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some have viewed sthe ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than the beginning of the end for the traditional library. But Weiss, recognizing the concept of the library as a "big idea" that has been implemented in many ways over thousands of years, is no so gloomy. In this thought-provoking and unabashedly optimistic book, he explores how massive digital libraries are already adapting to society's needs, and looks ahead to the massive digital libraries of tomorrow, covering * The ahthor's criteria for defining massive digital libraries * A...
Some have viewed sthe ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than the beginning of the end for the tra...
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365,27 zł |
Mobile Devices: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9780810892583 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As more users expect to use their mobile devices, librarians will want and need to develop the necessary skills to reach this growing user base. Mobile Devices: A Practical Guide for Librarians will aid libraries and librarians as they go through the process of planning, developing, implementing, marketing, and evaluating mobile services. Based on research and experience using and developing for mobile devices, this guides includes information and ideas regarding: .Why mobile technologies are important for libraries .Developing mobile websites and applications for specific mobile platforms...
As more users expect to use their mobile devices, librarians will want and need to develop the necessary skills to reach this growing user base. Mobil...
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362,00 zł |
Biall Handbook of Legal Information Management
ISBN: 9781409423966 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated by the original team of experts and some new contributors, to provide current best practice guidance on the key legal information issues for every type of service. Each of the chapters is updated to reflect general changes in law libraries and their users in the past seven years. In particular, the handbook covers new information technologies, including social networking and communication. New chapters also focus on the key topics of outsourcing, and the impact of the 2007 Legal Services Act. The second edition of this...
The second edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated by the original team of experts and some new contributors, to provide current ...
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682,74 zł |
Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks
ISBN: 9780838912331 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As one university librarian put it, Dempsey's "dual ability to explore an issue and to reveal the higher-order trends is spot-on for understanding our volatile environment." Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence fo Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems. In a compendium that library planners, administrators, and technology staff will find endlessly stimulating, Varnum offers an expertly curated selection of entries that show where...
As one university librarian put it, Dempsey's "dual ability to explore an issue and to reveal the higher-order trends is spot-on for understanding our...
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335,36 zł |
The Network Reshapes the Library : Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks
ISBN: 9781783300419 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of insights from library technology guru Lorcan Dempsey offers readers valuable reflections on emerging trends and key areas of concern as well as a visionary approach to libraries' future. Over the last decade, Dempsey's writing has covered diverse and wide ranging topics including the evolution of libraries, from how library organization, services and technologies are co-evolving with the behaviours of their users to support their changing research and learning needs, to how the curatorial traditions of archives, libraries and museums have come together in the digital...
This collection of insights from library technology guru Lorcan Dempsey offers readers valuable reflections on emerging trends and key areas of concer...
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303,19 zł |
Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9781442228993 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable improvements of the content, design, and layout of your website. Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to: .Make the case for usability testing .Define your audience and their goals .Select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context .Plan for...
Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will ...
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362,00 zł |
Social Media Curation
ISBN: 9780838959381 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Library Technology Reports (vol.50, no.7) Librarians have always curated. Today, as human filters, librarians address the proverbial Internet fire house. This issue of Library Technology Reports (vol.50, no.7), "Social Media Curation," considers curation as it is popularly applied to activities that leverage the power of social media to collect, organize, share, and interpret content to tell a digital story for a specific audience. It provides a snapshot of the state of digital curation using social media across libraryland and shares ideas from a few social media curation thought leaders...
Library Technology Reports (vol.50, no.7) Librarians have always curated. Today, as human filters, librarians address the proverbial Internet fire hou...
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263,56 zł |
The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries: Research, User Applications, and Networking
ISBN: 9781442247864 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Forward by Michael Lesk: Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support collaborative writing. The chapters in this book look at many Google services, from music to finance, and describe how they can be used by students and other library users. Going beyond information resources, there are now successful collaboration services available from Google and others. You can make conference calls with video and shared screens using Google Hangouts, Writing documents with small numbers of colleagues often involved delays while...
From the Forward by Michael Lesk: Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support colla...
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558,97 zł |
The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries: Research, User Applications, and Networking, Volume 2
ISBN: 9781442247871 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Forward by Michael Lesk: Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support collaborative writing. The chapters in this book look at many Google services, from music to finance, and describe how they can be used by students and other library users. Going beyond information resources, there are now successful collaboration services available from Google and others. You can make conference calls with video and shared screens using Google Hangouts, Writing documents with small numbers of colleagues often involved delays while...
From the Forward by Michael Lesk: Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support colla...
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330,06 zł |
Mobile Technologies for Every Library
ISBN: 9781442248915 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are wondering what mobile technology adoption means for your library or how to get started, Mobile Technologies for Every Library will answer your questions .Wondering what the opportunities and pitfalls are of mobile technology use in libraries? This book will answer these questions. .Thinking of starting a mobile program in your library? Want to improve on existing services or add new ones? This book will answer your questions about platforms, options, security, best practices and more. The book will preview many useful apps for libraries. Web links and resources are also included....
If you are wondering what mobile technology adoption means for your library or how to get started, Mobile Technologies for Every Library will answer y...
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558,97 zł |