Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Library & Information Science - Digital & Online Resources

The End of Wisdom? The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age assembles opinion pieces, forecasts, strategy options, and case studies from leading worldwide politicians, academics, educators, authors, publishers, captains of industry, senior public sector workers, library directors, IT gurus and other key players in the field of information provision who discuss their views on the hypothesis surrounding the "end of libraries" and the "death of books." The contributions - ranging in length from 500 to 2000 words are analyzed and summarized to create a rich picture of current trends and...

A Practical Workbook for Learning Library of Congress Subject Headings

Learn Library of Congress subject access covers the skills necessary for a subject cataloger in a library or information agency, whether at a professional or a paraprofessional level. It is suitable for use by librarianship students, and for those studying subject cataloging by themselves as part of their continuing professional development. Since most catalogs provide some subject access, it is important for all library students and most library staff to be familiar...

Gegenstand der Studie sind Nutzerperspektiven auf virtuelle Forschungsumgebungen im Bereich digitale Editionen. Bedarfsaspekte werden aus editionsphilologischer, text- und diskurslinguistischer sowie informations- und wissenschaftstheoretischer Sicht analysiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen informationstechnisch gestutzte Praktiken der Aushandlung und des Transfers von Wissen, die auf digitalen Daten-, Text-, Diskurs- bzw. Koharenzstrukturen basieren.

The Art of Teaching Online: How to Start and How to Succeed as an Online Instructor focuses on professionals who are not teachers, but who wish to enter the online education field as instructors in their disciplines. This book focuses mainly on how potential online instructors can create and maintain the human aspect of live, face-to-face education in an online course to successfully teach and instruct their students.

Included are interviews with experienced online instructors who use their emotional intelligence skills and instruction skills (examples included) to teach...

More than 100 presentations from the 36th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 1-5, 2016) are included in this annual proceedings volume.

Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, streaming video, analysis and assessment, demand-driven acquisition, and open access publishing.

While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that this conference is now one of the major venues for leaders in the publishing and library communities to...