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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “amanda spink”
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  • Library and Information Science Trends and Research

    Asia-Oceania

    Edited by Amanda Spink, Diljit Singh ...
    Series Book 2 - Library and Information Science
    This book brings together a range of chapters about the trends in education and research in the field of library and information science (LIS) in the Asia-Oceania region of the world. Why a book about LIS in the Asia-Oceania region? One key reason for a book on the topic is the huge growth of the field in terms of students and schools particularly in Asia. Information is an important part of the ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Web Search Engine Research

    by Amanda Spink ...
    Series Book 4 - Library and Information Science
    "Web Search Engine Research", edited by Dirk Lewandowski, provides an understanding of Web search engines from the unique perspective of Library and Information Science. The book explores a range of topics including retrieval effectiveness, user satisfaction, the evaluation of search interfaces, the impact of search on society, reliability of search results, query log analysis, user guidance in ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • Social Information Research

    by Amanda Spink ...
    Series Book 5 - Library and Information Science
    Information we receive from and create together with our social networks is becoming increasingly important. Social information has a great impact on our information behaviour and there are many possible angles and layers in studying social aspects in information science. This book presents some of these angles. Social Information Research, co-edited by Gunilla Widen and Kim Holmberg communicates ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

  • Library and Information Science Trends and Research

    Europe

    by Amanda Spink ...
    Series Book 6 - Library and Information Science
    "Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Europe", co-edited by Professor Amanda Spink and Dr. Jannica Heinstrom provides an understanding of the new directions in library and information science/management, education and research in Europe. The volume focuses on new research directions within the field but will also discuss curriculum changes due to the rapidly developing information ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • New Directions in Information Organization

    by Amanda Spink ...
    Series Book 7 - Library and Information Science
    New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization. New information standards and digital library technologies are being developed at a rapid pace as diverse communities of practice seek new ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Information Behavior

    An Evolutionary Instinct

    by Amanda Spink ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life, however our knowledge and understanding of it is incomplete and underdeveloped scientifically. Research on the topic is largely contemporary in focus and has generally not incorporated results from other disciplines.In this monograph Spink provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors

    Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close Is Close Enough, Second Edition

    by Mark S. Manasse ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
    The time-worn aphorism "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" is clearly inadequate. Close also counts in golf, shuffleboard, archery, darts, curling, and other games of accuracy in which hitting the precise center of the target isn't to be expected every time, or in which we can expect to be driven from the target by skilled opponents. This book is not devoted to sports discussions, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Libraries and Public Perception

    A Comparative Analysis of the European Press

    by Anna Galluzzi ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    What is the future of libraries? This question is frequently posed, with widespread research into the social and economic impact of libraries. Newspapers play an important role in forming public perceptions, but how do newspapers present libraries, their past, present and future? Nobody has yet taken the press to task on the quantity and quality of articles on libraries, however Libraries and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Why Society is a Complex Matter

    Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

    by Philip Ball ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Book on the Bookshelf

    by Henry Petroski ...
    From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Archive Stories

    Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    by Durba Ghosh, Jeff Sahadeo, Craig Robertson, Tony Ballantyne ...
    Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Bach and Tuning

    by Johnny Reinhard ...
    Series Book 47 - Quellen und Studien zur Musikgeschichte von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Sources and Studies in Music History from Antiquity to the Present
    Bach and Tuning is strictly concerned with the identification of a historically accurate tuning paradigm that applies to the great majority of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. Once Bach has his personal tuning aesthetic acknowledged, a new dimension of meaning is invoked in performance through the intended interplay of diverse musical intervals. This new narrative lays bare Bach’s mental ... Read more

    $77.99 USD