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  • A Research Guide to Cartographic Resources

    Print and Electronic Sources

    The interdisciplinary uses of traditional cartographic resources and modern GIS tools allow for the analysis and discovery of information across a wide spectrum of fields. A Research Guide to Cartographic Resources navigates the numerous American and Canadian cartographic resources available in print and online, offering researchers, academics and students with information on how to locate and ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Discovering and Using Historical Geographic Resources on the Web

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    Series series Practical Guides for Librarians
    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 ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Using Google Earth in Libraries

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    Series series Practical Guides for Librarians
    Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world. The uses of Google Earth in academia, in libraries, and across disciplines are endless and each year more innovate research projects are being released. Since its launch, Google Earth has had an enormous impact on the way people ... Read more

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    Here is a concise guide to the nuts and bolts of converting flat media (books, papers, maps, posters, slides, micro formats, etc) into digital files. It provides librarians and archivists with the practical knowledge to understand the process and decision making in the digitization of flat media. Instead of having to learn by trial and error, they will get a well-rounded education of the practical ... Read more

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  • Distributed Learning

    Pedagogy and Technology in Online Information Literacy Instruction

    Edited by Tasha Maddison, Maha Kumaran ...
    The field of distributed learning is constantly evolving. Online technology provides instructors with the flexibility to offer meaningful instruction to students who are at a distance or in some cases right on campus, but still unable to be physically present in the classroom. This dynamic environment challenges librarians to monitor, learn, adapt, collaborate, and use new technological advances ... Read more

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  • Serving Online Customers

    Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

    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 ... Read more

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  • Traversals

    The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing

    An exercise in reclaiming electronic literary works on inaccessible platforms, examining four works as both artifacts and operations.Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance of these works—created on floppy disks, in Apple's defunct HyperCard, and on other early systems and ... Read more

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  • Using Social Media in Libraries

    Best Practices

    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    Since there’s no point in Twittering if no one acts on your tweets and there’s no point in having a Facebook page with a million “likes” if library use doesn’t increase, you’ll welcome the eight best practices presented here because they will help your library both actually do social media in a way that matters and do it well.The successful strategies presented here range from the Vancouver Public ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Electronic Resource Management

    Practical Perspectives in a New Technical Services Model

    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    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 services workflows need to make a corresponding shift toward e-centric models and highlights the increasing variety of e-formats that are forcing new developments in the field.Six chapters cover key topics, ... Read more

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  • Rural and Small Public Libraries

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Brian Real ...
    Series Book 43 - Advances in Librarianship
    Rural and small public libraries provide invaluable services to their communities. These information institutions operate in areas that, when compared to national averages, have poor broadband accessibility and weaker connection speeds, low home internet adoption rates, higher unemployment rates, and less per capita access to doctors and other healthcare providers. Public libraries help to bridge ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library

    Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff

    Edited by Bradford Lee Eden ...
    Series series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library
    Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital scholarship, data management, library as publisher, web archiving, and the research lifecycle. ... Read more

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  • The Semiotics of Emoji

    The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet

    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a ... Read more

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