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  • Building Libraries for the 21st Century

    The Shape of Information

    Edited by T.D. Webb ...
    Despite calls for electronic, virtual, digital libraries without walls, the walled variety are still being built, some of them massive. This book explores the reasons for this contradiction by examining several notable new library facilities around the world to see how modern expectations for libraries are being translated into concrete and steel. More and more libraries are looking at change not ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The In-House Option

    Professional Issues of Library Automation

    Edited by T.D. Webb ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science
    This book, first published in 1987, expertly addresses the impact of automation on the profession of librarianship in terms of its practitioners, standards, and underlying philosophy. In clear and understandable language, it focuses - with practical examples - on the important decision of the location of the computer - at the library site or a remote automation centre. Designed to be a practical ... Read more

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    Does Size Matter?

    What is Big Data, and why should you care?Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims.But how well do you know big data?You've probably seen the phrase in newspaper ... Read more

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  • Plotting the Reading Experience

    Theory/Practice/Politics

    This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms.This edited ... Read more

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  • Privacy

    Defending an Illusion

    Matters of privacy have profoundly changed since electronic storage of information has become the norm. Consequently, policy-makers and legislators are trying to keep up with privacy challenges in the workplace, in healthcare, in surveillance, and on social networking sites. With Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding fills a very important gap in policy analysis and the teaching of ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Creating Digital Collections

    A Practical Guide

    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Libraries recognize the importance of digitizing archival material to improve access to and preservation of their special collections. This book provides a step-by-step guide for creating digital collections, including examples and practical tips that have never been published before. - Illustrates concepts with an on-going case study at the end of each chapter - Provides detailed technical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Conflict and Complexity

    Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric and irregular warfare. A variety of new models and approaches are presented here, including Dynamic ... Read more

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  • Guide to Human Genome Computing

    Edited by Martin J. Bishop ...
    The Guide to Human Genome Computing is invaluable to scientists who wish to make use of the powerful computing tools now available to assist them in the field of human genome analysis. This book clearly explains access and use of sequence databases, and presents the various computer packages used to analyze DNA sequences, measure linkage analysis, compare and align DNA sequences from different ... Read more

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  • Cooperative Efforts of Libraries

    Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiativesat regional, statewide, and international levels!This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide ... Read more

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  • Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2016

    8th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Fes, Morocco, April 13-15, 2016, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2016, held in Fes, Morooco, in April 2016.The 18 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The aim of Africacrypt 2016 is to provide an international forum for practitioners and ... Read more

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  • Integrity in Government through Records Management

    Essays in Honour of Anne Thurston

    As a celebration of Anne Thurston’s pioneering work on records and archives management as an essential basis for demonstrating integrity in government, this excellent volume brings together scholars and practicing archivists to discuss key issues around records as evidence for accountability, transparency and the protection of citizens’ rights. Never before have authors from the developing and ... Read more

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  • Stirrings in the Archives

    Order from Disorder

    Translated by Adam Siegel ...
    Like most of Wolfgang Ernst’s work, Das Rumoren der Archiv explored the concept of archival and media theory from a current cultural digital context. Ernst challenges the traditional perspective of the cultural heritage institution and how it relied on media for creating, storing and disseminating digital information. Archives have a place in a digital society, and the archivist’s role will be ... Read more

    $93.19 USD