La revolución iniciada por la masificación de Internet y las tecnologías digitales está modificando profundamente las relaciones geopolíticas, económicas, sociales y culturales.
Librarian Jim Hahn has carefully culled the over 500,000 available apps down to the 100 that are the absolute best for day-in, day-out library services.
It is absolutely essential that today's law librarians are digitally literate in addition to possessing an understanding and awareness of recent advancements and trends in information technology as they pertain to the library field.
Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time.
Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks.
From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way sports fans relate to their favorite teams.
Aimed at practitioners and managers, this practical handbook provides a source of guidance on project management techniques for the academic and cultural heritage sectors, focusing on managing projects involving public sector and other external partners.
This fifth edition of Looking for Information is redesigned to reflect the breadth of research across information behaviour studies, with a new streamlined, six-chapter structure, presenting a refreshed look at people's information needs and seeking practices, while also embracing contemporary concepts such as information use, creation, and embodiment.
An up-to-date examination of the evolving field of digital curation and its important place in libraries, covering the major technical, social, and organizational issues surrounding curation for libraries, archives, and other information-based organizations.
Specifically focusing on the resources on federal government available online, this book supports the education of young citizens and supplies directions for conducting programs for youth on the government.
Authored by an experienced librarian, digital resource manager, and professor in the field of library science, this book explores the wide-reaching impact of second-generation web technologies on library organization and services-and how library staff must respond.
Learn how to help your library patrons deepen their internet searches to more effectively find information, images, videos, statistics, maps, books, definitions, translations, and more.
This fifth edition of Looking for Information is redesigned to reflect the breadth of research across information behaviour studies, with a new streamlined, six-chapter structure, presenting a refreshed look at people's information needs and seeking practices, while also embracing contemporary concepts such as information use, creation, and embodiment.
Legal deposit libraries, the national and academic institutions who systematically preserve our written cultural record, have recently been mandated with expanding their collection practices to include digitised and born-digital materials.
Practical Data Science for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to a potentially complex field, providing readers with an overview of data science and a framework for its application.
Designed to introduce visual literacy to instructional librarians, this book shows librarians how to make visual literacy relevant and engaging by framing it as a digital skill.
With the world becoming increasingly more dependent upon the Internet, libraries offer an essential service by providing access to this worldwide network.
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.
El mundo digital ha llegado para quedarse, y debemos educar a niños y adolescentes en el uso saludable de herramientas que van a utilizar a lo largo de toda su vida.
Von Apps wird heute im Allgemeinen erwartet, dass sie mindestens auf den beiden großen mobilen Betriebssystemen Android und iOS laufen, im Idealfall gibt es auch noch eine Desktopversion für Windows, Linux und macOS.
Die Anforderung, Anwendungen plattform- und geräteübergreifend zu erstellen, ist heutzutage fast schon eine Selbstverständlichkeit für viele Entwickler.
Den nächsten Urlaub im Internet buchen und sich schon vorher im Internet über die Örtlichkeit informieren, die Familienbilder jederzeit aktuell im Internet bestaunen, Sonntagabend neue Schuhe kaufen, online zahlen und am Montag in Empfang nehmen, Ihre eigene E-Mail-Adresse anlegen und per E-Mail mit allen Freunden in Kontakt bleiben, Behördengänge in Ruhe von zu Hause aus erledigen - dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie stressfrei in die Internetwelt eintauchen.
The changes brought about by the World Wide Web and the explosion of electronic media have called into question many of the assumptions on which national bibliographies have been founded.
This book contains the papers delivered at sessions organised by the Genealogy and Local History Section at the annual conferences of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) between 2001 and 2005; many of these are updated versions of the original presentations.
Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities.
This book introduces readers to the principles underlying digital libraries, illustrating these principles by reference to a wide range of digital library practices throughout the world.
