IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries

Walks readers through the key components of developing library-led research and programming that leverages emerging technologies with the goal of engaging students and faculty.

This practical guide offers innovative tips and reliable best practice to enable new and experienced library and information professionals to evaluate their current provision and develop their service to meet the evolving needs of the research community.

Expanding on the popular, practical how-to guide for public, academic, school, and special libraries, technology expert Susan Sharpless Smith offers library instructors the confidence to take Web-based instruction into their own hands.

Apple has "e;Siri,"e; Amazon "e;Alexa,"e; Google "e;Google Assistant,"e; and Microsoft "e;Cortana.

In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present.

You've created a STEAM program in your library, but how do you work literacy into the curriculum?

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.

This book provides an overview of digital rights management (DRM), including: an overview of terminology and issues facing libraries, plus an overview of the technology including standards and off-the-shelf products.

Today's students rely heavily on electronic resources; they expect to be able to access library resources from any location and at any time of the day.

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.

Applicable for all types of libraries.

Teach students valuable information retrieval skills and build information literacy with this excellent guide and activity book.

The ever-shifting landscape of electronic resources challenges even the most tech-savvy information professionals.

If libraries are to remain centers for lifelong learning, then that learning must increasingly be e-learning.

Exploring the Digital Library, a volume in The Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series, addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment.

Step into the next frontier of technology with The Quantum Internet Revolution, a groundbreaking exploration of the science, innovations, and transformative potential of quantum networking.

Just as Andrew Carnegie's support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple's launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services.

Everything you need to know about eBooks is explained in this holistic guide to a new world of reading-from selection and curation of an eBook collection to training and support for staff and patrons.

This landmark text captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries.

How can your library-and your patrons-benefit from mobile apps?

The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice.

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.

The world wide web is arguably the most important, and certainly the largest and most ubiquitous, cultural and commercial information resource in existence.

The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as access points in information retrieval.

To help new archivists and genealogists with what can be a daunting process, Digitization and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians answers common questions, including:1.

This primer offers a thorough introduction to electronic resource management for librarians with little or no knowledge of these specialized materials.

This unique guide offers you a thorough understanding of multilingual information access (MLIA) and services and related concepts, such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing.

Cloud computing can be confusing - the number and types of services that are available through "e;the cloud"e; are growing by the day.

A significant shift is taking place in libraries, with the purchase of e-resources accounting for the bulk of materials spending.

With the world becoming increasingly more dependent upon the Internet, libraries offer an essential service by providing access to this worldwide network.

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.

Solutions to the unique problems of academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas are provided in this professional handbook.

In a world that often questions the value of libraries and librarianship, this collection of reflective essays and future-focused research emphasizes the ways in which being an information professional continues to be a rewarding and vital profession.

A brand new edition of the highly successful M-Libraries series, this draws together cutting-edge international contributions from the leading authorities in the field.

A landmark textbook on digital libraries for LIS students, educators and practising information professionals throughout the world.

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This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving image.