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Women's fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of women—friendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships. For this reason, the genre is a hotbed of engaging subjects for book group discussions. Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women's Fiction brings together information...

Here is a remarkable field guide to the best of free Web 2.0 tools and their practical applications in libraries and information centers. You'll discover dozens of lesser-known resources and learn exciting new ways to use many of the most popular sites and tools. With all this and a supporting webpage, The Cybrarian's Web is a winner!

This e-book is the result of a panel organized in the Fifth European Congress of African Studies (ECAS 5) that took place in Lisbon in June 2013. We thought of organizing this panel on “Press Freedom and Right to Information in Africa” since the question of freedom, especially press freedom, is...

An inherent challenge for information professionals involves often difficult-to-quantify contributions of their initiatives to an organization's bottom line and the elusive ROI calculation. In this practical guide Ulla de Stricker explains why when and how a formal business case can be used as an effective tool for gaining support for information-based projects.

Public notices are usually provided in the form of a document when something is about to be done or recently has been done by government. For about two hundred years these notices have often taken the form of legal notices placed as classified ads in newspapers. With the onset of social media, government...

Explores what we know about how we want, see, browse, read, use and remember online information. Readers take a non-technical and entertaining journey into previously obscure depths of cognitive psychology and information science.

This book helps teachers and teacher librarians effectively collaborate to teach students the concept of the Big6 and complete research projects in meaningful and memorable ways.

Everything you need to know about Bibliometrics in a convenient, easy-to-use, mini-encyclopedia of terms and phrases! Bibliometrics, the application of mathematical and statistical techniques to the study of publishing and professional communication, is a helpful science to master in many fields....

The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as "do they feel invisible?" and "How many times have they heard somebody say ‘but everything is on the Internet’?" If...

This is a complete revision with new material of the second edition of Social Sciences Research: Research, Writing, and Presentation Strategies for Students (Scarecrow Press, 2008). There have been significant changes in the research process in the social sciences since the second edition of this...

This book focus in the study of past information systems, current information management and digital preservation. It results from a set of text sources, whose approaches reflect the challenges and opportunities in the world of information, treated by specialists dealing with it on a professional...

Originariamente prodotto come parte di uno sforzo più ampio per sviluppare un set di standard formali per la conservazione a lungo termine di dati digitali generati nel corso delle missioni spaziali, Open Archival Information System (OAIS) ha costituito la base di un gran numero di standard e di...

L’image de l’analphabétisme ou de l’inculture est souvent associée à la pauvreté. Il peut sembler aller de soi que les pauvres sont peu disposés à fréquenter les bibliothèques ; il leur manquerait les ressources élémentaires pour se fondre dans un espace destiné au savoir et à la...

Submergée par les demandeurs des sa mise en service en février 1977, agrandie en 1980, la Médiathèque de langues de la B.P.I. accueille quotidiennement près de 500 personnes. Mais qui sont ces utilisateurs persévérants (parfois une heure d'attente pour accéder a une cabine de langues). D'où...