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Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites
A Guide for an Efficient Digital Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites: A Guide for an Efficient Digital Communication presents the characteristics and principal guidelines for the analysis and design of efficient navigation and information access systems on content-intensive websites, such as magazines and other...
Monitoring Movements in Development Aid
Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.
In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures...
Making A Difference Together
Parents and Professionals in Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
As recently as the 1990s, support for people with autism was almost non-existent. Many children went undiagnosed and struggled at school. In 1996, a small band of passionate parents and professionals set out to change that. Their initiative, Reach-Me Project (RMP), pioneered a range of autism-specific...
Teaching Research Processes
The Faculty Role in the Development of Skilled Student Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand. Teaching Research Processes suggests a novel way in which information...
by William Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management is the first comprehensive book on new 'favorite child' of R&D at Microsoft and elsewhere, personal information management (PIM). It provides a comprehensive overview of PIM as both a study and a practice of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Technological advancements have become an integral part of life, impacting the way we work, communicate, make decisions, learn, and play. As technology continually progresses, humans are being outpaced by its capabilities, and it is important for businesses, organizations, and individuals to understand...
Pursuing Information Literacy
Roles and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
The primary purpose of Pursuing Information Literacy is to inspire individual thinking and application. The book reviews important information literacy and its social significance and the application of information literacy in a number of different sectors. The future of information literacy is explored...
Organizing Knowledge
An Introduction to Managing Access to Information
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers. Offering a broad-based overview...
by Melissa Terras
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the past decade, the way image based media is created, disseminated, and shared has changed exponentially, as digital imaging technology has replaced traditional film based media. Digital images have become the pervasive photographic medium of choice for the general public. Most libraries, archives,...
Digital Access and E-Government
Perspectives from Developing and Emerging Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Access to government information faces many roadblocks in developing and emerging economies due to lack of appropriate legal frameworks and other requisite information laws. However, there is hope that many countries are now recognizing the importance of providing access to public information resources....
Information Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship
Essays on Ideas to Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
The boundaries of citizenship have been blurred by global information systems—while the public and private spheres have been reshaped through globalization (and colonialism and capitalism). This collection of new essays explores information and citizenship in the digital age from a range of perspectives,...
Research Methods
Information, Systems, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Research Methods: Information, Systems, and Contexts, Second Edition, presents up-to-date guidance on how to teach research methods to graduate students and professionals working in information management, information science, librarianship, archives, and records and information systems. It provides...
Freedom of Information
Working Towards Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2004
As from 1 January 2005, Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation will come fully into force throughout the UK and could potentially change the way in which the public sector manages information. This report provides practical advice on how to achieve compliance with the Acts; the report helps to ensure...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Emerging as a discipline in the first half of the twentieth century, the information sciences study how people, groups, organizations, and governments create, share, disseminate, manage, search, access, evaluate, and protect information, as well as how different technologies and policies can facilitate...