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  • Personalising Library Services in Higher Education

    The Boutique Approach

    In an economic climate where cuts are becoming the norm, a boutique library service may seem a contradiction. In some academic libraries the trend is still towards centralisation programmes or offering generic services. However, the student as the customer now has an even greater vested interest in the learning process as their financial commitment increases and they are demanding better services. ... Read more

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  • The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than defeated by the political and social upheaval of the century.Titles examined include: The Irish Magazine, and Monthly Asylum for ... Read more

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  • Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices

    Series series Connected Communities
    This innovative book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive.Archives have traditionally been understood as repositories of knowledge and experience, remote from the ordinary people who fund and populate them, however digital resources have led to a growing plurality of archives and the practices associated with collecting and curating. This ... Read more

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  • Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand

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    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literatures of the two major countries of Oceania: Australia and New Zealand. Covering over 200 years of these geographically and chronologically connected countries, this guide contains references to many different types of resources, illustrating how the researcher is best served ... Read more

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  • International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science

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    The International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science was published to widespread acclaim in 1996, and has become the major reference work in the field. This eagerly awaited new edition has been fully revised and updated to take full account of the many and radical changes which have taken place since the Encyclopedia was originally conceived. With nearly 600 entries, written by a ... Read more

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  • Assessing Information Needs

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    Provides a systematic method of identifying, evaluating and comparing information needs, as well as a framework to enable information services to gather information from users to aid information system design, and monitor the effectiveness of an information service. Examines the role of the Internet in meeting information needs.The section on collecting data now includes web log analysis and focus ... Read more

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  • The Thesaurus

    Review, Renaissance, and Revision

    Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the thesaurus!The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards employed for thesaurus construction. This book provides both the history of thesauri and tutorials on usage to increase your understanding of thesaurus creation, use, and evaluation. This reference tool ... Read more

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  • A Missing Link in Cybernetics

    Logic and Continuity

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this book I argue that a reason for the limited success of various studies under the general heading of cybernetics is failure to appreciate the importance of con- nuity, in a simple metrical sense of the term. It is with particular, but certainly not exclusive, reference to the Arti cial Intelligence (AI) effort that the shortcomings of established approaches are most easily seen. One reason ... Read more

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  • The Art of People Management in Libraries

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    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libraries, especially academic and research libraries. It lays out a set of the most pressing HR management issues facing senior library leaders in the context of continuous organisational change in the 21st century and offers library practitioners ... Read more

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  • Wireless and Satellite Systems

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