Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2007, held in Rome, Italy in April 2007. This book includes topical sections on theory and design, efficiency, peer-to-peer networks, result merging, queries, relevance feedback, evaluation, and classification and clustering.
Covers aspects from Educational and Game Theories, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, and Systems Design. This volume contains a selection of contributions from Edutainment 2008, the 3rd International Conference on E-Learning and Games which took place in Nanjing, China, in June 2008.
For records management courses, this book covers the theory and practice of managing electronic records as business and information assets. It focuses on the strategies, systems and procedures necessary to ensure that electronic records are appropriately created, captured, organized and retained over time to meet business and legal requirements.
The web is pervasive - millions of people use it everyday to communicate, find information, and make purchases. This book explores the thinking around how libraries can more effectively exploit the web to make their resources and services discoverable and accessible. It looks back at the development of the WWW and looks forward to the future.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007. This book presents the papers that are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc) as well as Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific).
The ground - both in terms of technological advance and in the sophistication of analyses of technology - has shifted. At the same time, librarianship as a field has adopted a more skeptical perspective; and libraries are feeling market pressure to adopt and use new innovations.
The book integrates the principles of software engineering with the principles of educational theory, and applies them to the problems of e-learning development, thus establishing the discipline of E-learning systems engineering. For the first time, these principles are collected and organised into the coherent framework that this book provides.
Dealing with computer-based retrieval systems, this book covers the nature of information, how it is organized for use by a computer, how search functions are carried out, and the theory underlying these functions. It also discusses the interaction between user and system and how retrieved items, users, and complete systems are evaluated.
Constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006. This book includes that papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specific Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, and WebCLEF.
The release of Resource Description and Access is not the release of a revised standard; it represents a total shift in the understanding of the whole cataloguing process. This booklet guides the reader through the key topics and questions providing a explanation of RDA, its implementation and its expected benefits for users and cataloguers.
An analytical discussion of the functional role of the research librarian and the relationship between the research librarian, the scholar and the record of scholarship. The text also examines the future nature of the reserch library and librarian and the application of new technology.
Designed to present a holistic view of the digital library scene, this text is based on evidence from examples of major digital library research projects around the globe. It is intended for students of digital librarianship and related courses and for practitioners and researchers.
Provides a comprehensive account of Information Technology (IT) applications in libraries. This book enables the students of Library and Information Science to understand the IT options appropriate for modern libraries and they may be able to manage libraries and provide services efficiently by adopting suitable IT tools and techniques.
This is another volume in the Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series, a set of concise practical resources focused on helping higher education practitioners meet the challenges of the online learning environment. This volume addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment.
Library Web Ecology is a thorough reference to help professionals in Library and Information Science (LIS) to develop a sustainable, usable, and highly effective website. The book describes the entire process of developing and implementing a successful website.
Explains the principles behind access management, the technologies, and how they work. This book provides case studies describing how access management is implemented at organizational and national levels in the UK, USA and Europe, and gives a practical guide to the resources to help plan, implement and operate access management in libraries.
Constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2008, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in September 2008. This title organizes papers in topical sections on digital preservation, social tagging, "ations and annotations, user studies and system evaluation.
The announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. This title argues that the short-term thinking characterized by Google's digital repository must be countered by long-term planning on the part of cultural and governmental institutions worldwide.