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Using Interactive Technologies in Libraries: A Lita Guide (Library and Information Technology Association Guides)

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Integrating new technologies into existing library services is the key to meeting user needs. Newest in the renowned series from the Library and Information Technology Association (a division of the American Library Association), this cu ing-edge guide provides practical advice, detailed examples, implementation ideas, and helpful forecasts for the future roles of four major interactive technologies. Librarians will find helpful information on: using Real Simple Syndication (RSS) for providing data based on disciplinary interests and across vendor platforms; developing Wikis as a replacement for static HTML pages to provide greater currency in subject guides without the need for librarians to develop Web-authoring skills; implementing blog feeds to meet real needs such as library instruction for distance-education students; and employing podcasting as an alternate method for distributing digital media. Use this LITA Guide to incorporate the newest technologies into programs and create a high-technology profile with your library s customers.

Finding Statistics Online: How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need (A CyberAge Book)

Paula Berinstein

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This is a highly recommended reference for online searchers 5 out of 5 stars.
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In this information age we are all experiencing information overload in two aspects: 1. Searching for information takes longer using the new internet technologies vs. the traditional online systems, and 2. We get too much recall with too little precision. A handy tool to overcome these problems is Paula Berinstein's book "Finding Statistics Online". This well-organized reference is a true problem-solver for information seekers who value their time and need to find statistical data for marketing or research purposes. Finding Statistics Online starts with three very important chapters that explain how data is gathered, the various sources of statistical data and a comparison of online vendors including excellent search tips. All other 16 chapters of the book are arranged by topic such as business, health, education etc. and consist of a description of the typical data, key producers and resources, best places to look and a case study. This book gives the information searcher various options for each subject matter including free internet resources as well as commercial vendors. Finding Statistics Online is a highly recommended reference for every searcher.

Editorial Review:

The online world is exploding with statistics, but because they tend to be highly specific, they are among the hardest types of information to find. "Finding Statistics Online" explains how to locate statistics through professional systems and services and the Internet. The book includes information on the nature of statistics and how to evaluate their validity.

Intelligent Hypertext: Advanced Techniques for the World Wide Web (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes a coherent anthology consisting of invited chapter-length papers on intelligent hypertext techniques with special emphasis on how to apply these techniques to the World Wide Web. The book provides an introductory preface by the volume editors and chapters on information comprehension through hypertext, efficient techniques for adaptive hypermedia, annotaded 3D environments on the Web, user models for customized hypertext, conceptual analysis of hypertext, two-level models of hypertext, the TELLTALE dynamic hypertext environment, hypertext for collaborative authoring, information retrieval and information agents.

Technology Planning: Preparing and Updating a Library Technology Plan

Joseph R. Matthews

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Organized around the structure of a technology plan, this book explains each subject area and how each part of the plan is related. Individual chapters cover: The Purpose and Need for a Technology Plan, The Description of the Library, Challenges Facing the Library, Emerging Technologies, Current Technology Environment, Assessment of the Current Environment, Evaluation of the Library's Web Site, Recommendations, and Evaluation of the Plan.

Super Searchers on Madison Avenue: Top Advertising and Marketing Professionals Share Their Online Research Strategies (Super Searchers series)

Grace Avellana Villamora

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Especially intriguing are the case histories 5 out of 5 stars.
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Others books have focused on research pros who work in various fields; Super Searchers On Madison Avenue tackles those who function in the advertising and marketing world, using interviews with researchers who find and analyze information for fueling new product launches and ad campaigns. Especially intriguing are case histories showing how successful researchers made the change from traditional careers to being an online researcher.

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Research professionals in the advertising and marketing game are a rare breed. Working in one of the business world s true pressure cookers, these super searchers find and analyze the information that fuels today s most successful new product launches and advertising campaigns. Their market research expertise provides critical strategic support to new business teams, account managers and planners, copywriters, art directors, and sales promotion specialists at every major international ad agency. Here, Grace A. Villamora Director of Knowledge Management at Euro RSCG Tatham Partners gets 13 research pros from such firms as TBWA\Chiat\Day, Leo Burnett, and Interpublic to share the tips, techniques, and resources that have made them the best in the business.

Systems Analysis for Librarians and Information Professionals (Library Science Text Series)

Larry N. Osborne, Margaret Nakamura

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An invaluable resource for library staffs and managers. 5 out of 5 stars.
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Systems Analysis For Librarians And Information Professionals is designed for librarians and library students with little or no exposure to systems analysis. After describing the meaning, purpose, and history of systems analysis, Larry Osborn and Margaret Nakamura successfully colaborate to carefully outline the steps in the process, from identifying and defining problems and collecting and analyzing data to selecting strategies for implementation and proof of the systems. The limitations of systems analysis, an overview of the rationale for apply it to problem situations, and many real-life examples illustrate the concepts. Of special note is a chapter on object-oriented techniques, additional idea-generation methods, and the inclusion of case studies which invite the reader to put the principles offer into practice. Systems Analysis For Librarians And Information Professionals is informative, practical, "reader friendly', and an ideal text for library and information science curriculums, as well as an invaluable resource for library staffs and managers.

Editorial Review:

Filling a tremendous need in the field by employing basic elements from the business world, this new edition shows you through real-life examples how to apply systems analysis effectively to any library setting. Learn how to identify and define problems, collect and analyze data, and select strategies for implementation and proof of the systems.

Health Care Resources on the Internet: A Guide for Librarians and Health Care Consumers

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Make Internet medical research simpler and more productive!

The rapid proliferation of Web sites makes finding medical information easy. Knowing when the information is accurate and reliable can be much more difficult. Health Care Resources on the Internet: A Guide for Librarians and Health Care Consumers discusses how to locate, evaluate, and use health care information available in online form.

As expectations shift from finding information in books to locating it on the World Wide Web, Health Care Resources on the Internet provides you with the skills you need. Whether you?re a first-time Internet user unfamiliar with search engines or an old hand at Boolean logic, you will find helpful search tips and strategies. Moreover, this comprehensive book offers specific advice on assessing the reliability of the information you find.

Health Care Resources on the Internet simplifies your hunt for information by recommending trustworthy Web sites. It covers topics including:

• consumer and professional megasites for health care information
• using Medline
• searching for information on specific diseases
• finding open clinical trials
• consumer health information
• alternative medicine
  
  Illustrated with tables and figures, Health Care Resources on the Internet is an essential guidebook for health-conscious consumers, information professionals, and medical professionals.

Digital Reference Service in the New Millennium: Planning, Management, and Evaluation (The New Library Series, No. 6)

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Designed for librarians and other information professionals who are planning or implementing digital reference services, this guide discusses the role of reference collections and staff in the new millennium. It also explores changing reference culture and technologies.

Advances in Automatic Text Summarization

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With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic information services, information is becoming available on-line at an incredible rate. One result is the oft-decried information overload. No one has time to read everything, yet we often have to make critical decisions based on what we are able to assimilate. The technology of automatic text summarization is becoming indispensable for dealing with this problem. Text summarization is the process of distilling the most important information from a source to produce an abridged version for a particular user or task.

Until now there has been no state-of-the-art collection of the most important writings in automatic text summarization. This book presents the key developments in the field in an integrated framework and suggests future research areas. The book is organized into six sections: Classical Approaches, Corpus-Based Approaches, Exploiting Discourse Structure, Knowledge-Rich Approaches, Evaluation Methods, and New Summarization Problem Areas.

Contributors: D. A. Adams, C. Aone, R. Barzilay, E. Bloedorn, B. Boguraev, R. Brandow, C. Buckley, F. Chen, M. J. Chrzanowski, H. P. Edmundson, M. Elhadad, T. Firmin, R. P. Futrelle, J. Gorlinsky, U. Hahn, E. Hovy, D. Jang, K. Sparck Jones, G. M. Kasper, C. Kennedy, K. Kukich, J. Kupiec, B. Larsen, W. G. Lehnert, C. Lin, H. P. Luhn, I. Mani, D. Marcu, M. Maybury, K. McKeown, A. Merlino, M. Mitra, K. Mitze, M. Moens, A. H. Morris, S. H. Myaeng, M. E. Okurowski, J. Pedersen, J. J. Pollock, D. R. Radev, G. J. Rath, L. F. Rau, U. Reimer, A. Resnick, J. Robin, G. Salton, T. R. Savage, A. Singhal, G. Stein, T. Strzalkowski, S. Teufel, J. Wang, B. Wise, A. Zamora.

Text Information Retrieval Systems (Library and Information Science)

Charles T. Meadow, Bert R. Boyce, Donald H. Kraft

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Information retrieval is a communication process that links the information user to a librarian, museum curator, fingerprint identification specialist, or whoever is in charge of a collection of what we are calling documents. The communication will normally involve the processing of text, strings of words known to both parties in the process that can be used to describe a document's content and other attributes and link it with a need expressed in similar terms. This book's purpose is to teach people who will be searching or designing text retrieval systems how the systems work. For designers, it covers problems they will face and reviews currently available solutions to provide a basis for more advanced study. For the searcher its purpose is to describe why such systems work as they do. The book is primarily about computer-based retrieval systems, but the principles apply to nonmechanized ones as well.
The book covers the nature of information, how it is organized for use by a computer, how search functions are carried out, and some of the theory underlying these functions. As well, it discusses the interaction between user and system and how retrieved items, users, and complete systems are evaluated. A limited knowledge of mathematics and of computing is assumed.
The first edition of this work appeared just before the World Wide Web came on the scene, but was nonetheless a student favorite because of its clarity. The new edition is updated and expanded, covering not only the Web but also new developments in how IR systems are or could be designed.

Key Features
* Helps users understand why things happen the way they do and thus aids users in designing new systems, evaluating systems before use, and teaching or using IR systems
* Provides an understanding of basic principles so that users may read, understand, and evaluate detailed works such as the many research papers on this topic
* Explains complex mathematical models so that readers may become familiar with the underlying mathematical concepts of IR systems