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Envisioning Our Preferred Future

Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266937
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Our Preferred Future written by Bradford Lee Eden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, directions on research in the 21st-century academic library, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management. Data management services are highlighted in the context of a consortium of smaller liberal arts and regional institutions who share a common institutional repository. Survey research plays a role in a number of chapters. One provides insight into how academic libraries are currently approaching web services, web applications, and library websites. A second survey is used to explore the role of librarians as web designers, and provides detailed information related to job titles, job duties, time percentages related to duties, and other duties outside of web design. Comments of those surveyed are included and make interesting reading and a deeper understanding of this new function in libraries. More generally, is a survey study exploring how librarians feel about the changes that are currently happening within the profession, as well as how these changes have personally affected their job duties and their current job assignments. Case studies are include one that features QuestionPoint in the context of a cooperative virtual reference service; another shows how research and scholarship can be disseminated using social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar, among others; a other studies explore the importance of user engagement and buy-in before moving forward on digitization; and one shows how information architecture and usability emerge from the redesign of a public library website and whose successful completion involves user surveying, focus groups, peer site reviews, needs analysis, and usability testing. Two chapters deal with the changing legal context: the importance and understanding of copyright and author rights in the 21st-century academic library, and the basics Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

Preferred Futuring

Author : Lawrence L. Lippitt
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781576750414
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Preferred Futuring written by Lawrence L. Lippitt and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Preferred Futuring" is a tool designed to bring deeper meaning and spirit into the workplace. This text presents real-life examples to illustrate how this practical process can be used as a tool for leadership, management, process improvement and organization alignment.

Preferred Futuring

Author : Lawrence L. Lippitt
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781583760406
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Preferred Futuring written by Lawrence L. Lippitt and published by Berrett-Koehler Pub. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Future Knowledge Compendium

Author : Peter Ellyard
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398419842
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book The Future Knowledge Compendium written by Peter Ellyard and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THRIVING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Humans have a unique capability to both understand their situation in the world and to envision and act to realise their aspirations in the emerging world. And most of us would welcome knowing how we can become ever more skilful at both understanding, and shaping the future of, our emerging world, so that we can thrive in it. The 21st century is very different from the 20th century. Globalisation, the greatest economic prosperity uplifting machine humanity has ever invented, and mass education, are combining to sweep humanity into an emerging interdependent global village. It is creating a global educated middle class that will number 5 billion in 2030. In this emerging world, a world where our future prosperity will be increasingly based on metaphysical wealth, on what we know, 20th century nation-first, competitive, win/lose, mindsets and agendas can no longer work. These now yesteryear mindsets will instead undermine our best endeavours, including making our future ever more climate and pandemic safe. Humanity is now beginning to learn that it now has no option but to adopt planet-first, collaborative, win/win values and mindsets, if it wishes to shape our emerging global village so that it can become liveable for all: ever more prosperous, harmonious, inclusive, sustainable, healthy, and secure. Meeting these challenges successfully will require that humanity innovates for itself a new future knowledge curriculum so that it can economically thrive in a sustainable and humane manner. Peter Ellyard has asked the question: what would be the contents of such a curriculum? In The Future Knowledge Compendium: A Curriculum for Thriving in the 21st Century, he has sought to answer this question.

Kitchen Table Sustainability

Author : Wendy Sarkissian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136562532
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Kitchen Table Sustainability written by Wendy Sarkissian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heads up for the brilliance and warmth of Kitchen Table Sustainability! Because the book is rooted in the human scale it exudes the aroma of possibility.' Chellis Glendinning award-winning author of My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization 'Wendy Sarkissian and colleagues come through again giving us fresh ideas and perspectives.' John Forester Cornell University 'Offers accessible insightful thinking about the most daunting challenge facing 21st century cities.' Leonie Sandercock University of British Columbia 'Drawn from a lifetime of experience ... and a wide readin.

The Future of Food Tourism

Author : Ian Yeoman
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845415388
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Food Tourism written by Ian Yeoman and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience associated with place and history? The book’s approach to the future has focused on explanation; the contributors look for the causes, trends and theoretical concepts that explain change, thus attempting to justify and explore the future. Scenarios are used to explore alternative futures and the book examines the implications for the future of food tourism and highlights future research avenues. This book is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and researchers in the field of tourism studies.

Marketing and Outreach for the Academic Library

Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442262559
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Marketing and Outreach for the Academic Library written by Bradford Lee Eden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new approaches and initiatives in marketing the academic library, as well as the importance of outreach through partnerships and collaborations both internal and external to the library. Implementation of social media strategies, the use of library spaces for collaboration and inspiration, planning events and extravaganzas in the library, librarians as event coordinators and user-centered programming, the delivery of library services through digital engagement, using Instagram to create a library character for the YouTube generation, using workshops to promote digital library services, an examination of the new librarianship paradigm, the process of marketing and constructing a digital collection based on U.S. Highway 89 and the Intermountain West, and how librarians at Loyola University New Orleans have embedded their expertise and practice into their university culture, are the primary topics in this book.

Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication

Author : Kevin L. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442275049
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication written by Kevin L. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries. Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic libraries address the issues associated with copyright, licensing, and intellectual property and include support for courses that require open access distribution of student work. The topic of library services in support of open access is explored, including the library’s role in providing open educational resources, and as an ally and driver of their adoption, for example, by helping defray author fees that are required for open access articles. A detailed look at open access in the context of undergraduate research is provided and considers how librarians can engage undergraduates in conversations about open access. Chapters consider ways to engage undergraduate students in the use, understanding, evaluation, and creation of open access resources. Issues that are of concern to graduate students are also given some attention and central to these are the development of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programs. A chapter examines the library’s role in balancing greater access to graduate student work with the consequences of openness, such as concerns about book contracts and sales, plagiarism, and changes in scholarly research and production. The book concludes with issues surrounding open data and library services in critical data librarianship, including advocacy, preservation, and instruction. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership

Author : Kate Coleman
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310119987
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership written by Kate Coleman and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash your leadership by identifying and overcoming the limitations you place on yourself in the workplace. Women are called by God to flourish in areas of leadership. And for the first time in modern history, women are making their way into strategic positions of influence and leadership within the ministry, public, corporate, charity and voluntary sectors. Certainly, there are still external disadvantages that women leaders face in the professional world, and there's still a lot of work to do. But there are internal hinderances, too, and those you can take charge of today. In 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership, Kate Coleman considers what lies at the root of the many challenges facing today's leaders—women and men—and proposes ways of dealing with them. Effective leadership starts with you. Based on her 35 years of leadership experience, Kate explains how you can: Overcome limiting self-perceptions Establish boundaries Develop a tailor-made personal vision Cultivate a healthy work/life rhythm Stop being a people-pleaser Learn to confront not collude Be intentional with your inner circle Written for every leader from any sector or gender (men could learn a few things from this book too), this proven and practical guidebook will enable you to identify and overcome self-defeating patterns of behavior, in ways that will radically transform your leadership.

Active Hope (revised)

Author : Joanna Macy
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608687112
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Active Hope (revised) written by Joanna Macy and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future

Author : Simon Elias Bibri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319739816
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future written by Simon Elias Bibri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed, sustainable urban development is currently at the center of debate in light of several ICT visions becoming achievable and deployable computing paradigms, and shaping the way cities will evolve in the future and thus tackle complex challenges. This book integrates computer science, data science, complexity science, sustainability science, system thinking, and urban planning and design. As such, it contains innovative computer–based and data–analytic research on smart sustainable cities as complex and dynamic systems. It provides applied theoretical contributions fostering a better understanding of such systems and the synergistic relationships between the underlying physical and informational landscapes. It offers contributions pertaining to the ongoing development of computer–based and data science technologies for the processing, analysis, management, modeling, and simulation of big and context data and the associated applicability to urban systems that will advance different aspects of sustainability. This book seeks to explicitly bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors, and to focus on big data analytics and context-aware computing specifically. In doing so, it amalgamates the design concepts and planning principles of sustainable urban forms with the novel applications of ICT of ubiquitous computing to primarily advance sustainability. Its strength lies in combining big data and context–aware technologies and their novel applications for the sheer purpose of harnessing and leveraging the disruptive and synergetic effects of ICT on forms of city planning that are required for future forms of sustainable development. This is because the effects of such technologies reinforce one another as to their efforts for transforming urban life in a sustainable way by integrating data–centric and context–aware solutions for enhancing urban systems and facilitating coordination among urban domains. This timely and comprehensive book is aimed at a wide audience across science, academia industry, and policymaking. It provides the necessary material to inform relevant research communities of the state–of–the–art research and the latest development in the area of smart sustainable urban development, as well as a valuable reference for planners, designers, strategists, and ICT experts who are working towards the development and implementation of smart sustainable cities based on big data analytics and context–aware computing.

REIGNITE

Author : Clark Gaither, MD
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1636981321
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book REIGNITE written by Clark Gaither, MD and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for professionals suffering from job-related burnout, REIGNITE guides readers away from their job dissatisfaction, into a renewed sense of purpose and direction. Clark Gaither, M.D., also known as Dr. Burnout, supports working professionals by mitigating, alleviating, eliminating, and preventing job-related burnout in his newest release, REIGNITE. This detailed roadmap identifies the three symptoms of burnout, as well as the six underlying causes, in order for readers to design and achieve their preferred professional future. Dr. Gaither will transform burned-out workers into professionals motivated and “on fire” and breathe new life into their careers with REIGNITE.

Imagining the Future City

Author : Sarah Bell
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
ISBN 13 : 1909188204
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Future City written by Sarah Bell and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice. This book approaches the question of London’s future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.

Roll with the Times, or the Times Roll Over You

Author : Beth R. Bernhardt
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1941269117
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Roll with the Times, or the Times Roll Over You written by Beth R. Bernhardt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one hundred presentations from the 36th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 1-5, 2016) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, streaming video, analysis and assessment, demand-driven acquisition, and open access publishing. While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that this conference is now one of the major venues for leaders in the publishing and library communities to shape strategy and prepare for the future. Almost 2,000 delegates attended the 2016 meeting, ranging from the staff of small public library systems to the CEOs of major corporations. This fully indexed, copyedited volume provides a rich source for the latest evidence-based research and lessons from practice in a range of information science fields. Contributors comprise leaders in the library, publishing, and vendor communities.

Solving the Strategy Delusion

Author : M. Stigter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394692
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Solving the Strategy Delusion written by M. Stigter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving the Strategy Delusion matters to anyone interested in realising strategy in the 21st century. The book challenges conventional and 'delusional' approaches to strategy. It offers different ways of seeing, thinking, planning, acting, and mobilising when it comes to making strategy happen in a world of volatility and complexity.

Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration

Author : James A. Dator
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461430933
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration written by James A. Dator and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents a uniquely human perspective on the quest to explore space and to understand the universe through the lens of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It considers early stories about the universe in various cultures; recent space fiction; the origins and cultural rationale for the space age; experiences of humans in space and their emerging interactions with robots and artificial intelligence; how humans should treat environments and alien life; and the alternative futures of space exploration and settlement.

Competing in the New World of Work

Author : Keith Ferrazzi
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1647821967
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Competing in the New World of Work written by Keith Ferrazzi and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal bestseller The #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to use radical adaptability to win in a world of unprecedented change. You've shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage? If not, it's not too late to learn from the best. New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work: Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic Defines the new model of leadership—radical adaptability—for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformation Competing in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.