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Information Technology for Librarians and Information Professionals

Author : Jonathan M. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538121018
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Information Technology for Librarians and Information Professionals written by Jonathan M. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive primer introduces information technology topics foundational to many services offered in today’s libraries and information centers. Written by a librarian, it clearly explains concepts familiar to the I.T. professional with an eye toward practical applications in libraries for the aspiring technologist. Chapters begin with a basic introduction to a major topic then go into enough technical detail of relevant technologies to be useful to the student preparing for library technology and systems work or the professional needing to converse effectively with technology experts. Many chapters also present current issues or trends for the subject matter being discussed. The twelve chapters cover major topics such as technology support, computer hardware, networking, server administration, information security, web development, software and systems development, emerging technology, library management technologies, and technology planning. Each chapter also includes a set of pedagogical features for use with instruction including: Chapter summary List of key terms End of chapter question set Suggested activities Bibliography for further reading List of web resources Those who will find this book useful include library & information science students, librarians new to systems or information technology responsibilities, and library managers desiring a primer on information technology.

Rethinking Information Work

Author : G. Kim Dority
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Information Work written by G. Kim Dority and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art guide to the world of library and information science that gives readers valuable insights into the field and practical tools to succeed in it. As the field of information science continues to evolve, professional-level opportunities in traditional librarianship—especially in school and public libraries—have stalled and contracted, while at the same time information-related opportunities in non-library settings continue to expand. These two coinciding trends are opening up many new job opportunities for LIS professionals, but the challenge lies in helping them (and LIS students) understand how to align their skills and mindsets with these new opportunities.The new edition of G. Kim Dority's Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals gives readers helpful information on self-development, including learning to thrive on change, using key career skills like professional networking and brand-building, and how to make wise professional choices. Taking readers through a planning process that starts with self-examination and ends in creating an actionable career path, the book presents an expansive approach that considers all LIS career possibilities and introduces readers to new opportunities. This guide is appropriate for those embarking on careers in library and information science as well as those looking to make a change, providing career design strategies that can be used to build a lifetime of career opportunity.

Practical Data Science for Information Professionals

Author : David Stuart
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783303441
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Practical Data Science for Information Professionals written by David Stuart and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Data Science for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to a potentially complex field, providing readers with an overview of data science and a framework for its application. It provides detailed examples and analysis on real data sets to explore the basics of the subject in three principle areas: clustering and social network analysis; predictions and forecasts; and text analysis and mining. As well as highlighting a wealth of user-friendly data science tools, the book also includes some example code in two of the most popular programming languages (R and Python) to demonstrate the ease with which the information professional can move beyond the graphical user interface and achieve significant analysis with just a few lines of code. After reading, readers will understand: · the growing importance of data science · the role of the information professional in data science · some of the most important tools and methods that information professionals can use. Bringing together the growing importance of data science and the increasing role of information professionals in the management and use of data, Practical Data Science for Information Professionals will provide a practical introduction to the topic specifically designed for the information community. It will appeal to librarians and information professionals all around the world, from large academic libraries to small research libraries. By focusing on the application of open source software, it aims to reduce barriers for readers to use the lessons learned within.

Management Basics for Information Professionals

Author : G. Edward Evans
Publisher : Facet
ISBN 13 : 9781783304523
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Management Basics for Information Professionals written by G. Edward Evans and published by Facet. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of Management Basics for Information Professionals offers an updated, comprehensive examination of the myriad of basic skills effective library managers must exercise throughout their careers.

Big Data Shocks

Author : Andrew Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538103227
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Big Data Shocks written by Andrew Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Data Shocks examines the roots of big data, the current climate and rising stars in this world. The book explores the issues raised by big data and discusses theoretical as well as practical approaches to managing information whose scope exists beyond the human scale.

So You Want To Be a Librarian

Author : Lauren Pressley
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1936117290
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book So You Want To Be a Librarian written by Lauren Pressley and published by Library Juice Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides information about librarianship as a career, including types of libraries, types of jobs within libraries, professional issues, and educational requirements"--Provided by publisher.

Practical Research Methods for Librarians and Information Professionals

Author : Susan E. Beck
Publisher : Neal Schuman Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781555705916
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Practical Research Methods for Librarians and Information Professionals written by Susan E. Beck and published by Neal Schuman Pub. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step guidance for using traditional research methods to help improve, validate, and ultimately advance the day-to-day work and purpose of libraries.

Information Law

Author : Charles Oppenheim
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783303662
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Information Law written by Charles Oppenheim and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation’s legal compliance and have roles and responsibilities in both complying with the law and taking advantage of its provisions. To do their jobs effectively, they need not only to understand the law, but also to develop the skills, confidence and organisational policy frameworks to apply the law’s principles to their context of use. They need the knowledge and skills to help them decide what is acceptable and to develop appropriate risk aware approaches when things are not clear-cut. Information Law: Compliance for librarians, information professionals and knowledge managers provides an overview of important information law issues along with tools and guidance to help readers establish a framework so that their organisation can both comply with its legal responsibilities and support a suitably risk aware environment which optimises access and use. Based on the authors’ many years in professional practice and on their proven ‘Compliance Methodology’, it will help readers understand the legal issues that are central to the information they hold or that they wish to access.

Mastering Data and Databases for Information Professionals

Author : Diane Rasmussen Pennington
Publisher : Facet Publishing, UK
ISBN 13 : 9781783301171
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mastering Data and Databases for Information Professionals written by Diane Rasmussen Pennington and published by Facet Publishing, UK. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook, the first in the Computing for Information Professionals series provides a hands-on and appropriately technical introduction to data and databases for information professionals and students of library and information science (LIS). The book is structured in three parts, Part I: Introduction to Databases and Data provides a holistic look at where data exists in the library setting and examines how to determine and communicate database needs prior to implementation. Part II: Structured Data and Databases provides guidance on creating, implementing and working with relational databases and Part III: The New Generation of Data and Databases investigates the rapidly growing topics of interest in today's libraries including linked data, unstructured data and big data. The key chapters include: the data in your library, understanding your data, communicating your data, structured data and relational databases, creating relational databases, maintaining relational databases, interfacing with relational databases, semi-structured data, unstructured and "big" data, linked data, and the future of data and databases. This book will be useful for librarians and information professionals, as well as professionals working in museums, archives, records management, or within any other organisation that has data to manage. It will also be a key textbook for LIS students.

Managing Information Technology

Author : Patricia Ingersoll
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Managing Information Technology written by Patricia Ingersoll and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Providing resources for planning and managing every possible aspect of the relationships and work involved for successful cooperation between libraries and information technology services - including staffing and reporting lines, inter-organizational relationships, training, daily and periodic operations, research, and new technologies - this book also offers guidance to help systems librarians better plan for tomorrow. Appended materials, including a glossary; sample job descriptions; organizational charts; integrated library system vendor contacts; suggested professional reading; controlled circulation publications; a bibliography; sample policies and documents; and an index add to the practicality of this resource."--Jacket.

Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users

Author : Osuigwe, Nkem Ekene
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799811182
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users written by Osuigwe, Nkem Ekene and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information in today’s modernized world has become much more attainable with the use of technology. A resource that has fallen victim to this are library services. What was once a staple of knowledge and communication has failed to keep pace with recent advancements in information service providers. Library practitioners need to learn how to manage change, build influence, and adapt their services to remain relevant within local communities. Libraries can continue to play a key role in future aspects of information provision, but proper research is a necessity. Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users is a collection of innovative research that encapsulates practices, concepts, ideas, and proposals that would chart pathways for libraries of all types to envision and understand how to thrive and remain relevant in the competitive information provision environment. It is expected to motivate librarians and information scientists to probe further into how libraries would better serve user communities of the 21st century who have options of accessing information from sources other than from libraries. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, human design thinking, and alternative finance, this book is ideally designed for librarians, information specialists, architects, data scientists, researchers, community development practitioners, policymakers, faculty members, and students seeking current research on emerging advancements in library optimization.

The Data Librarian’s Handbook

Author : Robin Rice
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783300477
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Data Librarian’s Handbook written by Robin Rice and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data. Interest in data has been growing in recent years. Support for this peculiar class of digital information – its use, preservation and curation, and how to support researchers’ production and consumption of it in ever greater volumes to create new knowledge, is needed more than ever. Many librarians and information professionals are finding their working life is pulling them toward data support or research data management but lack the skills required. The Data Librarian’s Handbook, written by two data librarians with over 30 years’ combined experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, social and scientific purposes. With contemporary case studies from a range of institutions and disciplines, tips for best practice, study aids and links to key resources, this book is a must-read for all new entrants to the field, library and information students and working professionals. Key topics covered include: • the evolution of data libraries and data archives • handling data compared to other forms of information • managing and curating data to ensure effective use and longevity • how to incorporate data literacy into mainstream library instruction and information literacy training • how to develop an effective institutional research data management (RDM) policy and infrastructure • how to support and review a data management plan (DMP) for a project, a key requirement for most research funders • approaches for developing, managing and promoting data repositories • handling and sharing confidential or sensitive data • supporting open scholarship and open science, ensuring data are discoverable, accessible, intelligible and assessable. This title is for the practising data librarian, possibly new in their post with little experience of providing data support. It is also for managers and policy-makers, public service librarians, research data management coordinators and data support staff. It will also appeal to students and lecturers in iSchools and other library and information degree programmes where academic research support is taught.

Information Management Technology

Author : Paul F. Burton
Publisher : Chapman & Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780442312954
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Information Management Technology written by Paul F. Burton and published by Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know

Author : Kenneth J. Varnum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783300334
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know written by Kenneth J. Varnum and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this much needed book, Kenneth Varnum and his hand-picked team of contributors look ahead over the most important technologies likely to impact library services over the next five years. It shows library technology staff and administrators where to invest time and money to receive the greatest benefits. Their ideas will stimulate strategic thinking and help library staff make informed decisions about meeting user expectations and delivering services.Highly informative for any library, the diverse chapters include: • Impetus to Innovate: Convergence and Library Trends• Hands-Free Augmented Reality: Impacting the Library Future• Libraries and Archives Augmenting the World• The Future of Cloud-Based Library Systems• Library Discovery• Web Services as the New Websites for Many Libraries• Text Mining• Bigger, Better, Together: Building the Digital Library of the Future• Open Hardware in Libraries.Readership: This leading edge collection offers an expert-level view of library technology that’s just around the corner and is essential reading for systems librarians, students and all librarians who are looking to the technology future.

Information Management Technology

Author : Paul F. Burton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489932062
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Information Management Technology written by Paul F. Burton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again the wide-ranging and rapid developments in microcomputer technology of the last few years have meant that a detailed revision of The librarian's guide to microcomputers for information management was required, if it was to fulfil its objectives of providing a single source of information on the process of automating with a microcomputer. For this new edition, we have taken into account not only the developments in hardware, but also the growing sophistication and power of software, and the growing sophistication of library and information service managers. The latter are more and more familiar with the use, or at least the principles, of microcomputers, and it no longer seems necessary to spell out certain details. We have, where relevant, indicated sources of more detailed information, particularly of practical applications, and so we hope that the changes we have made will ensure that this book remains of value to practitioner and student alike. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We remain, as always, grateful to those who have written or spoken about their experiences with microcomputers and have described applications. We would also like to thank the referees who commented of the book, and provided useful suggestions and on a first draft amendments. Mandy and Lindesay once again patiently accepted our absence during the writing of this edition.

Information Technology and Collection Management for Library User Environments

Author : Walker, Joseph
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 146664740X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Information Technology and Collection Management for Library User Environments written by Walker, Joseph and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times have changed and library institutions struggle to maintain relevancy in the Information Age. With the inescapable presence of harnessing technologies for information management and access, the role of the library has increased in importance within academic institutions and public communities. Information Technology and Collection Management for Library User Environments brings into focus the new responsibility libraries have in meeting patron needs, specifically with the use of emerging technologies. Highlighting the concepts of collection management, library space planning, and information technologies; this book is a critical guide for library professionals, para-professionals, as well as researchers who wish to meet the diverse needs of patrons in ever-changing societies.

Information Services Today

Author : Sandra Hirsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153810301X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Information Services Today written by Sandra Hirsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services today and the need to re-evaluate curriculum, competency training, and one’s personal learning network in order to stay abreast of current trends and issues, and more significantly, remain competent to address the changing user needs of the information community. Specifically, the book • provides a thorough introduction, history, and overall state of the field, • gives a diverse and global perspective of what it means to be a library and information professional today, • addresses why information organizations and information and technological literacy are more important today than ever before, • discusses how technology has influenced the ways that information professionals provide information resources and services in today’s digital environment, • highlights current issues and trends and provides expert insight into emerging challenges, innovations, and opportunities for the future, and, • identifies career management strategies and leadership opportunities in the information profession. The new edition features chapter updates to address changes in information services, introducing new topics such as strategic planning, change management, design thinking, advocacy, and data management and analysis, and includes new contributing authors. The book begins with an overview of libraries and their transformation as information and technological hubs within their local and digital communities. It covers the various specializations within the field – emphasizing the exciting yet complex roles and opportunities for information professionals in a variety of information environments. With that foundation in place, it presents the fundamentals of information services, delves into management skills needed by information professionals today, and explores emerging issues related to the rapid development of new technologies. The book addresses how libraries and information centers serve different kinds of communities, highlighting the unique needs of increasingly diverse users and how information organizations and information professional’s work to fulfill those needs. This book provokes discussion, critical thinking, and interaction to facilitate the learning process. The content and supplemental materials – discussion questions, rich sets of online accessible materials, multimedia webcast interviews featuring authors from this book discussing the trends and issues in their respective areas, and chapter presentation slides for use by instructors – give readers the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of and engagement with the topics. Additionally, this book recognizes the broad range of environments that people with Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degrees work in, which include both libraries and other information environments. Thus, this book does not only focus on libraries, but instead encompasses ALL kinds of information organizations.