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Asian populations are among some of the fastest growing cultural groups in the US. While books on serving other target groups in libraries have been published (e.g., disabled, Latino, seniors, etc.), few books on serving library users of Asian heritage have been written. Thus the timely need for this book. Rather than a generalized overview of Asians as a whole, this book has 24 separate chapters—each on 24 specific Asian countries/cultures of East, Southeast, and South Asia—with a wealth of resources for understanding, interacting with, outreaching to, and serving library users of each culture. Resources include cultural guides (both print and online), language helps (with sample librar...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2005, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in November 2005. The book presents 41 revised full papers, organized in topical sections on methodology, multiple retrieval, ad-hoc retrieval, relevance feedback, natural language queries, and more heterogeneous retrieval, interactive retrieval, document mining, and multimedia retrieval.
Patron based step by step guide for creating basic or advanced online library services and integratin all aspects of library activites in the virtual world. Includes a checklist of elements essential to a library web site. Explains how to manage content using databsed backed web pages, marketing and promoting services online, integration of external content including licencing, library catalogs and ebooks on the site,conduct reader advisory services online, update using th editorial calendar tool, and acrchive online resources.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2004, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in December 2004. The 33 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview of the INEX campaign were carefully selected for presentation at the workshop and went through a subsequent round of careful reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on methodology, ad hoc retrieval, ad hoc retrieval and relevance feedback, relevance feedback, ad hoc retrieval and heterogeneous document collections, heterogeneous document collections, natural language processing, and ineractive studies.
This directory lists education institutions world-wide where professional education and training programmes in the field of library, archive and information science are carried out at a tertiary level of education or higher. More than ten years after the publication of the last edition, this up-to-date reference source includes more than 900 universities and other institutions, and more than 1.500 relevant programmes. Entries provide contact information as well as details such as statistical information, tuition fees, admission requirements, programmes' contents.
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials (CEAM 2012), July 13-15, 2012, Guangzhou, China
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