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This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries. Scholars and professionals have now an information resource on methodological tools for library services. Except for the new technologies that facilitate the innovation of libraries, it is the underlying policy and functional changes that have the most lasting effect on the scholarly operation that explains why this volume is important in the field or market. It also explores in detail the areas covering library methodologies, marketing and management, statistics and bibliometrics, content and subject analysis, users' behaviors and library policies that play an important role at every aspect of library research in the twenty-first century.
This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries. Scholars and professionals have now an information resource on methodological tools for library services. Except for the new technologies that facilitate the innovation of libraries, it is the underlying policy and functional changes that have the most lasting effect on the scholarly operation that explains why this volume is important in the field or market.It also explores in detail the areas covering library methodologies, marketing and management, statistics and bibliometrics, content and subject analysis, users' behaviors and library policies that play an important role at every aspect of library research in the twenty-first century.
Education and training for the library profession have changed over the decades, and this publication looks both at the past and the future of these developments at schools of library and information science as well as the role of IFLA's Section on Education and Training. The chapters cover regional developments in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas; special topics, such as quality assurance and case studies; and future considerations in LIS education.
Contemporary developments in the book publishing industry are changing the system as we know it. Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production and reading are among the social and discursive practices starting to define this emerging system. Websites offering socially networked, collaborative and shared reading are increasingly important. Social Reading maps socially networked reading within the larger framework of a changing conception of books and reading. This book is structured into chapters covering topics in: social reading and a new conception ...
In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School (Scarecrow Press, 1999). Subsequent research into initiatives to improve library services during the Allied occupation has revealed surprising discoveries and human interest of the lives of very diverse individuals. A central role was played by a librarian, Philip Keeney, who later became well-known as an alleged communist spy. A national plan, designed for Japan’s libraries, was based directly on the county library system developed by progressive think...
Este libro pone en cuestión tres aspectos que están presentes en los Estudios de la Información: la teoría, la metodología y la práctica. Así pues, ¿cómo es que los Estudios de la Información pasan de las aulas a la práctica? ¿Cuáles son las discusiones presentes en el campo? La primera parte ofrece las visiones desde la academia de cuatro autores que buscan orientarnos hacia las maneras en las que se puede hacer una investigación en este campo; la segunda es un testimonio de dos alumnos de posgrado, quienes analizan los metadatos y los tipos de usuarios que existen en una biblioteca; en la tercera parte se entra en materia sobre el tipo de investigaciones que existen en los Estudios de la Información, con una amplia discusión que concierne a la relación entre los recursos humanos y los tecnológicos. Finalmente, tres investigadores muestran los resultados de sus proyectos sobre las políticas de la información y el ciclo de vida digital.
Tras la creciente proliferación de dispositivos móviles, transitan grandes cantidades de datos de diversa naturaleza a través de Internet. La coexistencia de esta heterogeneidad de datos es uno de los principales desafíos al momento de su manejo, por lo que surge una amplia diversidad de procesos para su análisis y sistematización, que va desde algoritmos genéticos, procesamiento del lenguaje, aprendizaje automático, redes neuronales, modelos predictivos, análisis de redes sociales, visualización de datos y minería de datos, por mencionar sólo algunos. Desde los estudios de la información se ha vuelto necesario abordar cómo aprovechar las tecnologías y métodos que existen para efectuar el análisis de datos, con el fin de derivar servicios y productos de información acordes con los requerimientos que se tienen en el ámbito de la investigación, de la empresa, o de cualquier otro ámbito.
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