Computer-Supported Decision Making

Charles L Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• There is a tide of competitiveness rising across the sea of business. The issues being faced by the business commanders of today are rapidly becoming ... Lees meer

Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields

Gordon Moran

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• An examination of power paradigm controls, peer review and scholarly communication. It covers issues such as: silencing scholars within totalitarian a... Lees meer

Evaluation and Library Decision Making

Peter Hernon, Charles R McClure

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• Evaluation, which is a critical component of the planning process, assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of library programs and services in the c... Lees meer

Meaning and Method in Information Studies

V Cornelius Ian V Cornelius, Ian V Cornelius

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• . . . frustrated philosophers everywhere-especially epistemologists-will enjoy this work. It is written by someone who appreciates the occasional nuan... Lees meer

Research for School Library Media Specialists

Kent R. Gustafson, Jane Bandy Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• This book is directed toward graduate students who are preparing to become, or already serving as, school library media specialists. It reflects the r... Lees meer

Into the Future

Michael Harris, Pamela Harris, Stan Hannah

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• This work is a general and synthetic study of the post-industrial era and its implications for library and information services in the United States. ... Lees meer

Deep Information

John Felleman

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• This is an examination of information policy in environmental sustainability. It covers issues such as information, knowledge and models; environmenta... Lees meer

Library Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness

F. William Summers

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• This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. It brings together noted researchers and succ... Lees meer

Computer-Supported Decision Making

Charles L Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• There is a tide of competitiveness rising across the sea of business. The issues being faced by the business commanders of today are rapidly becoming ... Lees meer

Reclaiming the American Library Past

Suzanne Hildenbrand

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• This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, ^IReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In^R. Like most good beg... Lees meer

The Dissemination of Spatial Data

Xavier Lopez

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• A review of the dissemination of spatial data. Topics addressed include: spatial information infrastructure and innovation; designing information poli... Lees meer

Organizational Decision Making and Information

Mairead Browne

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• This book provides an overview of organizational decision making and the use of information in the process. In addition, it draws on original empirica... Lees meer

Silencing Science

Harold C Relyea

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• . . . Relyea's book provides good source material and discussion for an important juncture in American and world history, and also a point of departur... Lees meer

Federal Information Policies in the 1990s

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• . . . the editors prevail upon students, scholars, information professionals and policy makers to study the issues further in order to deepen the unde... Lees meer

Information Policy

Robert Burger

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• This volume examines the role of specialized knowledge in evaluating and designing information policy. The author begins with a description of the con... Lees meer

Assessing Public Library Planning Process

Annabel K Stephens

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• Documents the development and use of the public library planning process and assesses its value, offering recommendations for improving the use of the... Lees meer

Statistics for Library Decision Making

Peter Hernon

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• This handbook assists students in understanding statistics and the types of decisions that the selection of a test entails. At the same time the volum... Lees meer

Information Problem-Solving

Michael B Eisenberg, Robert E Berkowitz

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• Presenting the Big6 skills from multiple perspectives, this accessible book provides exercises, examples, and explanations, plus practical methods for... Lees meer

Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions

Carol A Hert

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• ^I a work that provides such a comprehensive reassessment of Information Retrieval (IR) theory, with regards to the user-oriented model. -- Journal of... Lees meer

Curriculum Initiative

Michael Eisenberg, Robert Berkowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• This book provides a conceptual framework and practical approach to meeting the curriculum related responsibilities of school library media specialist... Lees meer

Database Ownership and Copyright Issues Among Automated Library Networks

Janice R Franklin

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• This volume uses a social model to analyze issues of database ownership and copyright among automated library networks. It explores the possibility th... Lees meer

Statistics (REV)

Peter Hernon

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• This book provides a general discussion beneficial to librarians and library school students, and demonstrates the steps of the research process, deci... Lees meer

Service Quality in Academic Libraries

Peter Hernon, Ellen Altman

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services
• Service quality is an issue separate from internal observations of effectiveness and efficiency, and cannot adequately be conveyed by output and perfo... Lees meer

Technology and Information Services

Carol L Anderson, Robert Hauptman

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• This handbook provides helpful guidance for the information services practitioner and manager. It contains a wealth of concrete information necessary ... Lees meer