Tag: Collecting

The Wisconsin Historical Society Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846


Free Download John Zimm, "The Wisconsin Historical Society: Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846"
English | ISBN: 0870206915 | 2015 | 152 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Explore the storied history of this grand Wisconsin treasure – the Wisconsin Historical Society, older than the state itself. From the Society’s earliest days as pioneers worked to record history even as it was happening, to its struggles to weather the Great Depression, and its landmark efforts to record the most important social and political movements of our times. From its very start, the Society has worked to "treasure up" the stories of people from every walk of life, in every corner of the state. The story behind the Wisconsin Historical Society is a uniquely Wisconsin story – one that belongs to all who call Wisconsin home.

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Collecting Educational Media Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge


Free Download Anke Hertling, "Collecting Educational Media: Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge"
English | ISBN: 1800734832 | 2022 | 242 pages | PDF | 1425 KB
Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of educational media and their bearing on the ways in which people learn in both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be adequately understood only in relation to, and as an extension and adaptation of, the historically contingent material collections from which they emerged.

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Billing and Collecting for Your Mental Health Practice Effective Strategies and Ethical Practice


Free Download Jeffrey E. Barnett PsyD, "Billing and Collecting for Your Mental Health Practice: Effective Strategies and Ethical Practice"
English | ISBN: 1433810174 | 2011 | 130 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents specific, practical guidance on the technical aspects of billing and related ethical and legal considerations. Topics include protecting client rights in the billing and collection processes, setting and raising fees, providing informed consent about billing and fees, establishing and enforcing a written financial agreement with clients, dealing with insurance companies and other third parties, knowing what to do when clients fail to pay agreed-upon fees, learning the pros and cons of using a billing service, handling billing issues specific to forensic mental health services, and more.

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Cyber Forensics A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes


Free Download Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes By Albert Marcella Jr., Robert S. Greenfield
2002 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0849309557 | PDF | 4 MB
Given our increasing dependency on computing technology in daily business processes, and the growing opportunity to use engineering technologies to engage in illegal, unauthorized, and unethical acts aimed at corporate infrastructure, every organization is at risk. Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes provides a comprehensive, highly usable, and clearly organized resource to the issues, tools, and control techniques needed to successfully investigate illegal activities perpetuated through the use of information technology.Traditional forensics professionals use fingerprints, DNA typing, and ballistics analysis to make their case. Infosec professionals have to develop new tools for collecting, examining, and evaluating data in an effort to establish intent, culpability, motive, means, methods and loss resulting from e-crimes. The field bible for infosecurity professionals, this book introduces you to the broad field of cyber forensics and presents the various tools and techniques designed to maintain control over your organization. You will understand how to:Identify inappropriate uses of corporate ITExamine computing environments to identify and gather electronic evidence of wrongdoingSecure corporate systems from further misuseIdentify individuals responsible for engaging in inappropriate acts taken with or without corporate computing systemsProtect and secure electronic evidence from intentional or accidental modification or destructionCyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes provides a set of varied resources for anyone required to look under the hood and behind closed doors of a virtual world to gather evidence and to establish credible audit trails of electronic wrong doing. Knowing how to identify, gather, document, and preserve evidence of electronic tampering and misuse makes reading this book and using the forensic audit procedures it discusses essential to protecting corporate assets.

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Recollecting Collecting A Film and Media Perspective


Free Download Lucy Fischer, "Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media Perspective "
English | ISBN: 0814348564 | 2023 | 292 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer’s introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important way in to understanding the relationship between material culture and film and media studies; she notes that the collectors have various motivations and types of collections. In the eleven chapters that follow, media studies scholars analyze a variety of fascinating collected materials, from Doris Day magazines to Godzilla action figures and LEGOs.

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Art Collecting Today Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art (2024)


Free Download Doug Woodham, "Art Collecting Today: Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art"
English | 2017 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1621535738 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today’s art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion dollars of annual sales, the art market is often opaque and confusing to even the most experienced collectors. But whether a seasoned collector, an uninitiated newcomer, or an art-world insider, readers will learn within these pages how the art marketplace works in practice and how to navigate it smartly. Those who may have been put off by art-world practices will finally feel they have the knowledge needed to participate freely and fully, and collectors will be able to pursue their passion with more confidence.

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