Tag: Librarians

Free Download Margaret E. Henderson, "Data Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1442264381 | PDF | pages: 215 | 5.3 mb
Libraries organize information and data is information, so it is natural that librarians should help people who need to find, organize, use, or store data. Organizations need evidence for decision making; data provides that evidence. Inventors and creators build upon data collected by others. All around us, people need data. Librarians can help increase the relevance of their library to the research and education mission of their institution by learning more about data and how to manage it.

Free Download Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals (LITA Guides) by Andrew Weiss
English | March 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1538103222 | 218 pages | PDF | 41 Mb
"Big data," as it has become known in business and information technology circles, has the potential to improve our knowledge about human behavior, and to help us gain insight into the ways in which we organize ourselves, our cultures, and our external and internal lives. Libraries stand at the center of the information world, both facilitating and contributing to this flood as well as helping to shape and channel it to specific purposes. But all technologies come with a price. Where the tool can serve a purpose, it can also change the user’s behavior to fit the purposes of the tool. Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals 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.

Free Download Charles Oppenheim, "Information Law: Compliance for Librarians, Knowledge Managers and Information Professionals"
English | ISBN: 1783303670 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Library staff, information managers, academics, learning technologists, researchers and other practitioners who collect, use, create, share or provide access to published and unpublished resources, such as content, data, databases, personal data and software, need to be aware of the legal and licensing issues that might arise from these activities. This fully up-to-date guide adopts a practical hands-on approach to this complex area, which is viewed from both an operational and strategic perspective.

Free Download Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 0063280841 | 400 pages | PDF | 5.75 Mb
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war

Free Download Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063280841 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 3.12 MB
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war

Free Download Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063280841 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 3.12 MB
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war

Free Download Kathy Peiss, "Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe"
English | ISBN: 0190944617 | 2020 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the written word, as well as providing critical information for intelligence purposes, these American civilians set off on missions to gather foreign publications and information across Europe. They journeyed to neutral cities in search of enemy texts, followed a step behind advancing armies to capture records, and seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools. When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them.

Free Download Apps for Librarians: Using the Best Mobile Technology to Educate, Create, and Engage By Nicole Hennig
2014 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 1610695305 | PDF | 2 MB
Smartphones and other mobile devices that support downloadable applications-universally referred to as "apps"-can be used to foster productivity, conduct research, or read and study. Additionally, savvy librarians can better serve their communities by gaining expertise in mobile technologies and being qualified to make app recommendations to patrons. This book introduces you to the apps that can help you save time and increase your own productivity as well as serve as a curator and reviewer of apps and resident expert to benefit your patrons.Apps for Librarians: Using the Best Mobile Technology to Educate, Create, and Engage will save you from wading through and learning about the millions of apps available today and direct you to the very best apps in areas important to education, the workplace, and professional development. Organized by function-reading, writing, reference, multi-media, and productivity-apps are profiled with the following information: title, developer, price, platforms, general description, examples of use, and key features that make it worthwhile for learning and creative work.

Free Download The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
English | April 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0316567531, 0316572829 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 2.2 MB
This "celebration of the world of books" (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians-the superheroes of reading-as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.

Free Download Joshua Hammer, "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476777411, 1476777403 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 6.9 mb
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this "fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller" (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.