Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries
Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries

Author: Abresch, John

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-04-30

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1599047284

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With the onslaught of emergent technology in academia, libraries are privy to many innovative techniques to recognize and classify geospatial data?above and beyond the traditional map librarianship. As librarians become more involved in the development and provision of GIS services and resources, they encounter both problems and solutions. Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries integrates traditional map librarianship and contemporary issues in digital librarianship within a framework of a global embedded information infrastructure, addressing technical, legal, and institutional factors such as collection development, reference and research services, and cataloging/metadata, as well as issues in accessibility and standards.

Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices
Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices

Author: Gonz lez, Rafael Andr‚s

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1599045125

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Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way that can use the specific personalization techniques, algorithms, and available technology infrastructure to satisfy high-level functional requirements for personalization. Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices surveys the main concepts, methods, and practices of personalized information retrieval and access in today's data intensive, dynamic, and distributed environment, and provides students, researchers, and practitioners with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of globally distributed information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access.

Cyberhound's Guide to Companies on the Internet
Cyberhound's Guide to Companies on the Internet

Author: Gale Group

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9780787610234

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This guide contains reviews of more than 2000 corporate Web sites, profiling top companies and those in the information industry, including software and hardware developers and networking and telecommunications companies.

The World Book Encyclopedia
The World Book Encyclopedia

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Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.