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This book contains the papers delivered at sessions organised by the Genealogy and Local History Section at the annual conferences of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) between 2001 and 2005; many of these are updated versions of the original presentations. A wide range of significant issues and trends in historical and family research is covered. The authors, all experts in their own fields, address those engaged in delivering genealogy and local history services in libraries, archives and museums across the world. Moreover, they focus on the growing army of enthusiasts directly engaged in tracing their own ancestral and local history. Several papers give useful hints on how various resources can be used to further personal research. These include the exciting opportunities offered by the digitisation of primary resources and by the impact of the powerful new technology, among other things now on offer through DNA profiling.

Praxiswissen (Professional Practice) is a series that offers professionals in libraries, archives, and related organizations comprehensive answers to questions and problems that emerge in day-to-day professional practice. Relevant examples and solution strategies are presented by renowned experts in clearly organized chapters. The series is an indispensible aid to information-science professionals thanks to hands-on material, including checklists, text templates (for letters or websites), questionnaires, and more.

Dieses Buch stellt einen Teil der Erweiterung und Entwicklung der Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records dar. Es enthalt eine weitergehende Analyse der Merkmale verschiedener Entitaten, die im Fokus von Normdaten stehen (Personen, Familien, Korperschaften, Werke, Expressionen, Manifestationen, Exemplare, Begriffe, Objekte, Ereignisse und Orte), die Benennungen unter denen diese Entitaten bekannt sind, und die normierten Sucheinstiege, welche die Katalogisierer fur diese erzeugen.

The 34th edition of the comprehensive World Guide to Libraries contains current addresses and detailed information on the holdings of a total of approx. 41,500 libraries in more than 200 countries. Covered are national libraries, academic libraries, university libraries including specialized and institute libraries, school and college libraries, the libraries of authorities, churches and companies, special libraries of other patronage and public libraries. Besides contact details, entries include information regarding inter-library lending, library director, book, periodical and manuscript holdings, special holdings, areas of collection and much more. The eBookPLUS format comprises the content and search criteria of the printed edition and its indices, facilitating complex searches.

The 32nd edition of the comprehensive World Guide to Libraries contains current addresses and detailed information on the holdings of a total of approx. 42,500 libraries in more than 200 countries. Covered are national libraries, academic libraries, university libraries including specialized and institute libraries, school and college libraries, the libraries of authorities, churches and companies, special libraries of other patronage and public libraries. Besides contact details, entries include information regarding inter-library lending, library director, book, periodical and manuscript holdings, special holdings, areas of collection and much more. The eBookPLUS format comprises the content and search criteria of the printed edition and its indices, facilitating complex searches.

Images play an outstanding role in the transfer of knowledge. They are used in numerous academic disciplines to present scientific results. Digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop make it possible to display the information in images brilliantly and clearly - at the same time the line between appropriate and inappropriate manipulation is not always easy to draw. Scientific journals have published guidelines for handling and editing images, but they are not always specific enough to provide clarity for all situations. "Shaping Images" examines how scholars from biology, information science, art history and design deal with this uncertainty - how they process and manipulate images, where they see their special potential and how they draw the line between appropriate and inappropriate image manipulation. The work also looks at scientific journals and lets selected editors have their say: What would have to happen to make it possible to combat image manipulation in science more effectively? The book's interdisciplinary approach makes it clear how different the practices are and how different the views are on what should be allowed in the processing of images. Images - this too is problematized in the book - are always a means to a certain end, which is precisely why the handling of images should be thoroughly reflected upon.

This book covers the basics of semantic web technologies and indexing languages, and describes their contribution to improve methods of formal knowledge representation and reasoning. The methodologies included combine the specifics of indexing languages, Web representation languages and intersystem relations, and explain their contribution to search functionalities in information retrieval scenarios. An example oriented discussion, considering aspects of conceptual and semantic interoperability in processes of subject querying and knowledge exploration is provided. The book is relevant to information scientists, knowledge workers and indexers. It provides a suitable combination of theoretical foundations and practical applications.

Der Band Erfolgreich recherchieren ¿ Informatik bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Informationsressourcen zu allen Teilgebieten der Informatik. Vorgestellt werden nicht nur die zentralen Rechercheinstrumente wie Bibliothekskataloge, Fachbibliographien, Internetsuchmaschinen und Aufsatzdatenbanken, sondern auch Strategien für die erfolgreiche Literaturrecherche. Ein eigener Teil des Buches widmet sich der Weiterverarbeitung der gefundenen Informationen, also der Literaturbeschaffung, der Verwendung von Literaturverwaltungsprogrammenund dem richtigen Zitieren. Ob für das erste Referat oder die Abschlussarbeit ¿ hier bekommen Sie einen kompetenten Leitfaden für die erfolgreiche Recherche an die Hand.

Following the pattern of the first volume, the second volume of Libraries in the early 21st century: An international perspective extends the range of countries covered. Each chapter covers a different country and describes the modern history, development of libraries and library technology. The careful selection of countries achieves good representation of professional library work on all continents.This two-volume work represents an excellent contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative studies both at graduate and professional level.

The scope of this volume will encompass a collection of research papers related to indexing and retrieval of online non-text information. In recent years, the Internet has seen an exponential increase in the number of documents placed online that are not in textual format. These documents appear in a variety of contexts, such as user-generated content sharing websites, social networking websites etc. and formats, includingphotographs, videos, recorded music, data visualizations etc. The prevalence of these contexts and data formats presents a particularly challenging task to information indexing and retrieval research due to many difficulties, such as assigning suitable semantic metadata, processing and extracting non-textual content automatically, and designing retrieval systems that "speak in the native language" of non-text documents.

This book questions our beliefs in the role of the information profession and tells us how to become information workers of the future by providing advice on overcoming the challenges facing the library profession. It develops the idea of the knowledge culture and knowledge work and goes on to expand how information needs to be shared and not hoarded as in the traditional role of libraries as keepers of knowledge. This second edition provides a clear and very accessible practical framework for knowledge work.

This unique volume gives a truly international overview over the modern history and development of libraries and library technology in selected countries of the world. The careful selection of countries achieves good representation of library work on all continents, covering examples of both the developed and the developing world. A further volume with further national profiles is planned for 2012. This multivolume work represents an excellent contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative studies both at graduate and professional level. Many of the contributors are well-known authors; closely involved in the work of IFLA or their own national library associations.

This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss the conceptual part of the subject and related services. The book was compiled as part of the presidential theme of Ellen Tise, IFLA President 2009-2011, with the aim of offering the reader a good portrait of the opportunities and challenges that libraries have in driving access to knowledge.ess to knowledge.

This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social organizations that develop around new technologies and research communities. Changed role of librarians within social science libraries Describes new developments of social organizations Essential for librarians