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  1. ¬The digital information revolution: [key presentations] : Superhighway symposium, FEI/EURIM Conference, November 16th & 17th 1994 [at the Central Hall, Westminster.] (1995) 0.26 
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    COMPASS
    Great Britain
    Date
    22.10.2006 18:22:51
    Subject
    Great Britain
  2. ¬The digital university : building a learning community (2002) 0.24 
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    Date
    22. 3.2008 14:43:03
    LCSH
    Education, Higher / Great Britain / Data processing
    University cooperation / Great Britain
    Education, Higher / Effect of technological innovations on / Great Britain
    Internet in education / Great Britain
    Computer / assisted instruction / Great Britain
    Distance education / Great Britain
    Subject
    Education, Higher / Great Britain / Data processing
    University cooperation / Great Britain
    Education, Higher / Effect of technological innovations on / Great Britain
    Internet in education / Great Britain
    Computer / assisted instruction / Great Britain
    Distance education / Great Britain
  3. Resource management in academic libraries (1997) 0.23 
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    LCSH
    Academic libraries / Great Britain / Administration
    Academic libraries / Great Britain / Funding
    Subject
    Academic libraries / Great Britain / Administration
    Academic libraries / Great Britain / Funding
  4. British librarianship and information work : 1991-2000 (2006) 0.16 
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    Libraries / Great Britain
    Library science / Great Britain
    Subject
    Libraries / Great Britain
    Library science / Great Britain
  5. British librarianship and information work : 2001-2005 (2007) 0.16 
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    Libraries / Great Britain
    Library science / Great Britain
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    Libraries / Great Britain
    Library science / Great Britain
  6. Understanding information policy : Proceedings of a British Library funded Information Policy Unit Workshop, Cumberland Lodge, UK, 22-24 July 1996 (1997) 0.11 
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    Abstract
    Papers presented at a British Library funded workshop, organized by the Information Policy Unit, City University, Department of Information Science, which brought together delegates from research communities and from the 'real world' of policy making at corporate, national, and international levels to discuss information policy
  7. Technical services management, 1965-1990 : A quarter century of change and a look to the future. Festschrift for Kathryn Luther Henderson (1996) 0.07 
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    Content
    Enthält u.a. die Beiträge: SHANNON, K.L. u. M.E. GIBBS: From catalog to OPAC: a look at 25 years of technical services in school libraries; MILLSAP, L.: History of the online catalog in North America; SHAW, D.: Automating access to bibliographic information; BURGER, R.H.: Authority control; JONES, E.A.: Death of a cataloging code: Seymour Lubetzky's code of cataloging rules and the question of institutions; SOPER, M.E.: Descriptive cataloging; OSMUS, L.L.: The transformation od serials cataloging 1965-1990; STAMM, A.L.: Minimal level cataloging: past, present, and future; CONNELL, T.H.: Subject cataloging; COMARONI, J.P.: The Dewey Decimal Classification: 1965-1990; KASCUS, M.A.: Indexing, in theory and practice; PIGGOTT, M.: Some post-war developments in indexing in Great Britain; TAYLOR, A.G.: A quarter century of cataloging education
  8. Knowledge and policy : a search for new ideas (1997) 0.06 
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    Content
    Special issue devoted to the theme 'Knowledge and policy: a search for new ideas'
    Source
    Knowledge and policy. 10(1997) no.3, S.3-80
  9. Libraries and the Internet : education, practice, and policy (1994) 0.05 
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    Issue devoted to the theme 'Libraries and the Internet: education, practice and policy'
  10. Information retrieval: new systems and current research : Proceedings of the 16th Research Colloquium of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, Drymen, Scotland, 22-23 Mar 94 (1996) 0.05 
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    Content
    The 13 papers cover a wide range of specialist interest subjects grouped under the headings: logic and information retrieval; natural language; weighting and indexing strategies; user interfaces; and information policy
  11. Policy, issues, and networked information (1995) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    Issue comprising a series of essays devoted to policy, issues and networked information in the USA
  12. Shaping the network society : the new role of civil society in cyberspace (2004) 0.04 
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    Footnote
    Geert Lovnik and Patrice Riemens explore the digital culture of Amsterdam to show how. despite the techno-social idealism of the early years of the public sphere Digital City project. the culture ran into problems. Susan Finquelievich studies the practices of civic networks in Buenos Aires and Montevideo to demonstrate how local sociohistorical conditions have shaped the technology's development. Veran Matic focuses on the role of media in defending human rights in a hostile environment (former Yugoslavia). Media, she notes, need not necessarily he (or become) a tool of fascist forces, but can he used to generate resistance and to forge a democratic public sphere. Scott Robinson looks at Mexico's telecenter movement to argue that these cybercafes are likely to become an institution for the new Second World of immigrants and refugees. through socially relevant functions. Fiorella de Cindio looks at one of the worlds most significant community networks that of Milan. She demonstrates how local citizens have used information and communication technologies to build a viable. and potentially empowering, participatory public sphere in academia, computer-supported cooperative work, participatory design, and civil engagement (what she calls genes). The third section, -'Building a New Public Sphere in Cyberspace," pros- ides a series of suggestions and frameworks for the spacing of public space through information and communications technologies. Craig Calhoun argues that a global public sphere is indispensable to the formation of a global democracy. Public discourse can still fight commercialism and violence to form a more democratic civil society. Howard Rheingold the great enthusiast of virtual worlds-performs an intricate mix of autobiographical reflection and speculation when he writes of the role of the new technologies. Rheingold, despite his fetishistic enthusiasm for technology and online community, is cautious when it comes to crucial issues such as the creation of democratic public spheres, arguing that we require a great deal more serious thinking on matters of ownership and control (over the technology). He argues that if citizens lose our freedom to communicate, then even the powerful potential of the Net to create electronic democracy will be fatal illusion (p. 275). Nancy Kranich turns to public libraries as the site of potential democratic society, arguing that as sites of informationdissemination. public libraries can become a commons for the exchange of ideas and social interaction. David Silver compares the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) to the Seattle Community Network the former funded by corporations and the state, the latter built essentially out of and through volunteer efforts. Silver, in characteristic style. looks at the historical archaeologies of the networks to show how sociohistorical contexts shape certain kinds of public spheres (and public discourse). going on to ask how, these networks can overcome these contexts to achieve their original goals. He warns that we need to uncover the histories of such networks because they inform the kinds of interactions of communities that exist within them. Douglas Morris analyzes the Independent Media Centre (IMO) Movement of antiglobalization activists to argue that alternative viewpoints and ideological differences can he aired, debated, and appropriated through the new technologies in order to fight corporate and commercial forces.
    Peter Day and Douglas Schuler wind up the book by taking a close look at the sociotechnical context in the 1990s. They argue that utopian schemes for the development of civil society and/or the public sphere may entail a degree of risk. However. Day and Schuler argue that community networks should be ''networks of awareness. advocacy and action" with a high degree of grassroots involvement. This can be done through more responsive policies. Local citizens-the first beneficiaries or victims of policy-should he brought into the decision-making process via civic dialogue. Public funding must be provided for projects that enable dissemination of information about a variety of cultures and belief systems. Shaping the Network Society is understandably more cautious than earlier accounts of cyberculture in its reception of new information and communications technology. Haunted by post 9/11 security measures. increasing surveillance, the faster erosion of liberal humanist ideals, and the internationalization/ commercialization of the media, the essays prefer to be wary about the potential of cyberpower. However, the optimist tone of every essay is unmistakable. While admitting that much more needs to be done to overcome the digital divide and the (mis)appropriation of cyberpower. the essays and ease studies draw attention to the potential for public debate and alternative ideologies. The case studies demonstrate success stories, but invariably conclude with a moral: about the need for vigilance against appropriation and fascist control! What emerges clearly is that the new media have achieved considerable progress in opening up the space for greater citizen involvement, more locally-responsive policy decisions. and socially relevant information-dissemination. Shaping the Network Society, with a strangely messianic slant, is a useful step in the mapping of the present and future cyberspace as the space of new democracies to come of a justice to he worked and prepared for."
  13. Human perspectives in the Internet society : culture, psychology and gender; International Conference on Human Perspectives in the Internet Society <1, 2004, Cádiz> (2004) 0.04 
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    Rez. in: JASIST 58(2007) no.1, S.150-151 (L. Westbrook): "The purpose of this volume is to bring together various analyses by international scholars of the social and cultural impact of information technology on individuals and societies (preface, n.p.). It grew from the First International Conference on Human Perspectives in the Internet Society held in Cadiz, Spain, in 2004. The editors and contributors have addressed an impressive array of significant issues with rigorous research and insightful analysis although the resulting volume does suffer from the usual unevenness in depth and content that affects books based on conference proceedings. Although the $256 price is prohibitive for many individual scholars, the effort to obtain a library edition for perusal regarding particular areas of interest is likely to prove worthwhile. Unlike many international conferences that are able to attract scholars from only a handful of nations, this genuinely diverse conference included research conducted in Australia, Beijing, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. The expense of a conference format and governmental travel restrictions may have precluded greater inclusion of the work being done to develop information technology for use in nonindustrialized nations in support of economic, social justice, and political movements. Although the cultural variants among these nations preclude direct cross-cultural comparisons, many papers carefully provide sufficient background information to make basic conceptual transfers possible. A great strength of the work is the unusual combination of academic disciplines that contributes substantially to the depth of many individual papers, particularly when they are read within the larger context of the entire volume. Although complete professional affiliations are not universally available, the authors who did name their affiliation come from widely divergent disciplines including accounting, business administration, architecture, business computing, communication, computing, economics, educational technology, environmental management, experimental psychology, gender research in computer science, geography, human work sciences, humanistic informatics, industrial engineering, information management, informatics in transport and telecommunications, information science, information technology, management, mathematics, organizational behavior, pedagogy, psychology, telemedicine, and women's education. This is all to the good, but the lack of representation from departments of women's studies, gender studies, and library studies certainly limits the breadth and depth of the perspectives provided.
    The volume is organized into 13 sections, each of which contains between two and eight conference papers. As with most conferences, the papers do not cover the issues in each section with equal weight or depth but the editors have grouped papers into reasonable patterns. Section 1 covers "understanding online behavior" with eight papers on problems such as e-learning attitudes, the neuropsychology of HCI, Japanese blogger motivation, and the dividing line between computer addiction and high engagement. Sections 2 (personality and computer attitudes), 3 (cyber interactions), and 4 (new interaction methods) each contain only two papers on topics such as helmet-mounted displays, online energy audits, and the use of ICT in family life. Sections 6, 7, and 8 focus on gender issues with papers on career development, the computer literacy of Malaysian women, mentoring, gaming, and faculty job satisfaction. Sections 9 and 10 move to a broader examination of cyber society and its diversity concerns with papers on cultural identity, virtual architecture, economic growth's impact on culture, and Iranian development impediments. Section 11's two articles on advertising might well have been merged with those of section 13's ebusiness. Section 12 addressed education with papers on topics such as computer-assisted homework, assessment, and Web-based learning. It would have been useful to introduce each section with a brief definition of the theme, summaries of the major contributions of the authors, and analyses of the gaps that might be addressed in future conferences. Despite the aforementioned concerns, this volume does provide a uniquely rich array of technological analyses embedded in social context. An examination of recent works in related areas finds nothing that is this complex culturally or that has such diversity of disciplines. Cultural Production in a Digital Age (Klinenberg, 2005), Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society (Berleur & Avgerou, 2005), and Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Information Technology (Brennan & Johnson, 2004) address various aspects of the society/Internet intersection but this volume is unique in its coverage of psychology, gender, and culture issues in cyberspace. The lip service often given to global concerns and the value of interdisciplinary analysis of intransigent social problems seldom develop into a genuine willingness to listen to unfamiliar research paradigms. Academic silos and cultural islands need conferences like this one-willing to take on the risk of examining the large questions in an intellectually open space. Editorial and methodological concerns notwithstanding, this volume merits review and, where appropriate, careful consideration across disciplines."
  14. Knowledge and communication : essays on the information chain (1991) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    This collection of essays examines the information chain from author / creator to user. The chapters provide a basis for a consideration of policy information suppliers' policy towards knowledge acquisition
  15. National Information Infrastructure (1996) 0.04 
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    Information infrastructure and policy. 5(1996) no.2, S.81-167
  16. ¬The value and impact of information (1994) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    Based on the first 8 of a series of information policy briefings, organised by the Information Policy Research Section of the British Library Research and Development Department, covering discussions of the value and impact of information
    Series
    British Library research information policy issues
  17. Exploring artificial intelligence in the new millennium (2003) 0.03 
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    Rez. in: JASIST 55(2004) no.2, S.180-181 (J. Walker): "My initial reaction to this book was that it would be a useful tool for researchers and students outside of the Computer science community who would like a primer of some of the many specialized research areas of artificial intelligence (AI). The book authors note that over the last couple of decades the AI community has seen significant growth and suffers from a great deal of fragmentation. Someone trying to survey some of the most important research literature from the community would find it difficult to navigate the enormous amount of materials, joumal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. There is a genuine need for a book such as this one that attempts to connect the numerous research pieces into a coherent reference source for students and researchers. The papers contained within the text were selected from the International Joint Conference an AI 2001 (IJCAI-2001). The preface warns that it is not an attempt to create a comprehensive book an the numerous areas of research in AI or subfields, but instead is a reference source for individuals interested in the current state of some research areas within AI in the new millennium. Chapter 1 of the book surveys major robot mapping algorithms; it opens with a brilliant historical overview of robot mapping and a discussion of the most significant problems that exist in the field with a focus an indoor navigation. The major approaches surveyed Kalman filter and an alternative to the Kalman, the expectation maximization. Sebastian Thrun examines how all modern approaches to robotic mapping are probabilistic in nature. In addition, the chapter concludes with a very insightful discussion into what research issues still exist in the robotic mapping community, specifically in the area of indoor navigation. The second chapter contains very interesting research an developing digital characters based an the lessons learned from dog behavior. The chapter begins similar to chapter one in that the reasoning and history of such research is presented in an insightful and concise manner. Bruce M. Blumberg takes his readers an a tour of why developing digital characters in this manner is important by showing how they benefit from the modeling of dog training patterns, and transparently demonstrates how these behaviors are emulated.
    In Chapter 7, Jeff Rickel and W. Lewis Johnson have created a virtual environment, with virtual humans for team training. The system is designed to allow a digital character to replace team members that may not be present. The system is also designed to allow students to acquire skills to occupy a designated role and help coordinate their activities with their teammates. The paper presents a complex concept in a very manageable fashion. In Chapter 8, Jonathan Yedidia et al. study the initial issues that make up reasoning under uncertainty. This type of reasoning, in which the system takes in facts about a patient's condition and makes predictions about the patient's future condition, is a key issue being looked at by many medical expert system developers. Their research is based an a new form of belief propagation, which is derived from generalized existing probabilistic inference methods that are widely used in AI and numerous other areas such as statistical physics. The ninth chapter, by David McAllester and Robert E. Schapire, looks at the basic problem of learning a language model. This is something that would not be challenging for most people, but can be quite arduous for a machine. The research focuses an a new technique called leave-one-out estimator that was used to investigate why statistical language models have had such success in this area of research. In Chapter 10, Peter Baumgartner looks at simplified theorem proving techniques, which have been applied very effectively in propositional logie, to first-ordered case. The author demonstrates how his new technique surpasses existing techniques in this area of AI research. The chapter simplifies a complex subject area, so that almost any reader with a basic Background in AI could understand the theorem proving. In Chapter 11, David Cohen et al. analyze complexity issues in constraint satisfaction, which is a common problem-solving paradigm. The authors lay out how tractable classes of constraint solvers create new classes that are tractable and more expressive than previous classes. This is not a chapter for an inexperienced student or researcher in AI. In Chapter 12, Jaana Kekalaine and Kalervo Jarvelin examine the question of finding the most important documents for any given query in text-based retrieval. The authors put forth two new measures of relevante and attempt to show how expanding user queries based an facets about the domain benefit retrieval. This is a great interdisciplinary chapter for readers who do not have a strong AI Background but would like to gain some insights into practical AI research. In Chapter 13, Tony Fountain et al. used machine learning techniques to help lower the tost of functional tests for ICs (integrated circuits) during the manufacturing process. The researchers used a probabilistic model of failure patterns extracted from existing data, which allowed generating of a decision-theoretic policy that is used to guide and optimize the testing of ICs. This is another great interdisciplinary chapter for a reader interested in an actual physical example of an AI system, but this chapter would require some AI knowledge.
    The book does achieve its aim of being a starting point for someone interested in the state of some areas of AI research at the beginning of the new millennium. The book's most irritating feature is the different writing styles of the authors. The book is organized as a collection of papers similar to a typical graduate survey course packet, and as a result the book does not possess a narrative flow. Also the book contains a number of other major weaknesses such as a lack of an introductory or concluding chapter. The book could greatly benefit from an introductory chapter that would introduce readers to the areas of AI, explain why such a book is needed, and explain why each author's research is important. The manner in which the book currently handles these issues is a preface that talks about some of the above issues in a superficial manner. Also such an introductory chapter could be used to expound an what level of AI mathematical and statistical knowledge is expected from readers in order to gain maximum benefit from this book. A concluding chapter would be useful to readers interested in the other areas of AI not covered by the book, as well as open issues common to all of the research presented. In addition, most of the contributors come exclusively from the computer science field, which heavily slants the work toward the computer science community. A great deal of the research presented is being used by a number of research communities outside of computer science, such as biotechnology and information technology. A wider audience for this book could have been achieved by including a more diverse range of authors showing the interdisciplinary nature of many of these fields. Also the book's editors state, "The reader is expected to have basic knowledge of AI at the level of an introductory course to the field" (p vii), which is not the case for this book. Readers need at least a strong familiarity with many of the core concepts within AI, because a number of the chapters are shallow and terse in their historical overviews. Overall, this book would be a useful tool for a professor putting together a survey course an AI research. Most importantly the book would be useful for eager graduate students in need of a starting point for their research for their thesis. This book is best suited as a reference guide to be used by individuals with a strong familiarity with AI."
  18. Coding and classification in the human services (1996) 0.03 
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    Theme issue on coding and classification in the human services. Coding and classification has become an increasingly important issue in the information management of human services due to recent social policy developments and the use of information technology. Contributions examine coding and classification systems from the policy, development and implementation perspective
  19. Proceedings of the 12th National Online Meeting, New York, 7.-9.5.1991 (1991) 0.03 
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    The 62 presented papers cover a wide range of topics, including: large-scale, full-text retrieval by concept indexing, newspapers on CD-ROM, the European perspective, the commoditization of information, political and economic realities, public policy consideration, access to information via networks, and fiber optic based telecommunication systems in the 1990s
  20. ¬The new international telecommunications environment : competition, regulation, trade and standards (1996) 0.03 
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    Telecommunications policy. 20(1996) no.10, S.721-830

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