6 edition of Libraries, information, and society found in the catalog.
Libraries, information, and society
Anaba A. Alemna
Published
2000
by Ghana Universities Press in Accra
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | Anaba A. Alemna. |
| Contributions | University of Ghana. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | Z857.G48 A445 2000 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 41 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 41 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3983917M |
| ISBN 10 | 9964302703 |
| LC Control Number | 2001311303 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 47915137 |
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants.. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries: they are generally supported by taxes (usually local, though any level of government can and may. A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing, often in a quiet environment conducive to study. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include books, periodicals.
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Libraries and Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the major challenges that libraries – however defined, managed, developed and provided – now and society book, and Libraries continue to face in the future.
Libraries: Culture, History, and Society aims to study libraries within their broader historical, humanistic, and social contexts.
The only journal in the United States devoted to library history, LCHS positions library history as its own field of scholarship, while promoting innovative cross-disciplinary research on libraries' relationships with their unique environments.
LIBRARIES, INFORMATION AND SOCIETY ANABA A. ALEMNA Professor of Library Science, Department of Library and Archival Studies, University of Ghana, Legon An Inaugural Lecture delivered on 19th November, at the Auditorium of the School of Administration, University of Ghana, Legon GHANA UNIVERSI I'IES PRESS ACCRA ISBN: X OCLC Number: Description: pages: illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents: To be or not to be: public libraries and the global knowledge revolution / Qihao Miao --Driving libraries toward a sustainable future / Dawn Maddern --Libraries and national information policies and/or national IT strategies: a survey / Hellen Niegaard.
"Libraries in the Information Society" aims to bring together works related to the changing role of the library as a social institution in the emerging information society.
The thematic scope of the articles in this collection ranges from conceptual considerations on Knowledge Economy/Society to purely practical issues of library management and. The role of libraries in modern information The information and society book development demands to re-define the position and objectives of all the institutions which work with information, knowledge, and culture.
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The earnings generated provide materials for the Libraries. A special plate with. Information society refers to a society where cultural, social and political life centers around the production and distribution of information through information technology networks.
The rapid transmission, receipt and exchange of information by digital means globally, irrespective of distance, is a dominant feature of this society.
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This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.
It focuses on the three graphmain forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but 5/5(2). Information Society: A New Challenge for Libraries and Library Professionals January In book: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN NEW MILLENNIUM: Opportunities and Challenges for Library Professionals Author: Ashok Kumar Sahu.
If there is one basic, all-encompassing book that all librarians need to have on their shelves, this is it. Highly recommended." - Library Media Connection "Prepared by Fourie and Dowell (instructors in the Library/Information Technology program, Cuesta College) this is a textbook appropriate for prospective library technical assistants.4/5(11).
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Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to Cited by: The Information Society Library (ISL) is a series of non-technical booklets providing information and guidelines on key cyberspace- and Internet-related issues.
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Libraries are committed to helping children and adults develop the skills they need to survive and thrive in a global information society: the ability to read and use computers. Basic, functional literacy is an essential skill for an individual’s personal and professional growth—it is also key to their full, beneficial use of a library’s.
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SinceIFLA has contributed to the definition of information society policy at .Library and Information Society Development of the Information Society One of the first people to develop the concept of the information society was the economist Fritz Machlup.
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