Information Now

Author : Matt Upson,C. Michael Hall,Kevin Cannon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780226267753

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Information Now by Matt Upson,C. Michael Hall,Kevin Cannon Pdf

Every day researchers face an onslaught of irrelevant, inaccurate, and sometimes insidious information. While new technologies provide powerful tools for accessing knowledge, not all information is created equal. Valuable information may be tucked away on a shelf, buried on the hundredth page of search results, or hidden behind digital barriers. With so many obstacles to effective research, it is vital that higher education students master the art of inquiry. Information Now is an innovative approach to information literacy that will reinvent the way college students think about research. Instead of the typical textbook format, it uses illustrations, humor, and reflective exercises to teach students how to become savvy researchers. Students will learn how to evaluate information, to incorporate it into their existing knowledge base, to wield it effectively, and to understand the ethical issues surrounding its use. Written by two library professionals, it incorporates concepts and skills drawn from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and their Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Thoroughly researched and highly engaging, Information Now offers the tools that students need to become powerful consumers and creators of information. Whether used by a high school student tackling a big paper, an undergrad facing the newness of a university library, or a writer wanting to go beyond Google, Information Now is a powerful tool for any researcher’s arsenal.

Author : Matt Upson,Holly Luetkenhaus,C. Michael Hall,Kevin Cannon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780226766256

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Information Now, Second Edition by Matt Upson,Holly Luetkenhaus,C. Michael Hall,Kevin Cannon Pdf

Today’s information environments are complex, and learning how to find relevant and reliable information online, as well as how to fact-check and evaluate that information, is essential. Enter Information Now, a graphic guide that uses humor and sequential art to teach students about information, research, and the web. This second edition of the popular guide incorporates critical analysis of information systems, asking students to think about the biases and problems in how databases and search engines are designed and used. It also addresses how different populations of people are disproportionately affected by the algorithmic biases built into information systems. And it includes revised critical thinking exercises in every chapter. Written and revised by library professionals, Information Now is a fun and insightful tool for high school and college students, writers, and anyone wanting to improve their research skills.

Author : Todd Alexander
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780733629136

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Get Your Business Online Now! by Todd Alexander Pdf

Online business, or e-commerce, has become the buzzword of the past year. The media and key influencers alike are talking about the potential of e-commerce but many Australian businesses have not reached their potential and those managing them don?t know how to go about it. One of the obstacles is the lack of affordable, local knowledge in the area. The assumption is that anyone with a website can appear on Google and be successful - but the reality is vastly different. Consultants will charge tens of thousands of dollars to give the same advice that is contained in this book, which includes an outline of the e-commerce opportunity, how to design and build an effective website, the best marketing and advertising strategies, logistics and payment solutions, utilising marketplaces and mobile commerce, and the key to outstanding online customer service. In this straightforward user-friendly guide, Todd Alexander, an author with 10 years? experience as an e-commerce expert, provides the essential tools to get all types of businesses get online and make their websites successful and profitable.

Author : William Jones
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781627050173

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Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information by William Jones Pdf

With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that arise in the "great migration" of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information that promise to profoundly alter our practices of PIM and, through these practices, the way we lead our lives. Part 2 is in five chapters: - Chapter 5. Technologies of Input and Output. Technologies in support of gesture, touch, voice, and even eye movements combine to support a more natural user interface (NUI). Technologies of output include glasses and "watch" watches. Output will also increasingly be animated with options to "zoom". - Chapter 6. Technologies to Save Our Information. We can opt for "life logs" to record our experiences with increasing fidelity. What will we use these logs for? And what isn’t recorded that should be? - Chapter 7. Technologies to Search Our Information. The potential for personalized search is enormous and mostly yet to be realized. Persistent searches, situated in our information landscape, will allow us to maintain a diversity of projects and areas of interest without a need to continually switch from one to another to handle incoming information. - Chapter 8. Technologies to Structure Our Information. Structure is key if we are to keep, find, and make effective use of our information. But how best to structure? And how best to share structured information between the applications we use, with other people, and also with ourselves over time? What lessons can we draw from the failures and successes in web-based efforts to share structure? - Chapter 9. PIM Transformed and Transforming: Stories from the Past, Present and Future. Part 2 concludes with a comparison between Licklider’s world of information in 1957 and our own world of information today. And then we consider what the world of information is likely to look like in 2057. Licklider estimated that he spent 85% of his "thinking time" in activities that were clerical and mechanical and might (someday) be delegated to the computer. What percentage of our own time is spent with the clerical and mechanical? What about in 2057?

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2182 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU03520455

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Hearings, Nov. 15, 1945-May 31, 1946 by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack Pdf

Author : Massachusetts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2LB9

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Public Documents of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Pdf

Author : Robert Reid,Torri Ortiz Lienemann,Jessica L. Hagaman
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781462511983

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Strategy Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition by Robert Reid,Torri Ortiz Lienemann,Jessica L. Hagaman Pdf

"Practical and accessible, this book provides the first step-by-step guide to cognitive strategy instruction, which has been shown to be one of the most effective instructional techniques for students with learning problems. Presented are proven strategies that students can use to improve their self-regulated learning, study skills, and performance in specific content areas, including written language, reading, and math. Clear directions for teaching the strategies in the elementary or secondary classroom are accompanied by sample lesson plans and many concrete examples. Enhancing the book's hands-on utility are more than 20 reproducible worksheets and forms"--

Author : Timothy Zick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107012325

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The Cosmopolitan First Amendment by Timothy Zick Pdf

We live in an interconnected world in which expressive and religious cultures increasingly commingle and collide. In a globalized and digitized era, we need to better understand the relationship between the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and international borders. This book focuses on the exercise and protection of cross-border and beyond-border expressive and religious liberties, and on the First Amendment's relationship to the world beyond US shores. It reveals a cosmopolitan First Amendment that protects cross-border conversation, facilitates the global spread of democratic principles, recognizes expressive and religious liberties regardless of location, is influential across the world, and encourages respectful engagement with the liberty regimes of other nations. The Cosmopolitan First Amendment is the product of historical, social, political, technological and legal developments. It examines the First Amendment's relationship to foreign travel, immigration, cross-border communication and association, religious activities that traverse international borders, conflicts among foreign and US speech and religious liberty models, and the conduct of international affairs and diplomacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547787

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11576223

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11795008

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555025421

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. by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015063806130

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Classes and Masses by William Hurrell Mallock Pdf

Author : Robert Aitkin Bertram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Homiletical illustrations
ISBN : UIUC:30112114853424

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A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals by Robert Aitkin Bertram Pdf

Author : United States. Selective Service System
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Draft
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU02285991

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Semiannual Report of the Director of Selective Service by United States. Selective Service System Pdf