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Book The Greek Connection

Download or read book The Greek Connection written by James H. Barron and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning from WWII to the Cold War and beyond, this is the “magnificent . . . triumphant” biography of the investigative journalist, resistance fighter, and whistle blower who helped expose the Watergate scandal (Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership) He was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked—even though his life reads like an epic adventure story . . . As a precocious twelve-year-old in occupied Athens, he engaged in heroic resistance efforts against the Nazis, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. After his life was miraculously spared, he became an investigative journalist, covering Greece’s tumultuous politics and America’s increasing influence in the region. A clever and scoop-hungry reporter, Elias soon gained access to powerful figures in both governments—and attracted many enemies. When the Greek military dictatorship took power in 1967, he narrowly escaped to Washington DC, where he would lead the fight to restore democracy in his homeland—while running afoul of the American government, too. Now, after a decade of research and original reporting, James H. Barron uncovers the story of a man whose tireless pursuit of uncomfortable truths would put him at odds with not only his own government, but that of the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations, making him a target of CIA, FBI, and State Department surveillance and harassment—and Greek kidnapping and assassination plots American authorities may have purposefully overlooked. A stunning feat of biographic storytelling, sweeping from World War II to the Cold War, Watergate and beyond, The Greek Connection is about a lifetime of standing up for democracy and a free press against powerful special interests. It has much to teach us about our own era’s abuses of power, dark money, journalist intimidation, and foreign interference in elections.

Book School Library Management

Download or read book School Library Management written by Carl A. Harvey II and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting activities and discussion questions that will pique student interest and facilitate instruction, the 8th edition of this well-known school library text gathers management articles into a ready-to-use volume that showcases current best practices. This 8th edition of School Library Management offers a fully updated collection of articles designed to guide both new and practicing school librarians. It gathers information about the issues and trends in the field, programming ideas, and advice from school library leaders. Contemporary articles from the past five years of School Library Connection bring this edition up to the present. Carefully curated chapters address today's best practices to improve school library programs, integrating technology considerations throughout each of the sections. Authors cover timely topics such as equity, diversity, and inclusion; budgets; copyright; librarian professional development; evaluation; and advocacy. Each chapter begins with an introduction to put issues into context and ends with activities that will help librarians further explore. All readers will appreciate this volume as "one-stop shopping" for readings that address best practices in light of major new guiding documents and standards in the school library field.

Book Public Libraries and the Internet

Download or read book Public Libraries and the Internet written by Charles R. McClure and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publicly-supported community libraries are a critical component of the National information infrastructure (NII) initiative. This survey provides data about Internet connectivity for public libraries. 79 tables.

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : United States. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
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  • Release : 1994
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  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intellectual Freedom Issues in School Libraries

Download or read book Intellectual Freedom Issues in School Libraries written by April M. Dawkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date volume of topical School Library Connection articles provides school librarians and LIS professors with a one-stop source of information for supporting the core library principle of intellectual freedom. School librarians continue to advocate for and champion student privacy and the right to read and have unfettered access to needed information. Updated and current information concerning these issues is critical to school librarians working daily with students, parents, and faculty to manage library programs, services, and print and digital collections. This volume is an invaluable resource as school librarians revisit collection development, scheduling, access, and other policies. Library science professors will find this updated volume useful for information and discussion with students. Drawing on the archives of School Library Connection, Library Media Connection, and School Library Monthly magazines—and with comprehensive updates throughout—chapters tackle privacy, the right to read, censorship, equal access to information, and other intellectual freedom issues. New laws and legal and ethical opinions continue to appear and help inform the daily response school librarians have to current issues. This volume updates all included articles with current legal thought and opinion. Intellectual freedom expert April Dawkins offers practical advice and commentary throughout.

Book Cloud Computing for Libraries

Download or read book Cloud Computing for Libraries written by Marshall Breeding and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides the practical information and 'real world' advice required to take full advantage of what cloud computing can provide." --Midwest Book Review

Book Public and Academic Library Electronic Access to Information Survey  February 1996

Download or read book Public and Academic Library Electronic Access to Information Survey February 1996 written by Elizabeth A. Breedlove and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A statewide survey of electronic resources and access services provided by New Jersey libraries. The results of the questionnaire will be used in making decisions about future State Library grants and programs. The questionnaire was divided into four sections covering local systems (e.g., integrated library systems), Internet access, electronic resources, and local wide area networks used to facilitate access to to these resources. A major emphasis of the questionnaire was to gather information on direct patron access to electronic sources of information.

Book Library Media Connection

Download or read book Library Media Connection written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Committee on Public Library

Download or read book Annual Report of the Committee on Public Library written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discover Digital Libraries

Download or read book Discover Digital Libraries written by Iris Xie and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice is a book that integrates both research and practice concerning digital library development, use, preservation, and evaluation. The combination of current research and practical guidelines is a unique strength of this book. The authors bring in-depth expertise on different digital library issues and synthesize theoretical and practical perspectives relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and tools for digital library development, including discussions of the social and legal issues associated with digital libraries. Readers will find current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries and their components, including collection, digitization, metadata, interface design, sustainability, preservation, retrieval, and evaluation of digital libraries. - Offers an overview of digital libraries and the conceptual and practical understanding of digital libraries - Presents the lifecycle of digital library design, use, preservation and evaluation, including collection development, digitization of static and multimedia resources, metadata, digital library development and interface design, digital information searching, digital preservation, and digital library evaluation - Synthesizes current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries - Introduces new developments in the area of digital libraries, such as large-scale digital libraries, social media applications in digital libraries, multilingual digital libraries, digital curation, linked data, rapid capture, guidelines for the digitization of multimedia resources - Highlights the impact, challenges, suggestions for overcoming these challenges, and trends of present and future development of digital librariesOffers a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter

Book US National Security  Intelligence and Democracy

Download or read book US National Security Intelligence and Democracy written by Russell A. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and many of the legal boundaries operating on US intelligence agencies today are the direct result of reforms proposed by the Church Committee, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Church Committee also drew attention to the importance of constitutional government as a Congressional body overseeing the activities of the Executive branch. Placing the legacy of the Church Committee in the context of the contemporary debate over US national security and democratic governance, the book brings together contributions from distinguished policy leaders and scholars of law, intelligence and political science.

Book Remote Access Technologies for Library Collections  Tools for Library Users and Managers

Download or read book Remote Access Technologies for Library Collections Tools for Library Users and Managers written by Fulkerson, Diane M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is crucial to understanding changes and the new expectations that library users have in the 21st century, including identifying, implementing and updating new technologies, understanding copyright and fair use laws, creating metadata for access to digital collections, and meeting user needs"--Provided by publisher.

Book Cooperative Efforts of Libraries

Download or read book Cooperative Efforts of Libraries written by Rita Pellen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regional, statewide, and international levels! This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the editors: “Cooperation used to mean primarily cataloging via OCLC, interlibrary loan, and perhaps mutual borrowing privileges, but economics and technology are combining to broaden the playing field considerably. This collection reflects this diversity.” Part one of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries highlights cooperation in regional and statewide activity. You'll learn about: Metro, a multitype cooperative designed to coordinate the implementation of virtual reference among libraries in New York City cooperation between remote, rural, and isolated libraries in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West regions, including the creation of the Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) and similar organizations a Virtual Library of Virginia project in which the highly specialized skills of librarians were used to enhance vendor-supplied MARC records for a much more accessible full-text database the efforts of each university within the state system in Florida to contribute digitized versions of rare and specialized Floridiana to a joint electronic collection which is available to everyone in the state a centrally funded project to support the information literacy efforts of librarians at each campus of the California State University System and make all of them available at the other campus libraries a joint collection development project within the state universities and community and technical colleges of Minnesota the successful lobbying effort which brought them a $3 million annual supplement to cooperatively redress past underfunding for collections the history of resource sharing in Louisiana, Illinois, and Texas—detailed and extensive analyses Part two of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries presents a sampling of the wide variety of cooperative efforts that make libraries so unusual among institutions and librarians so unusual among professionals. In this section, the President of the Center for Research Libraries discusses the increasing cost and physical constraints that make it difficult for hundreds of libraries to store and preserve print copies of the same research materials. This section also examines: a collaborative digital reference project among three small liberal arts college libraries in New England the history of cooperative collection development among three Pennsylvania college libraries the University of Kansas Libraries' efforts to establish cooperative education programs to microfilm brittle books and create microform masters of embrittled volumes—which are then made available for sale to other libraries an American university's offer of interlibrary access to the students and faculty of an Armenian university where resources are severely limited the challenges of providing interlibrary loan in Latin America the planning of an international summit cosponsored by the Southeast Florida Library Information Network, a regional multitype cooperative in South Florida, and IFLA, designed to lay the groundwork for further cooperative efforts between U.S. libraries and libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean

Book Cultural Humility in Libraries

Download or read book Cultural Humility in Libraries written by Shannon D. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Humility in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success explores cultural humility as a framework for encouraging ongoing self-education and empathy to enhance understanding of the lived experiences of others. Including insights from more than 30 contributors, it offers best practice strategies tempered by experiences and wisdom and challenges information professionals to embrace cultural humility as a powerful tool for nurturing dialogue, understanding, and positive transformation. The book is divided into three parts: “What is Cultural Humility?”, “Applications in Libraries,” and “Voices from the Field.” Part I addresses what cultural humility is and the importance and relevance of its role in healthcare. In Part II, the authors describe how they apply principles of cultural humility in their work environments via lessons learned, practical strategies, development opportunities, and challenges when integrating cultural humility in library settings. In Part III, the voices of diverse professionals unpack the application of cultural humility through their lens, sharing their stories of what cultural humility has meant in their lives, how they have applied it in their work, and the challenges they have faced in doing so. Cultural Humility in Libraries is a call to action for readers to look inward to assess the role and impact of cultural humility in their own lives. In particular, readers are encouraged to deliberately reflect and think critically about how their thoughts, words, and actions impact the people around them.

Book Foundations of Library and Information Science  Fourth Edition

Download or read book Foundations of Library and Information Science Fourth Edition written by Richard E. Rubin and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007

Download or read book Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 written by Scott Roberts and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 1351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book." --From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator of XML 1.0 and Microsoft Office InfoPath Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 offers breakthrough tools for gathering, managing, and integrating business-critical information, and creating efficient forms-driven processes. Two longtime members of Microsoft's InfoPath product team have written the first comprehensive, hands-on guide to building successful XML-based solutions with InfoPath 2007. The book opens with a practical primer on the fundamentals of InfoPath form template design for information workers and application developers at all levels of experience. It then moves into advanced techniques for customizing, integrating, and extending form templates--with all the code examples and detail needed by professional developers. Learn how to: Design form templates: create blank form templates, insert and customize controls, use advanced formatting, and construct and lay out views Work with data: start with XML data or schema, manually edit data sources, and understand design-time visuals Add custom business logic to forms, and integrate them with other applications Retrieve and query data from external data sources, including XML files, databases, SharePoint lists, Web services, and ADO.NET DataSets Submit and receive form data using ADO.NET Save, preview, and publish to e-mail, SharePoint, and more Build reusable components with template parts Create workflows with SharePoint and InfoPath E-Mail Forms Administer Forms Services and Web-enabled form templates Build advanced form templates using C# form code, custom controls, add-ins, and the new InfoPath 2007 managed object model Design form templates using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Update, secure, and optimize your form templates List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Preface About the Authors PART I: Designing Forms Chapter 1: Introduction to InfoPath 2007 Chapter 2: Basics of InfoPath Form Design Chapter 3: Working with Data Chapter 4: Advanced Controls and Customization Chapter 5: Adding Logic without Code Chapter 6: Retrieving Data from External Sources Chapter 7: Extended Features of Data Connections Chapter 8: Submitting Form Data Chapter 9: Saving and Publishing Chapter 10: Building Reusable Components Chapter 11: Security and Deployment Chapter 12: Creating Reports Chapter 13: Workflow Chapter 14: Introduction to Forms Services Part II: Advanced Form Design Chapter 15: Writing Code in InfoPath Chapter 16: Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Chapter 17: Advanced Forms Services Chapter 18: Hosting InfoPath Chapter 19: Building Custom Controls Using ActiveX Technologies Chapter 20: Add-ins Chapter 21: Importers and Exporters Appendix: Further Reading Index

Book InfoPath with SharePoint 2013 How to

Download or read book InfoPath with SharePoint 2013 How to written by Steve Mann and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need fast, reliable, easy-to-use solutions for using InfoPath® with SharePoint® 2013? This book delivers exactly what you're looking for: step-by-step help and guidance with the tasks you'll perform most often. You'll learn better ways to design and develop intuitive, effective form-based solutions, and then efficiently administer, secure, and troubleshoot them. The industry's most focused resource for solving business problems with SharePoint and InfoPath forms, this book provides all the answers you need--now! Steven Mann is an Enterprise Applications Engineer for Morgan Lewis and has nearly 20 years of professional experience with collaboration and business intelligence, including a decade working with SharePoint. Formerly Principal Architect for RDA Corporation, his books include InfoPath with SharePoint 2010 How-To, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Unleashed, SharePoint 2010 Field Guide, and SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata Unleashed. Fast, Accurate, and Easy-to-Use! ¿ Discover powerful tips for success with InfoPath Designer 2013 ¿ Efficiently create SharePoint form controls, rules, and functions ¿ Master form page design, views, and list forms ¿ Submit, publish, and use data in SharePoint forms ¿ Streamline business processes by integrating forms into SharePoint workflows ¿ Design more intuitive, easier-to-use forms with InfoPath controls, functionality, and settings ¿ Use template parts to create reusable form components, including controls, fields, and data connections ¿ Leverage Visual Studio 2012 with InfoPath to build solutions and application-level add-ins ¿ Dynamically populate repeating tables in forms ¿ Elegantly track changes in SharePoint forms ¿ Automatically generate new InfoPath form instances ¿ Use SharePoint 2013 Central Administration to manage forms and Forms Services ¿ Automate InfoPath Form Services administration with PowerShell ¿ Manage form permissions to control user access and rights ¿ Troubleshoot form development, deployment, publishing, and form submission