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A straightforward and pragmatic guide to leadership, management and teamwork

CILIP

Contemporary managers and leaders in library and information services are working in a challenging context; dealing with multiple demands on their time, expertise and resources. This book provides a practical guide to leadership, management and teamwork in library and information services. Barbara Allan said: ?This

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Feature Spotlight: Sharing Seeds

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Finally, one of the earliest requesters of the feature, Alex Thurman at Columbia University Libraries , had this to say about how Sharing Seeds has helped redefine some of their collections so far: At Columbia University Libraries, we’ve been building thematic web archive collections of external content since 2008.

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Celebrate Black History Month on a high note

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East Baton Rouge Parish Library- Arts & Culture. She’s a former punk rock musician featured prominently in East Baton Rouge Parish Library’s community-driven collection, more for her success with her recent pottery career. New York University- New York University’s Contemporary Composers.

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Working internationally

CILIP

John Dolan and Ayub Khan have long shared an interest in the international library scene and how different countries and cultures can share and benefit from each other. Our involvement started when we answered a British Council advertisement, in October 2014, for help with reinstating libraries in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. While this case study is just a snapshot, vigilance in the app store is required. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. User-mode rootkit.

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The Human Rights web archive collection at Columbia University Libraries?

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by Alex Thurman, Head of Web Collecting, Columbia University Libraries Columbia University Libraries’ web collecting program began in 2008, with the goal of ensuring that selected freely available web resources remain accessible for current and future researchers.

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Provenance, restitution and poison cupboards

CILIP

When Mareike Doleschal attended the largest library conference in Europe, she gained fascinating insights into intercultural work, government control and provenance and restitution research. s 156 libraries. many of the lectures and library tours were in English. Provenance, restitution and poison cupboards. t speak German.