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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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Brexit means new risks for the sector

CILIP

That means greater risk aversion, more obstacles and more costs for library and information professionals. The most immediate problem for the library and information sector is orphan works. Naomi wrote a report in 2009 called In From the Cold which found there were in the region of 50 million orphan works in the UK sector.

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Teachers as readers

CILIP

This collection was created to replicate a school library and encourages pre-service teachers to consider the learning environment for the children they will teach. These books were not to be donated to the school library, or for the teacher?s On the ground floor, a separate collection is dedicated to Classroom Resources. Next steps.

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Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Windows 7 Microsofts Windows 7 arrived in late 2009 and kicked off a PC upgrade cycle thats expected to. The intent is to provide the underlying architecture to serve enterprises such as British Telecom who use the platform to make it simple for developers to consume Web Services exposed by BT, in this case their Web21C SDK set of libraries.

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Navigating a job market ?in the eye of the storm?

CILIP

He has worked in the information sector since 2009 and was in IT recruitment before that. Here he gives his view of changes in the job market for library and information roles in the corporate sector. Her experience includes leading library services in Cambridgeshire and Poole and working on the Libraries Taskforce.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

For example, organizations can re-package video libraries, songs, research, and course material for different audiences – customers, researchers, academics, students, and so on; and they can monetize the content via CaaS. first with bitcoin in 2009 and then other cryptocurrencies such as Ether and financial transactions.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

The bill appealed to many privacy-conscious education advocates, and appropriately so. She studied the 564 amendments to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) considered by the Senate Finance Committee in 2009, as well as the positions of 866 lobbying groups and their campaign contributions.