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Title: Big Data A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think Authors: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier Hardcover: 978-0544002692; $27; Ebook: $27; Kindle Edition, $12.99 Imprint: Boston: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the [...]
Read More... →Title: Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries Editors: Peter Hernon and Joseph R. Matthews Softcover: 978-0-8389-1187-7; $55 Imprint: Chicago: ALA Editions, 2013
“Academic and public libraries are much different today than they were even 15 years ago. With even bigger changes on the horizon, what lies in store? [...]
Read More... →Title:Library Use of eBooks, 2013 Edition Print and PDF format: ISBN 978-1-57440-223-0; $89.50. (Site licenses cost $189.00) Primary Research Group, 2013
This 103-page study is based on data from 68 public, academic, corporate, legal and government libraries, with data broken out by type of library, size of library and other criteria. The [...]
Read More... →Title: Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction Authors: Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-4000-6975-0; $26 Imprint: New York: Random House, 2013
“Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the [...]
Read More... →Title: What Editors Want: An Author’s Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing, Authors: Philippa J. Benson and Susan C. Silver Cloth: ISBN: 9780226043135, $55.00 Paperback: 978-0226043142, $20 E-book: ISBN: 9780226043159, $7.00 to $20.00 Imprint: Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2012.
“Research publications have always been key to building a successful career in science, [...]
Read More... →Just published by Ithaka S+R with the support of Jisc, Sustaining Our Digital Future Institutional Strategies for Digital Content provides a close look at efforts at three institutions in the United Kingdom: University College London, the Imperial War Museums and the National Library of Wales. According to the announcement from Duraspace.com [...]
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