Product Description: Emerging as a discipline in the first half of the twentieth century, the information sciences study how people, groups, organizations, and governments create, share, disseminate, manage, search, access, evaluate, and protect information, as well as how different technologies and policies can facilitate and constrain these activities...read more

Product Description: Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies that give us invaluable perspective on our past and define our future...read more

Product Description: This book grew out of the need to acquaint the students of library and information science courses with the elements associated with technical writing. It highlights the pre-requisites for technical writing, the basic guidelines, and the methodology for the preparation of technical communications, including organization and presentation of data, information in abstracts, technical reports, progress reports, review articles, newsletters, audio-visual presentations, and more...read more

Product Description: In the era of technological ubiquity and online interaction, the importance of proper computer training cannot be understated. Following established standards and practices boosts the value of communication in digital environments for all users...read more

Product Description: Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually. Cultural synergy is the combination of perception- and behavior-shaping knowledge within, between, and among groups...read more

Product Description: Information value and quality can be considered an essential factor to evaluate both conceptual and practical contributions in organizational, technical, and scientific tasks and projects. It is important to effectively observe and implement these concepts in real organizational plans and efforts...read more

Product Description: Some of our most prominent physicists are convinced that information is the fundamental substance of the universe (A. Zeilinger) and that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin (J.A. Wheeler). The world consists of a large number of events and the flow of information among events (Lee Smolin)...read more

Product Description: The race is on to construct the first quantum code breaker, as the winner will hold the key to the entire Internet. From international, multibillion-dollar financial transactions to top-secret government communications, all would be vulnerable to the secret-code-breaking ability of the quantum computer...read more

Product Description: This book looks at India's best practices, success stories, new initiatives, case studies, improvements, etc. in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) and related areas in general. It discusses better user connections through process improvement in: information services * knowledge manifestations in creative hobbies * plagiarism * soft skills required for LIS professionals * collection development * applying psychometrics in managing library customers * design and development of competitive intelligence portal * developing a cost effective e-library * infrastructure development ˜* information needs and seeking behavior of users * analysis of usage of intranet services * managing and sharing knowledge through portal * standardization of library activities and services * information access in the environment of multimedia databases of digital library * and more...read more

As our world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent, information is becoming a vital and important aspect of life. The term "information" is used differently by individuals in different walks of life. This book reflects the growing convergence among the several disciplines that concern themselves with information and information science. The book covers information systems, the information society, information economics, the information profession, information protection, and knowledge management, in addition to the basic concepts of information, communication, and information science. It addresses these related domains in a way that demonstrates the unities across the fields, while also recognizing their uniquely distinguishing characteristics.

Product Description: This comprehensive study on knowledge and information discusses the different perspectives of the field in the order of: Fundamentals covering the nature of knowledge, information, wisdom, ignorance, data and their relationships; organizing, communicating, and transferring of knowledge; important characteristics of knowledge, information, and their effects; and cognitive processes which guide our thinking and actions...read more

Product Description: In this volume, the author develops a new approach for the analysis of differing types of informations systems, called the Value-Added Model. This approach is based on the anlaysis of information-use environments and on the system responses to the needs of those environments...read more

Castalia Communications posters have been putting answers up on the walls for generations of musicians The Keyboard poster is a beautiful work of educational art which makes visualizing and applying the principles of harmony as easy as do re mi The easy to use music theory on the poster applies to piano organ synthesizers and all other keyboard instruments Poster includes Four Octave Life Size Keyboard Bass Treble Key Signatures Table of Keys Chord Scale Table Twelve Major Scales Bass Treble Circles of Fifths and more