Product Description: Old Words, New Tools asks how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare’s language. Scholars now encounter, interpret, and disseminate Shakespeare’s language through an increasing variety of digital resources, including online editions such as the Internet Shakespeare Editions, searchable lexical corpora such as the Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership or the Lexicons of Early Modern English collections, high-quality digital facsimiles such as the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Image Collection, text visualization tools such as Voyant, apps for reading and editing on mobile devices, and more...read more

Product Description: As the Chinese economy develops, academic libraries continue to evolve and provide indispensable services for their users. Throughout this growth, the scientific and cultural dialogue between China and the United States has made it necessary for each countrys libraries to understand each other...read more

Product Description: This easy-to-use primer will empower anyone―even those with no IT background―to face the challenge of adding one or more technologies to library services or maintaining existing technologies.• Offers librarians a one-stop resource for managing basic technology issues in their facilities• Written in a simple, straightforward manner that even the least technologically savvy librarians can easily understand• Includes screenshots that clarify points throughout the book• Addresses challenges unique to libraries, such as working with the public and running information technology operations on a shoestring budge...read more

Product Description: As a discipline, acquisitions encompasses everything from purchasing and budgeting to enabling access to materials; and every format from books, monographs, and serials to e-books, subscription-based electronic resources, and beyond...read more

Product Description: This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars to questions of literature and culture...read more

Product Description: This book describes the variety of interprofessional education (IPE) programs in both didactic and clinical settings, and how librarians are partnering to further the success of these programs and expand the notion of “interprofessional” beyond the typical health professions...read more

Product Description: Building on Goldman’s Words of Intelligence and Maret’s On Their Own Terms provides a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in intelligence, security, and information policy. This comprehensive resource defines key terms of the theoretical, conceptual, and organizational aspects of intelligence and information policy...read more

Product Description: The augmentation of urban spaces with technology, commonly referred to as Media Architecture, has found increasing interest in the scientific community within the last few years. At the same time architects began to use digital media as a new material apart from concrete, glass or wood to create buildings and urban structures...read more

Product Description: Online Learning and Its Users: Lessons for Higher Education re-examines the impact of learning technologies in higher education. The book focuses particularly on the introduction and mainstreaming of one of the most widely used, the virtual learning environment (VLE) or learning management system (LMS)...read more

Product Description: With the arrival of trade eBooks libraries for the first time were faced with an inability to add otherwise commercially available text based work to their collections. The seven years since the general market acceptance (in the developed world at least) of eBooks have witnessed diverse efforts to impede and enable the library availability of eBooks...read more

Product Description: Reviews Are In encourages librarians that they can and should become leaders in their field by writing for their peers and patrons. Author Henrietta Verma, a seasoned reviews editor, offers general writing advice as well as specific guidelines for reading and writing as a reviewer of fiction and non-fiction materials...read more