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1) Blockchain
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book examines blockchain technology, a concept with far-reaching implications for the future of the information professions. It offers a primer of what librarians and information professionals need to understand about blockchain technology. Several speculative visions for how blockchain could support the core work of libraries are included to help librarians understand the possibilities for improved operations and services.
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book offers a survey of library technology that's already transitioning from trend to everyday reality--systems, software, and approaches crucial to the knowledge institutions of tomorrow. Covers mobile technologies; privacy-protection technology tools; the Internet of Things (IoT); virtual reality; bots and automation; machine learning applications for libraries; libraries as digital humanities enablers; visualizations in discovery systems;...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book surveys approaches to knowledge management (KM) that address hierarchical power structures and internal competition to get measurable results. With insights from case studies at academic and special libraries, this book covers demystifying KM by reframing it to reflect organizational needs; six elements of an actionable knowledge audit; harvesting staff insights; effective communities of practice; platforms and library tools; fostering knowledge...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Futurists predict that soon the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowledge engineer", and many law schools have developed innovation centers to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and the law. This collection explains the innovations, tools, benefits, and risks of AI in law librarianship; surveys current practices and future trends; and examines evolving roles for law librarians and how AI...
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This guide offers dozens of design thinking exercises, such as rapid prototyping, empathy mapping, and logic models, as part of a start-to-finish model for developing a new program concept. It also provides information about ways to connect with the community, and how to move technology beyond the walls of the library.
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This information literacy framework, including effective metaliteracy teaching and learning practices, ensures learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and outright denialism of facts in today's information morass. It examines the most recent Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, four domains of metaliterate learning, and metaliteracy's relationship to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy...
7) Anonymity
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the roles and ramifications of anonymity. In the virtual realm, anonymity means that such bedrock values of librarianship as privacy, free speech, and intellectual freedom coexist uneasily with the proliferation of fake news, sexist and racist sentiments, and repugnant ideologies. The book covers apps and forums that promote anonymity as a central feature, and how anonymous content has become valuable fodder for news organizations...
Author
Publisher
Twirl, an imprint of Bayard Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A kid-friendly introduction to the digital world: Who invented the Internet? What is virtual reality? How does 3-D printing work? Curious kids want to know, and they will get the answers to these questions and many more in this illustrated Q&A book. Questions about digital tech are answered in a fun, kid-friendly way and accompanied by quirky cartoon illustrations that will entertain readers and help them remember important facts.
10) Bluey: Bob Bilby
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When it's Bingo's turn to take Bob Bilby the puppet home, will they put down their screens and devices to have fun times? This book retells the Bluey episode, Bob Bilby. Once again, Blue Heelers Bingo and Bluey use their limitless energy to explore their world in unpredictable and humorous ways.
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