Facet publishing ipsuk apr 2016 (2 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book will give you an understanding of how images fit into your critical practice and how you can advance student learning with your own visual literacy.The importance of images and visual media in today's culture is changing what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Digital technologies have made it possible for almost anyone to create and share visual media. Yet the pervasiveness of images and visual media does not necessarily mean that individuals are able to critically view, use, and produce visual content. This book provides you with the tools, strategies, and confidence to apply visual literacy in a library context. You will learn ways to develop studentsâEUR(TM) visual literacy and how to use visual materials to make your own teaching more engaging. Ideal for the busy librarian who needs ideas, activities, and teaching strategies that are ready to implement, this book:shows how to challenge students to delve into finding images, using images in the research process, interpreting and analysing images, creating visual communications, and using visual content ethically provides ready-to-use learning activities for engaging critically with visual materials offers tools and techniques for increasing one's own visual literacy confidence gives strategies for integrating, engaging with and advocating for visual literacy in libraries.With this book's guidance, you can help students master visual literacy, a key competency in today's media-saturated world, while also enlivening your teaching with visual materials. Readership: Visual Literacy for Libraries will be essential reading for librarians, information professionals and managers in all sectors, students of library and information science, school and higher education teachers and researchers.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This second edition of Digital Curation outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources.The first edition of this textbook provided in-depth explanation of the entire digital curation lifecycle, from creation to appraisal to preservation to organization/access to transformation and set a benchmark for both thoroughness and clarity. In this revamped and expanded second edition, international authorities Gillian Oliver and Ross Harvey have widened the scope to address continuing developments in the strategies, technological approaches, and activities that are part of this rapidly changing field.Useful as both a teaching text and day-to-day working guide, this book outlines the essential concepts and techniques that are crucial to preserving the longevity of digital resources and covers topics including:the scope and incentives of digital curation, detailing Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) lifecycle model as well as the Data Curation Continuum key requirements for digital curation, from description and representation to planning and collaboration the value and utility of metadata creating an appraisal and selection policy for digital objects that considers the needs of producers and consumers when the paradigm shift by institutions towards cloud computing and its impact on costs, storage, and other key aspects of digital curation the quality and security of data new and emerging data curation resources, including innovative digital repository software and digital forensics tools mechanisms for sharing and reusing data, with expanded sections on open access, open data, and open standards initiatives processes to ensure that data are preserved and remain usable over time. Readership: This book will be essential reading for any information professional, records manager or archivists who appraises, selects, organizes, or maintains digital resources and has responsibilities as a digital curator. …