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  • Author : Lynda Kellam
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Pages : 248 pages
  • ISBN : 1780632592
  • Rating : 5/5 from 1 reviews
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Download or Read online Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian full in PDF, ePub and kindle. this book written by Lynda Kellam and published by Elsevier which was released on 26 May 2011 with total page 248 pages. We cannot guarantee that Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian book is available in the library, click Get Book button and read full online book in your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile whenever and wherever You Like. The proliferation of online access to social science statistical and numeric data sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Fact Finder, has lead to an increased interest in supporting these sources in academic libraries. Many large libraries have been able to devote staff to data services for years, and recently smaller academic libraries have recognized the need to provide numeric data services and support. This guidebook serves as a primer to developing and supporting social science statistical and numerical data sources in the academic library. It provides strategies for the establishment of data services and offers short descriptions of the essential sources of free and commercial social science statistical and numeric data. Finally, it discusses the future of numeric data services, including the integration of statistics and data into library instruction and the use of Web 2.0 tools to visualize data. Written for a general reference audience with little knowledge of data services and sources who would like to incorporate support into their general reference practice Combines information on establishing data services with an introduction to available statistical and numeric data sources Provides insight into the integration of statistics and data into library instruction and the social science research process

Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian

Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian
  • Author : Lynda Kellam,Katharin Peter
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 26 May 2011
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The proliferation of online access to social science statistical and numeric data sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Fact Finder, has lead to an increased interest in supporting these sources in academic libraries. Many large libraries have been able to devote staff to data services for years, and recently smaller academic libraries have recognized the need to provide numeric data services and support. This guidebook serves as a primer to developing and supporting social science statistical

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  • Publisher : American Library Association
  • Release : 25 September 2021
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This concise sourcebook takes the guesswork out of locating the best sources of data, a process more important than ever as the data landscape grows increasingly cluttered. Much of the most frequently used data can be found free online, and this book shows readers how to look for it with the assistance of user-friendly tools. This thoroughly annotated guide will be a boon to library staff at public libraries, high school libraries, academic libraries, and other research institutions, with concentrated

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  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • Release : 25 September 2020
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Today, libraries must provide various web-based services, social media, and internet to patrons in order to adequately support their information needs. In addition to these services, the maintenance of online literature, databases, data sets, and archives cause librarians to have to handle huge amounts of data each day. Big data can support with quality improvement and problem solving to improve library services and can help librarians to provide up-to-date and innovative real-time services to library users. Big Data Applications for

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  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 16 August 2015
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This complete how-to guidebook provides you with the tools and inspiration you need to use infographics and data visualization techniques in your library to knock your audience’s socks off as you tell your story in a visual format that can be consumed and understood at a glance.

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  • Author : GURDEV SINGH
  • Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
  • Release : 10 January 2013
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Reference and information services are considered an important activity of a modern library. This comprehensive and student-friendly book discusses in detail different types of information and reference sources and services, such as encyclopaedias, directories, yearbooks, dictionaries, geographical sources, biographical sources, statistical sources and handbooks. The book is organised into four parts. Part I deals with various types of information sources such as documentary and non-documentary sources. Part II discusses different types of reference services, organisation of reference section and the

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  • Publisher : ABC-CLIO
  • Release : 25 September 2021
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Reflecting the dramatic changes shaped by rapidly developing technologies over the past six years, this new fourth edition of "Reference and Information Services" takes the introduction to reference sources and services significantly beyond the content of the first three editions. In Part I, Concepts and Processes, chapters have been revised and updated to reflect new ideas and methods in the provision of reference service in an era when many users have access to the Web. In Part II, "Information Sources

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  • Author : Margaret Irby Nichols
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 25 September 1994
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Lists over 750 sources focusing on the reference needs of adults. The primary objective was to select quality reference tools which cover many different topics. Topics include general works, biography, philosophy, religion, language, literature, visual arts, applied sciences, sports and recreation, home life, social customs and education.