Author: Sul H Lee Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135796440 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 160
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Connect patrons with the information they seek with these promising electronic tools! Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information focuses on how you can improve access to information using electronic reference resources. This book features nine of America’s leading library administrators who give their perspectives, observations, and stipulations on how to meet the research needs of patrons in a digital age. This timely resource is relevant to senior library administrators in the process of developing electronic tools and services. Improved Access to Information addresses the current library issue of how to utilize scarce resources to provide an ever-increasing amount of electronic information to an ever-expanding user base. The use of portals and their advantages are discussed in detail and from the different perspectives of information providers and users. Several authors offer instructive graphs, tables, and other illustrations to emphasize their findings. In Improved Access to Information, you’ll learn more about: the variety of groups that libraries serve cooperative collection development the balance of print and electronic resources the evolvement of collection development in libraries to the concept of knowledge development the implementation of portals in research libraries the factors influencing the selection of electronic resources digitizing unique collections for preservation and improved access The product of the 2003 University of Oklahoma Libraries annual conference, Improved Access to Information offers library administrators new approaches for overcoming the proliferation of electronic information and making it readily available to users. This book will help you provide essential research services to your users and secure your patron base.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 192
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This document presents testimony and prepared statements concerning the lack of information about educational and career opportunities for young people beyond high school, and the need for improving access to student financial aid information so that economically disadvantaged students have the opportunity to go on to higher education. Witnesses were: Col. John C. Meyers, Director, Advertising and Public Affairs, U.S. Army Recruiting Command; Hon. Ernest C. Canellos, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Student Financial Assistance, U.S. Department of Education; Gwendolynne S. Moore, Representative, Seventh Assembly District, State of Wisconsin; Selena Dong, Legislative Director, United States Student Association; Regina E. Manley, president National Association of College Admission Counselors, Chicago [IL] Public Schools; Gary D. Bass, Executive Director, OMB Watch; and A. Dallas Martin, Jr., President, National Association of College Admission Counselors. Also included in the document is a U.S. Department of Education publication called "The Key to the Future," that provides information to assist those interested in seeking student aid, including how to get it, what's available, and general information on the department's Student Aid process. Appendices contain: (1) prepared statements of witnesses in order of appearance; (2) statements from Senators Lieberman and Rudman; (3) responses from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators to Senator Rudman's questions; and (4) responses to questions from Senator Kohl by the U.S. Department of Education. (GLR)
Author: Dean T. Jamison Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0821361805 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1449
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Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing efficient, equitable care; promotes cost-effectiveinterventions to targeted populations; and encourages integrated effortsto optimize health. Nearly 500 experts - scientists, epidemiologists, health economists,academicians, and public health practitioners - from around the worldcontributed to the data sources and methodologies, and identifiedchallenges and priorities, resulting in this integrated, comprehensivereference volume on the state of health in developing countries.
Author: David A. Tyckoson Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9781560242192 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Enhancing Access to Information addresses the problem when a library has limited catalog access. It discusses the various technological possibilities to help the cataloger once again cover the entire collection with his system. For centuries, the catalog has served as the primary access point to the information sources of a particular library. The principal role of the catalog has been to index and describe the information contained within the library's collection. However, despite all of the advancements in modern technology, today's library catalog system tends to index only a very small percentage of the library's comprehensive collection. The ability to expand the catalog beyond its traditional boundaries is now within our grasp, and this volume explores several ways to do it. The chapters cover a wide range of methods for improving access to information by building upon the existing catalog. Topics covered include enhancing access to existing records, adding databases for materials not traditionally included in the catalog, improving search software, enhancing the user interface, and linking a diverse array of library systems. Several reports come from libraries that have already taken the initial steps toward reclaiming the role of the catalog as the complete index to the collection. This inspiring book encourages others to explore new ways of improving access through the catalog.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309493439 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 195
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Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020. Improving social conditions remains critical to improving health outcomes, and integrating social care into health care delivery is more relevant than ever in the context of the pandemic and increased strains placed on the U.S. health care system. The report and its related products ultimately aim to help improve health and health equity, during COVID-19 and beyond. The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend â€" at least in part â€" on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities.
Author: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520387732 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 219
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The power of information -- Data alchemy -- Schumpeter's nightmare -- Data capitalism -- Might and machines -- Access rules -- Open data reloaded -- The end of data colonialism.
Author: Tom Vander Ark Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118115872 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 240
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A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools." Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools" Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309454050 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 199
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Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transforming the way we work, play, and interact with others. From these technological capabilities, new industries, organizational forms, and business models are emerging. Technological advances can create enormous economic and other benefits, but can also lead to significant changes for workers. IT and automation can change the way work is conducted, by augmenting or replacing workers in specific tasks. This can shift the demand for some types of human labor, eliminating some jobs and creating new ones. Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce explores the interactions between technological, economic, and societal trends and identifies possible near-term developments for work. This report emphasizes the need to understand and track these trends and develop strategies to inform, prepare for, and respond to changes in the labor market. It offers evaluations of what is known, notes open questions to be addressed, and identifies promising research pathways moving forward.
Author: John Willinsky Publisher: Digital Libraries and Electron ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 320
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Questions about access to scholarship have always raged. The great libraries of the past stood as arguments for increasing access. John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story - online open access publishing by scholarly journals and makes a case for open access as a public good.
Author: Sul H Lee
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation
Author: Dean T. Jamison
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Author: David A. Tyckoson
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Author: Tom Vander Ark
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: John Willinsky