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Providing information on the current development in library science education, student texts and background reading, this text includes documentation for overseas aid programmes and information for assessing equivalence of qualifications held by professionals from other countries. This volume, focusing on the UK, covers: the emergence of education for librarianship; specialist education for librarianship; education in academic institutions; education for library technicians and teacher librarianship; and questions concerning the maintainenance of quality in library education. ... Read more

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CONTENTSThe Building of the BridgeOverture and BeginnersFirst to Go: The HudsonsThe Crossing of the CatalinasThe Pattern in the AirThe Ferry Service GrowsOver the Top of the WorldA Search Party Went outThe Spans of the Flying BridgeNorth Atlantic"Round the Parish": A North Atlantic TourA Great Black Rock in the ArcticRecords on the Northern RouteCargoes and SupercargoesA Dispatch for Mr. ChurchillSouth AtlanticThree Thousand Miles to Africa"Up the Line": Middle East Supply Routes ... Read more

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Great period book
This book was written near the end of World War 2 by staff of the United Kingdom Ministry of Information, and the information was gleamed from official documents and interviews with the people who actually undertook the task of transporting aircraft from the United States and Canada to various places around the globe. This means that the book was written when the information was still 'current', and the people were interviewed whilst their memories were still fresh. The result is a somewhat short, but nonetheless incredibly interesting book on a little known activity of the war.
The book will be of interest to people who have an interest in World War 2, or an interest in the history of aviation.

Flying on the Left
Originally published before VE Day in 1945, this is an account of the birth and growth of RAF's Ferry Command, later incorporated in its Transport Command.At its inception, at a time when there were few pilots and fewer navigators with real overocean experience, and when even Pan Am and Imperial Airways/BOAC avoided the North Atlantic, it ferried Lockheed Hudsons and Consolidated Liberators from Canada to Scotland.In time, South Atlantic and Trans - African routes were added.Better facilities and airplanes, and those core personnel who had gained their experience the hard way and could pass it on, made the operations less hair raising; but never quite routine.
Between Ferry Command, the USAAF Air Transport Command and the U.S. Naval Air Transport Service, transocean flight even in northern reaches would be a daily activity long before VJ Day; and increasingly popular in civil markets not long after.
This is more a pamphlet than a book, but a good addition to any collection dealing with World War Two air transport.It would have been improved by including BOAC's wartime activities.An additional work on these was promised but, so far as I can find, never published. ... Read more

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Statlas UK, Statistical Atlas of the United Kingdom, shows official statistics brought to life in full-colour maps. Subjects include wealth, education, crime and leisure; 91 pages of Ordnance Survey maps with accomanying graphics and commentary; trends and changes at a glance, andEuropean Union comparisons. ... Read more

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Covering constitutional and political affairs, economic and financial affairs, health and education, plus other facts and figures, appendixed with gross capital formation estimates, exports and imports compared from 1936, and balance of payments current to the year 1954. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Graph Transformations, ICGT 2008, held in Leicester, UK, in September 2008.

The 27 revised full papers presented together with 5 tutorial and workshop papers and 3 invited lectures were carefully selected from 57 submissions. All current aspects in graph drawing are addressed including hypergraphs and termgraph rewriting, applications of graph transformation, execution of graph transformations, compositional systems, validation and verification, graph languages and special transformation concepts, as well as patterns and model transformations. In addition the volume contains 17 short papers of the ICGT 2008 Doctoral Symposium.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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First published in 1928, the Aslib directory is the leading information sources reference work on organizations of all kinds.
Now published in its 13th edition, the title's diversity is reflected by the wide spectrum of entries. The Directory is widely regarded as the best publication of its type.
The Aslib Directory of Information Sources in the United Kingdom provides instant access to listings of over 11,000 associations, clubs, societies, companies, educational establishments, institutes, commissions, government bodies, and other organizations which provide information freely or on a fee-paying basis.
Entries include:
* National Asthma Campaign
* Snowdonia National Park Society
* British Judo Council
* BBC Libraries and Archives
* Architects and Surveyors Institute.
Each entry is listed alphabetically and includes the organization's name and contact details, type and purpose, and lists publications and collections where appropriate. The Directory also contains a comprehensive index of acronyms and abbreviations and a substantial cross-referenced subject index. ... Read more

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First published in 1928, the Aslib Directory is the leading information sources reference work on organizations of all kinds. Now published in its fifteenth edition, the title's diversity is reflected by the wide spectrum of entries. The Directory is widely regarded as the best publication of its type.

The Aslib Directory of Information Sources in the United Kingdom provides instant access to listings of 6,800 associations, clubs, societies, companies, educational establishments, institutes, commissions, government bodies, and other organizations which provide information freely or on a fee-paying basis.
Entries in the fourteenth edition included:

• Epilepsy Research Foundation
• Parentline Plus
• Donkey Breed Society
• Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
• Environmental Law Foundation.

Each entry is listed alphabetically and includes the organization's name and contact details, type and purpose, and lists publications and collections where appropriate. The Directory also contains a comprehensive index of acronyms and abbreviations and a substantial subject index.

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This book presents the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Category Theory and Computer Science, CTCS '95, held in Cambridge, UK in August 1995. The 15 revised full papers included in the volume document the exploitation of links between logic and category theory leading to a solid basis for much of the understanding of the semantics of computation. Notable amongst other advances is the introduction of linear logic and other substructural logics, providing a new approach to proof theory. Further aspects covered are semantics of lambda calculi and type theories, program specification and development, and domain theory. ... Read more

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This volume contains thoroughly revised full versions of the best papers presented at the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Sympolic Mathematical Computation, held in Cambridge, UK in August 1994. The 19 papers included give clear evidence that now, after a quite long period when AI and mathematics appeared to have arranged an amicable separation, these fields are growing together again as an area of fruitful interdisciplinary activities. This book explores the interaction between mathematical computation and clears the ground for future concentration on topics that can further unify the field. ... Read more

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The fourth international conference on Extending Data BaseTechnology was held in Cambridge, UK, in March 1994. Thebiannual EDBT has established itself as the premier Europeandatabase conference. It provides aninternational forum forthe presentation of new extensions to databasetechnologythrough research, development, and application. This volumecontains the scientific papers of the conference.Followinginvited papers by C.M. Stone and A. Herbert, it contains31papers grouped into sections on object views, intelligentuser interface, distributed information servers, transactionmanagement, information systems design and evolution,semantics of extended data models,accessing new media, joinalgorithms, query optimization, and multimediadatabases. ... Read more

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This book consists of the refereed proceedings of the 15th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 15, held in London, in July 1997. The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from more than 30 submissions. Also included are 10 poster presentations and the invited lecture on The Role of Intelligent Software Agents in Advanced Information Systems by Larry Kerschberg. The papers are organized in topical sections on transaction processing, optimization, object-orientation and the Internet, and database integration. ... Read more

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This volume presents the proceedings of the 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, held in Manchester, UK in July 1995. The volume contains 2 invited contributions and 14 full revised technical papers selected from a total of 64 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on functional databases, user interfaces, system-level algorithms, queries and transactions, and parallel and federated systems. Despite the fact that BNCOD is a national event there is strong international representation in the proceedings. ... Read more

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Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) describes an approach to system development that is process-oriented. It makes no great distinction between hardware and software. It has a major root in the theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). However, the underlying theory is not limited to CSP. The importance of mobility of both channel and process within a network sees integration with ideas from the eth-calculus. Other formalisms are also exploited, such as BSP and MPI. The focus is on sound methods for the engineering of significant concurrent systems, including those that are distributed (across the Internet or within a single chip) and/or software-scheduled on a single execution unit. Traditionally, at CPA, the emphasis has been on theory and practice - developing and applying tools based upon CSP and related theories to build high-integrity systems of significant size. In particular, interest focuses on achieving scalability and security against error. The development of Java, C, and C++, libraries to facilitate secure concurrent programming using 'mainstream' languages has allowed CPA to continue and proliferate.This work continues in support of the engineering of distributed applications. Recently, there has been greater reference to theory and its more direct application to programming systems and languages. In this volume the formal CSP is very well presented. The papers provide a healthy mixture of the academic and commercial, software and hardware, application and infrastructure, which reflects the nature of the discipline. ... Read more

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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Its Applications, FPL '95, held in Oxford, UK in August/September 1995. The volume presents 46 full revised papers carefully selected by the program committee from a large number and wide range of submissions. The papers document the progress achieved since the predecessor conference (see LNCS 849). They are organized in sections on architectures, platforms, tools, arithmetic and signal processing, embedded systems and other applications, and reconfigurable design and models. ... Read more