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This directory features over 700 libraries, giving details of addresses, telephone numbers, telex and fax numbers. It provides information on special collections of significance, hours of opening, size of stock, number of staff and controlling authorities. ... Read more

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This volume contains the final versions of a collection of papers presented at the Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic, CSL '93, held at Swansea, UK in September 1993.
The 21 full papers included were selected from a total of 62 submissions and essentially contribute to the whole area of computer science logic research. They are devoted to such topics as set constraints, lambda calculi, process algebras, program semantics, intuitionistic logics, fixed-point logics, the equivalence problem, Horn clauses, quantifiers, and proof tranformations. ... Read more

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This is the first sustained comparative examination of the importance of media attention on the provision of economic assistance, suggesting that the news media is an important medium for policy makers to gauge potential domestic political pressures and thus the need to be responsive and even anticipatory in addressing problems real or perceived. Particular attention is paid to the responsiveness of bureaucracies, long held to among the most insulated institutions of government. Cross-national in scope, this book looks at the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Japan, facilitating a nuanced understanding of the interaction of international and domestic politics as mediated by the media.
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Michael Brecher wrote: "A rigorous analysis of foreign aid"
(From Michael Brecher's review on the back cover) "This is an ambitious--and successful--attempt at theoretical integration, with a valuable empirical component. Basing their analysis on the domestic political imperatives model of foreign policy decision-making and the principal-agent model (agency theory), Van Belle, Rioux and Potter dissect, with laudable rigor, key strands of the politics of foreign aid. Their comparative analysis of overseas development aid (ODA) programs by the five largest developed donor states adds an instructive case study dimension. And they have used their rich, genuinely comparable data to generate important findings. As such, this book goes far beyond the typical one-dimensional studies of the role of the news media and the media-bureaucracy nexus in decision-making relating to foreign aid." ... Read more

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This wide-ranging study presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progress towards transformation and describes the changes they are making to long-established business processes, roles, cultures and working practices. ... Read more

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This title offers an information source to help building services professionals identify quickly and accurately sources which can help them in their work. It brings together a complete list of organizations, institutes and associations in the building services industry, both in classified and alphabetical order. ... Read more

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Each title in the "Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents" series concentrates on a significant cultural and literary area or period and offers the student an extensive range of primary source and documentary material which together represents a significant research resource. The material presented consists of original source material from the period or subject and includes prefaces, letters, essays and critical texts from the period as well as related material - especially complete texts. In addition, each set includes a substantial introductory essay placing the material in context; a chronology of the period or movement noting texts and figures as well as relating material to relevant references elsewhere; a bibliography of the texts associated with the period or movement; an extensive critical bibliography; and biographical notes on significant figures and editorial notes on the source material. The aim of these volumes is to provide a wide selection of texts which bear upon the development of the idea of "The Picturesque in 18th and 19th century Britain.With one or two exceptions only, all writers here represented are British and the object of their less abstract reflections is the nature of British landscapes, although it should be recognized that many of these commentators developed their connoisseurship on the Grand tour of Europe, where a capacity for the aesthetic evaluation of landscape was regarded as the mark of a cultivated sensibility. "The Picturesque" developed as a mode of landscape appraisal in the middle and later 18th century. It assumes for many the status of a science. It acquired its own technical jargon of "side-screens", "off-skips", three "distances" etc. By the late 18th century, the fashion for scenic tourism to the Lake district, North Wales, and the Scottish Highlands, was well developed. The Tourists were well versed in the vocabulary of the "Picturesque", and under its prescriptive influence would refine their water-colour sketches and journal entries to fit a series of landscape formulae.The topic of the "Picturesque" was much debated, both informally in the journals and correspondence of these tourists and, more formally, in a number of "essays" in the 1790s - notably by William Giopin and Uvedale Price. Both debates are extensively represented in this volume. The vogue for the "Picturesque" became an object of ridicule early in the 19th century: in the novels of Jane Austen and Peacock and in the satirical travels of Dr. Syntax. These, too, are featured. In the victorian period, a more serious reaction against the "Picturesque" developed, chiefly in the writings of John Ruskin who tried to introduce a stronger ethical element into an aesthetic that concentrated with such relish on scenes of poverty and dilapidation. The volumes close in about 1870 when Ruskin's revisionist work on the "Picturesque" had largely been completed. But this is not the end of the story. The "Picturesque" has a remarkable tenacity and adaptability, even to the present day. Although the word itself no longer excites the controversy that it did in the later 18th century, our attitudes to the natural landscape are still coloured by it.These volumes provide the material for re-examining what may be regarded as the roots of our modern attitudes towards natural scenery. ... Read more

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Provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the use of information technology in geography and planning and explains key principles and applications including Satellite Remote Sensing, Census Data and Geographical Information Systems. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of geography, planning, environmental studies, urban studies; planners in practice. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Security and Digital Forensics, ISDF 2009, which was held in September 2009 in London, United Kingdom.

The 19 papers present several security, identity and forensics challenges across the globe to address better the gap in the digital economy market and thus to develop further an appriate security and identity framework and solutions to protect the next generation of IT applications.

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This second edition covers the changes and new developments in broadcasting resulting from the Broadcasting Act 1990. It is a guide to all sources of information on broadcasting in the UK, whether published, manuscript or institutional; and a source on the history and structure of UK broadcasting. ... Read more

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This text covers recent developments in networked information provision in public libraries and elsewhere. With fully revised and updated statistical material, it identifies and evaluates variations and innovations in the use of electronic systems, including computer networks, in the UK public library sector. The survey covers all areas of current activity and analyzes likely developments and approaches to IT planning and development in the future. Key areas covered in detail in this edition include: Internet database access; the World Wide Web; charging policies for the Internet; online public access catalogues; CD-ROM databases; IT for lifelong learning; community information; and library management systems. The text should be valuable to anyone wishing to be informed about the latest developments in IT in this sector, including public librarians, systems managers, local government officers, students of information studies, researchers in social and communications studies and publishers. ... 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 sixteenth 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 6,600 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 sixteenth edition include:

• Macular Disease Society
• Costume Society of Scotland
• Parentline Plus
• Centre for Global Energy Studies
• Surrey Performing Arts Library.

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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The Aslib directory is the leading information sources reference work on organisations of all kinds. Now in its 14th edition, it provides instant access to listings of over 11,000 diverse information providers. ... Read more

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The 11th edition of this directory has been revised, reflecting the changing framework of the medical library network in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. More healthcare trusts have been formed, more hospitals have been merged and similar changes affect colleges of nursing. The Directory aims to be comprehensive. As well as listing libraries wholly concerned with medicine and nursing, it also lists libraries of veterinary, pharmaceutical and occupational medicine, and information services run by medical charities. Arranged in alphabetical order by library or organization, the Directory includes indexes by town, personal name and hospital. In addition to postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, it also provides the following information: e-mail addresses and URLs; the named head of service in each library; details of holdings, special collections and size of stock; hours of opening; automated library management systems and special facilities (such as online searching, photocopying services and audiovisual material); full details of NHS Regional Librarian's Group Members; and a list of abbreviations and accronyms. ... Read more

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Chapters: National Preservation Office, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, British and Irish Association of Law Librarians, Sconul, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Research Libraries Uk, Uksg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The National Preservation Office was established by the British Library Board in 1984. In 2009 it was renamed the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre. The Centre's function is to raise public awareness of preservation issues in libraries and to serve as a nexus for developing and promoting improved preservation management of library and archive materials in the UK and Ireland. The need for national entities like the Centre has been documented in surveys conducted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Section on Preservation ... Read more