Professional Literature

Library Hi Tech News

ISSN: 0741-9058

Article publication date: 1 January 2004

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Citation

(2004), "Professional Literature", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 21 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhtn.2004.23921aae.002

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited


Professional Literature

New Books

Ahmed, Ayaz (Ed.), A Handbook of Information Technology, Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd, New Dehli, 2003. ISBN: 8126113618.

Albarran, Alan B. (Ed.), Understanding the Web: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of the Internet, rev. ed., Surjeet Publications, Dehli, 2003. ISBN: 8122900119.

Brown, David G. (Ed.), Ubiquitous Computing: The Universal Use of Computers on College Campuses, Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA, 2003.

Chandel, Sunil Singh, Information Services in Academic Libraries: Study of ICSSR Institutes, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2003. ISBN: 817033781X.

Cramer, Lorrie F. (Ed.), "Rethinking rights and regulations: institutional responses to new communication technologies", Proceedings of the Research Conference on Information, Communication and Internet Policy, 2002, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. ISBN: 0262033143.

Dawra, Sudhir, Information Technology: Theory and Practice, Mohit Puiblications, New Delhi, 2003. ISBN: 8174452222.

Garsten, Christina (Ed.), New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality, Berg, Oxford, 2003. ISBN: 1859736440. Hars, Alexander, From Publishing to Knowledge Networks: Reinventing Online Knowledge Infrastructures, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2003. ISBN: 3540012508.

Kimball, Miles A., Web Portfolio Guide: Creating Electronic Portfolios for the Web, Longman, New York, NY, 2003. ISBN: 0321093453.

Oudshoorn, Nelly (Ed.), How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. ISBN: 0262151073.

Prasher, R.G. (Ed.), Indian Libraries in IT Environment: Essays in Honour of Prof. S.P. Narang, Medallion Press, Ludhiana, 2003. ISBN: 8188252093.

Sarai Reader 03, Shaping Technologies, Sarai Programme in association with the Waag Society for Old and New Media in Amsterdam, New Dehli, 2003. ISBN: 8190142933.

Shaviro, Steven, Connected or What it Means to Live in the Network Society, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2003. ISBN: 0816643628.

Shekar, K.C., A-Z Handbook of IT, KSK Publishers, New Delhi, 2003. ISBN: 8175241616.

Stallings, William, Computer Networking with Internet Protocols and Technology, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004. ISBN: 0131410989.

Other Sources

From the Association of Research Libraries, the recent releases of the following publications have been announced:

SPEC KIT 277: Library Public Access Workstation Authentication, October 2003, available at www.arl.org/pubscat/pr/2003/announce_sp277.html

Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections, Proceedings from the Symposium by same name, July 2003, available at: www.arl.org/preserv/sound_savings_proceedings/index.html

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published ISO Standard No 15836:2003, Information and Documentation: The Dublin Core metadata element set. Under NISO's leadership this standard was fast-tracked in IOS Technical Committee through the ISO approval process using a version identical to ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001. ISO 16836 is available for purchase in electronic or paper formats in English and French from ISO at: www.iso.ch. A free downloadable pdf file of the ANSI/NISO version is available from the NISO Web site at: www.nio.org/standards/resources/Z39-85.pdf For additional information about Dublin Core metadata, visit the Initiative Web site at: www.dublincore.org

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a white paper on patents and Open Standards by Priscilla Caplan. Originally published as the feature article in the October 2003 issue of Information Standards Quarterly, NISO is making this important information available as a free electronic download from its Web site at: www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/Patents_Caplan.pdf

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