"This book has been written largely as a result of the success of the Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services (2010) and in response to suggestions made by stakeholders to produce a compact primer. For many, the Smart Toolkit represents a major work that, despite its
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simplicity, at first glance appears overwhelming and daunting to use. It is envisaged that this book will provide a short overview of the Smart Toolkit for policy- and decisionmakers and managers (also known as enablers) in agricultural and rural development institutions in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific countries, as well as act as a quick reference for users." (Foreword, page 5)
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"This report offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well-being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with va
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rying levels of interest and expertise, including donors, dealers, and repository staff." (Publisher website)
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"Do you want your videos to be available in the future? Do you want your videos to serve as evidence of crimes or human rights abuses? Do you want your videos to raise awareness and educate future generations? If the answer is yes, it is important to begin thinking about archiving before it is too l
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ate [...] This Guide is organized into 8 sections focused on stages in a video archiving workflow: Create, Transfer, Acquire, Organize, Store, Catalog, Preserve, Share." (Pages 3-5)
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"In diesem Band wird sowohl das Gefangenenbüchereiwesen in Deutschland als auch international vorgestellt. Neben der Geschichte der Gefangenenbüchereien werden die Gesetzesgrundlagen und unterschiedliche Bibliotheksangebote für Menschen in Haft erstmalig in einem Band zusammengefasst." (Verlagsbe
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"This study focuses on digital archive management and will review the current “state of play” in archive management for content creators. It includes both academic and industry research, as well as the results of site visits to nine media organizations located in Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and
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Malaysia. The purpose of this study is twofold: firstly, to present an introduction to digital archive management for media organizations and content creators, helping to build awareness and greater understanding of the topic as a whole; secondly, to provide guidance and practical advice, in particular for small- to medium-sized media organizations, as well as for those operating with limited resources, or under challenging environmental and political circumstances. The findings of this study can be broadly divided into two areas. The first relates to the safe storage of content and the associated challenges faced by organizations attempting to store large amounts of data. The second is the effective cataloguing and management of digital archives, allowing content within an organization to be described, discovered and re-used." (Executive summary)
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"The Digital Himalaya Project is a collection, storage and dissemination portal for scholarly content and research findings about the Himalayan region. The project website connects a worldwide user community to a vast corpus of digital resources from or about India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan pla
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teau for free and easy download - without payment, subscription or password. While Digital Himalaya began as a strategy for collecting and protecting the products of colonial-era ethnographic collections on the Himalayas - for posterity and for access by source communities - the project has now become a collaborative digital publishing environment, bringing a new collection online every month, with close to half a million web visitors since its establishment in 2000. Almost all of our digitization and scanning is now conducted in Nepal, dramatically reducing operating costs and increasing productivity. Our funding no longer comes from research councils in the United Kingdom and the United States, but through web referrals and from individual or institutional donations around the world. The project is now supported by people and organizations that recognize the work and want to contribute to it. In short, what began as an academic research project a decade ago is now a vast online portal for hosting and disseminating knowledge about the HiMalayas to a demanding, fast-growing and truly global user base." (Abstract)
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"Seit jeher unverzichtbare Quellen der Forschung, übernehmen Bibliotheken heute vielfältige neue Aufgaben. Beispielsweise sind sie an der Entstehung von Semantic-Web-Strukturen und an der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung beteiligt. Das Handbuch bietet einen fundierten Einblick in Geschichte, Theorie
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und gegenwärtige Praxis der Institution Bibliothek. Alle Aspekte des Informations- und Wissensmanagements bis hin zu Repositorien und Open Access werden dargestellt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This report presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries in the UK provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to institutional research performance. The aim was to identify the key characteristics
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of library provision to support research in successful UK universities and departments. The approach comprised two main elements: quantitative analysis of statistics – from SCONUL, HESA, and the RAE, along with bibliometric data - to investigate correlations between the characteristics and behaviours of libraries in 67 UK HE institutions, and the research performance of those institutions; and gathering and analysing a large tranche of qualitative information from nine institutions with a range of characteristics." (Executive summary)
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"The report presents key findings of the research in six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Findings were that most people believe public libraries have the potential to contribute to community development in important areas such as health, employment and agriculture.
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However, libraries are small and under-resourced, and most people associate them with traditional book lending and reference services, rather than innovation and technology." (https://www.eifl.net)
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"Con la intención de que los sistemas de bibliotecas públicas de la región iberoamericana cuenten con instrumentos para diagnosticar, reflexionar y actuar sobre la transformación de su realidad, el Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) presenta este d
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ocumento con recomendaciones básicas para el diseño y aplicación de censos de bibliotecas públicas, acompañado de un cuestionario modelo. El interés fundamental es impulsar en Iberoamérica los censos como requisito importante para la planeación de procesos sistemáticos y continuos de mejoramiento de los sistemas de bibliotecas públicas." (Presentación, página 9)
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"Dieses Handbuch bietet einen Überblick für Einsteiger, die ihr gedrucktes Kulturgut durch Digitalisierung schützen und zugänglich machen möchten. Es stellt die einzelnen Phasen des Digitalisierungsprozesses vor und bietet weiterführende Informationen für die detaillierte Beschäftigung mit d
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iesem Thema." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Dieses Handbuch fasst die wichtigsten Schritte und Entscheidungen zusammen, die für ein gutes Wissensmanagement getroffen werden sollten. Es richtet sich an TZ-Vorhaben und ihre Partnerinstitutionen auf lokaler, regionaler oder zentraler Ebene sowie an die Organisatoren von Netzwerken. Das Handbuc
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h ersetzt keine kohärente Wissensmanagement-Strategie. Diese muss stets im Einzelfall definiert und umgesetzt werden. Das Handbuch schlägt eine Schrittfolge, eine Methodik und Instrumente vor, die einen Überblick über die relevanten Fragen bieten. Es muss aber nicht in jedem Fall in dieser Weise umgesetzt werden. Das Handbuch empfiehlt sich, als Einstieg und Ergänzung für einen systematischen, durch geeignete Experten begleiteten Veränderungsprozess. Das Handbuch basiert auf Erfahrungen der GTZ und ihrer Partner. Es geht aus der Einführungsveranstaltung für neue Mitarbeiter der GTZ hervor. Die Inhalte wurden für die Fortbildung von Fach- und Führungskräften der Partnerinstitutionen angepasst. Regionale Expertennetzwerke entwickeln es laufend weiter." (Ziel des vorliegenden Handbuchs, Seite 3)
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"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri
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bes steps to be taken in designing and implementing an evaluation. The third part, "evaluation tools", gives a practical insight to major evaluation methods like SWOT analysis, questionnaires (and their design), focus groups or case studies. The fourth and main part provides evaluation guidelines for training courses, newsletters, websites, small libraries and resource centres, online communities, rural radios, databases and selective dissemination of information services." (CAMECO Update 1-2011)
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