1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009389090403321

Titolo

Global development of organic agriculture : challenges and prospects / edited by Niels Halberg ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford : CABI Publishing, c2006

ISBN

1845930789

Descrizione fisica

xii, 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

631.584

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

60 631.584 B 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456306303321

Autore

Walter Virginia A

Titolo

Magic Search [[electronic resource] ] : Getting the Best Results from Your Catalog and Beyond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : ALA Editions, 2009

ISBN

0-8389-9722-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BuchananHeidi

Disciplina

020

025.47

20

Soggetti

Library of Congress. Library of Congress subject headings

Online library catalogs --Subject access --Handbooks, manuals, etc

Subject heading subdivisions --Handbooks, manuals, etc

Subject headings, Library of Congress --Handbooks, manuals, etc

Subject heading subdivisions - Subject access

Subject headings, Library of Congress

Online library catalogs

Social Sciences

Library & Information Science

Electronic books.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Using the Book; 1. Finding Basic Treatments and Background Reading; 2. Finding How-To Guides; Best All-Around; How to Do It Yourself; How to Teach Yourself ...; Anything; Music; A Language; How to Review; How to Travel; 3. Finding Images; Best All-Around; Images of People, Real and Mythical; Images of Places; Images of Objects; You would think, but you might be misled-and then again, maybe just right; 4. Words, Words, ... and Numbers; Descriptions of Words; Words for Wordsmiths; Expressions; Words of Wisdom; Word History; Numbers

5. Finding Out about People: Individuals and GroupsLife Events; What They Did; What They Thought; Thoughts, Recorded or Remembered; The Way They Were; People They Knew; Things They Had; The Way They Were Imortalized; 6. Finding Out about Places; Best All-Around; Other Subdivisions Useful for Places; Historical Context; That's Life; Just the Facts; Honored in Very Special Ways; 7. Finding Creative Treatments: Stories, Poems, Songs, etc.; Creative Works, Primary; Creative Works, Secondary; 8. Finding True Stories: Memoirs, Observations, and Confessions; 9. Finding Primary Sources

10. It's about Time: Time Periods and Chronological SubdivisionsSituation 1: Same Time Period + Same Subtopic + Different Places = Different Chronological Subdivisions; Situation 2: Same Time Period + Same Place + Different Subtopics = Different Chronological Subdivisions; The Solutions: One Practical, One Complete, One quick and Dirty; The Practical Solution; The Complete Solution; The Quick and Dirty Solution; Other Subdivisions That Express Time; 11. Tools for Scholars and Other Professionals; 12. Subdivisions That Give Perspective, Put You in Control, and Amaze Others!

The Aspects, The Royal Family of SubdivisionsRelationships Are Not Just for People!; What's Your Angle?; Subdivisions That Control; What Do You Think about That?; Did What, and to Whom?; 13. Useful for the Humanities; Favorites for the Humanities; Art; Other useful subdivisions for art; Language; Studying Language; Learning a Foreign Language; Using Your Words Correctly; Literature; Readers' Advisory; Music and the Performing Arts; Music; About Music; Theater; All Performing Arts; Other useful subdivisions for music and the performing arts; Religion; Other useful subdivisions for religion

14. Useful for the Social SciencesBest All-Around; Psychology; The Political Subdivisions; The Social Subdivisions; Law; Tests and Measures; 15. Useful for Historical Research; Best All-Around; Life and Lives; Places; Politics, Conflicts, and Diplomacy; Tools for Historians; 16. Useful for Business Topics; Best All-Around for Business; Doing Day-to-Day Business; The Product; Outside Forces; Getting into Trouble or Keeping It Clean; The Market (investments, stocks, bonds, dividends, securities, speculation); Not-So-Serious Business; 17. Useful for Education Topics; Best All-Around

Teaching and Learning

Sommario/riassunto

No other work explores the LCSH subdivisions is such detail or with such commitment, making this book vital to every Reference Desk.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462570303321

Autore

Hogarth Margaret

Titolo

Data clean-up and management : a practical guide for librarians / / Margaret Hogarth with contributions from Kenneth Furuta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Chandos Publishing, , 2012

ISBN

1-78063-347-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (579 p.)

Collana

Chandos information professional series

Altri autori (Persone)

FurutaKenneth

Disciplina

025

025.210285

Soggetti

Libraries - Data processing

Data editing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Data Clean-up and Management: A practical guide for librarians; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; About the authors; 1 Introduction (why this book is needed); What makes this book unique?; Why library data is important; The book's outline; 2 Commonalities; Microsoft Office Excel; MarcEdit; Microsoft Access; XML; Commonalities; Capture and use; Standardization; Data import issues; Technical skills; Project management challenges; 3 Defining data; Rule 1: define data points; Rule 2: apply data point definitions; Rule 3: count the right apples

Rule 4: avoid capturing redundant data4 Types of data issues; Microsoft Excel vs Microsoft Access; General data-handling edicts; Data issues: importing data; 5 Microsoft Excel techniques; Creating datasheets; Selecting cells; Copying; Sorting; Filter; AutoSum; Sum; Fill; 6 Data clean-up in Excel; Common dirty data scenarios; The usefulness of delimiting; System limitations; Removing extra characters; 7 Excel: combining data; IF statements; The TEXT function; PivotTables and filtering; VLOOKUP; HLOOKUP; MATCH; 8 Additional tools; PDFs; Notepad; Microsoft Word

Global update in an integrated library systemRegular expressions; Excel; Access; Macros; XML; MarcEdit; The MARC tools window; 9 Access techniques; What is a database?; Access; Planning a database;



Preparing data for a database; Adding a table to a database; 10 Access forms; Types of form; Parts to a form; Form controls; Validating data; Option buttons; Combo boxes; ActiveX controls; Tab control techniques; Multiple-table forms; Command buttons; 11 Access reports; Creating a report using the Report Wizard; Controls; Making additions to a report; AutoFormat a report

Working with report propertiesInserting a control into a report; Conditional formatting; Sizing reports; Moving controls in Access; Publishing reports; Sorting and grouping options; Adding calculations to reports; Launching reports; Creating a subreport; 12 Access queries; Sorting in Access; Filtering in Access; Queries; Entering data; Query properties; Access relationships; 13 Data clean-up in Access; Prevention is the best cure; Extra characters; Access data upload errors; ISSN issues; 14 Access - combining data; Combining data from one or more data sources; Query with a sum

Types of operatorsTotals queries; Parameter queries; Action queries; Update queries; Delete queries; Make-Table queries; Append queries; PivotTable queries; SQL in Access; Parameter Queries in SQL; Export data to Excel; Finding unique values in a dataset; Matching on ISSN; 15 Strategies for missing data; Resources are missing ISBNs; Resources are missing ISSNs; Richard Jackson's OCLC look-up strategy; 16 Qualitative data; The definition of qualitative data; Qualitative data is valuable; Types of qualitative data; Qualitative data techniques; SWOT analysis; Tools; The whole picture; 17 ROI

18 Data collection and analysis

Sommario/riassunto

Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using readily-available applications. The authors highlight the importance and methods of data analysis and presentation, and offer guidelines and recommendations for a data quality policy. The book gives step-by-step how-to directions for common dirty data issues.Focused towards libraries and practicing librariansDeals with practical, real-life issues and addresses common problems th



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145254503321

Autore

Boase-Beier Jean

Titolo

The German Language [[electronic resource] ] : A Linguistic Introduction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007

ISBN

1-281-31042-5

9786611310424

0-470-70568-X

0-470-77349-9

0-470-77527-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LodgeKen R

Disciplina

430

438/.0071

Soggetti

German language

Language / Linguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Syntax; 3 Morphology; 4 Phonetics; 5 Phonology; 6 Lexis; 7 Stylistics; 8 Historical Background; 9 Contemporary Variation; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The German Language introduces students of German to a linguistic way of looking at the language. Written from a Chomksyan perspective, this volume covers the basic structural components of the German language: syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, and the lexicon.:.; Explores the linguistic structure of German from current theoretical perspectives.; Written from a Chomksyan perspective, this volume covers the basic structural components of the German language: syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, and the lexicon.; Serves as a valuable resource for students of German language and lite