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In 1976, fresh out of library school, I landed an impressive first professional
gig. Hired to lead a team of scientists from the Franklin Institute in
creating an online database on carcinogen research for Stanford University,
I was in absolute awe of the knowledge and expertise of my project partners.
But it was me, a baby librarian, completely green, who was creating
the controlled vocabulary and database structure that would allow medical
researchers around the world to share and build on their discoveries and
treatments.
Using an expert interview approach to K-12 research, this book shares ideas from professional researchers on the improvement of teacher awareness of critical information skills and the importance of information fluency. How educators and librarians can intrude respectfully when research becomes a largely self-serving pursuit, what the developmental issues are in teaching searching, and what a best practice looks like are discused. Other topics covered include motivating learners to care about improving their searching skills, selecting high quality resources, and how to engage an entire community, including classroom teachers, administrators, and parents. |
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 Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology: Third International Workshop
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2013, held in Berlin, in September 2013. The 7 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions and are complemented with an invited talk. The papers discuss recent advances in the... | | Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice
Although our planet is characterized by water, the extent to which water in its
frozen state plays a role in the functioning of the Earth is perhaps underappreciated.
Snow and ice cover about a sixth of the Earth’s surface, as snow
lying on the ground, as glaciers and larger masses of terrestrial ice, including
the huge... | | Neuropathology Review
The scope of neuropathology continues to expand, as
evidenced by increasing numbers of multivolume and
specialty texts, which have been published in recent years.
For those in the neuroscience disciplines, the ever increasing
amount of information one needs to assimilate and master
can be challenging and even at times... |
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