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...COUNTER has been developed to provide a set of international, extendible Codes of Practice that allow the usage of online information products and services to be measured in a credible, consistent and compatible way using vendor generated data. This COUNTER Code of...

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...CONTENTS 1. Foreword 2. General information 3. Definitions of terms used 4. Usage reports 5. Data processing 6. Auditing 7. Compliance 8. References to other standards, protocols and codes of practice 9. Governance of COUNTER 10.Maintenance and development of the COUNTER Code...

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... Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources The COUNTER Code of Practice Books and Reference Works: Release 1 March 2006 ... ... March 2006 Abstract COUNTER has been developed to provide a set of international, extendible Codes of Practice that allow the usage of onl... ...onsistent and compatible way using vendor­generated data. This COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works specifies: the data elements to ... .... This COUNTER Code of Practice has been developed with input from vendors, librarians and intermediaries. Copyright: Counter Online Metrics All right... ...tice for Journals and Databases was published in April 2005. COUNTER serves librarians, vendors and intermediaries by facilitating the recording and e... ... of Practice. COUNTER is widely supported by the international community of librarians, publishers and intermediaries, as well as by their professiona... ...tice. See Section 10 below. 7 3. Definitions of terms used Table 1 below lists the terms directly relevant to Release 1 of the Code of Practice for... ... is first published in any medium. 3.1.1.24 4. Usage Reports This section lists the COUNTER Usage Reports for books and reference works and specifie...

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...g this important journey, our website www.readitloud.org offers a variety of information and resources, including tips to get started, reading lists... ...iety of information and resources, including tips to get started, reading lists, places to get books, and much, much more. You may sign the Promise i... ...o, by signing the Promise, you will be able to choose from a wide variety of incentives and rewards that are being offered to participating families... ...minutes every day. Name____________________________________________ Number of children age 0 to 6 ________________________ Email _____________________... ...).  Guides, teaching tools, reading readiness tests, recommended reading lists and a wide- variety of local, national and online resources and progr... ... libraries and 50,000 affiliates.  AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION – 65,000 librarians and private/education libraries.  CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL/EVER...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of ... ...form tables for computing costs of goods and payments of wages as well as lists converting weights and measures. By the seventeenth century, such bo... ...ies that led to his Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amherst helped him divide the entirety of man... ... added another distinguished field for women by creating a corps of women librarians to circulate those books into the hands of the public and then ... ... drawers enabled patrons to find the specific information they sought and librarians to replace loaned books on their proper shelves where other pat...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This boo...

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...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of ... ...form tables for computing costs of goods and payments of wages as well as lists converting weights and measures. By the seventeenth century, such bo... ...ies that led to his Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amherst helped him divide the entirety of man... ... added another distinguished field for women by creating a corps of women librarians to circulate those books into the hands of the public and then ... ... drawers enabled patrons to find the specific information they sought and librarians to replace loaned books on their proper shelves where other pat...

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... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ... Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its editors (content authors) effectiv... ...of industry standards, readers and audiences. Both the supply side (title lists) and the demand side (readership) have increased. Giants like Microso... ... Libraries sought also to extend their archival functions to e- books. But librarians failed to grasp the essential and substantive differences betwee... ...logies developed by geeks and nerds, rather than by marketers, users, and librarians. Physical libraries enjoy great advantages, not the least bein... ...ts by lo-tech libraries. It may turn out to be convergence at its best, as librarians become computer savvy - and computer types create knowledge and... ...s of the earth will be able to select from publishing backlists and front lists comprising millions of titles. Millions of authors are now able to r...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...e—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of the hard work of building the movem... ... internation- ally. But there are many, many others. The entire community of librarians de- serves our thanks for standing up for free public access t... ... standing up for free public access to knowledge for over two hundred years. Librarians are my heroes. They should be yours, too. Some of the work con... ...ly made available worldwide. Mirror sites provided copies of the program and lists of such locations were easy to find using standard search tools. One... ... of pub- lished records showed nothing. Inquiries to various music librarian listservs also produced no answer. There was a man called Harold Bailey, ... ...Ugh, governance by food fight.” Anyone who has ever been on an organizational listserv, a global production process run by people who are long on brain...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...usband’s going away for a week.” 14 Main Street She was fond of the other librarians; proud of their aspirations. And by the chance of propinquity sh... ...never had one! As a wage-earning spinster Carol had asserted to her fellow librarians that when she was married, she was going to have an allow- ance ... ...inclair Lewis preparations for her first party, the housewarming. She made lists on every envelope and laundry-slip in her desk. She sent orders to Mi... ... simply because their mothers don’t keep them home where they belong. Some librarians may choose to be so wishy-washy and turn their libraries into nu... ...t hopefully. “All right,” she yawned. With hazy eyes she tried to read the lists of characters, which were hidden among lifeless advertisements of pia...

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... facts, heights of mountains, for example, popu- lations of countries, and lists of obsolete manufactures and obsolete trade conditions. Any one who w... ...l politician, is of the utmost convenience. And there are endless affairs, lists, gatherings, when the only alterna- tive to rank is scramble. For mys... ...ally necessary as examination papers which merely demand defi- nitions and lists and bald facts are bad. And then there might be discussions—if the Pr... ...o equip them is to organize an Association, to work, if possible, with the Librarians, and get this “serious” side of the Libraries, this vitally impo... ...s reprinted separately for five cents, and it is almost all English public librarians and libraries need so far as American history goes. The En- glis... ...i- ography of social and economic science, but it is a mere list for local librarians, and of little use to the uninitiated reader. *In America Mr. Ge...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ings, and it will need very much more than the dis- approval of provincial librarians, the hostility of a few influ- ential people in London, the scur... ...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t... ...dorse the appointment, and recommend the dismissal of all his four hundred librarians. He would probably try to make the as- sistantship at £100 a yea... ... the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. My own estimate of the popular wisdom is against the idea that any v...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought, or that librarians are wiser men than others. There are graces in the demeanor of a... ...ors. He proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists, and he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to p... ...the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried. Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind; as ... ...us and piety throw into the world, alters the world. The gladiators in the lists of power feel, through all their frocks of force and simulation, the ...

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...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...al which occasionally is affected by clerks and dentists and more often by librarians. If ever I looked upon an hon- est German jowl, or even upon a c... ... les hommes who were to pass la commis- sion, another of les femmes. These lists were given to the planton with the Wooden Hand. In order to avert any...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep... ...locate your base? Some of the same places come up again and again on their lists: • western Pakistan and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region • sout... ...requent a library in Hamburg to use the Internet.Accord- ing to one of the librarians, in 1999 Shehhi, unprompted, inveighed against America, and boas...