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  • Understanding Community Librarianship

    The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain

    by Alistair Black, David Muddiman ...
    In the information society, is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of ’community’ librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models of community based library service and argue that bland assertions of community prevalence mask a ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    Edited by Raquel Pinto, Paula Rocha Malonek, Paolo Vettori ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The topics covered in this book, written by researchers at the forefront of their field, represent some of the most relevant research areas in modern coding theory: codes and combinatorial structures, algebraic geometric codes, group codes, quantum codes, convolutional codes, network coding and cryptography.The book includes a survey paper on the interconnections of coding theory with constrained ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Marketing and Managing Electronic Reserves

    Edited by Trevor A. Dawes ...
    Get practical solutions to the problems faced when implementing an electronic reserve service!Academic libraries that provide electronic reserve services offer convenient access to information to their students and faculty while gaining numerous other advantages, such as reducing both loss and staff workload. Marketing and Managing Electronic Reserves presents leading authorities with practical ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Optimization, Control, and Applications of Stochastic Systems

    In Honor of Onésimo Hernández-Lerma

    Edited by Daniel Hernández-Hernández, J. Adolfo Minjárez-Sosa ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume provides a general overview of discrete- and continuous-time Markov control processes and stochastic games, along with a look at the range of applications of stochastic control and some of its recent theoretical developments. These topics include various aspects of dynamic programming, approximation algorithms, and infinite-dimensional linear programming. In all, the work comprises 18 ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships

    A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community

    Edited by Robin Kear, Kate Joranson ...
    Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships brings forward ideas and reflections that stay fresh beyond the changing technological landscape. The book encapsulates a cultural shift for libraries and librarians and presents a collection of authors who reflect on the collaborations they have formed around digital humanities work. Authors examine a range of issues, including labor equity, digital ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Optimal Control in Thermal Engineering

    by Viorel Badescu ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization. The book is organized in three parts: The first part includes a brief presentation of function optimization and variational calculus, while the ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Assessment of Library Collections in a Consortial Environment

    Experiences From Ohio

    Edited by George Lupone ...
    The consortial environment provides librarians with new ways to manage collections at their home institutions. Academic libraries in Ohio have been participating in OhioLINK since 1988, and the consortium has had an effect on shaping local collections for more than one decade. While each institution pursues its own collection management strategy, the shared resources and delivery system provided ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Stochastic Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems

    by Luminita Manuela Bujorianu ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Stochastic reachability analysis (SRA) is a method of analyzing the behavior of control systems which mix discrete and continuous dynamics. For probabilistic discrete systems it has been shown to be a practical verification method but for stochastic hybrid systems it can be rather more. As a verification technique SRA can assess the safety and performance of, for example, autonomous systems, robot ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Project Communication Management in Complex Environments

    by Zhong Ying, Low Sui Pheng ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This unique book that deals with project communication management in complex environments, taking a leaf from China’s experience with a major earthquake in Sichuan, would be a timely contribution to fill this lacuna. Readers would be able to understand how companies and organizations that are unprepared for crisis management would react to their detriment. The lessons provided in this book are the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Building Blocks for Planning Functional Library Space

    by American Library Association ...
    As in the second edition of Building Blocks for Planning Functional Library Space, this volume outlines the measures of space needed for the use of equipment and furniture within a library setting. It provides drawings of typical library furniture and equipment along with diagrams of the space required for their use. In addition, this volume also contains a brief text that provides an overview of ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Stability and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems

    by Iasson Karafyllis, Zhong-Ping Jiang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Recently, the subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple and self-contained presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization which enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory. In particular: the important techniques of proving global stability properties are presented closely linked ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Surveys in Differential-Algebraic Equations III

    Edited by Achim Ilchmann, Timo Reis ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The present volume comprises survey articles on various fields of Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs), which have widespread applications in controlled dynamical systems, especially in mechanical and electrical engineering and a strong relation to (ordinary) differential equations. The individual chapters provide reviews, presentations of the current state of research and new concepts in - ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD