Library and information science

different from any other profession in the respect that there are various organizations all of which appeal to different aspects of their profession. Three such organizations for the librarian are the American Library Association, the American Association of School Librarians, and the Alabama School Library Association. The benefits of becoming a member in one, or all, of these associations can far outweigh the costs of maintaining an active membership. Many people wonder why there are so…

Office for Research and Statistics of the American Library Association. This shows that Mrs. Davis is capable of accessing and is responsible for the reports mandatory for each library across America to turn in each fiscal year, these reports are used to determine what changes the libraries need to implement to better serve the public. Given her credibility to write on such topics she then chooses a topic each year to write on to prepare libraries and librarians across the country for the…

I feel that social media have played a role on my personality in a few different ways. I feel that social media has made me more expressive. This has many negatives and positive that comes with this. A positive is that I am able to show my expressions even if it’s not in person. A negative is that I think I am shyer because of social media. It has also affected my knowledge because everyday we are constantly learning more and more without even realizing it. Social media has impacted my…

as an individual, can make an impact on society through media. I will need to broaden my media exposure so that I can build more knowledge structures. This in turn means that I need to be consciously using the seven skills when looking through information that different media sources will expose me to. It is also important that I change the way that I have come to see media. Right now I see media as more of a leisure pastime, and to get to the social responsibility stage I need to think of it as…

restaurants, and even a phone in every businessperson’s hand in public. Correspondingly, technology has changed the way mankind uses, stores, and exchange information and allowed the possibility of going paperless. Paperless is a term that describes the ability to use electronics to replace paper’s function of storing text or graphic information, typically in the office environment. A review of scholarly articles and journals on the feasibility of going paperless has revealed three categories:…

Information Technology has evolved to be a driving force for any organisation. I wish to combine technical and business knowledge immaculately in order to provide the technological edge to the organisation. Hence, emerge as a pioneer in IT Management. Furthermore, I covet to mentor, assist and empower more women in IT industry Having spent 3 years, thriving in a competitive, customer focused Airline domain, I have developed strong technical skills and learnt some Management methodologies.…

I will review progress towards those goals weekly or monthly, and adjust my schedule and plan accordingly. As I prepare for enrollment in an MBA program, I will have several short-term goals as I collect and complete the necessary enrollment information. Those goals are tracked monthly. To complete the two certification programs I selected, I created a plan that tracks my progress weekly instead of monthly. I need to finish both certification programs before I start the MBA program, so time…

involved more than one analysis methods. Remote Sensing could provides specific satellite data and images for monitor or analysis, GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries, it is more specialized in analyzing spatial information, editing data, maps, and present the results of all these operations. Thus different techniques can meet varied need of green space research, it is also hard to completely separate them in…

cybersecurity environment is based around a static defense that has been employed for the past few years to protect information systems (See Figure 6). Unfortunately, this cybersecurity paradigm is not effective against current and future cyber threats. According to Zheng (2014), the weakness of this cybersecurity approach is its passive and reactive nature towards safeguarding information systems. Additionally, this method also allows threat actors the time they require to conduct their…

The Nathalie Wolfe Pediatric Sciences Library In 1949, a group of women realized there was a great need for a ‘hospital for children only’ (Valley Children Hospital, n.d). By 1952, the hospital opened and served its first patient. With the success of the hospital, a larger facility was necessary. After a decade of planning and building, the hospital finally moved to its new facility in Madera County. One minute after midnight on August 31, 1998, the move to the new facility began and the…