Bibliotech

Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, are at risk. In order to survive our rapidly modernizing world and dwindling government funding, libraries must make the transition to a digital future as soon as possible—by digitizing print material and ensuring that born-digital material is publicly available online. Not all of these changes will be easy for libraries to implement. But as Palfrey boldly argues, these modifications are vital if we hope to save libraries and, through them, the American democratic ideal.

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and international disputes, each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication ethics understood as an answer to problems often creates them. If we understand communication ethics as a good protected and promoted by a given set of communicators, we can understand how acts of colonialism and totalitarianism could move forward, legitimized by the assumption that “I am right.” This volume eschews such a presupposition, recognizing that we live in a time of narrative and virtue contention. We dwell in an era where the one answer is more often dangerous than correct.

Nelson Wolff, Bexar County judge and former San Antonio mayor, has been an active participant in the city’s political and business community for five decades. His first book, Transforming San Antonio, highlighted four major initiatives that created the economic revitalization of the Southwest’s most vibrant city: building the AT&T Center; expanding the River Walk north to the Pearl Brewery; securing the Toyota manufacturing plant; and building the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and two adjacent PGA golf courses. The Changing Face of San Antonio explores six transformative city and countywide efforts that have emerged in the past decade: the Mission Reach expansion of the iconic River Walk, an eight-mile extension of one of the city's most valued resources; the renovation of the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium into the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts; the much-needed expansion of the University Health System; criminal justice reform; the city’s efforts to become a tech leader in biomedicine, aerospace, and cybersecurity; and the creation of BiblioTech, the country's first all-digital public library. Wolff offers an insider’s view of the key issues that shaped these efforts. With journalistic ease, Wolff uses his unique point of view to convey the complexity of each endeavor—who said what to whom, when, and how—at a lively pace.The Changing Face of San Antonio reflects his passion for San Antonio and, as one might expect, his confidence in the paths taken under his leadership to help the city achieve its goals.

適用讀者 適合想增進英語字彙能力的升大學考生及一般讀者。 嚴選近十年學測考試高頻率必備字彙，你不能不會！ 《英語高頻字彙完全攻略 (全新編修版)》是一本針對升大學考試而設計的字彙書。單字的編纂參考大考中心所頒布 111 學年度起適用之「高中英文參考詞彙表」，此參考詞彙表分為六級，而本書選用的是其中第三級至第六級的字彙，並根據單字在學測歷屆考古題中出現的頻率，篩選出用字頻率較高的重要單字。這些單字不但常出現在學測中，也是全民英檢、多益考試及日常閱讀等的必備字彙，對於不論是要準備考試或是精進英文能力的讀者，皆能大有助益。 透過閱讀認識單字或由單字理解範文，雙管齊下！ 本書依主題分為八個章節，全部共含三十五個單元。每單元先藉由閱讀範文來認識字彙，再透過全面性的單字解說熟練每字的重要用法，最後再從課後練習立即驗收學習成效。按照本書穩紮穩打的學習步驟相信能有效累積大考必備的字彙量，游刃有餘地面對升大學考試。 主編獨家編排3步驟學習法，用最有效率的方式準備應試！ Step1：閱讀範文 共收錄35篇範文，選材多元，範文的篇幅分為短篇或長篇兩種，文章長度與主題均符合學測出題模式，讀者在閱讀範文後，可透過閱讀測驗測試自己對於文章及單字的理解程度。 Step2：高頻字彙 收錄3~5級字彙，清楚標示每字在學測出現過的年度，並詳列不同詞性、定義、相關字詞與重要片語，比較易混淆用法及延伸補充字首、字尾概念，提供舉一反三的學習有助於迅速累積學測字彙量。 Step3：課後練習 每單元最後除了提供「字彙測驗」、「克漏字」、「文意選填」等符合學測題型的練習題之外，亦特別納入「單字填空」以幫助學生加強拼字能力。透過豐富的練習題融會貫通，加速學習成效。書末更附一回學測模擬試題，有助培養應試感，正式考試時將能更得心應手。 目錄介紹 Chapter 1 Travel Unit 1 The Beauty of Norway 挪威之美 Unit 2 Protecting Africa’s Beauty 保護非洲自然美景 Unit 3 Colder Is Better in Quebec City 魁北克市：愈冷愈熱鬧 Unit 4 Cologne: A Cultural Capital 德國文化之都：科隆 Unit 5 Finding Happiness in Denmark 丹麥：發展綠能的幸福國度 Chapter 2 Environment Unit 6 Life in a Frozen Land 白色大地生機盎然 Unit 7 The Benefits of Conserving Water 省水好處多 Unit 8 Nitrogen Footprint 被遺忘的酸雨幫兇「氮足跡」 Unit 9 The War against Food Waste 終結剩食大作戰 Chapter 3 Culture Unit 10 The Empire of the Incas 印加帝國 Unit 11 The Railway in Taiwan 台灣鐵路史 Unit 12 Japan’s National Flowers 日本國花 Unit 13 Homestay Etiquette 寄宿禮儀 Unit 14 To Tip, or Not to Tip? 改變中的美國小費文化 Chapter 4 Health Unit 15 The Importance of Moderation 適度的重要性 Unit 16 The Secrets of Yoga 瑜珈的祕密 Unit 17 Therapy Dogs 狗醫生 Unit 18 Is MSG Actually Bad for You? 味精有害健康？ Unit 19 A Red Light for Coffee 咖啡紅綠燈 Chapter 5 Leisure Unit 20 The First Ferris Wheel 浪漫摩天輪 Unit 21 Toy Collectors 玩具收藏家 Unit 22 E-book Library 電子書圖書館 Unit 23 Fingerboarding: Skating at Your Fingertips 手指滑板：指尖上的極限運動 Unit 24 Bored? Play a Tabletop Game 無聊嗎？來玩桌遊吧 Chapter 6 Education Unit 25 Idioms from Greek Mythology 源自希臘神話的英文成語 Unit 26 The Benefits of Speaking a Second Language 學第二語言讓你變聰明！ Unit 27 Watching Your Words: The Issue of Political Correctness 政治正確語言，你用對了嗎？ Unit 28 Tips for Remembering What You've Learned 幫助記憶的訣竅 Chapter 7 Sports Unit 29 Cardboard Gold 蒐集棒球卡讓你致富？！ Unit 30 Olympics Out of the Ordinary 古怪奧運賽事一籮筐 Unit 31 A Healthy Attitude to Fitness 健康的健身態度 Chapter 8 Technology Unit 32 Ingestible Origami Robot 微型摺紙機器人 Unit 33 The New Buzz about Robot Bees 機器人蜜蜂新話題 Unit 34 Smartphone Snoopers 智慧型手機正在監聽你？ Unit 35 Driverless Cars: Steering Us in a New Direction 自動駕駛車駛向新未來 學測模擬試題 單字索引

This book, first published in 1993, examines how the newest technological developments in information storage and processing impact print-oriented libraries. Find answers to questions on how libraries can utilize the awesome speed, remarkable storage capacity, and universal access of the new technology. Authoritative contributors provide insight, inspirations, and practical experience to the three major areas of changing technologies, changing information worldwide, and strategies and responses of libraries to these rapid changes. A Changing World looks at the future of the electronic network medium and how it will provide opportunities for accessing and using information that so far have been unimagined by the print-dominated information industry. Enlightening chapters explore the feasibility of electronic serials as a realistic replacement for print journals, the future of automated serials control systems, and the effects of information technologies on libraries as systems and librarianship as a profession. Discover timely indications for ten-year trends of the globalization of research, scholarly information, and patents. Specific international influences on information are examined including the implications of the European Community internal market for scholarly publishing and distribution, the influence of rapid changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on scholarly publishing, and scholarly information and serials in politically turbulent Latin American countries.

Libraries and librarians have been defined by the book throughout modern history. What happens when society increasingly lets print go in favour of storing, retrieving and manipulating electronic information? What happens after the book? After the Book explores how the academic library of the 21st Century is first and foremost a provider of electronic information services. Contemporary users expect today’s library to provide information as quickly and efficiently as other online information resources. The book argues that librarians need to change what they know, how they work, and how they are perceived in order to succeed according to the terms of this new paradigm. This title is structured into eight chapters. An introduction defines the challenge of electronic resources and makes the case for finding solutions, and following chapters cover diversions and half measures and the problem for libraries in the 21st century. Later chapters discuss solving problems through professional identity and preparation, before final chapters cover reorganizing libraries to serve users, adapting to scarcity, and the ‘digital divide’. Describes how electronic resources constitute both a challenge and an opportunity for libraries Argues that librarians can re-define themselves Puts the case that libraries can be reorganized to optimize electronic resource management and information services based on contemporary technology and user needs