Overview of content related to 'software'
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Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions telling a computer what to do and how to do it. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software is intangible, meaning it "cannot be touched (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Software)
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Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38) |
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. |
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Book Review: Approximately 97 Things |
Pete Cliff learns something new in this 'Open Source' book every time he makes the tea. |
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Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide |
Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples. |
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Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection |
Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners. |
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Book Review: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion |
Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements. |
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Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites |
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. |
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Book Review: Copyright Compliance |
Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy. |
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Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! |
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Book Review: Developing Web-based Instruction |
Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of the issues involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the literature. |
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Book Review: Digital Copyright |
Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property. |
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Book Review: Digital Literacies for Learning |
Pete Cliff reviews a work that challenges traditional notions of literacy and how suggests that new literacies need to be developed to empower both learners and teachers in the digital age. |
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Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing |
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals. |
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Book Review: GLUT - Mastering Information through the Ages |
Martin White enjoys a random walk through a historical survey of humanity's quest to classify and categorise information. |
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Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services |
Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference. |
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Book Review: Information Architecture - Designing Information Environments for Purpose |
John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole. |
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Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web |
Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture. |
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Book Review: Information Tomorrow |
Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries. |
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Book Review: Integrating Geographic Information Systems Into Library Services |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a much needed work on offering GIS services in libraries. |
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Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed. |
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Book Review: Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies |
Brian Whalley looks at a student survival aid in the information age that should also be valuable for tutors. |
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Book Review: Listen Up! Podcasting for Schools and Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take library services and activities to new audiences. |
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Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It |
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition. |
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Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management |
Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects. |
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Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide |
Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it. |
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Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World |
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century. |
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Book Review: Managing the Test People |
Lina Coelho expected a book that would challenge her technical knowledge and understanding but found a readable and useful guide for the time-pressed manager. |
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Book Review: Managing Your Internet & Intranet Services |
David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions. |
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Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition |
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. |
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Book Review: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture |
Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism. |
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Book Review: Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk |
Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective. |
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Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries |
Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software. |
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Book Review: Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography |
Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson. |
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Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian |
Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series. |
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Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments. |
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Book Review: The Art of Community - Building the New Age of Participation |
Ed Bremner reviews a work on building and supporting online communities. |
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Book Review: The Institutional Repository |
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. |
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Book Review: The Invisible Web |
Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web. |
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Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools |
Book review by Ruth Martin. |
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Book Review: The Virtual Reference Desk |
Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this work is one of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned. |
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Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions. |
