Giambattista Amati & Claudio Carpineto 
Advances in Information Retrieval [PDF ebook] 
29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings

Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society – changes of the same magnitude as those that occurred during the Ind …

Museums may not seem at first glance to be engaged in social work. Yet, Lois H. Silverman brings together here relevant visitor studies, trends in international practice, and compelling examples that …

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origi …

Since the 1960s, Charles Chadwyck-Healey has been at the forefront of library publishing and the company he founded in 1973 remains a familiar brand name to academic libraries around the world. In th …

This important volume by one of the leading scholars in the field examines and discusses how library professionals can meet the demands of policy makers to open up the public library system without d …

Provide top-flight services in this highly specialized field!This groundbreaking book provides state-of-the-art information on one of the most useful library specialties. Engineering Libraries: Build …

The controversy surrounding the significant ‘Into the Heart of Africa’ exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an inte …

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Trinidad Rico’s critical ethnography analyses herita …

Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites explores how the terrible legacy of Nazi criminality is experienced by tourists, bridging the gap between cultural criminology and tourism studies to make a significan …