A rigorous, evidence-based pedagogical foundation for educators who wish to help students maintain and cultivate their critical thinking skills in the age of generative AI.The book provides an important overview of the cognitive impacts of offloading intellectual labor to AI, and defines and probes key concepts such as critical thinking, AI literacy, and meta-cognition. It contextualizes the challenge faced by educators by mapping the global state of AI literacy integration across ...

In Find It Fast, business research guru Robert Berkman offers authoritative advice on how to locate the best information sources, connect with the experts behind those sources, and combine expert techniques to do fast and effective research on any subject.This fully updated sixth edition goes beyond Google, detailing the use of Big Data and social networks for research. You'll find a wealth of practical guidance on evaluating information, using precision search strategies, and making the m...

Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation...

Everything You Wanted To Know About Freelance Writing combines two popular business of freelance writing books: Business of Freelance Writing: How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines and The Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments.Business of Freelance Writing: How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines, by Paul Lima, shows you how to develop arti...

In Interop, technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability -- the standardization and integration of technology -- and show how this simple principle will hold the key to our success in the coming decades and beyond.The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money...

What people get out of social media—and how businesses can get more out of itAlmost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives—from friendship and dating to news and business.What makes social media so different from traditional media? Answering t...

Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is reinventing business yet again—the way we work, how organizations are controlled, and how employees are managed.Management consultant Bernard Girard has been analyzing Google since its founding in 1998, and now in The Google ...

Are you doing the job of a librarian without the advantage of a library degree or professional experience? Do you wonder what you might have missed in formal library education how highly trained librarians stay on top of their game or what skills and qualities library directors look for? Have we got the book for you! Pamela H. MacKellara 25-year library veteran who has mentored "accidental" librarians in all types of settingscovers library principles practices and tools of the trade. She o...

Armed with this lively guidebook, students will be ready to face the often daunting prospect of conducting serious research in the information age. Fully revised, The Research Virtuoso covers all aspects of research: how to decide on a topic, take notes, skim material, evaluate which sources (especially those on the Internet) are most reliable, organize information, and create a bibliography. Readers will also learn how to access a treasure trove of sources they may never have known existe...

The intranet is among the primary landscapes in which information-based work occurs, yet many info pros view it with equal parts skepticism and dread. In Intranets for Info Pros, editors Kennedy and Dysart and 10 expert contributors provide a wealth of advice and support for the information professional charged with implementing or contributing to an intranet. Leading thinkers and practitioners contributing to Intranets for Info Pros are Angela Abell, Avi Rappoport, Jose Claudio Terra, Cor...

The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishing, both online and in print. Journals are crucial to scholarly communication, but changes in recent years in the way journals are produced, financed, and used make this an especially turbulent and challenging time for journal publishers - and for authors, readers, and librarians. The Handbook offers a thorough guide to the journal publishing pr...

Librarians negotiate every day with vendors, funding agencies, administrators, employees, co-workers, and patronsyet the art of negotiation receives little attention in library education and training. This practical guide by three experienced librarian-negotiators will help you develop the mindset, skills, and confidence you need to negotiate effectively in any situation. The authors provide an in-depth look at negotiation in theory and practice, share tactics and strategies of top negotia...