The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platforms, and tools that scholars, scientists, and researchers use to share their work with each other and with other interested readers. Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible overview of the current landscape, examining the state of affairs in the worlds of journal and book publishing, copyright law, emerging access models, digital archiving, university presses, metadata, and much more. Anderson discusses many of the problems that arise due to conflicts between the various values and interests at play within these systems: values that include the public good, academic freedom, the advancement of science, and the efficient use of limited resources. The implications of these issues extend far beyond academia. Organized in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, this book provides a lively and helpful summary of some of the most important issues and developments in the world of scholarly communication -- a world that affects our everyday lives far more than we may realize.

Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Politics & Social Sciences

Anderson, Rick

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Some movies are iconic. Others are merely entertaining. In Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult Hits, and Other Must-See Movies, veteran journalist and longtime film buff Rick Anderson reflects on fifty classic films created within a fifty-year period, from 1945-1995. This book provides a historical perspective on these films and the people who made them. Why do these movies work? Or, in some cases, why didn't they work better? The author looks back at well-known films such as Rear Window, The Third Man, Apollo 13, and Sounder. And many other popular but less-renowned works also are covered, as are a handful of relatively obscure productions. The common denominator is that all the films here deserve at least a look from movie fans. Or, for those who have previously watched them, a rewind.

Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult Hits, and Other Must-See Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Gray Bear Books

The Cascade Mountains - after which the region is named - run north from California to southern Canada and include two of the fastest-growing cities of North America: Seattle - in the United States - and Vancouver, British Columbia - on the Canadian side of the border. The views from either city are of mountains, snow-covered volcanic peaks, forests, and oceans. In the midst of these jewel-like settings are two vibrant cultural hubs, home to full-time symphonies, opera, ballet, and independent film companies - as well as flourishing youth cultures. Photographer Morton Beebe leads us on a tour through the region, showing us the magnificence and variety of both the natural and urban worlds. He explores numerous intriguing corners of Cascadia to reveal the much-coveted life-style of the Pacific Northwest, which may become the future power center of the continent. Beebe's stunning images meet their match in texts written by eight well-known regional writers who provide local history and insiders' folklore.

Cascadia: A Tale of Two Cities Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.

Arts & Photography

Peterson, Brenda

Bramham, Daphne

Downey, Roger

Pierce, J. Kingston

Beebe, Morton

Sutherland, Jim

Buerge, David M.

Wellman, Laurel

Photography & Video

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Rick Anderson is a creative thinker and a respected provocateur on topics related to library collections and scholarly publishing. As trends such rising journal pricing, declining budgets, open access and demand-driven acquistion upset established practices and library-vendor relations, arguments easy to come by. Rick Anderson is not one to back away from them. It's no surprise that the Charleston Conference, a popular conference where vendor executives and academic librarians discuss the marketplace, invited him to participate in a Hyde Park Debate": Resolved: Wherever Possible, Library Collections Should Be Shaped by Patrons, Instead of by Librarians.This book is a collection of essays, articles, white papers, and blog posting; many highly influential, some equally controversial. Organized thematically, the collection gives the reader the convenience of accessing the writing in one place. Together, the pieces create a coherent set of arguments about the future of libraries and scholarly communication.DRAFT COPY AT TRANSMITTAL “Whenever you’re forced to make choices , values are going to come into conflict,” writes Rick Anderson in the Preface. Often, it’s costs that force a choice between two desirable options. Mission driven organizations, lacking the financial incentives of the corporate world, may gloss over tough questions to avoid the painful reality that not everyone on the teams shares the same priorities. Browse this selective, thematic compilation of Rick Anderson’s writing, and you will find the conversation starters for your strategic discussions. Anderson offers engaging, persuasive arguments on range of timely topics, such as:Decline of printPatron-driven acquisitionsOpen accessBlacklisting publishersPatron privacySymptoms of zealotryRelations with publishers sales repsUnintended consequences of print on demandHow to define library value

Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson

Reference

ALA Editions

No doubt about it: strategic planning is a serious commitment. But when carried out skillfully, thoughtfully, and with sensitivity to the impacts on all those involved, it's an undertaking that can pay large dividends for the library and its users. A strong strategic plan gives shape and clarity to the library’s intentions and, when carefully written, can make a powerful case for the library’s indispensability to its sponsoring institution. Providing library deans, directors, and university librarians with up-to-date guidance, this book
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<li>outlines a step-by-step method that helps readers prepare for a successful strategic planning process, create and implement a strategic plan, and assess the effectiveness of both the process and the resulting plan;</li>
<li>discusses the differences between scenario planning and strategic planning, with pointers on determining which would be best in a given organization;</li>
<li>offers expert advice for communicating a strategic plan clearly and compellingly to the library’s many stakeholders at every stage of the process;</li>
<li>shares ways to bring library staff as well as users into the planning process;</li>
<li>teaches how to use surveys and focus groups to inform strategic planning, complete with sample survey questions and a consent cover letter;</li>
<li>addresses whether and how to hire consultants;</li>
<li>concludes with a summary of the essential elements of a successful planning process, ideal for quick reference; and</li>
<li>includes an appendix with numerous useful templates, from an Executive Council Strategic Planning Retreat Agenda to a Final Report.</li>
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Written by a team of authors with decades of library administration experience between them, this powerful resource enables academic libraries to produce plans that will offer directional guidance to employees while also demonstrating the library’s power to meet institutional goals.

Strategic Planning for Academic Libraries: A Step-by-Step Guide

Soehner, Catherine B.

Thompson, Gregory C.

Maringanti, Harish

Comer, Alberta

For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with: - comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon- historical, war-by-war overview of the issues- comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms- veterans' battles over medical services and policy- analysis of military hospitals and services- public and classified military experiments- discussions of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium- analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the in military.

Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers

Clarity Press, Inc.

So, you've created a few projects with Arduino, and now it's time to kick it up a notch. Where do you go next? With Pro Arduino, you'll learn about new tools, techniques, and frameworks to make even more ground-breaking, eye-popping projects. 
You'll discover how to make Arduino-based gadgets and robots interact with your mobile phone. You'll learn all about the changes in Arduino 1.0, you'll create amazing output with openFrameworks, and you'll learn how to make games with the Gameduino. You'll also learn advanced topics, such as modifying the Arduino to work with non-standard Atmel chips and Microchip's PIC32.
Rick Anderson, an experienced Arduino developer and instructor, and Dan Cervo, an experienced Arduino gadgeteer, will give you a guided tour of advanced Arduino capabilities. If it can be done with an Arduino, you'll learn about it here.

Pro Arduino (Technology in Action)

Computers & Technology

Cervo, Dan

Computer Science

Apress

From explorer Peter Puget to bachelor Johnson Brothers, whose farm became a regional museum, Legendary Locals of Anderson Island chronicles the emergence of a way of life that unfailingly awakens echoes of days long past. Anderson Island, the southernmost of all islands in Washington State's Puget Sound, was settled in the late 1800s by immigrants predominantly from the Scandinavian countries. They naturally brought with them and practiced their old-country ways of navigating, farming, and building. In time, due to its remoteness and relative inaccessibility, a society of self-reliant yet closely connected residents took root. The subsistence farming, logging, and fishing practiced by the early pioneers have mostly given way to cottage industries or daily commutes to the mainland. While retirement has become the majority occupation of today's islanders, a vibrant community life continues to flourish, centered around activities sponsored by the island's numerous volunteer-staffed organizations.

Legendary Locals of Anderson Island

Stephenson, Lucy

Sleight, Michal

Arcadia Publishing

A memorable collection - expanded, revised and updated - from investigative journalist and columnist Rick Anderson.He solves the mystery of the Floating Feet, where suspected crime is measured by the nautical foot (the 15 extremities that washed up on Seattle and Vancouver beaches in recent years). But dozens more are on their way from Japan, an expert warns.And he details for the first time The Getaway of supposedly indigent millionaires who show us their Gucci heels fleeing to France in a rented plane, landing a step ahead of U.S. Marshals - and explains how the rich are different from us especially in bankruptcy court.The Assassins, meanwhile, relates the full story and likely solution to the 1969 cold case homicide of civil rights hero Edwin Pratt, whose Medgar Evers-like murder the Nixon justice department tried to blame on Pratt's fellow black citizens, documents show.Driving Bin Laden is the narrative tale, from Afgan arrest to U.S. release, of the terrorist's chauffeur who was imprisoned at Gitmo only to find salvation at the hands of a group of military and corporate lawyers working for free.Joe Millionaire gives the reader an inside peek at the life of a humble public servant who undertook a remarkable heist of City Hall funds. He quietly made off with a million dollars and got caught only after a greedy attempt to dupe the city into paying his monthly utility bill as well.And The Lavender Spies shows us how, long before Edward Snowden, there were Bill and Bernie, allegedly homosexual NSA codebreakers who defected to Moscow and, like Snowden, wound up yearning to come home. Based on exclusive, formerly secret documents.

Floating Feet: Irregular dispatches from the Emerald City, with spies, assassins and Bin Laden's chauffeur

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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