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SC LENDSBe a great boss: one year to success / Catherine Hakala-Ausperk. SAFARI Books
Windows® 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition Written by the authors of the immensely popular Windows 7 Inside Out, this deluxe edition is updated with 300+ new pages of information for working with Windows 7. This comprehensive reference to Windows 7 packs hundreds of solutions in a supremely organized, fast-answer format. PLUS—a companion CD with tools, eBooks, and more
Building the Learning Organization, 3rd edition: Achieving Strategic Advantage through a Commitment to Learning This new edition of the essential best-practices tool kit shows how to transform an organization into one that continually learns from its experiences, and more importantly, translates that knowledge into improved performance.
The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, Fourth Edition THE DIGITAL FILMMAKING HANDBOOK, FOURTH EDITION is a comprehensive filmmaking resource for beginners. The book will guide you from your initial concept to your finished project, covering writing, pre-production planning, shooting, how to create professional-level shots and effects, and post-production editing and effects. End-of-chapter exercises and summaries will help you practice and retain everything you are learning. Completely revised to cover all the latest digital video technology and innovations, this fourth edition includes information on HD video, shooting with digital SLR cameras, workflows for direct-to-disc recording, and much more. Whether your goal is an industrial project, a short subject for your Web site, or a feature-length movie for a film festival, this book is a complete resource.
Enterprise Content Management: A Business and Technical Guide The enterprise content management tools and strategies introduced in this book enable the capture, management, storage and delivery of an organisation's information. The book is essential reading for executives contemplating or managing their information strategies and for enterprise architects involved in the delivery of ECM solutions.
HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers HTML5 brings the biggest changes that HTML has seen in years. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics directly onto a web page without the need for a plugin. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. HTML5 Solutions provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production ready and can be applied to any project.
David Busch’s Canon® EOS Rebel T3/1100D: Guide to Digital SLR Photography The T3/1100D is Canon's replacement for the Xsi and boasts 12 megapixels of resolution, HD moviemaking capabilities, and a competitive price point. DAVID BUSCH'S CANON EOS REBEL T3/1100D GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY shows you how, when, and why to use all the cool features, controls, and functions of the T3/1100D to take great photographs of anything. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply T3/1100D file formats, resolution, aperture/priority exposure, and automatic exposure features. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use your T3/1100D, and use it like a pro!
IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets, Second Edition Fully updated to cover leading-edge tools and technologies, IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets, Second Edition, explains, step by step, how to implement a successful, enterprise-wide IT audit program. New chapters on auditing cloud computing, outsourced operations, virtualization, and storage are included. This comprehensive guide describes how to assemble an effective IT audit team and maximize the value of the IT audit function. In-depth details on performing specific audits are accompanied by real-world examples, ready-to-use checklists, and valuable templates. Standards, frameworks, regulations, and risk management techniques are also covered in this definitive resource.
The Book of Ruby Slice your way through the cruft of programming conventions and learn to blaze your own trail with The Book of Ruby. From methods to metaprogramming, you'll gain the skills you need to master the world's most fun programming language with this example-based, hands-on introduction.
Practical Packet Analysis This significantly revised and expanded second edition of Practical Packet Analysis shows you how to use Wireshark to capture raw network traffic, filter and analyze packets, and diagnose common network problems. The next titles are from NetLibrary, the South Carolina State Library-DISCUS Career eContent Collection
"So What Are You Going to Do With That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia Introduction So now what? If you are now or have ever been a graduate student, you’ve heard the universal question about earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.: “So what are you going do with that? Maybe your heart’s not in it anymore; maybe you’d like to earn more money; maybe you’d like to live somewhere where there are few college-level teaching jobs. Did your departmental review go badly and you just don’t have the heart to seek another academic position? As every graduate student knows, your dissertation topic is a mini–Rorschach test of your personality. Debunking these myths is one of our major reasons for writing a career guide just for academics.
Choices for the High School Graduate: a Survival Guide for the Information Age This is an essential guide for high school students facing monumental life decisions. Not every high school graduate is ready for or interested in pursuing a four-year college degree. "Choices for the High School Graduate, Fifth Edition" presents students with a wide range of options available to them during and after high school-from early college admissions and entering a trade to joining the military and volunteering abroad. This revised edition includes new interviews and updated information that reflect the ever-changing economy and technology.
Guiding Students Into Information Literacy: Strategies for Teachers and Teacher-librarians This book gives practical examples of student activities involving reports and projects using the I-Search model. It reads like a how-to guide with theory interspersed, but it is text-heavy as the authors describe their experiences in managing students as they worked on research assignments. Suggestions for further reading and links to useful Web sites, examples of project proposals, a bibliography sheet, a bibliographic citation form, and note cards plus steps to writing the I-Search paper are all included.
Turning Average Instruction Into Great Instruction: School Leadership's Role in Student Achievement details a clear and concise approach to school improvement, focusing school leaders on the critical factor that has the greatest impact on student achievement: classroom instruction. Decades of research demonstrate that what happens between teachers and students in our nation's classrooms has the greatest impact on how well those students learn. These articles are from our DISCUS databasesNavigating the transition to supervisor: the move from individual contributor to supervisor is a road fraught with danger. Avoiding some missteps now means the organization will not need to pay for them later. The initial experiences of first-level supervisors can have a major effect on career progression. Many leaders consider such early job challenges to be pivotal in terms of learning how to be more sensitive to others and leading by persuasion. Goal setting and hope.(RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICE). Teaching successful goal-setting strategies to school-age children is critical for students' success in and outside of the classroom Video Tools Take Panoramic View of Classrooms; New software and hardware tools are being developed to help teachers get a more panoramic view of how things are going in their classrooms.(Teachscape). Now the San Francisco-based company Teachscape, which specializes in making software meant to improve teacher instruction, is hoping to lead the teaching profession into the practice of regular video review by offering its Reflect product on the open market in what appears to be the first offering of its type. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk: 'The competency base of social workers with respect to attachment theory in foster care supervision: a pilot study'.(Fostering)(Author abstract)(Report). A questionnaire was completed by 17 social workers employed by Child Welfare Tshwane, South Africa, who deal with foster care placement supervision and assessment. The results suggest that, although the social workers know that the quality of the relationship between the foster parents and the child is predictive of the success of the placement and apply a commonsense sensitivity to attachment related issues, they do not have sufficient grounding in attachment theory to be able to provide effective intervention regarding attachment-based concerns within the foster care context. Government DocumentsPublished to mark GPO's 150th anniversary as a Federal agency, this book tells the story of this unique organization through a readable and concise narrative and numerous historic photographs, many of them never before published. Much of the information in "Keeping America Informed" is new, the product of the latest research into GPO's history. Above all, its authoritative text and unique images depict the enormous contribution of its employees, past and present, to the well-being of the American people and nation This handy guide provides a color photograph of each Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate and details each Member's length of service, political party affiliation, and Congressional district. The Pictorial Directory also contains pictures of the President, Vice President, and House and Senate officers and officials. S. Prt. 112-1. 2011 South Carolina Legislative Manual. SC General Assembly. Contains biographies of members, rules & committees, special legislataive data, and state, county & federal government departments. If you are unable to access the SCLends catalog, SAFARI books, NetLibrary, or the articles in the DISCUS databases, contact the State Library Reference Desk at 734-8026 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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