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The Quick-and-Easy Web Site: Build a Web Presence for Your Business in One Day
KSh 995.00Forget the complicated instructions and baffling techspeak found in other guides, The Quick-and-Easy Web Site gives you straightforward instruction on how to build a Web page that really delivers. It’s simple. It’s fast. And it’s certain to take your small business to the next level.
Written for the small-business owner on the go, this book gets your Web site up and running in just one day. It walks you through the five easy steps that will get your company the Internet attention it deserves. Learn how to:
Purchase your domain name
Write powerful Web content
Design your page’s layout
Find a Web host
Publish your site
Once your new site goes active, you’ll attract new customers in no time. This fast and effective guide puts you and your company where you belong-on the Web!Paula Peters is the owner of Peters Writing Services, Inc., a firm that specializes in writing and designing marketing materials, including Web sites. She has written marketing materials for a variety of Fortune 500 companies across the globe and has published more than 50 articles, essays, and stories. The author of The Ultimate Marketing Toolkit, Peters also has taught thousands of entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers over the past 12 years.
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Vision of Future Library & Information Systems
KSh 1,395.00Information Technology (IT) is all pervading, being used in various sectors of human activity. Libraries and information centers are no exception to this phenomenon. Many of these institutions are very active in using current information technologies to provide speedy and efficient services. This has led to the establishment of digital libraries, virtual libraries, web-based information services and so on. The future libraries will be fantastic in their services to the users in terms of exhaustiveness and speed of access to collosal amounts of information. This book provides glimpses of such future scenario.
The book is a fest schrift brought out in honour of Dr. S. S. Murthy who was the Director of Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) during October 1979 to November 1999 and has significantly contributed to its growth as a modern Information Centre at national level. He has been an ardent promoter of IT in libraries and information centres and is one of the distinguished LIS professionals in the country.
About the Author
T. Ashok Babu is a scientist at Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad. He has contributed and presented a number of papers at national level conferences on Library and Information Science and Technology.L. S. Ramaiah is a former Librarian of the Ramesh Mohan Library of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL, a deemed university). He is a recipient of “Dr. Gangadhara Rao Award” from P. S. Telugu University for his contributions to the field of Library Science and the “Best Librarian Award” from Indian Association of special libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC).
S. C. Saxena is a scientist at DESIDOC. He has been working in the areas of computerization, software development and database development and contributed more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences.
D. S. Bedi, an Msc, BLISc, and MBA, is working as a Joint Director in the Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) of the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Delhi. All along his career of 16 years, he has worked in the field of technical communication.
Table of Contents
Dr. S.S. Murthy-A Builder of Information Centres and Libraries
Section I Informaiton Technology: Future Perspectives
Section II Web-based Information Technologies and Services
Section III Digital and Networked Libraries
Section IV Application of Information Technology: Problems & Prospects -
Information Technology In Library Management
KSh 2,775.00Computer technology, both hardware and software, is deriving all benefits from the advances made in solid state physics and electronics. The new innovations in hardware technology, particularly storage media, microelectronics, VLSI, etc., have reduced the cost of the computer. A wide range of general-purpose and special-purpose computers, mini-computers, microcomputers, microprocessors etc., are the types which can be used in libraries. Planning and management also become efficient, cost-effective and result oriented. Use of modern information technology in management of libraries is described pros and cons in this book. The whole information is organised in ten chapters viz. introduction; computer in library management; software installation; online computer service; electronic service delivery; terminal software, computer selection; library network hardware; multimedia catalog; and library networking etc.