Margaret Hogarth, Kenneth Furuta

eBook, ePUB

Data Clean-Up and Management (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide for Librarians

Beschreibung

Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using readily-available applications. The authors highlight the importance and methods of data analysis and presentation, and offer guidelines and recommendations for a data quality policy. The book gives step-by-step how-to directions for common dirty data issues.

• Focused towards libraries and practicing librarians
• Deals with practical, real-life issues and addresses common problems that all libraries face
• Offers cradle-to-grave treatment for preparing and using data, including download, clean-up, management, analysis and presentation

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• ohne Kopierschutz

Autor

Margaret Hogarth is Electronic Resources Coordinator and Subject Specialist for Environmental Sciences, Water and Soils for the University of California, Riverside Libraries. She has a B.A. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an MLIS from San Jose State University and an M.S. in Environmental Studies from California State University, Fullerton. She has been a librarian since 1999.Kenneth Furuta, a Reference/Information Technology librarian for the University of California, Riverside Libraries. His B.A. was a double major in Psychology & Music from the University of California, Riverside. In addition to his MLS from the University of Arizona he has a Masters of Administration (emphasis in Management Information Systems) from UC Riverside. He has been a librarian since 1990.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780633473
• Artikelnr.: 40693442