The WWW Virtual Library Library Journal | Reed Business Information ITIL® - What is ITIL? ITIL is the most widely adopted approach for IT Service Management in the world. It provides a practical, no-nonsense framework for identifying, planning, delivering and supporting IT services to the business. ITIL: Overview and Benefits ITIL advocates that IT services must be aligned to the needs of the business and underpin the core business processes. It provides guidance to organizations on how to use IT as a tool to facilitate business change, transformation and growth. The ITIL best practices are currently detailed within five core publications which provide a systematic and professional approach to the management of IT services, enabling organizations to deliver appropriate services and continually ensure they are meeting business goals and delivering benefits. Adopting ITIL can offer users a huge range of benefits that include: For further information on the ITIL Service Management approach and its benefits, see ITIL: The Basics White Paper. Executive Briefing: ITIL Benefits.
The World Wide Web Library Directory Currently indexing over 8800 libraries and library-related Web sites in 130 countries. This site contains no ads, and is not built from a database that will only allow you to view one listing at a time. And while you're at it, check out the related site: The Great Library Card Collection Here's a blast from the past. Loading Countries Library Related Companies, Organizations, Publishers, Resources/Services/Publications, Cool Library of the Week, Other Lists Please submit/change a listing or leave a comment via this online submission form. 29 August 2013Despite any actual new having been posted here in years, I am actually updating the site whenever someone submits a new listing or correction. 24 June 2005 I added the first libraries in Mauritius today thanks to Ramesh Hauroo. 20 November 2004I've just added the ten libraries in the Maricopa County (AZ) Community College System thanks to Kathy Lynch. News Archive — Icon Legend
Docuticker How to Use the jQuery UI Autocomplete Widget In this tutorial we'll be looking at one of jQuery UI 1.8's newest components - the Autocomplete widget. Auto-completing text fields can be a popular choice with visitors to your site because they make entering information much easier. They can be used on product search fields for example, or when a visitor must enter a country, or a city, or anything else that may be a choice from a common dataset. As well as being popular with visitors, the jQuery UI Autocomplete is popular with developers because it's easy to use, powerful and flexible. I'm not a massive fan of Facebook, I much prefer Twitter (@danwellman btw), but one Facebook feature I do like is the messaging feature which lets you send a message to a friend or friends. In this tutorial we'll use the jQuery UI Autocomplete widget to replicate this aspect of Facebook's messaging system. Step 1 Getting Started CoreWidgetPosition Once downloaded, create a new folder on your computer and call it autocomplete. Step 2 The Underlying HTML
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3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently published a book, Curation Nation that has sparked a tremendous amount of conversation on the topic. Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. With all the attention curation has suddenly received, people are probably wondering if this is just another fad or is it something bigger? First, curation is one of the underlying principles of the Web. Allow anyone to access any type of documentAllow everyone to disseminate his or her own documentsAllow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents Over the past 20 years what we've seen is the democratization of the first two principles above. So is curation here to stay? Photo by ilco
New report reveals that readers want news given to them, not tailored. - TNW Media I’ve written before about how new media isn’t destroying journalism. There will always be a need for qualified fact-checkers and reliable news sources – social networking platforms such as Twitter are just tools, and journalists have to move with the times and use all the tools at their disposal. A key theme within this area is how news sites are letting the end-user choose what news they receive. Some have argued that tailored news dissemination will lead many people to miss out on key global events, which is why journalists and publications should decide what news people consume. I don’t necessarily agree entirely with this assertion, but a new paper by Neil Thurman, a journalism academic based at City University in London, reaffirms the notion that people want to have professionals filtering and packaging news for them. Thurman asserts that “readers are reluctant to take on the role of editorial selection, and still enjoy serendipitous discovery.” Ultimately, it’s all about choice.