Bond Pricing and Portfolio Analysis: Protecting Investors in the Long Run
Author: Olivier de La Grandvill
This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, Olivier de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization.
Among the book's most valuable contributions is a general immunization theorem that can be used by practitioners to protect investors against any change in the structure of spot interest rates. Also of note is the detailed presentation of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model and a discussion of its relationships with classical immunization schemes. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions, problem sets, and projects; detailed solutions to all of them appear at the end of the book. Although the treatment is thorough and rigorous, the presentation throughout the book is intuitive.
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Introduction to Automation for Librarians
Author: William Saffady
In a complete update of this classic text, author and automation expert William Saffady once again performs the vital function of surveying the types of technology used in libraries and discusses the library applications available to staff and patrons. He assesses the newest developments in operating systems, computer hardware, desktop and display technologies, and programming languages.. "Written in layman's terms that even technophobes can understand, Introduction to Automation provides the keys to identifying the important characteristics of technology and understanding its many uses and applications.
Library Journal
Like the second edition (Professional Reading, LJ 9/1/89), the text of this new version is divided into two sections: the fundamentals of automation and library operations. Reflecting the rapid technological changes of the past few years, part one provides new information on computer workstations, optical and magnetic storage, data communications, local area networks, document imaging, and multimedia technologies. Part two adds or revises data on barcoding for circulation, CD-ROM cataloging, online catalogs, integrated systems, automated reference, and online acquisitions. While this edition is almost 30 pages longer than the previous one, it is more compact, with fewer illustrations; it also contains in each chapter updated sources for further reading, most of them published since 1990. This will be of interest to librarians who plan to start or change their technological services or who want a good summary of recent developments.-Janice Kirkland, California State Univ. Lib., Bakersfield
Booknews
**** An update of the first edition (1983) which appears in BCL3. It is a comprehensive survey of current computer technology and library applications. In non-technical language, emphasizes concepts and terminology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | Fundamental Aspects of Computing and Related Technologies | 1 |
| 1 | Computer Hardware | 3 |
| 2 | Computer Software | 47 |
| 3 | Data Management and Data Communications Concepts | 82 |
| 4 | Automated Office Systems and Related Technologies | 129 |
| Pt. 2 | Library Automation, Systems, and Services | 167 |
| 5 | Computers and Descriptive Cataloging | 169 |
| 6 | Integrated Library Systems | 209 |
| 7 | Automated Reference Service | 247 |
| 8 | Digital Libraries | 291 |
| Index | 323 |
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