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Information 2.0
This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms.
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Practical Data Science for Information Professionals
The growing importance of data science, and the increasing role of information professionals in the management and use of data, are brought together in Practical Data Science for Information Professionals to provide a practical introduction specifically designed for information professionals.
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RDA: Resource, Description and Access, 2013 Revision
This full-text print version of RDA offers a snapshot that serves as an offline access point to help solo and part-time cataloguers evaluate RDA, as well as to support training and classroom use in any size institution. An index is included.
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Know it All, Find it Fast for Youth Librarians and Teachers
Suitable for those working with children and young people in schools, public libraries and at home, this title includes a general introduction covering useful information about education and the curriculum, and topics covering school subjects from science and maths to reading and literacy.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing
Offers an advice on getting the most out of web 2.0 and cloud computing. This book features practical working tool that makes the relevant legal principles simple to understand for those with little or no experience and common problems quick to solve when you're struggling with daily deadlines.
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Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers
The sixth edition of this respected work has been extensively revised and updated to help archivists and records managers keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation.
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A Guide to Teaching Information Literacy
A sourcebook to support library staff in the delivery of information literacy teaching. It provides practical guidance on tried and tested ideas and techniques for sessions.
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Displaying Organisation
Packed with practical tips this book takes readers through the process of project managing a museum exhibition. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience, the theory of project management is unpacked and explored in context. It will provide anyone working in the sector with the knowledge neede...
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M-Libraries 4
A brand new edition of the highly successful M-Libraries series, this draws together cutting-edge international contributions from the leading authorities in the field. It explores the variety of work that libraries are doing across the world to deliver resources to users via mobile and hand-held...
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Archives and Recordkeeping
A groundbreaking text designed to simplify and demystify archival and recordkeeping theory and its role in modern day practice.
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Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals
Examines to what extent the skills and techniques of evidence-based practice are transferable to the areas of professional practice of librarians and information professionals? Is it desirable for information professionals to integrate research findings into their day-to-day decision making?
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Delivering the Best Start
Drawing on the authors' research, this book covers: the background and context of early years literacy; the role of the early years professional, interdisciplinary team work, and how to involve parents and carers; buildings and space; managing resources and collection development; planning projec...
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Catalogue 2.0
Brings together some of the foremost international cataloguing practitioners and thought leaders, including Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle Bermès, Marshall Breeding and Karen Calhoun, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue and look ahead to see what the librar...
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Managing Records in Global Financial Markets
Offers strategies and frameworks to meet the record-keeping challenges to which they give rise in investment banking and other global financial services. This book is divided into four main parts which cover: regulatory and legal compliance, balancing risk and return, litigation-related issues, a...
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Essential Law for Information Professionals
The new fourth edition, provides up-to-date and easy-to-follow practical guidance on the law as it affects information management and the principles underlying practice
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The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
Covers 15 broad subject groupings: social sciences (generic); psychology; sociology; social work & social welfare; politics; government; law; finance, accountancy & taxation; industries & utilities; business & management; education & learning; sport; media & communications...
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Essential Cataloguing
Designed as a simple companion to "AACR2", this book covers descriptive cataloguing for library school students, beginning cataloguers and information professionals. It is fully cross-referenced to "AACR2", taking into account the 2002 revisions, and also includes MARC21 coding and examples.
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Community Archives
How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance o...
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Libraries Without Walls 6
From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries Without Walls conferences have made a major change in the practice of librarianship. Drawn from the sixth Libraries Without Walls Conference, this book aims at assisting educational specialists and course developers in increasing their understanding of...
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Collection Development in the Digital Age
Over the years there has been profound changes in how library collections are developed and managed. Digital resources are increasingly central to collections. This collection is cross-sectoral and international in scope, drawing together the perspectives of practitioners and academics at the for...
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How to Give Your Users the LIS Services They Want
With the challenges of a constantly changing job market, shifting information-seeking behaviour and a vast array of resources continually being produced, library and information services need to constantly keep one step, or more, ahead of their users. This text helps in understanding users of the...
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Library and Information Science Research through a Qualitative Lens
This book provides students, researchers and practitioners with real examples of applied qualitative research from research design to dissemination. It combines theory and practice to provide readers with the theoretical underpinnings of different approaches to qualitative research whilst also pr...
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Bibliotherapy
This book draws on the latest international practical and theoretical developments in bibliotherapy to explore how libraries can best support the health and wellbeing of their communities.
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Digital Literacies for Learning
Analyses how digital technologies have enabled transformative change in the ways in which learning can be constructed, and discusses the nature of the literacies that have emerged in this virtual and e-learning environment. This book considers the ways in which digital literacies can be made avai...
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Mastering Digital Librarianship
This edited collection examines the changing roles of the librarian and how working within a rich digital environment has impacted on the ability of professionals to develop the appropriate 'know how', skills, knowledge and behaviours required in order to operate effectively.
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Project Management
This title offers in-depth guidance on project management in the LIS. It explores tried and tested methods and techniques for managing projects, including paper-based approaches and the use of project management software.
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Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services
Packed with easy to implement ideas, practical examples and international case studies, this title provides you with a toolkit, exploring ideas as simple as renewals and reminders to the more complex such as access to e-books and virtual worlds.
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Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
This new and updated second edition of a classic text provides a thought-provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals.
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Digital Literacy Unpacked
Digital Literacy Unpacked demonstrates the importance of digital literacy in all areas of life, the centrality of critical thinking (a key element of both digital and information literacy), and the essential role of library and information professionals in leading digital literacy developments.
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User Studies for Digital Library Development
This landmark text captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries.
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Libraries and Sanctuary
Libraries and Sanctuary is a practical guide to how libraries and their staff can support ‘new arrivals’ – people who have crossed borders to reach a country, ensuring a supportive, inclusive and welcoming library community.
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A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals
This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments.
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Essential Dewey
Helps novice and out-of-practice classifiers to understand how to use Dewey to classify works. He outlines the content of the scheme and its structure and then, through examples based on real works, teaches readers how to use the scheme. Fully worked out answers and notes are provided.
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The Silence of the Archive
This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find.
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Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning
Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning provides a straightforward and accessible guide to the latest learning and teaching practices appropriate for use with higher education students.
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Research, Evaluation and Audit
This handbook provides library and information professionals with the information they need to undertake research projects in the workplace in order to inform their own practice and improve service delivery.
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A-Z Common Reference Questions for Academic Librarians
A-Z Common Reference Questions for Academic Librarians is a survival guide for frontline library staff to help them find appropriate information quickly, whether they are answering questions at a physical help desk or remotely by telephone, email or instant messaging service.
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Supporting People to Live Well with Dementia
Dementia care has been recognised as a priority by governments, healthcare systems and organisations around the world. This book identifies ways libraries can support people with dementia and their carers to live well and continue to engage positively in community life.
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Between the Spreadsheets
'This book is extremely well-written - clear, concise, engaging and entertaining. It is also highly practical - full of examples, tables, figures, checklists, and step by step instructions... Highly recommended for anyone involved with data in any capacity' - Margaret Iwona Katny, Information Pro...
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Librarianship
Every profession needs an introductory text to its core body of knowledge. This book provides an introduction to librarianship for students and new entrants to the profession. It offers an overview of various aspects of professional librarianship in the 21st century, and an analysis of modern lib...
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Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings
LCSH are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. This title features topics including, background and history of LCSH; subject heading lists; structure and display in LCSH; form of entry; applica...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Project Management
This book provides a ‘no-nonsense’ guide to project management which will enable library and information professionals to lead or take part in a wide range of projects from large-scale multi-organisation complex projects through to relatively simple local ones.
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Bold Minds
'Bringing together a wonderfully diverse set of international library leaders, Bold Minds: Library Leadership in a Time of Disruption challenges common fears about the future of the library and contemplates how best to bring librarianship into a new era.'-Law Library Journal
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M-Libraries 3
This title draws together international authorities to explore the variety of work that libraries are doing across the world to deliver resources to users, via mobile and hand-held devices.
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Exploring Digital Libraries
A highly readable and in-depth treatment of the digital library arena that provides an up-to-date overview of the progress, nature and future impact of digital libraries, from their collections and technology-centred foundations over two decades ago to their emergent, community-centred engagement...
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Systematic Searching
In resource poor, cost saving times, this book advises information professionals on how to search more efficiently.
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Digital Information
In an information environment shaped by an ever-growing and persistent demand for more and more digital content from every direction, it has become increasingly important that publishers, libraries and information professionals understand the challenges and opportunities of the Google environment...
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Participatory Archives
This book examines the creation and development of participatory archives, its impact on archival theory, and present case studies of its real world application
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The New Professional's Toolkit
A handbook for new information professionals wanting to thrive in their careers. Drawing together the experiences and advice of rising stars in the information world, it covers topics such as: utilizing technologies and social media; generating funding and how to do more with less; and managing p...
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M-Libraries 2
Interest in m-library services has grown in years, as libraries are recognizing the potential of ubiquitous and sophisticated mobile devices. Building on the M-Libraries: libraries on the move to provide virtual access, this book brings together research and case studies on the development and de...
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Supervising and Leading Teams in ILS
Provides a practical guide to supervisory skills, suitable for team leaders and supervisors in library and information work. Illustrated by examples and case studies from different types of ILS, this book offers self-assessment audits and other activities to enable the reader to relate the tools ...
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Essential Classification
This new edition offers fully revised and updated guidance on how to go about classifying a document from scratch; reflecting changes to the major general schemes since the first edition, and with new chapters on working with informal classification, from folksonomies to tagging and social media.
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Copyright
Cornish's Copyright, the standard work in its field, is indispensable for all librarians and information professionals looking for solutions to their copyright problems.
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Archives
An international perspective on archives management, providing guidance relevant both to collections-based repositories and to organizations responsible for managing their own institutional archives.
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Research Methods in Information
The long-awaited 2nd edition of this best-selling research methods handbook is fully updated and includes brand new coverage of online research methods and techniques, mixed methodology and qualitative analysis.
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Community Archives, Community Spaces
This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, including development to sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres, and explores new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly in relation to disciplines ou...
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Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment
This book, representing researchers and practitioners across different information professions, will explore how social tags can link content across a variety of environments.
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Media Smart
The most important thing today’s students can learn is how to find and evaluate information. This book provides in-depth discussion of aspects of media literacy and how they can be used to manipulate information. Classroom exercises are provided to help instructors teach vital media literacy skil...
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Taxonomies
Taxonomies is a curated anthology of case studies of taxonomy projects that showcases the incredible breadth and depth of work being done by taxonomists across many different types of sectors and organisations. The book aims to inspire and educate anyone who needs to organise information and data.
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Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time
This book guides the reader step-by-step through all stages of the research process, from finding out what the enquirer really wants, to providing a polished, actionable, value-added answer.
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership, Management and Teamwork
This book provides a straight forward and pragmatic guide to leadership, management and team working in contemporary library and information services.
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Facilitating Access to the Web of Data
Offers an introduction to the web of data and the semantic web, exploring technologies including APIs, microformats and linked data. This title includes topical commentary and practical examples that explore how information professionals can harness the power of this phenomenon to inform strategy...
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Library Analytics and Metrics
This book will enable libraries to make informed decisions, develop new services and improve user experience by collecting, analysing and utilising data.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
Straightforward and practical guidance for library and information workers in all sectors who are involved in training users, colleagues or other groups.
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Information Needs Analysis
If you want to provide an information service that truly fulfils your users' needs, this book is essential reading. The book supports practitioners in developing an information needs analysis strategy and offers the necessary professional skills and techniques to do so.
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Understanding Healthcare Information
Analyses the domain of healthcare information, its organizational structures and history, and the nature of its resources and the drivers for change affecting them. This title looks at examples of healthcare information resources from the perspective of different user groups, including healthcare...
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Access and Identity Management for Libraries
This book provides practical guidance to ensuring that your users can access and personalise the online resources they are entitled to use with the minimum of fuss.
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Information Policies and Strategies
The big issues crowd our minds but the process of decision making is the same at every level and in every context, whether we are concerned with government secrets or our children's reading and viewing habits. This book examines the issues from varying standpoints, including the human rights appr...
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Web Accessibility
Offers an introduction to web accessibility and usability for information professionals, offering advice on the concerns relevant to library and information organizations. This book can be used as a resource for developing staff training and awareness activities. It will also be of value to websi...
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Managing Digital Cultural Objects
This edited collection explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects.
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Mapping Information Landscapes
'This book is simultaneously a comprehensive inquiry and an imaginative journey into mapping as a method of teaching information literacy...The book offers many insights into the use of mapping in everyday library practice, such as designing staff development activities to help make tacit practic...
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Developing the New Learning Environment
Discussing the librarian's changing learning support role in an educational context, this work challenges thinking in this area as well as offers practice-based advice. It is suitable for practitioners in the higher education and education sectors, including information specialists, learning supp...
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Sustainability of Scholarly Information
This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability.
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Developing Strategic Marketing Plans That Really Work
Many government and other reports stress the need to get public libraries back into the lives of potential users, and this requires significant marketing effort on the part of the libraries. This book de-mystifies the marketing planning process and sets it in the context of modern public library ...
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Being an Information Innovator
Discusses and applies the rhetoric and theories of innovation and entrepreneurship in information organizations. This title covers key areas that include: promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in information organizations; the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship; innovation in practice ...
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The Data Librarian’s Handbook
This books provides an insider’s guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data.
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Resource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century Library
'Does this collection of explanations, ideas and experiences meet the purpose of the book, and potentially satisfy the needs of its readers? Yes. There is a balance of background, basic information, explanation of applications (often with diagrams), and acknowledgement that the topic is still dev...
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Innovations in Information Retrieval
The advent of various information retrieval (IR) technologies and approaches to storage and retrieval provide communities with opportunities for mass documentation, digitization, and the recording of information in different forms. This book introduces and contextualizes these developments and lo...
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Digital Libraries and Information Access
An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries and information access by internationally renowned academics.
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Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland 2015
A directory that lists over 2000 libraries and other services in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland, with contact names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and URLs.
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Blended Learning
Offers a holistic blended learning approach, combining the best of traditional approaches to learning and teaching to make best use of the advantages of each while minimizing the disadvantages. It provides information professionals with a practical guide to the design and delivery of such trainin...
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Do Archives Have Value?
This book will explore ways of establishing value and measuring impact in archives and special collections.
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Making the Most of RFID in Libraries
The advantage of radio frequency identification (RFID) over other technologies used in libraries is usually seen to be its ability to combine the functions of the barcode and the security tag, but with the added advantage of not needing line of sight. This book considers the benefits of installin...
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Rethinking Information Literacy
Based on groundbreaking research, undertaken by the authors as part of the prestigious Arcadia Programme at Cambridge University, this presents a new and dynamic information literacy curriculum developed for the 21st century information professional.
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Data Science in the Library
This book explores the rapid expansion of data sources, visualizations, and analytics created in the last decade and explores the strategies, tools, and approaches that educators and information specialists are employing to train a new generation of data professionals.
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The Innovative School Librarian
This book takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries, examining notions of professionalism, their effect on identity and models of library practice.
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Know it All, Find it Fast
Answering queries from users is one of the most important services undertaken by library and information staff. Yet it is also one of the most difficult, least understood subjects. This guide offers useful tips, warns of potential pitfalls, and spotlights typical queries and how to tackle them.
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Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems
This book shows you how to harness the power of linked data and integrated discovery systems to manage and link widely varied content across your library collection.
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Envisioning Future Academic Library Services
There are huge challenges facing the library and information science profession. Librarians need to be 'blended professionals' who can take their professional skills and experience, and adapt them to different business models and strategic challenges. This work intends to stimulate strategic and ...
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Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice
This book builds a research-grounded, theoretical foundation for evidence based library and information practice and illustrates how librarians can incorporate the principles to make more informed decisions in the workplace.
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Preserving Complex Digital Objects
This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games.
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School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing
Drawing on recent research, this book explores the connection between libraries, literacy, reading engagement and wellbeing, providing powerful advocacy support for school library professionals seeking to illustrate the role they play in supporting students’ literacy learning and wellbeing.
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Supporting Research Students
Offers guidance to enable library and information science professionals to support the specialist needs of research students effectively. This book covers such key areas as: research and the research process; the research student's experience; research skills training; introduction to research co...
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The Social Future of Academic Libraries
The Social Future of Academic Libraries addresses the urgent need for libraries to shift their focus from managing collections and delivering services to building networks, cultivating relationships and developing communities. Case studies from forward-looking libraries illustrate how social capi...
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Exploring Research Data Management
Exploring Research Data Management provides an introduction to RDM for librarians and other support professionals.
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Information Rights for Records Managers
Records Managers have tended to find themselves given the responsibility for managing requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) and Data Protection Acts (DPA), without necessarily having training and/or an academic background in legal studies. This book aims to fill this knowledge gap.
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The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata
This practical book uses simple and accessible language to make sense of the many existing and emerging metadata standards, models and approaches.
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Valuing Your Collection
This book addresses the issues around valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value, including practical advice on how to assign values and examples from museums, libraries and archives.
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Practical Tips for Facilitating Research
This practical guide offers innovative tips and reliable best practice to enable new and experienced library and information professionals to evaluate their current provision and develop their service to meet the evolving needs of the research community.
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Practical Knowledge and Information Management
This book provides a practical guide to implementing knowledge and information initiatives in the workplace.
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