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Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence
In today's hectic and challenging world of website management, it is increasingly important for cultural heritage institutions to make the most out of their presence online. This book provides a complete guide for any institution looking to build or maintain a cultural heritage web presence. It a...
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Developing Digital Scholarship
This book provides strategic insights drawn from librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with researchers, scholars, colleagues and students.
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Text and Data Mining
This book offers a broad and accessible introduction to research based on text and data mining (TDM), focusing specifically on the ways in which TDM has been applied within the humanities.
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Evaluating the Impact of Your Library
Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this brand new edition enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning.
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Managing Research Data
Data management has become an essential requirement for information professionals. This title defines what is required to achieve a culture of effective data management offering advice on the skills required, legal and contractual obligations, strategies and management plans and the data manageme...
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Providing Effective Library Services for Research
Researchers rely on libraries to provide the information they need; equally, supporting research is a fundamental reason for libraries' existence. This book explores the relationship between libraries and researchers, focusing on developing and managing effective library services to support resea...
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Access, Delivery, Performance
Celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Reflecting on his work, this title offers strategies for the future direction of library and information services in the virtual era.
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The KM Cookbook
The KM Cookbook features success stories and strategies for organizations wanting to know more about Knowledge Management Standard ISO30401 – whether they intend to pursue certification, or simply seek to use it as a framework to review their existing programme and strategy.
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Electronic Legal Deposit
This edited collection provides a timely account of the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit.
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Emergency Planning and Response for Libraries, Archives and Museums
Dadson draws on a decade of experience and award-winning training in this essential practical toolkit, enabling you to respond quickly and effectively to flood, fire and other emergencies.
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Delivering Impact with Digital Resources
This book investigates how digital values affect our lives provides practical guidance for delivering and sustaining value and impact from digital content.
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Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff
This book offers innovative tips and tried-and-tested best practice to enable library and knowledge workers to take control of professional development regardless of the budget and time available to them.
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Delivering Research Data Management Services
This groundbreaking guide will lead researchers, institutions and policy makers through the processes needed to set up and run effective institutional research data management services to support their researchers and networks.
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Digital Futures
Examines the strategic issues involved in realizing a digital future for libraries in the information age. It looks at how librarians can locate the electronic resources most relevant to the needs of their users, integrate them into the infrastructure of their institutions, manage the necessary t...
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Negotiating Licences for Digital Resources
A practical guide on how to get the best deal for online subscriptions. The processes outlined in this book can be applied to a range of electronic products, ranging from e-journals to multi-modular databases. This text guides you through the stages of negotiation, and offers advice on the skills...
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Reading by Right
This book focuses on the importance of reading for pleasure and the difference that it can make to a person’s life chances, with a focus upon how libraries and librarians help reluctant and struggling readers.
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Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0
Web 2.0 technologies have been seen by many information professionals as critical to the future development of library services. This has led to the use of the term Library 2.0 to denote the kind of service that is envisaged. This collection provides an overview of Library 2.0 tools and technolog...
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Information Science in Transition
Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet is unprecedented. Will information science become part of computer science and does rise of the term informatics demonstrate convergence of information science and information technology - a convergence that must sure...
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Cultural Heritage Information
This peer-reviewed monograph gives a comprehensive account of research in digital cultural heritage and is the first volume in the iResearch series.
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How to Do Research
A guide to the complete research process, this book focuses on the day-to-day requirements of project, managing a piece of research right through from the formulation of the initial idea, to the development of a research proposal and then to the writing up and disseminating of results.
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Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing
'The book's relevance to colleagues in both managerial and front-line roles is achieved by advising how to articulate strategic ambition as well as sharing practical tips... A rallying cry to inspire your team, have a shared vision, and keep your service human!'- Information Professional
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Making Search Work
Designed to help organizations to understand, specify and implement desktop, website, intranet and enterprise search applications. This book covers: how search works; the search business; making a business case for search; specifying and selecting a search engine; optimizing search performance; s...
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Libraries Without Walls 7
From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries Without Walls conferences have mapped a major change in the practice of librarianship. This collection is drawn from the seventh Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2007.
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Archival Futures
This book draws on the contributions of a range of international experts to consider the current archival landscape and imagine the archive of the future.
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Libraries Without Walls 5
The delivery of library services to users based at a distance from the physical library is a topic of growing interest around the world. To address the issue, this book brings together the papers from the fifth Libraries Without Walls Conference.
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Partners for Preservation
Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preserv...
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CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Yearbook 2014-15
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals represents the largest professional body of librarians and information professionals in the UK. Designed to complement the CILIP website, this book puts vital data on the key organization for information professionals.
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The Qualitative Landscape of Information Literacy Research
This book describes the qualitative research landscape in information literacy, identifying the core approaches and less used or innovative applications.
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Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums
This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation.
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Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0
Over the years the information environment has changed dramatically, becoming increasingly dominated by the social and the mobile. This book asks where we are now, what is same and what has changed, and, most crucially, how do we as professionals respond to the new information literacy and become...
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Practical Digital Preservation
A practical guide to the development and operation of digital preservation services for organizations of any size. This offers an overview of best practice and provides guidance as to how to implement strategies with minimal time and resources. It is intended at the non-specialist, assuming only ...
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Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums
Memory institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries and museums all share pressing concerns about preserving heritage. This book charts the diversity of preservation management in the contemporary information landscape, and offers guidance on preservation methods for the sustainability of ...
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Copyright and E-learning
A practically based overview of current and emerging copyright issues facing those working in e-learning that will allow professionals to work confidently, effectively and legally in the virtual learning environment.
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Metadata in the Digital Library
This book provides a practical introduction to metadata for the digital library, describing in detail how to implement a strategic approach which will enable complex digital objects to be discovered, delivered and preserved in the short- and long-term.
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Putting Library Assessment Data to Work
Putting Library Assessment Data to Work brings together key library assessment methodologies detailing how they can be used to improve an academic library.
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CILIP Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries
This fully updated version of the CILIP-endorsed guidelines for secondary school libraries addresses the changing schools’ landscape and impact of technological changes of recent years.
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Managing Records
This records manager's handbook offers advice for both those already specializing in records management and other LIS professionals wishing to learn more on the topic. It should be useful to all LIS organizations aiming to improve their routines for managing records and other information resources.
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Organizing Information
LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from traditional library shelf to full-scale digital libraries. This text covers the organization of the entire spectrum of information, and the principles, tools and t...
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Digital Preservation
Digital preservation is an issue of huge importance to the library and information profession. It is a complex issue involving many different aspects and views. This book uses case studies and examples to ground the ideas and theories in real concerns and practice. It covers key issues in digital...
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Informed Societies
This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an informed role in society and its democratic processes.
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Read to Succeed
Covers various aspects of promoting reading to and with children and young people from birth right through to teenage years. This title is suitable for practitioners and students of librarianship in both the public and school sectors, and for teachers, consultants and educators concerned with lit...
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The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
Part of a three-volume cycle, this book presents a selection of key resources - accessible via the web and in print. Resources within the 12 groupings are divided between 100 generally recognizable subject fields, and then allocated to one of 13 standard resource categories. It is intended for LI...
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Social Media for Creative Libraries
This book takes a practical look at the activities that librarians undertake to see how they can be better achieved – more quickly, more efficiently and with more impact – using social media tools.
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Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage
This practical and explanatory guide for library and cultural heritage professionals introduces and explains the use of open licences for content, data and metadata in libraries and other cultural heritage organisations.
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Reader Development in Practice
Who is the reader? How do we reach them, and why? To what extent are readers determining what libraries offer? How has that changed since the birth of reader development? This collection covers various aspects of literature in relation to readership, exploring the chain of events connecting autho...
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Digital Humanities in Practice
Offers a comprehensive introduction to this important global field drawing together a broad spectrum of disciplines. This title covers key topics that include: social media and crowd sourcing; digital images and digitisation; 3D scanning and museums; studying users and readers; electronic text an...
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Better Library and Learning Space
What are the most important things a 21st-century library should do with its space? This title includes chapters that address this critical question, capturing the insights and practical ideas of international librarians, educators and designers to offer you a 'creative resource bank' that helps ...
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Facet Analysis
Facet Analysis provides a general overview of facet analysis as a formal methodology for building knowledge organization and search tools and as a general knowledge organization theory.
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Better by Design
This updated, practical and accessible book is an invaluable guide for practitioners who are approaching the daunting task of creating a new library or major refurbishment of existing facilities.
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Preparing Collections for Digitization
Most libraries, archives and museums are confronting the challenges of providing digital access to their collections. This guide offers guidance covering the end-to-end process of digitizing collections, from selecting records for digitization to choosing suppliers and equipment and dealing with ...
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Information Systems
This book adopts a holistic interpretation of information architecture, to offer a variety of methods, tools, and techniques that may be used when designing websites and information systems that support workflows and what people require when 'managing information'.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication
This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Born-digital Content
A comprehensive, entry-level guide that focuses explicitly on how to collect and manage born-digital content for ‘boots on the ground’ practitioners.
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Information Rights in Practice
Overstretched professionals in every public authority are grappling with the chalkface implications of a raft of legislation relating to information use. This book offers information about rights law, using relevant case studies to clarify and illuminate these tricky issues.
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From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation
From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation is a cultural and methodological introduction to the evolution of cataloguing towards metadata creation process in the digital era. It is a journey through the founding principles and the objectives of the 'information organisation' service that libraries offer.
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Digital Literacy, Inclusivity and Sustainable Development in Africa
This important book features contributions from libraries across Africa outlining how they are addressing the need for better and more widespread digital literacy in their regions.
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The Intranet Management Handbook
Rarely does the organization have more than one intranet manager, and intranet management is often only one of their many responsibilities. This book offers practical advice on intranet management. It includes areas such as: managing intranets - opportunities and challenges; defining user require...
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The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is a comprehensive resource on teaching and professional development for information professionals and instructors at all career stages. It explores the current landscape of teaching librarianship, and highlights and discusses the important developments,...
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Managing Stress and Conflict in Libraries
Defines what should and should not be tolerated in a healthy and safe working environment. This title introduces the reporting procedures and communication skills leading to conflict resolution, enabling both employees and managers to consider situations consistently, based on risk assessment pre...
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Collaboration in Libraries and Learning Environments
This cutting-edge collection explores evolving approaches to the provision of support services in higher education including outsourced shared services, the convergence of student-facing services and the development of active collaborative networks.
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Introduction to Information Behaviour
This landmark textbook is an essential primer for students and practitioners interested in information seeking, needs and behaviour, user studies and information literacy.
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The Library Marketing Toolkit
A guide that offers coverage of various elements of library marketing and branding for different sectors including archives and academic, public and special libraries. It is suitable for those who are involved in promoting their library or information service, whether at an academic, public or sp...
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Managing the Crowd
Challenges records managers to find time to debate the issues thrown up by the technological paradigm and the threat it poses to established theory and practice. This book poses a range of ideas for discussion such as why not adopt a ranking system that encourages users to rate how useful they fo...
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Introduction to Information Science
The second edition of this definitive textbook provides an introduction to the library and information sciences, emphasising their philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual foundations. Updated to cover the changing information environment, it is suitable as a text for college and university stu...
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Library Management in Disruptive Times
This book identifies the key skills and attitudes needed by the library leaders of today and tomorrow and delivers a balanced view of the future of the profession.
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Improving Students' Web Use and Information Literacy
The web is now an integral part of students' lives in school and in society, and they need to be ever more web alert in order to gain the most from their education. This is a practical guide to using the web effectively in order to enhance learning and teaching in schools.
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Library Services from Birth to Five
Practical guidance on setting up and running pre-school library services and understanding about early language and literacy development.
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Expert Internet Searching
This book provides library and information professionals with in-depth practical guidance on how to search the internet quickly and effectively to obtain accurate information in a timely fashion.
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Open Heritage Data
'Open Heritage Data has clear goals: to ‘inspire and kickstart’ GLAM professionals’ involvement with these concepts and to explore how some users (termed ‘heritage amateurs’) engage with the data. Combined with the author’s autoethnographic approach, this book produces a persuasive argument for m...
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Data-Driven Decisions
This book guides readers from the very start of their journey in discovering data and all its uses to implementing data collection, analysis and review for decision making and service development. It’s a practical, no-nonsense guide to demystify and equip any information professional with the too...
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Library Services for Children and Young People
Provides a sound background to the various aspects of library provision for 6-18 year olds. This book outlines a vision for children's library services and carves out a strategy for engaging with the challenges and opportunities for children's librarians and policy makers in the Google environment.
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Qualitative Research for the Information Professional
This text serves an integrated manual on how to conduct qualitative research. Its extensive coverage includes all aspects of work in this field from conception to completion and all types of study in a variety of settings from multi-site studies to data organization.
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Information Governance and Assurance
This comprehensive textbook discusses the legal, organisational and ethical aspects of information governance and information security and their relevance to all aspects of information work.
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Measuring Library Performance
Provide an account of thinking and research on the evaluation of library services. Illustrated throughout with examples across the different library sectors, this book is structured to focus on the intended service user, then to look at service management and the building blocks of services, and ...
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The No-nonsense Guide to Archives and Recordkeeping
This practical how-to-do-it guide is ideal for professionals involved in the management of archives and records, especially if they are just starting out or without formal training.
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The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship
The handbook examines methods of innovative librarianship in academic and art school libraries. Serving as a field guide to academic art libraries in the twenty-first century, it integrates theory and practice as demonstrated by creative professionals working in the field of art librarianship.
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Engaging with Records and Archives
This new book provides an authoritative and inspiring response to today’s growing fascination with the idea of the archive and contains cutting-edge research articles on the history and theory of archives and records, written by internationally renowned and emerging scholars.
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M-Libraries 5
An up-to-date showcase of the innovative and inspiring work that libraries are doing across the world to interact with their users and deliver resources via mobile devices.
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The Special Collections Handbook
Based on practical experience and the latest ideas in the heritage sector, The Special Collections Handbook is a no-nonsense companion to help librarians with limited resources care for unique and distinctive collections and share them with wider audiences.
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Evaluating and Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections
Brings together a group of international experts to consider the following key issues: What is the role of digital resources in the research life cycle? Do the arts and humanities face a 'data deluge'? How are digital collections to be sustained over the long term? What is the role of digital col...
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Playing Games in the School Library
'Required reading for anyone with an interest in school libraries or any facet of education. Everyone should have a copy of this wonderful book.'- Christopher Evans
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Recordkeeping Cultures
Recordkeeping Cultures explores how an understanding of organisational information culture provides the insight necessary for the development and promotion of sound recordkeeping practices.
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A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System
A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System is a comprehensive, practical guide to today’s DDC, used by over 200,000 libraries globally. It is an essential companion for DDC classifiers, and reference for students and educators of classification.
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The Strand
This deeply researched book offers a unique history of London’s most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.
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Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain
This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Suicide and the Gothic
Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts.
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Heritopia
Heritopia creatively investigates the meaning of the past in the present, using Abu Simbel and other World Heritage sites as points of departure. It paves the way for a new discourse about pastness, heritage and society. In doing so, it overcomes the division between critical heritage inquiry and...
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EU pharmaceutical regulation
This book provides a unique look at the political dynamics of how EU pharmaceutical policy is made within the context of having to serve public health, healthcare and industrial policy needs within the single market. Its scope covers public policy analysis, EU regulation and policy-making theories.
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The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53
This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting ...
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The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95
Make a genuine contribution to our understanding of international politics in the UN which includes the General Assembly committees, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat
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Resisting history
Resisting History examines the unexpected origins of our modern notion of the subconscious. Written in a fresh and entertaining style, this concise volume argues that this fundamental tenet of psychological thought derives from the attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to contain...
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The Bakhtin circle
This book is a collection of essays on the most important figures associated with the Bakhtin Circle. It offers new biographical material, valuable translations of important Russian texts, a timeline and extensive bibliographical references.
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Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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Passages
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'.
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Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940
This study explores the radical shift in notions of incest in Sweden from 1680 to 1940, a period in which the country went from having the strictest laws in Europe to some of the most liberal. It reveals the norms underpinning this shift and situates them in a European context.
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Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitatio...
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The politics of Englishness
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
This book contends that Ireland’s Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation).
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The challenge of the sublime
This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.
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