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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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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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Narrative expansions
Libraries across all sectors are responding to the call to decolonise, critically examining their own historic legacies and practices and supporting institutional change. This book brings together current thinking and emerging practices around decolonising the library, providing conceptual framew...
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Facilitating effective sixth form independent learning
Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning is a stage-by-stage guide for educators who are interested in setting up a teaching programme to facilitate the independent learning of Sixth Form students.
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Managing information resources in libraries
The management of information resources in libraries is of greater importance in the digital world. This book encompasses different areas of collection management and cover topics, such as: collection management in the organizational context; collection development policies; selection principles ...
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Foundations of information policy
Foreword by Alan S. Inouye; Afterword by Nancy KranichThis important new text provides a much-needed introduction to the myriad information policy issues that impact information professionals, information institutions, and the users and communities served by those institutions. In this key textbo...
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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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The scholarly communication handbook
Guided by the question, ‘Where to publish?’ The Scholarly Communication Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the process of research dissemination and societal impact.
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Let's roll
This book guides school and public librarians on how to run tabletop roleplaying games in a library setting.
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The future of scholarly communication
This book draws together the informed commentary of internationally-renowned experts from all sectors and backgrounds on the future of scholarly communication
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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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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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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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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 library in the 21st century
Focusing on the library as a vehicle for encouraging creativity as well as a provider of information resources, this book offers a model of how traditional and electronic sources can co-exist in the library. It emphasizes that beyond the intermediary role of libraries is the vital requirement to ...
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Stiliagi and soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity.
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Changing roles and contexts for health library and information professionals
Examines the evolving role of health professionals and explores the role they play in the context of where they work. This title aims to encourage and inspire health information professionals worldwide to take on new opportunities and ensure their continued development and recognition as valuable...
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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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Introduction to digital libraries
Designed to present a holistic view of the digital library scene, this text is based on evidence from examples of major digital library research projects around the globe. It is intended for students of digital librarianship and related courses and for practitioners and researchers.
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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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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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The makerspace librarian's sourcebook
This hands-on sourcebook edited by technology expert Ellyssa Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today.
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New basque gothic
This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern Spain.
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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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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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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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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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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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Building your portfolio
Open up new career opportunities and prove your value as a professional with expert guidance on producing a successful portfolio for CILIP's Professional Registration qualifications.
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Organizing exhibitions
This ground-breaking book is the first to provide librarian's, archivists and museum staff with practical guidance to creating and organizing successful exhibitions. Drawing on international museum practice but applicable to any exhibition or display, the book sets out a time-line from the initia...
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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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Practical ontologies for information professionals
Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an introduction to ontologies and their development, an essential tool for fighting back against information overload.
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Marketing plans in action
Goodman’s invaluable resource includes 72 time-saving guides that will streamline your processes. Addressing myriad marketing, publicity, and promotion activities, this book is packed with tried and true best practices and useful tips for organizations of all sizes.
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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 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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Fundamentals of collection development and management
This benchmark text serves as the perfect guide for beginners and a quick reference tool for seasoned professionals. For the new fifth edition, expert instructor and librarian Johnson is joined by technical services expert Weber. Complete with refreshed case studies exploring the issues and sugge...
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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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Alessandro michele
Alessandro Michele revolutionized Gucci with his eclectic, gender-fluid aesthetic, blending nostalgia, pop culture and philosophy into a maximalist vision. This book explores Michele’s impact as a fashion auteur who reshaped contemporary style, identity and fashion storytelling.
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Going beyond google again
This builds on the authors’ previous book, Going Beyond Google, which placed teaching the Invisible Web into information literacy programmes. Going Beyond Google Again expands on the teaching foundation laid in the first book and continues to document the Invisible Web’s existence and evolution, ...
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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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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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Creating a school library with impact
Creating a School Library with Impact: A Beginners Guide is an introductory manual for anyone entering or looking to enter the exciting world of school librarianship in primary or secondary school settings.
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Pursuits of settler belonging in contemporary australian memoirs
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethi...
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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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Critical literacy for information professionals
This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries.
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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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Annual review of cultural heritage informatics
The Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) is a pivotal resource for cultural heritage scholars, professionals and students providing a compendium of current research, educational initiatives and best practices.
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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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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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Thom browne
In a little over twenty years, New York–-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America’s distinctive preppie style, he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blur...
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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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Padfield on copyright for archivists and records managers
As an archivist or records manager, it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and Padfield on Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers has been described as an ‘unparalleled’ resource for that purpose.This comprehensive manual uniquely outlines copyri...
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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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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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More library mashups
In More Library Mashups, author Nicole C Engard and 24 creative library professionals describe how they are mashing up free and inexpensive digital tools and techniques to improve library services and meet everyday (and unexpected) challenges.
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The academic library
This authoritative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing functions of higher education libraries & the organizational cultures in which they operate. This new edition has more extensive coverage of: performance measurement; accessibility; information literacy; digital lib...
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Diplomatic training
Examining the histories, development and contemporary practices of diplomatic training, this edited collection places training centrally within our understanding of international relations. It offers a globe-spanning, interdisciplinary account of the politics of diplomatic training and appeals to...
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Electric wind
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind rewinds to the beginning to explore the rise of wind energy in mode...
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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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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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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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Acting and performance in hitchcock
This book explores acting in a range of Hitchcock films, with leading scholars providing close readings of a selection of celebrated and lesser-known performances from across the director’s career.
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Directory of rare book and special collections in the uk and republic of ireland
This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles and has been fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997.
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Practical cataloguing
Written at a time of transition in international cataloguing, this book provides cataloguers and students with a background in general cataloguing principles, the code (AACR2) and format (MARC 21) and the new standard (RDA). It provides library managers with an overview of the development of RDA ...
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Metaliteracy in practice
Metaliteracy in Practice will provide inspiration for librarians and educators in need of up-to-date and thought-provoking information literacy curricula and instructional approaches.
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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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Privileged spaces
Drawing on the knowledge and experience of library leaders, estates directors, space managers and researchers, Privileged Spaces provides an insight into changing demands in academic library estates strategy.
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Person-centered management in academic libraries
Offering a previously unexplored way for academic library managers to frame their work, this book interweaves theory, practice and reflection to investigate the ways in which person-centered management can close the gap between managers and other library staff.
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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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Counter-realism
An ambitious and original study with case studies focusing on the works of William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price, Counter-realism shows the ways in which key features of contemporary art may be understood in relation to fundamental aspects of contem...
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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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Model collapse
A ground-breaking exploration of how art responds to democratic crisis.Is democracy over? Did we ever really have it? Most people would agree that today democracy finds itself in crisis. As this crisis has intensified, art has emerged as an important means of experimenting with new democratic pro...
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Dynamic research support for academic libraries
This inspiring book will enable academic librarians to develop excellent research and instructional services and create a library culture that encompasses exploration, learning and collaboration.
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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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Digital consumers
There is a need for a fresh belief system that will help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players, nor, indeed, the suppliers of first choice. This book intends to provide that overarching vision, built on ...
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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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Pier paolo pasolini for art history and practice
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume’s wide-ranging chapters reflect the breadth of P...
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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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Information literacy in the workplace
This book explains how information literacy is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice.
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The public library
Examines the role and services of the UK public library in the 21st century context. This book discusses the nature and functions of the modern public library service, from its beginnings as the street-corner university, through its delivery of various services and beyond. It is of interest to st...
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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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Turning revolt into style
Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic designis a comprehensive analysis of punk aesthetics and the subculture’s key watchwords of do-it-yourself, autonomy, and authenticity in relation to the professional practices and technological conventions of the graphic design ...
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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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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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The network reshapes the library
This collection of papers from library technology guru Lorcan Dempsey offers readers valuable perspective and insight as well as a visionary approach to libraries’ future.
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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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Systematic searching
In resource poor, cost saving times, this book advises information professionals on how to search more efficiently.
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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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The complete guide to personal digital archiving
This book helps to break down archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions. Whether it’s a researcher needing to cull their most important email correspondence, or an empty-nester transferring home movies and photographs to more easily shared and mixed digital formats, this book ...
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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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Marketing your library's electronic resources
This essential guide to marketing libraries' e-resources shows librarians how to make sure their customers understand what is available to them online and allow them to use their e-resources fully.
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Introduction to modern information retrieval
An information retrieval (IR) system is designed to analyse, process and store sources of information and retrieve those that match a particular user's requirements. This book covers topics in information storage and retrieval, including: users of IR and IR options; database technology; bibliogra...
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The chief data officer's playbook
This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in ...
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Information at work
This book provides a comprehensive account of information in the modern workplace.
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Visual literacy for libraries
This book will give you an understanding of how images fit into your critical practice and how you can advance student learning with your own visual literacy.
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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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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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Leading libraries
Leading Libraries provides guidance on how to apply the values of service leadership to both public and academic libraries. Through the use of examples, exercises, and tools for development, this book walks readers through the steps needed to create a sustainable, service-oriented model.
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