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Introduction to knowledge organization
‘A mighty introduction to knowledge organization’ - Technical Services QuarterlyFully revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge Organization (KO), presenting historical precedents and theoretical found...
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International school librarianship
Jacques presents a collection of essays on the essential themes of International School Libraries, written by experienced and award-winning librarians. Each chapter uses a narrative style to unpack an important issue or practice, then explores it through theory and vignette. Joyous and profession...
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Ai for the information professional
The book explains the ways that Artificial Intelligence impacts the work of information professionals working in any role or sector. This book prompts readers to become engaged with developments in AI and understand how they may be able to use this or criticise its use.
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Plagiarism and artificial intelligence
Questions about authorship and originality have become urgent in an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models can write essays, generate images, and mimic human creativity. This authoritative book explores the intersection between plagiarism and forms of artificial intellig...
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Enabling data
Through a story, a model, and a data manifesto, this book challenges the reader to rethink how enabling data can add real value to an organisation.
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The freedom of information officer's handbook
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the practical management of freedom of information compliance, including interpretation of the Act as well as the Environmental Information Regulations.
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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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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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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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Why data culture matters
This book explains why strong data culture - not technology - is the key to successful data strategies. It offers practical frameworks, cultural components, and team-building tools to embed data-driven thinking. Read it to unlock innovation, trust, and organisational resilience through data.
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The local studies toolkit
The Local Studies Toolkit is the ultimate practical resource to help support and inspire local studies professionals to provide an excellent local studies service within their community.
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Activities for evidence-based practice in healthcare
This essential resource provides numerous tried-and-tested practical activities to empower healthcare professionals to enable evidence-based practice in healthcare settings.
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Public libraries and homelessness
As homelessness increases yearly, libraries have become a safe space for individuals as one of the only places in society where one can exist without the expectation of paying for the privilege. This has, however, led to growing tensions between library users and staff. This book explores how pub...
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The kindness toolkit
This practical 'how to' guide provides tips, advice and actionable strategies for managers and leaders on incorporating kindness into their workplace. The toolkit focuses on workplace challenges and is designed to foster empathy, resilience, and effective communication for healthier, more compass...
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Radical school librarianship
When facing a rapidly changing, frequently reactionary, and unknown future, school librarian leaders from around the globe are taking radical approaches to protecting and teaching the foundational core values of librarianship: equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom.
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Phd thesis by publication in social science research
Focusing on education and library research, this book aims to be a practical guide on how to create PhD theses effectively, incorporating scholarly publications written during candidature.
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Library catalogues as data
This book brings together leading practitioners and academic voices to discuss a range of topics surrounding library information and data.
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Ai and information access
With the emergence of Generative AI, the information sector wonders what its impact will be on the information users and professionals. The book explores this vital question through the critical analysis of case studies and aims to portray the overall picture of applications of Generative AI in t...
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Libraries and care-experienced children and young people
Exploring practices that have proved beneficial and effective, this practical guide is essential for librarians who seek to better understand and support children and young people in care.
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Decolonising the public library
This book aims to describe the main practical, methodological and theoretical approaches to decolonizing the public library. This practical guide is perfect for librarians looking to learn more about how to decolonise their collection and library as a space.
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Information science
It can be challenging to define information science as a discipline. This book helps to build a systematic viewpoint whilst acknowledging everyday practical applications.
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The information literacy handbook
The Information Literacy Handbook will showcase works that collectively support the case that information literacy is a maturing soft applied discipline. The recognition of information literacy as a discipline will provide substantial outcomes, including nurturing new research and education.
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Understanding public libraries
This book will enable practitioners, students and researchers to apply an analytical framework, based on the theories of dialectical materialism and cultural hegemony, to the public library.
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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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Between the spreadsheets
Everyone talks about data quality issues, but not the consequences. From the top to the bottom of an organisation, everyone should understand the impact of dirty data and how to spot it. Being an entirely revised new edition, this book will show you how.
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50 library lessons and ideas
50 Library Lessons and Ideas is packed full of fun, creative and engaging activities and ideas for school librarians and teachers to use with their students to help encourage reading for pleasure.Organised into two sections, the first provides practical advice on library events and concepts such ...
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The strategic positioning of academic libraries
The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries explores the influence of trends in higher education and the wider world on the position of academic libraries. It complements an analysis of library strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with ten positioning strategies to provide an esse...
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Ai-powered cataloguing
This practical guide instructs on how to build AI-powered cataloguing apps using Power Apps, with a focus on creating inclusive bibliographic records. It will enable the readers to train AI models and develop tools to effectively catalogue and manage their collections.
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Digital content in museums
This book provides a comprehensive grounding in the skills, best practice, and tools needed for digital content editors and managers to succeed in the sector.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Practical knowledge and information management
This book provides a practical guide to implementing knowledge and information initiatives in the workplace.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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