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Resource discovery for the twenty-first century library
'Does this collection of explanations, ideas and experiences meet the purpose of the book, and potentially satisfy the needs of its readers? Yes. There is a balance of background, basic information, explanation of applications (often with diagrams), and acknowledgement that the topic is still dev...
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A handbook for corporate information professionals
This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments.
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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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Practical data science for information professionals
The growing importance of data science, and the increasing role of information professionals in the management and use of data, are brought together in Practical Data Science for Information Professionals to provide a practical introduction specifically designed for information professionals.
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Managing digital cultural objects
This edited collection explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects.
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Digital literacy unpacked
Digital Literacy Unpacked demonstrates the importance of digital literacy in all areas of life, the centrality of critical thinking (a key element of both digital and information literacy), and the essential role of library and information professionals in leading digital literacy developments.
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The information society
The latest edition of this standard work has been fully updated to take account of the changing landscape and technological developments since 2008. The Information Society explores the information revolution that continues to gather pace, as the understanding and management of information become...
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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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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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Library and information science research through a qualitative lens
This book provides students, researchers and practitioners with real examples of applied qualitative research from research design to dissemination. It combines theory and practice to provide readers with the theoretical underpinnings of different approaches to qualitative research whilst also pr...
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Participatory heritage
This book provides a wide range of international guidance and perspectives on the complexity of issues surrounding the preservation of local cultural heritage, ranging from formal cultural heritage institutions to individual community members in the associated processes of creation, organization,...
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The data librarian’s handbook
This books provides an insider’s guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data.
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Information law
This fully up-to-date guide adopts a practical hands-on approach to information law, which is viewed from both an operational and strategic perspective.
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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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Metadata for information management and retrieval
This new and updated second edition of a classic text provides a thought-provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals.
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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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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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Digital archives
This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the landscape of archives.
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Is digital different?
A landmark edited collection bringing together global experts on the impact of new technology on information services.
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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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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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Libraries and information services in the united kingdom and the republic of ireland 2015
A directory that lists over 2000 libraries and other services in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland, with contact names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and URLs.
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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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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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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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Mastering digital librarianship
This edited collection examines the changing roles of the librarian and how working within a rich digital environment has impacted on the ability of professionals to develop the appropriate 'know how', skills, knowledge and behaviours required in order to operate effectively.
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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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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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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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M-libraries 4
A brand new edition of the highly successful M-Libraries series, this draws together cutting-edge international contributions from the leading authorities in the field. It explores the variety of work that libraries are doing across the world to deliver resources to users via mobile and hand-held...
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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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Developing strategic marketing plans that really work
Many government and other reports stress the need to get public libraries back into the lives of potential users, and this requires significant marketing effort on the part of the libraries. This book de-mystifies the marketing planning process and sets it in the context of modern public library ...
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Leadership
Leadership skills are required at all levels of the profession. Using theoretical concepts and models, coupled with practical tools, this book encourages readers to think about their own leadership and the leadership provided by others around them as the basis for continuing improvement in manage...
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A handbook for media librarians
Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers. This book explores the issues of central importance fac...
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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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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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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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Essential thesaurus construction
Many information professionals fail to find the published tools for subject-based organization that are appropriate to their local needs. This text describes the characteristics of some types of subject tool, and takes through the process of creating a system. The methodology employed is a techni...
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Portals
First applied to internet gateways such as Yahoo, the concept of the "portal" has evolved in a number of directions. How can information services best take advantage of internet portals to improve access to resources? This collection seeks answers to such questions, providing an overview of how p...
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Delivering the best start
Drawing on the authors' research, this book covers: the background and context of early years literacy; the role of the early years professional, interdisciplinary team work, and how to involve parents and carers; buildings and space; managing resources and collection development; planning projec...
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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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Developing the new learning environment
Discussing the librarian's changing learning support role in an educational context, this work challenges thinking in this area as well as offers practice-based advice. It is suitable for practitioners in the higher education and education sectors, including information specialists, learning supp...
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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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Using web 2.0 for health information
Since it was first formally described in 2004, what is known as Web 2.0 has affected every library and information sector. Web 2.0 has tremendous potential to transform health information delivery. This book offers a cohesive overview of how Web 2.0 is changing health and medical information work.
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Essential cataloguing
Designed as a simple companion to "AACR2", this book covers descriptive cataloguing for library school students, beginning cataloguers and information professionals. It is fully cross-referenced to "AACR2", taking into account the 2002 revisions, and also includes MARC21 coding and examples.
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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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Innovations in information retrieval
The advent of various information retrieval (IR) technologies and approaches to storage and retrieval provide communities with opportunities for mass documentation, digitization, and the recording of information in different forms. This book introduces and contextualizes these developments and lo...
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Managing electronic records
For records management courses, this book covers the theory and practice of managing electronic records as business and information assets. It focuses on the strategies, systems and procedures necessary to ensure that electronic records are appropriately created, captured, organized and retained ...
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Information users and usability in the digital age
Gives an overview of the necessary issues relating to information users and the usability of information services in the digital world, including user-centred design, and the characteristics and behaviour of information users. This book helps readers understand why information users and the usabi...
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Managing records in global financial markets
Offers strategies and frameworks to meet the record-keeping challenges to which they give rise in investment banking and other global financial services. This book is divided into four main parts which cover: regulatory and legal compliance, balancing risk and return, litigation-related issues, a...
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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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Being an information innovator
Discusses and applies the rhetoric and theories of innovation and entrepreneurship in information organizations. This title covers key areas that include: promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in information organizations; the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship; innovation in practice ...
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Interactive information seeking, behaviour and retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems. This book covers the whole spectrum of information retrieval, including: history and background information; behaviour and seeking task-based information; searching and retrieval approaches to investigating...
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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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The new walford guide to reference resources
Covers 15 broad subject groupings: social sciences (generic); psychology; sociology; social work & social welfare; politics; government; law; finance, accountancy & taxation; industries & utilities; business & management; education & learning; sport; media & communications...
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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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Blended learning
Offers a holistic blended learning approach, combining the best of traditional approaches to learning and teaching to make best use of the advantages of each while minimizing the disadvantages. It provides information professionals with a practical guide to the design and delivery of such trainin...
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Building an electronic resource collection
Guides the information professional step-by-step through building and managing an electronic resource collection. It outlines the range of electronic products currently available in abstracting and indexing, bibliographic, and other services and then describes how to effectively select, evaluate ...
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Libraries without walls 6
From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries Without Walls conferences have made a major change in the practice of librarianship. Drawn from the sixth Libraries Without Walls Conference, this book aims at assisting educational specialists and course developers in increasing their understanding of...
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The future of archives and recordkeeping
With increasing interest from outside of the profession, the idea of archives as the static, impartial carriers of truth and the archivist as a guardian of records has been questioned: how can society take greater control over its own written memory? This book offers a clearly organized approach ...
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Information policies and strategies
The big issues crowd our minds but the process of decision making is the same at every level and in every context, whether we are concerned with government secrets or our children's reading and viewing habits. This book examines the issues from varying standpoints, including the human rights appr...
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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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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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How to give your users the lis services they want
With the challenges of a constantly changing job market, shifting information-seeking behaviour and a vast array of resources continually being produced, library and information services need to constantly keep one step, or more, ahead of their users. This text helps in understanding users of the...
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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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E-books in libraries
Providing a practical appraisal of e-books, this book addresses the key questions: Where do e-books come from and what are the key business models that support them? What needs to change before e-books become universally and easily used? What will the e-book landscape look like in ten years' time...
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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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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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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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Evidence-based practice for information professionals
Examines to what extent the skills and techniques of evidence-based practice are transferable to the areas of professional practice of librarians and information professionals? Is it desirable for information professionals to integrate research findings into their day-to-day decision making?
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Introduction to documentation studies
This unique text outlines the main scientific purpose and objective of the science of documentation and also describes the main skills for a documentalist in the 21st century.
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Entity modelling
This guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem. Readers will learn the importance of adopting new methods to remain relevant in modern and international setti...
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Practical tips for successful library management
This book draws on an international field and all types of library sector to support library managers in their management and leadership vocations.
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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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Information for sustainable development
This book offers an information science perspective of the SDGs. It introduces the concepts and principles of information science and data management, before moving on to consider the current state of collection, management and use of different kinds of data for the SDGs at global and national le...
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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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Rda and cartographic resources
In this manual, expert cataloguers Andrew and Larsgaard offer a summary and overview of how to catalogue cartographic resources using RDA, the new cataloguing standard.
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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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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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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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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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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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Library catalogues as data
Through the web of library catalogues, library management systems and myriad digital resources, libraries have become repositories not only for physical and digital information resources but also for enormous amounts of data about the interactions between these resources and their users. Bringing...
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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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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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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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A guide to teaching information literacy
A sourcebook to support library staff in the delivery of information literacy teaching. It provides practical guidance on tried and tested ideas and techniques for sessions.
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Archiving websites
This book offers practical guidance to information management professionals seeking to implement web archiving programmes of their own. It is essential reading for those who need to collect and preserve specific elements of the web - from national domains or individual subject areas to an organiz...
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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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Fundamentals of managing reference collections
This book offers information and insight on best practices for reference collection management, no matter what size, and shows why managing without a plan is a recipe for clutter and confusion. This highly practical guide will help librarians make better reference decisions.
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The virtual reference handbook
Aims to help reference librarians develop the communication skills and resources they need to work effectively in the digital reference environment. This handbook demonstrates how to adapt traditional face-to-face reference interview skills to the virtual interview, and how to interpret and use c...
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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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