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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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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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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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Home-school learning resources
Home-School Learning Resources is a practical guide that will help teachers, parents, home educators and librarians to locate useful, quality-tested websites that offer resources for enhanced curriculum learning and related fun activities for children and young people aged 4-16.
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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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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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Research, evaluation and audit
This handbook provides library and information professionals with the information they need to undertake research projects in the workplace in order to inform their own practice and improve service delivery.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Librarianship
Every profession needs an introductory text to its core body of knowledge. This book provides an introduction to librarianship for students and new entrants to the profession. It offers an overview of various aspects of professional librarianship in the 21st century, and an analysis of modern lib...
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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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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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Assessing service quality
This extensively revised and updated edition of Assessing Service Quality explores even further the ways technology influences both the experiences of library customers and the ways libraries themselves can assess those experiences.
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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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A practical guide to privacy in libraries
This groundbreaking book considers how privacy issues can arise in a library context and what library and information professionals can do to protect the privacy of their users.
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Library camps and unconferences
More and more libraries are working to organize their own library camps or unconferences - open, friendly and refreshingly informal gatherings for librarians to unite, exchange ideas, and share knowledge. This book provides you with the practical, step-by-step guidance you need to bring your visi...
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Foundations of information ethics
As discussions about the roles played by information in economic, political, and social arenas continue to evolve, the need for an intellectual primer on information ethics that also functions as a solid working casebook for LIS students and professionals has never been more urgent. This text, wr...
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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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Hopeful visions, practical actions
LIS educators and students, library directors, managers, frontline employees, and those who work behind the scenes all share how they are taking action and creating change. Thoughtfully addressing DEI issues related to policies, services, and programs, this collection’s diverse chorus of voices w...
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Libraries without borders
This remarkable collection of essays demonstrates how librarianship has been and continues to be a practice of pushing beyond definitions and preconceptions. The inspiring and informative histories in this volume chronicle library workers and users who strived towards making libraries more divers...
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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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Decolonising the public library
Decolonising the Public Library describes the main practical, methodological and theoretical approaches to decolonising public libraries. Using case studies and best practice from Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the book provides a thorough understanding of the impact and legacy of imp...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Supporting research students
Offers guidance to enable library and information science professionals to support the specialist needs of research students effectively. This book covers such key areas as: research and the research process; the research student's experience; research skills training; introduction to research co...
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Cilip guidelines for colleges
These new Guidelines are the recommendations of CILIP for the effective management of learning resource services in colleges.
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Making the most of rfid in libraries
The advantage of radio frequency identification (RFID) over other technologies used in libraries is usually seen to be its ability to combine the functions of the barcode and the security tag, but with the added advantage of not needing line of sight. This book considers the benefits of installin...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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