Library management in disruptive times

This book identifies the key skills and attitudes needed by the library leaders of today and tomorrow and delivers a balanced view of the future of the profession.

Building a successful customer-service culture

This management guide takes a practical and strategic approach to developing a customer-service culture. The book covers established areas such as customer satisfaction, staff training and planning, as well as developing areas such as customer services required by the virtual library environment.

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.

Supervising and leading teams in ils

Provides a practical guide to supervisory skills, suitable for team leaders and supervisors in library and information work. Illustrated by examples and case studies from different types of ILS, this book offers self-assessment audits and other activities to enable the reader to relate the tools ...

Managing stress and conflict in libraries

Defines what should and should not be tolerated in a healthy and safe working environment. This title introduces the reporting procedures and communication skills leading to conflict resolution, enabling both employees and managers to consider situations consistently, based on risk assessment pre...

Project management

This title offers in-depth guidance on project management in the LIS. It explores tried and tested methods and techniques for managing projects, including paper-based approaches and the use of project management software.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Engaging your community through active strategic marketing

'The book's relevance to colleagues in both managerial and front-line roles is achieved by advising how to articulate strategic ambition as well as sharing practical tips... A rallying cry to inspire your team, have a shared vision, and keep your service human!'- Information Professional

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.

Practical tips for equality, diversity and inclusion in libraries

Increasing diversity and inclusion is key to helping libraries serve their communities better. Readers of this book will be equipped to assess their own library, talk about challenges with more confidence, and make concrete changes to improve diversity and inclusion.

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.

Creating a reading culture in primary and secondary schools

This book will help teachers and librarians to develop a whole-school reading culture and advocate for the importance of student reading.

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.

Bibliotherapy

This book draws on the latest international practical and theoretical developments in bibliotherapy to explore how libraries can best support the health and wellbeing of their communities.

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.

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.

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.

Effective journalism

This book provides journalists and the public with a broad overview of all the ways modern communication technologies and information approaches make it difficult for people to effectively find and interpret information, and what they can do about it.

Finding the right place on the map

Finding the Right Place on the Map is an international comparison of the media systems and democratic performance of the media in post-communist countries. From a comparative east-west perspective, this groundbreaking volume analyzes issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capi...

Coping with obscurity

The papers presented at Brown University's Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar in 2013 discussed the grammatical value of written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). They present orthographic, lexical, morphological and syntactic approaches, and are a n...

Towards a praxis-based media and journalism research

Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research brings together current scholarly debates about how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research. Drawing on work from media scholars and practitioners, this book is the first collection to examine how theory a...

Media between culture and commerce

In the face of declining newspaper sales, challenges from online competitors, and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs, media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance. Media between Culture and Commerce brings together a group of European media experts to address the consequen...

Media between culture and commerce

The art rules

Based on his many years in both the art world as a gallery owner and educator, The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and empowers practitioners to find success on their own terms. 

Developing dialogues

Developing Dialogues offers a new perspective on Australian community broadcasting and presents evidence of global trends in the media industry. Based on firsthand research of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide perform an e...

Iconoclastic controversies

This book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study, it shows how these memorials often support, but sometimes also undermine, the discursive-mater...

Developing dialogues

Developing Dialogues offers a new perspective on Australian community broadcasting and presents evidence of global trends in the media industry. Based on firsthand research of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide perform an e...

An interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of wildlife corridors

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...

Language of tomorrow

A comprehensive guide to the history, evolution and current forms of pictographic communication, from Mesopotamian writing systems to emojis. It also discusses the future of communication and the possibility of developing a standardized universal pictographic language. 73 b/w 37 col. illus.  

Linear b

Linear B, a New Outlook by Nicholas A. Massouridis, is the product of thirty years' study of the phonetic values of the signs of the Linear B script. His son, Pandelis Masouridis, has also applied the same values for the first time to the reading of dedications and Linear A tablets from Ayia Tria...

Ankara arkeoloji muezesinde bulunan bogazkoy tabletleri ii

This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project.

The assyrian dictionary, volume 19, t [tet}

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The assyrian dictionary, volume 20, u and w

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The assyrian dictionary, volume 18, t

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago. volume s, fasc 4

This is the fourth and final fascicle of the letter S (-sma/i- A. to suu). The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary, reflecting and illustrating the ideas and material world of Hittite society, and is th...

Hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume l-n, fascicle 1 (la- to ma-)

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a comprehensive, bilingual Hittite-English dictionary. The CHD reflects and illustrates the ideas and material world of Hittite society through its lexicon, and is the only such project in the English-speaking ...

Outline of the historical and comparative grammar of latin

A comprehensive survey of the development of Latin from its earliest prehistoric origins down to the modern Romance languages. By one of the foremost experts in Indo-European and Classical linguistics, it is now available in a fully revised second edition, thoroughly updated and corrected with ov...

Modern standard arabic grammar

In a compact, easy-to-use format, this new book offers a convenient guide to grammar for any student of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the version of Arabic most commonly used in journalism, formal writing, and litera-ture. Drawing on over a decade of experience as a full-time teacher of Arabic, A...

Arabic for archaeologists

Arabic for Archaeologists is a pocket-sized booklet for work in the field. It contains essential words and phrases, each presented in English, Arabic transliteration, and Arabic.

Lughatuna al-fusha: book one

An innovative and highly structured course for teaching Arabic to beginners and for self-studyModern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books, media, and formal communication throughout the Arab world, the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse...

Lughatuna al-fusha: book three

Book Three addresses the early to middle intermediate Arabic learner. The aim of this book is to help students to read and write articles, essays and texts, using a range of tenses, in correct Arabic grammar. Students will also learn how to communicate orally in a number of different situations, ...

Lughatuna al-fusha: book five

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books, media, and formal communication throughout the Arab World, the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse. The fifth book in this new series for the classroom is designed for the Advanced levels, the...

Lughatuna al-fusha: book four

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books, media, and formal communication throughout the Arab world, the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse. The fourth book in this new series for the classroom is designed for the middle to high inte...

Lughatuna al-fusha: book six

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary language of today’s books, media, and formal communication throughout the Arab World, the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse. The fifth book in this new series for the classroom is designed for the Advanced levels, the...

Modern standard arabic grammar, revised and updated

This comprehensive guide to Arabic grammar is an essential resource for the first five years of language learning and beyond, now in a revised editionThorough and carefully organized, this book covers all the basic structures and grammar that students need for the first five years of learning Mod...

Kalaam gamiil, volume 2

Kalaam Gamiil Volume 2 further develops learners’ skills in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, along parallel tracks of vocabulary and grammar. It is designed to enable students to communicate effectively with native speakers in a wider range of social situations, with a higher degree of accuracy and fl...

Kallimni ‘arabi

The complete series of innovative new coursebooks in Egyptian colloquial ArabicDrawing on her years of experience as an Arabic instructor and course developer, Samia Louis has used a functional approach to create a bright, innovative coursebook for the study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic—the spok...

Kalaam gamiil, volume 1

Based on the cumulative experience of three leading teachers of Arabic as a foreign language, Kalaam Gamiil builds and develops communicative skills in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, along parallel tracks of vocabulary and grammar. It is designed for students who have reached the lower intermediate ...

Kallimni ‘arabi fi kull haaga

Drawing on her years of experience as an Arabic instructor, author Samia Louis has developed a course rich in everyday cultural content and real-life functional language as well as comprehensive grammar.Each chapter includes a conversation unit that enables students to improve their communication...

Al-kitab al-mufid

This sequel to the well-known kullu tamam!, on Egyptian Arabic, by the same authors, focuses on the modern written language used in real life by providing short texts taken from Egyptian newspapers, official statements, and the internet, and introduces personal and business letters, some of them ...

Kallimni ‘arabi mazboot

Drawing on her years of experience as an Arabic instructor and course developer, Samia Louis has used a functional approach to create a bright, innovative set of coursebooks for the study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic—the spoken dialect most frequently studied and most widely understood in the Ar...