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...

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.

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.

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.

Mastering data and databases for information professionals

This textbook, the first in the Computing for Information Professionals series provides a hands-on and appropriately technical introduction to data and databases for information professionals and students of library and information science.

Partners for preservation

Who could be partners to archivists working in digital preservation? This book features chapters from international contributors from diverse backgrounds and professions discussing their challenges with and victories over digital problems that share common issues with those facing digital preserv...

Trusting records in the cloud

This book presents up-to-date research and offers concrete guidelines for records professionals concerned with challenges to records in the online environment including privacy, accessibility, portability, metadata and ownership.

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.

The km cookbook

The KM Cookbook features success stories and strategies for organizations wanting to know more about Knowledge Management Standard ISO30401 – whether they intend to pursue certification, or simply seek to use it as a framework to review their existing programme and strategy.

Electronic legal deposit

This edited collection provides a timely account of the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit.

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.

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...

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...

Facilitating access to the web of data

Offers an introduction to the web of data and the semantic web, exploring technologies including APIs, microformats and linked data. This title includes topical commentary and practical examples that explore how information professionals can harness the power of this phenomenon to inform strategy...

Visual research methods

Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies is the first book to focus on visual methods in LIS, providing a comprehensive primer for students, educators, researchers and practitioners in the field. Contributed chapters in the book showcase examples of VRM in acti...

Understanding healthcare information

Analyses the domain of healthcare information, its organizational structures and history, and the nature of its resources and the drivers for change affecting them. This title looks at examples of healthcare information resources from the perspective of different user groups, including healthcare...

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.

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.

Rare books and special collections

A landmark examination of the rare book and special collections field written by a veteran expert.

Practical tips for successful library management

Today's library and information service managers need to be multi-skilled practitioners, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of multiple professional disciplines while working in operational and strategic managerial and leadership capacities. Managers need support in order to effectively wo...

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.

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,...

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.

Copyright for archivists and records managers

The sixth edition of this respected work has been extensively revised and updated to help archivists and records managers keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation.

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...

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.

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.

Maxwell's handbook for rda

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.

Organizing information

LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from traditional library shelf to full-scale digital libraries. This text covers the organization of the entire spectrum of information, and the principles, tools and t...

The power of constitutional rights in resource conflicts

This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecolog...

Archiving websites

The world wide web is an important, and the largest, cultural and commercial information resource in existence. The requirements to preserve selected parts of it, and the problems of archiving it, are beginning. This book offers guidance to information-management professionals seeking to implemen...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Access, delivery, performance

Celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Reflecting on his work, this title offers strategies for the future direction of library and information services in the virtual era.

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.

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...

The information literacy handbook

This comprehensive and subject-defining handbook draws together the work of an international group of researchers and educators to collectively recognize information literacy (IL) as a maturing soft applied discipline.Showcasing current and historical scholarly research and including contribution...

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...

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.

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.

Leading the sustainable organization

Our current leaders have failed to move quickly or decisively to address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability. The book offers a blueprint for a new generation of leaders to transform industry and create a new, more equitable future.

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.

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.

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.

Penny dreadfuls

This study participates in the ongoing scholarly effort to re-appraise the penny dreadful phenomenon as a cornerstone of literary history and of popular culture, both within the nineteenth century and the development of Victorian popular fiction and beyond its specific context. The growing presen...

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.

The anthem handbook of soft power and public diplomacy in the age of ai

This handbook unpacks the evolving relationship between AI, soft power, and public diplomacy. Covering metrics, narratives, culture, governance, and conflict, it features leading scholars alongside fresh perspectives. It is a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policym...

Practical knowledge and information management

This book provides a practical guide to implementing knowledge and information initiatives in the workplace.

Yves saint laurent

This book is an appraisal of Yves Saint Laurent’s contributions to fashion, art and culture.

Thom browne

In a little over twenty years, New York–-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America’s distinctive preppie style, he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blur...

Beijing film academy 2022

The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research, as published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy in 2021. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing in English for the first time, to bridge the gap in ...

'report on the agrarian law' (1795) and other writings

'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s Informe de la Ley Agraria (1795, Report on the Agrarian Law). Informe de la Ley Agraria is a major work of polit...

'grease is the word'

Bringing together a group of international scholars, ‘Grease Is the Word’ offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.

Academia, chernobyl, expeditions and the greeks

The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author’s career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the autho...

Absolute freedom: an interdisciplinary study

A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.

Absence and ruin in hanaa malallah's 'the god marduk'

Conceived as an object biography, this book contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008) and investigates her use of the ancient past as a conduit for aesthetic and emotive expression offering an in-depth analysis through the methodology of phenomenology.

7 entrepreneurial leadership workouts

In a world changing faster than ever and as organisations are being reimagined, leaders and their teams need entrepreneurial leadership muscle. This book provides a guide through seven short muscle workouts about how to identify and develop the muscle-power to cope with whatever the world throws ...

"quinqui" film in spain

This book analyzes the mythical aura of Spanish low-budget films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and how marginalization was exploited and romanticized.

Adoption reckonings

This book presents a new theater play, titled For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine, along with a thorough introduction that provides historical context and theoretical framing of the “historic” child adoptions from postwar Greece.

A. n. whitehead and social theory

This book outlines A.N. Whitehead’s philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; sexual difference and conceptions of nature; the question of realism; the concept of the social; and capitalism as process.

300 creative physics problems with solutions

 This collection of exercises, compiled for talented high school students, encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems.

The 'imagined sound' of australian literature and music

‘Imagined Sound’ is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of ‘imagined sound’, a new way to read and listen to literature and ...

101 modern japanese poems

This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka.

'antony and cleopatra' in context

Tragic love story or the downfall of a drunken fool and a ruthless schemer? How did Jacobeans see this play? This guide recovers the various contexts that situate ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary political scene, the literary atmosphere and requi...

'volpone' in context

What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'Volpone' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the backgroun...

'a midsummer night’s dream' in context

How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy th...

Action!

‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.

A 'short treatise' on the wealth and poverty of nations (1613)

‘A ‘Short Treatise’ on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations’ presents, for the first time, an English translation of Antonio Serra’s ‘Breve Trattato’ (1613), one of the most famous tracts in the history of political economy.

"lesser breeds"

An examination of racial attitudes in popular British culture, 1890–1940.

Advanced scat practice tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 6 and above to take the Advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 9 to 12...

'king lear' in context

How did the court audience of 1606 respond to Shakespeare’s most disturbing tragedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate ‘King Lear’ in its time uncovers the Christian ethics, contemporary political scene, literary atmosphere and requirements of tragedy that all inform the background ...

The (latin) american scene, present and future (im-)perfect

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs “Latin” and “Hispanic” in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish ...

The abcs of cold war history

A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.

Adult responses to popular music and intergenerational relations in britain, c. 1955–1975

‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-19...

Art and design in 1960s new york

Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence of fine art and graphic design in Manhattan during the long decade of the 1960s.

War and peace in the worlds of rudolf h. sauter

War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895–1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. Revealing him to be a creative figure in his own right, it e...

Covid-19 and the challenges of trauma and transformations

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.

Music technology panic narratives beyond piracy

When people develop technologies to distribute music, record labels act like it will destroy music. This book shows these narratives are about reconfiguring power.

Insurgent play

Insurgent Play: Social worlds of urban disruption explores play as a transgressive expression that disrupts the modern city.