Library, archive and information management

Taxonomies are often thought to play a niche role within content-oriented knowledge management projects.

Do librarians 'rock the boat'?

The originality of this book, which deals with such a new subject matter, lies in the application of methods and concepts never used before - such as ontologies and taxonomies, as well as thesauri - to the ordering of knowledge based on primary information.

The Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) is the world's most popular library classification system.

Aimed at professional librarians and archivists, this book explores connecting students and faculty with the archival and digital collections of the university's library and archives.

Digital information is a constantly developing field.

From Lending to Learning provides a theoretical overview and practical guide to the functional area of delivering learning services within public libraries.

This book examines the theory, behaviour, connections and issues of modern information organizations.

Supporting Research in Area Studies: A Guide for Academic Libraries focuses on the study of other countries or regions of the world, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and social sciences.

Assessment and outcomes evaluation have become increasingly important in librarianship.

Throughout its history, the Western library has played a significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western scholars.

Presents a broad examination of the nature of virtual worlds and the potential they provide in managing and expressing information practices through that medium, grounding information professionals and students of new media in the fundamental elements of virtual worlds and online gaming.

This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students, faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on campus, and in the local community.

This book is about news search and monitoring.

The phrase "e;lessons learned is such a common one, yet people struggle with developing effective lessons learned approaches.

This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libraries, especially academic and research libraries.

This book examines the difficulties confronting information professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career options.

Archives in the Digital Age: Standards, Policies and Tools discusses semantic web technologies and their increased usage in distributing archival material.

Becoming Confident Teachers examines the teaching role of information professionals at a time of transition and change in higher education.

This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises.

This book examines the various types of literacy that are important in the Digital Age of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources in a variety of formats.

Mastering the skills necessary for clear, effective writing can make writing tasks flow more easily.

A practical guide to cataloguing and processing the unique special collections formats in the Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL) and the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives (MLSRA) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) (e.

An invaluable guide for MLS professionals and students, this new book explains how librarians can select an effective method of library instruction based on their users, the objectives of the instruction and the delivery environment.

This book argues that records management can contribute to public sector reform and transformation in the new climate of austerity, without losing its essential characteristics.

Intangible value leads to new insights and ideas, and higher levels of creativity and innovative thinking.

Written from the perspective of a librarian, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of e-books on academic libraries.

Virtual Research Environments examines making Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) usable by researchers working to solve "e;grand challenge problems in many disciplines from social science to particle physics.

Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand.

This book is a significant step towards developing a body of management knowledge pertinent to the context of Library Information Science (LIS) and provides a succinct but deep account of management and information organizations.

A significant shift is taking place in libraries, with the purchase of e-resources accounting for the bulk of materials spending.

This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning.

Academic libraries have a long history both in the USA and China, with institutions developing along different trajectories, and responding to the rapidly changing library environment globally.

Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten 'successful' women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences.

Open source refers to an application whose source code is made available for use or modification as users see fit.

The systematic management of records is an important activity for 'information businesses' such as museums and galleries, but is not always recognized as a core function.

Written as a technology guide for students, practitioners, and administrators, the focus of this book is on introducing current and future trends in library technology and automation within the larger context of strategic and systems planning, implementation, and continuous improvement.

This book has two aims: firstly to present an investigation into information literacy by looking at how people engage with information to accomplish tasks or solve problems in personal, academic and professional contexts (also known as the relational approach).

Libraries/information centres are continuously evolving to keep up with rapid changes in information gathering, processing, and distribution.

The library in China has been transformed by rapid socioeconomic development, and the proliferation of the Internet.

Social media has an increasing role in the public and private world.

Novel processing and searching tools for the management of new multimedia documents have developed.

This book examines the problems, pitfalls and opportunities of different models of assessing research quality, drawing on studies from around the world.

Whether you are just starting to create a digital repository or your institution already has a fully-developed program, this book provides strategies for building and maintaining a high-use, cohesive, and fiscally-responsible repository with collections that showcase your institution.

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A practical work outlining the theory and practice of using active learning techniques in library settings.

This book presents a series of case studies from systems librarians all over the world.

Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives.

Digital asset management is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the 'how to' of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management.