Library and information sciences / Museology

Memory institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries and museums all share pressing concerns about preserving heritage, whether in the form of material and documentary cultural artefacts in collections, or in the form of new digitally born material.

This book provides a complete guide for anyone looking to build or maintain a cultural heritage web presence.

Every profession needs an introductory text to its core body of knowledge.

There is a queue, the phone is ringing, the photocopier has jammed and your enquirer is waiting for a response.

A brand new version of the best-selling enquiry desk reference text, Know it All, Find it Fast, specifically designed for those working with children and young people in schools, public libraries and at home.

The web is changing from a web of documents to a web of data; from a web that can be read by humans, to one that can be read by machines.

An authoritative examination of current issues, themes and techniques on the use of digital collections by an international team of well-respected librarians, archivists and scholars.

If the vision for the future of digital information is order, ease of access, discoverable resources and sustainable business models, how might this be achieved?

This cutting-edge and comprehensive introduction to digital humanities explains the scope of the discipline and state of the art and provides a wide-ranging insight into emerging topics and avenues of research.

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence?

This timely edited collection examines the evolving role of health professionals and explores the role they play in the context of where they work.

Whilst there is no shortage of professional literature discussing the changing nature of libraries and information organizations in the digital age, words such as innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity make only occasional appearances.

This is an essential practical guide for all information professionals who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services.

This topical edited collection is cross-sectoral and international in scope, drawing together the perspectives of practitioners and academics at the forefront of modern collection development.

This is the first book to offer practical advice on intranet management, based on the work of the author as an intranet consultant over the past fifteen years.

Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users.

This is the definitive handbook for all new information professionals wanting to thrive in their careers.

This Toolkit provides you with everything you need to successfully market any library.

Expert hands-on advice on getting the most out of Web 2.

The web is now an integral part of students' lives in school and in society, and they need to be ever more web alert in order to gain the most from their education.

This book offers practical strategies for all library and information practitioners and policy makers with responsibility for developing and delivering information literacy programmes to their users.

Most libraries, archives and museums around the globe are now confronting the challenges of providing digital access to their collections.

This easy-to-use book is an invaluable source of inspiration for any librarian involved in teaching information literacy, providing practical guidance on tried and tested ideas and techniques for sessions.

There are huge challenges facing the library and information science profession owing to the rapidly changing environment in which it exists.

Enterprise search engines locate information from internal servers and external information services and provide solutions for all organisations (including not-for-profit).

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has had a rapid impact on the library world.

This landmark publication is the first to draw together all aspects of museum collections management in one handbook.

The way in which we view the nature of archives and the role of the archivist has changed significantly in the last few decades.

All librarians and libraries have information policies, and so do most people.

This edited collection is drawn from the sixth Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2005.

The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice.

This established text is the only introduction to qualitative research methodologies in the field of library and information management.

Many organizations are moving away from managing records and information in paper form to setting up electronic records management (ERM) systems.

Public libraries have changed beyond anyone's predictions in the past ten years and are at a vital stage in their historical development.

This edited collection is drawn from the seventh Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2007.

Imagine a records management (RM) future where the user community collectively describes the value and properties of a record using the wisdom of the crowd; where records retention, description and purpose are determined by their users, within general boundaries defined by the records manager.

This book celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies.

Distributed learning is now in the mainstream of educational practice.

Libraries and information services are being transformed by the increasing availability of electronic information.

Evidence-based practice is a paradigm that originated within healthcare but is rapidly migrating to other fields.

With ever greater provision of resources in electronic formats, formal recognition is increasingly being given to the growing awareness within the information profession that it is a moral duty as well as a legal requirement to take every feasible step to ensure that no one is excluded from access to goods and services, including web-based information and resources.

All information and library professionals involved with collection development are currently confronting the challenge of how to make informed decisions in the face of the bewildering array of electronic resources available.

In these turbulent times, with the challenges of a constantly changing job market, shifting information-seeking behaviour and a vast array of new resources continually being produced, library and information services need to constantly keep one step, or more, ahead of their users.

This book 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.

This book encourages a critical dialogue between interdisciplinary fields that border heritage boundaries and seeks to contribute a wide range of scholarly perspectives and case studies (both national and international).

This volume presents international research and exhaustive reviews of literature on a range of issues related to the evolving digital environment.

"e;The Advances in Library Administration and Organization Series"e; seeks to develop a body of research literature that contributes to the base of organizational theory upon which library administrators rely.

This collection of essays is designed to challenge working administrators and researchers to look more closely at their operations and consider again how they develop people and the organizations in which they work.

From the Tourist's Gaze bridges environmental humanities and amateur cinema studies, exploring tourism-induced environmental issues through the visual representations created by tourists themselves.