Library and information sciences / Museology

Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and direct their personal cognitive strategies.

Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development.

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

This book presents a comprehensive, international and up-to-date review of the key contributions of information services to the Knowledge Economy.

Multilingual information is in high demand in today's globalised economy.

Managing Your Brand: Career Management and Personal PR for Librarians sets out guidelines for developing career pathways, including options for career change and the exploration of community service, as an avenue that can provide new opportunities.

Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia.

In the dynamic and interactive academic learning environment, students are required to have qualified information literacy competencies while critically reviewing print and electronic information.

Library collection management is a vital part of any library's operations.

Preservation involves a complex of activities including climate, air-quality, and surface control, as well as microbiological control, which is a key part of preserving and protecting library collections.

Do librarians 'rock the boat'?

The term 'customer service' is not new to the academic library community.

Effective information and knowledge resource management is a driver of competiveness.

Graphs are about connections, and are an important part of our connected and data-driven world.

Organizations in ever-changing environments depend upon their knowledge, as their survival depends upon effective thinking and agile actions.

Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age provides readers with an interesting discussion on the ways serendipity-defined as the accidental discovery of valued information-plays an important role in creative problem-solving.

What is text mining, and how can it be used?

What would a synthetic theory of Digital, Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) look like?

Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries: Applying Business Process Management examines the use of Business Process Management (BPM) and the ways it can be beneficially applied to electronic resources management (ERM) to help organize processes in libraries.

What is the future of libraries?

Floods, fires or earthquakes can cause critical damage to books and to records.

A Most Delicate Monster will be particularly useful for practitioners.

Research is such an important subject for information professionals that there will always be a need for effective guides to it.

Computers for Librarians is aimed primarily at students of library and information management and at those library and information service professionals who feel the need for a book that will give them a broad overview of the emerging electronic library.

This book is both an update and an extension of The Information Literate School Community: Best practice which has been used as a student textbook and practitioners guide in a number of countries.

Archives: Recordkeeping in Society introduces the significance of archives and the results of local and international research in archival science.

The rapidly increasing reliance on digital rather than print-based resources has not diminished the importance of library collection management, but it has required significant modification in the thinking and the practice of collection managers, who today usually have to consider their clients' need for both print-based and digital materials.

This book provides an overview of approaches to assist researchers and practitioners to explore ways of undertaking research in the information literacy field.

Organising Knowledge in a Global Society updates the successful first edition, which has been widely used as an introduction to the field of information organisation, both in Australia and overseas.

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

Research institutions are under pressure to make their outputs more accessible in order to meet funding requirements and policy guidelines.

Facilitating of learning in higher education can be transformed through the use of Whole Brain(R) learning.

The design philosophies of Google and Apple represent different approaches to new product design.

The use of Virtual Worlds (VWs) has increased in the last decade.

Libraries and librarians have been defined by the book throughout modern history.

Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, in particular the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to improve higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of student tertiary experience.

Aimed at academic, professional and general readers, Bush, city, cyberspace provides a snapshot of the state of Australian children's and adolescent literature in the early twenty-first century, and an insight into its history.

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

Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution.

Social media is here to stay.

Librarians need to utilize web 2.

The digital is the new milieu in which academic libraries must serve their patrons; but how best to utilize the slew of digital devices and their surrounding trends?

New technologies will underpin the future generation of library catalogues.

Cultural heritage professionals have high levels of training in metadata.

Academic libraries undergo episodes of strategic change.

Digital information is a constantly developing field.

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

There is a complex and contested terrain of cultural heritage in the library, archive and museum context.

Government initiatives in many countries emphasise social inclusion in higher education, resulting in a more diverse student population.

The emerging generation of research and academic library users expect the delivery of user-centered information services.