Library and information sciences / Museology

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.

The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research.

Security measures can be used by management, IT staff, and users in participatory/collaborative service provision within the public sector.

Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia's indigenous people represent the oldest living culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial society now heavily multicultural in outlook.

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The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies.

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

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) set forth Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline.

The increasing volume of information in the contemporary world entails demand for efficient knowledge management (KM) systems; a logical method of information organization that will allow proper semantic querying to identify things that match meaning in natural language.

Workplace culture refers to conditions that collectively influence the work atmosphere.

Contemporary library managers face the need to make difficult choices regarding resource allocation in the modern business environment.

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

An ever-widening gap exists between how students and schools use communication technology.

Social media technologies can help connect local communities to the wider world.

Information about engineering education is highly relevant for improving communication between professors, researchers and students in engineering schools, institutions, laboratories and industry.

Managing the one-person library provides a useful and needed resource for solo librarians confronted with the challenges of running a small library.

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.

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

This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback.

Supporting Research Writing explores the range of services designed to facilitate academic writing and publication in English by non-native English-speaking (NNES) authors.

Despite new technologies, people do not always find information with ease.

This book reviews the role of information literacy (IL) in developing employability skills, personal health management and informal learning from a variety of areas including: information policy issues, information usage and training needs and skills development.

Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems.

In a time when libraries have to face constant change, this book provides examples and advises on how to lead when change is needed (for example, when quality management is implemented or when libraries have to merge or to relocate).

Private Philanthropic Trends in Academic Libraries is written with the senior library administrator and the development officers of academic institutions in mind.

Excellence in the Stacks details the philosophies, practices and innovations of award-winning libraries over the last ten years.

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).

Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries surveys and evaluates the current practice of learning commons and research services within the academic library community in order to determine if these learning spaces are functioning as intended.

Institutional repositories remain key to data storage on campus, fulfilling the academic needs of various stakeholders.

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

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.

Many libraries and museums have adapted to the current information climate, working with Google, Facebook, Twitter and iTunes to deliver information for their users.

Whilst external quality audits have been in place for more than a decade in some countries, limited research exists on the extent to which such audits have been effective in improving systems and processes for quality assurance in higher education institutions, and the extent to which such audits have improved academic standards, outcomes and student experience.

In the knowledge economy, professionals have to make decisions about non-tangible, non-monetary, and largely invisible resources.

As we transition to a service and information-based economy, information specialists are projected onto the leading edge of an emerging science.

Learning styles are highly relevant for students in the online environment.

Libraries and Archives analyses the facts and arguments behind an increasing debate as to what extent libraries and archives are fulfilling the same missions.

Managing Academic Libraries: Principles and Practice is aimed at professionals within the Library and Information Services (LIS) who are interested in learning more about the management of academic libraries.

Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries.

Academic and professional publishing represents a diverse communications industry rooted in the scholarly ecosystem, peer review, and added value products and services.

The efforts of ethnic-minority librarians to become leaders in Western libraries are an important topic for any librarian working towards becoming a leader, with issues such as cross-cultural leadership relevant for all aspiring librarians.

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.

Digital Dialogue and Community 2.

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

Exploring Education for Digital Librarians provides a refreshing perspective on the discipline and profession of Library and Information Science (LIS), with a focus on preparing students for careers as librarians who can deal with present and future digital information environments.

Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, particularly the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of the students' tertiary experience.

Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century traces development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.

This book is aimed at guiding managers towards systematic approaches to improve and facilitate necessary strategic business development and planning.