Library and information sciences / Museology

This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services.

Aimed at practitioners and managers, this practical handbook provides a source of guidance on project management techniques for the academic and cultural heritage sectors, focusing on managing projects involving public sector and other external partners.

As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities.

iPhone application development is explained here in an accessible treatment for the generalist Library and Information Science (LIS) practitioner.

The definitive guide to developing and managing a successful career in the information profession: Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers deal with significant challenges in building successful careers for a number of reasons associated with common misperceptions of their expertise and roles.

This book explores issues surrounding all aspects of visual collection management, taken from real-world experience in creating management systems and digitizing core content.

This is a no-nonsense book, written by a leading authority.

Given the vast amount of legal information available, it is sometimes very difficult - and certainly very time consuming - to know where to start looking for the specific information you require.

This book covers the practical side of being an academic librarian - a role that has undergone a large degree of change in recent years.

The Digital Age and Local Studies examines the impact of various electronic developments, particularly the internet on local studies librarianship.

This book is intended as a guide for those people who have been charged with establishing a library or information service in their organisation.

This book is an introduction, 'handy' and authoritative guide to the principles of cataloguing for librarians, information scientists and information managers.

Today, all librarians face daunting challenges posed by trends in technology, publishing, and education as the impact of a globalising information economy forces a rethink of both library strategic directions and everyday library operations.

Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the management of technology in a strategic context.

Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online.

Information professionals are increasingly responsible not only for running traditional information and library services but also for providing an online presence for their organisation.

As from 1 January 2005, Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation will come fully into force throughout the UK and could potentially change the way in which the public sector manages information.

This book covers the key current topic of electronic library resources and learning in the digital age.

Why Intranets Fail (and How to Fix Them) is a practical guide to some of the common problems associated with Intranets, and solutions to those problems.

This book helps information professionals in their continuing professional development (CPD).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of e-learning (online learning) systems in the context of system delivery for Higher Education Information Services.

This book covers all of the major library classification schemes in use in Europe, UK and US; it includes practical exercises to demonstrate their application.

Taking an international approach, this book explores two main models of Information Literacy or IL: the SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) Seven Pillars of Information Skills and the IL competencies identified by the ALA (American Library Association).

Libraries are continuing to evolve as a result of the dual pressures of technology and user access.

This book provides an overview of the World Trade Organisation; in particular, it focuses on two of the agreements being developed at the WTO, which are due to be strengthened in 2005, and are likely to have significant implications for libraries and information: the General Agreement on Trade in Services (the GATS) and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

This introductory book suggests ways of approaching some of the problems library and information professionals face as they prepare to offer end user education or training through personal tuition.

Faculty-Librarian Relationships illustrates how academic librarians can enjoy a healthy working partnership with the faculty they serve.

This books looks at the role of the information professional in the changing environment in which they now work.

One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities.

Providing a thorough review of the concept of the Institutional Repository (IR) the book examines how they can be set up, maintained and embedded into general institutional working practice.

This practical book is written from the point of view of the practitioner, rather than the researcher.

The book provides a practical approach to solving management problems in information and library services.

This comprehensive book explains to library staff and students how interlending and document supply (IDS) operates in the United Kingdom.

This book is intended for professional Library and Information Services (LIS) staff and LIS students who want to be more successful as information professionals.

A workbook on descriptive and subject cataloguing featuring practical examples and suggested solutions to reinforce theoretical concepts and practical application in descriptive cataloguing (using Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.

Managing Archives provides a practical guide to archives management.

Developers of digital media require new skills in information design.

This book takes an informal and in-depth look at the five steps of the ADDIE model - Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation - as used in library training programmes.

This valuable resource provides information on best practices and solutions to successfully establish an archival programme; it uses a practical approach, without the use of technical or theoretical jargon.

This book examines the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in digital libraries, and the codes of conduct, professional guidelines and ethics resources used in resolving them.

This set of conference proceedings derives from the Information Literacy: Recognising the Need conference at Staffordshire University, 17 May 2006.

Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users.

This book examines how Library and Information Service (LIS) professionals can use alerting services (also called current awareness services or CAS) to survive: to grasp new opportunities to enhance information services, their professional development, professional image and job satisfaction.

This book brings together key ideas about record keeping in a multi-media environment.

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available).

This book starts from the premise that the last decade has brought more changes for the academic research library than any ever previously known.

This book examines the questions: how academic libraries provide value-added reference and information services in the digital age.

Digital Rights Management examines the social context of new digital rights management (DRM) technologies in a lively and accessible style.

This book looks at all of the ethical issues facing information and library professionals in one overarching, and practically-focused, text.

In this book, the reader will encounter a myriad of urgent library and information voices reflecting contemporary local, national, and transnational calls to action on conflicts generated by failures to acknowledge human rights, by struggles for recognition and representation, by social exclusion, and the library institution's role therein.