Library and information sciences / Museology

The Extended Specimen highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and is meant to encourage ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Starting with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, Oil Spill Impacts: Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches chronicles a timeline of events that focus on the impact of oil spills and provides an understanding of these incidents using a number of approaches.

This book brings together leading Indigenous and allied thinkers, practitioners, and advocates to address the critical issue of the Right of Reply in archives - foregrounding truth-telling, cultural safety, and Indigenous sovereignty across GLAM institutions.

Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field.

In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers.

As space medicine evolved from the late 1950s onward, the need arose for a ready reference for students and practitioners on the basic concepts of this new specialty.

This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years.

This volume investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa.

It is widely acknowledged that all archaeological research is embedded within cultural, political and economic contexts, and that all archaeological research falls under the heading 'heritage'.

This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements.

Ever since the signing of the World Heritage Convention 40 years ago and ratified by 33 African countries, to date, only 43 cultural heritage sites have been successfully proclaimed as World Heritage Sites in Africa.

The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place investigates variations in social identity among the ancient Maya by focusing on individuals and small groups identified archaeologically by their inclusion in specific, discrete mortuary contexts or by unusual mortuary treatments.

This volume presents case studies from around the world aiming to serve as a hands-on book for management and treatment of archaeological World Heritage properties.

Teaching Information Seeking redefines how we approach research and information literacy in today's information-rich world, inviting teachers to re-imagine teaching research.

Computer programming is a good exercise for the mind, and its an essential skill that can serve anyone well into adulthood.

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

Once again the wide-ranging and rapid developments in microcomputer technology of the last few years have meant that a detailed revision of The librarian's guide to microcomputers for information management was required, if it was to fulfil its objectives of providing a single source of information on the process of automating with a microcomputer.

In 1967 the University of Toronto School of Library Science held a two-day colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, the first public discussion of the new cataloguing code.

Minds Alive explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries, archives, and public institutions in the digital age.

Minds Alive explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries, archives, and public institutions in the digital age.

Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World demonstrates that digital literacy, creativity, and resilience, as the COVID-19 pandemic has so vividly illustrated, are now vital components of the classroom and of the curator's toolbox.

This study revisits Gabriel Naude's foundational contributions to librarianship, particularly as outlined in his Avis pour dresser une bibliotheque.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology.

This volume shares some of the ways that librarians and library scholars are incorporating Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the field of library and information studies.

A look at how ten American colleges and Universities bridged the gap between computing, administrative, and library organisationsDetailed case studies from ten American colleges and universities will prepare you to make better plans and decisions for an electronic library, integrated information management system, or unified information resource.

Game Theory and Applications outlines game theory and proves its validity by examining it alongside the neoclassical paradigm.

This dictionary supplies associations which have been evoked by certain words, signs, etc.

Quantitative studies of science and technology represent the research field of utilization of mathematical, statistical, and data-analytical methods and techniques for gathering, handling, interpreting, and predicting a variety of features of the science and technology enterprise, such as performance, development, and dynamics.

Dorian's Dictionary of Science and Technology: English-German, Second Revised Edition focuses on the compilation of terms employed in science and technology.

This thesaurus is presented in six languages, English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, and sponsored by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).

Produced by the increasing interest in Japanese government publications, this book, which is a pioneer in its field, answers a number of questions now being asked by students and researchers

Science, Computers, and the Information Onslaught: A Collection of Essays covers the proceedings of the 1981 meeting on "e;Science and the Information Onslaught, held at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Museum, Archive, and Library Security provides an introduction to the security programs of museums and other park facilities.

Museum Documentation Systems

Conservation and Exhibitions: Packing, Transport, Storage, and Environmental Considerations presents the theory and practice in exhibitions conservation.

Safety in Museums and Galleries is Special Supplement to The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship and it was originally conceived as the "e;"e;Proceedings of the Safety in Museums Meeting.

Recent Advances in School Librarianship presents several discussions that aim to improve the quality of school library services.

A Manual of Cataloguing Practice is a text on cataloguing and covers topics ranging from the major cataloguing codes to the subject catalogue, the name catalogue, and cataloguing of special materials.

University and Research Library Studies, Volume 8 presents the growing awareness of the international character of library studies.

International and National Library and Information Services: A Review of Some Recent Developments 1970-80 is the second in a series that surveys developments in specific types of library and information services and subject fields over a period of 5 to 15 years, according to the nature of the topic.

European Guide to Social Science Information and Documentation Services provides an inventory of Social Science Information and Documentation (SSID) services.

The Bibliographic Control of Official Publications discusses the various approaches used by libraries to organize official documents.

Solar Energy Index is an index of resources dealing with solar energy, including archival materials from the International Solar Energy Society collection; references to articles in major solar journals; patents and pamphlets; National Technical Information Service reports; unbound conference proceedings; and other assorted reports.

Occupational Health: A Guide to Sources of Information is a compilation of papers that can be used as reference when seeking information and knowledge related to health hazards found in the workplace.

Thesaurus of Rock and Soil Mechanics Terms is a book of synonym, including terms used in geology, mining, hydrology, engineering, and similar fields.

Cataloguing for School Libraries: A Guide to Simplified Form presents the rules, based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, for the cataloging of library materials.

Microform, Video and Electronic Media Librarianship focuses on techniques, measures, and processes in librarianship.