Metadata for digital resources implementation, systems design and interoperability

This book is intended to assist information professionals in improving the usability of digital objects by adequately documenting them and using tools for metadata management. It provides practical advice for libraries, archives, and museums dealing with digital collections in a wide variety of formats and ...

Engaging with users

online public relations for information services

This book looks at the new interactive technologies which offer organizations the opportunity to establish a genuine dialogue with their users and examines how these services can embrace these new opportunities. A library or information service needs to engage with its key stakeholders or audiences ...

Social responsibility and the role of the public library

This book rekindles a debate that is anchored in the past as it charges into the future. Three decades have passed since the last Golden Age of Libraries - a time when the social and political unrest of a post baby-boomer generation forced libraries to reconsider ...

Digital rights management

a librarian's guide to technology and practice

This book provides an overview of the current landscape in digital rights management (DRM), including: an overview of terminology and issues facing libraries, plus an overview of the technology (including standards and off-the-shelf products). It discusses the role and implications of DRM for existing library ...

The evaluation of Worldwide digital reference services in libraries

This book outlines and evaluates the current status of the digital reference service in libraries worldwide. The book is based on an international collaborative project between two groups from German and Chinese institutions, during which digital reference services provided by nearly 200 libraries all over ...

Emerging technologies for academic libraries in the Digital Age

This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists, librarians, LIS students, managers, trainers and other professionals with the latest information for ...

The human side of reference and information services in academic libraries

adding value in the digital world

Summary: This book answers the questions: how do academic libraries provide value-added reference and information services in a digital age? It provides best practices from a global perspective. The book starts at the information needs and info-seeking behaviours of university students and faculty. Then it ...

E-Journal invasion

a cataloguer's guide to survival

Written by a practitioner, this book explores the changing nature of cataloging in the aftermath of e-journal invasion. It traces the development of the issue by examining changes in AACR2 and CONSER rules, focusing on the revision of AACR2, Chapter 12, and emergence of the ...

Youth services and public libraries

"Youth Services and Public Libraries" offers strategies to match the information needs and wants of children and young adults in public libraries and translates these into knowledge for providing relevant services. The latest trends in service provision are covered within the context of appropriate management ...

The academic research library in a Decade of Change

Summary: This book starts from the premise that the last decade has brought more changes for the academic research library than any ever previously known. The book provides an authoritative overview and analysis of the issues and challenges affecting academic research libraries from the closing ...

A comprehensive library staff training program in the Information Age

Summary This book discusses the issues surrounding the implementation and 'selling' of a comprehensive library staff training programme. Importantly, it contains many tried and tested techniques used by the author; it also includes standard documentation that readers can use in their own organisation for training ...

Acquisitions go global

an introduction to library collection management in the 21st Century

Summary This book leads the reader through many aspects of a library's collection including the user, current holdings, selection, and acquisition of new materials. The reader is also led to consider budgets, and how books are made available in 21st century markets. Methods for ...

Scientific libraries

past developments and future changes

Scientific libraries have undergone dramatic changes since the end of the 1960s. This book explains and characterise these changes and main trends, and describe their consequences for the libraries. The aim of the book is to present an overview and an analysis of the long-term ...

A handbook of ethical practice

a practical guide to dealing with ethical issues in information and library work

Summary: This book looks at all of the ethical issues facing information and library professionals in one overarching, and practically-focussed, text. As such, it is of great benefit to both practitioners and to LIS students. The focus of the book is two-fold: (1) It contains ...

Information architecture for information professionals

Summary: This book covers the key aspects of information architecture: core elements of information management - indexing, cataloguing and classification - organising and recording information in the digital environment. The book also focuses on design - specifically user-centred design: designing information systems that support the needs of users ...

Web management in practice

the Web manager's guide

This book is based on a combination of the author's experience and a study of web management in world-renowned organisations. Written to be kept on the desk rather than the bookshelf, it provides comprehensive 'just-in-time' guidance for the busy practitioner. The first section serves ...

Improving library services to people with disabilities

Summary: The book takes account of the key fact that to maximize their potential, people must have lifelong access to the information and services offered through books and libraries. Whether to address concerns of an ageing population or to enable all citizens to contribute fully ...

Web information management

a cross disciplinary approach

This is a cross-disciplinary text book on web-based information management for students, faculty and practitioners (in business, industry and government). The Web has emerged as a universal space of information, occasioning proliferation of electronic publications. Though efforts have been made in developing tools and methods ...

Principles of E-learning systems engineering

The book integrates the principles of software engineering with the principles of educational theory, and applies them to the problems of e-learning development, thus establishing the discipline of E-learning systems engineering. For the first time, these principles are collected and organised into the coherent framework ...

Interoperable Web service standards for library systems

service oriented architectures for libraries

The book provides a technical overview of the web service standards and what they mean for the future of library systems. Automated library systems have always had standards to ensure interoperability such as Z39.50 for OPAC searching, MARC for catalogue transfer etc. WebServices is ...

Indexing

from thesauri to the semantic Web

This book describes various traditional and new indexing techniques. It shows that 'old' techniques, e.g. 'thesauri, can be at the fundamental of new ones like automatic indexing, ontologies or topic maps. The book provides information professionals who are not specialists in indexing, and students ...

Developing open access electronic journals

a practical guide

This book provides a practical guide to developing and maintaining an electronic open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Creating such journals, particularly if it is done well, requires a great deal of specialized knowledge that spans library science, web development, intellectual property rights and publishing, as ...