Marketing your library

promoting the best deal in town

Aimed at professionals, practitioners and students of Library and Information Services, this book covers basic marketing tenets and terminology, how to go about setting up a marketing plan, and contemporary topics such as branding and marketing to women. This book is illustrated throughout with successful ...

Library performance and service competition

developing strategic responses

This book is a practice-driven and proven resource for library administrators of all types of libraries. The work describes how the library can identify the service environment factors impacting customers' strategic needs; identify library competitors' strategic abilities and service environment impacts; and use the combined ...

Searching for the concept, no just the word

a librarian's guide to ontologies

Digital information contexts

theoretical approaches to understanding digital information

Introducing critical and theoretical perspectives on digital information, this book outlines the origins of information management in 19th-century humanism, and the adoption of scientific perspectives in the documentation and information science movements.

Open access

key strategic, technical and economic aspects

This work provides an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects of open access. It defines the different varieties available and addresses misunderstandings which the term sometimes gives rise to. It also looks at current initiatives worldwide, including the USA, UK, India and ...

Intellectual property

the lifeblood of your company

This book is written by two intellectual property (IP) lawyers, experienced in contentious and non-contentious matters. The book deals with different types of intellectual property protection and how to apply them. It also covers how to cope with the infringement of one's intellectual property ...

Solving management problems in information services

The book provides a practical approach to solving management problems in information and library services. The aim is to demonstrate that some simple mathematical techniques can be used to make the life of the harassed manager easier - and more interesting. Key Features: 1. It focuses ...

Managing archives

foundations, principles and practice

This book provides an up-to-date practical guide to archives management. It has three main target audiences: those who have been tasked by their organization to manage its archives but who have no prior training; those who are starting out as professionals or para- professionals in ...

Digital libraries

integrating content and systems

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 helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a ...

Open source database driven web development

a guide for information professionals

The Author: Isaac Hunter Dunlap is an experienced web developer who has created numerous database driven applications with Open Source technology. He is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Information Systems at Western Illinois University Libraries. Summary: Almost every organization seeks a simple means of managing ...

wikis

tools for information work and collaboration

Wikis as information sources, as a form of publishing, and as tools for collaboration, are discussed in this book. The applications of wikis in library and information services, education and business are explored, with examples. The book begins with an overview of wikis, in the ...

Enabling end users

information skills training

Summary: Suggests ways of offering end user education or training through personal tuition in libraries. It examines issues about who needs end user education and training, what they might need and how it can be delivered. Guidance on planning and running individual, group and workshop ...

The future of the book in the Digital Age

Summary: With contributions from some of the world's leading authorities, this publication considers the future of the book in the digital age. As more books are published than ever before, this timely publication addresses a range of critically important themes relating to the book ...

Building a successful archival programme

a practical approach

Summary: This book provides information on best practices and solutions in order to successfully establish an archival programme; it uses a practical approach, without the use of technical or theoretical jargon. This book serves as a companion text in a theoretical archival course. The book ...

Building bridges

collaboration within and beyond the academic library

Summary: Intended for academic libraries, this book covers all aspects of collaboration. Technology has increased the need for, and the ability to, collaborate at work; the first part of the book contains a discussion of: the basic hows and whys of collaboration; building an environment ...

Putting content online

a practical guide for libraries

Summary: 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). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property ...

Ethical decision making for digital libraries

Summary: 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. Begins with an overview of classical and applied ethics, then reviews the codes of conduct of professional information societies ...

Digital libraries integrating content and systems

Summary: 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 helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with ...

Law, libraries and technology

a practical guiede

Libraries are continuing to evolve as a result of the dual pressures of technology and user access. The new digital media forms are enabling librarians to find new methods of information delivery. Libraries and librarians need to be aware of the legal ramifications of the ...

Information literacy

a practitioner's guide

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). Practical examples for the development ...

Digital libraries and the challenges of digital humanities

One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich, multi-media ...

Digital libraries and the challenges of digital humanities

Summary: One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich ...