The whole digital library handbook

Essential facts, advice, lists, documents, guidelines, lore, wit, and wisdom: Along with fun and irreverence, it's what readers have come to expect from the "Whole Library" series. In a one-volume compendium that's by turns encyclopedic, useful, and engaging, this latest entry provides an ...

Institutions of reading

the social life of libraries inthe United States

Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the ...

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 ...

Theorizing digital cultural heritage

a critical discourse

This book features theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage. In "Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage", experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by ...

Building Web-scale libraries

libraries, networks and services

Libraries are entering a second phase of their networked life. In the first they thought about how to connect their services to the network. However, now that the network has reconfigured behaviours and structures in significant ways, a new set of issues needs to be ...

Information users and usability in the Digital Age

Information users and usability constitute the main building blocks of today's electronic information world. This important new text is the first to give a holistic overview of all of the necessary issues relating to information users and the usability of information services in the ...

The pursuit of knowledge

speeches and papers of Richard C. Atkinson

Richard C. Atkinson's tenure as president of the University of California (1995-2003) reflected the major issues facing California itself: the state's emergence as the world's leading knowledge-based economy and the rapid expansion and increased diversity of its population. As this selection of ...

Copyright for archivists and records managers

As an archivist or records manager, it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and "Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers" will prove an invaluable tool in enabling you to do so. What is copyright? Who owns it and ...

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 ...

Going the distance

library instruction for remote users

As more and more students are completing their higher or further education without ever setting foot on the main campus, information professionals must now find new and innovative ways to serve virtual and remote library users. They need to support academics, students and researchers by ...

Providing effective library services for research

Researchers rely on libraries to provide the information they need; equally, supporting research is a fundamental reason for libraries' existence. This book is first to explore the crucial relationship between libraries and researchers, focusing on developing and managing effective library services to support research and ...

Planning and implementing electronic records management

Many organizations are moving away from managing records and information in paper form to setting up electronic records management systems. There is a range of reasons for this: economic considerations may be the driver for change, or government policy intiatives may be coming into play ...

Understanding data and information systems for recordkeeping

Content management systems, data warehouses, relational databases - the ways an institution can organize and store its information are changing rapidly, and it can be difficult to make sense of the myriad options. This timely book is a comprehensive guide to the new technologies that can ...

Organizing information

from the shelf to the Web

Tomorrow's LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from the library's shelves to the web and digital libraries. This core text covers the organization of the entire spectrum of information, and ...

Delivering the best start

a guide to early years libraries

There is no doubt that reading with young children is important, and libraries are uniquely placed to support the development of literacy skills in pre-school children. This book is a pioneering practical guide for library and information professionals involved in strategically planning or delivering services ...

The virtual reference handbook

interview and information delivery techniques for the chat and e-mail environments

Instant messaging, e-mail, and chat reference are already here, but, have you adapted your traditional reference interview and information provision skills to these new formats? Diane K. Kovacs has assembled this handbook to help reference librarians develop the communication skills and resources they need to ...

Digital copyright

Digital copyright is still a relatively new field, and is a potential minefield for information professionals. This book examines how copyright applies in the electronic environment. It asks whether digital content is treated differently than hard-copy material, and if so how. The second edition, now ...

Building your portfolio

the CILIP guide

This 'how to' guide provides practical and clear advice on producing a successful portfolio. Set out in a user-friendly format, and covering each element of a portfolio, this guide is jam-packed with examples, useful hints and tips, templates, case studies and personal contributions from successful ...

Information rights in practice

the non-legal professional's guide

Overstretched professionals in every public authority are grappling with the chalk face implications of a raft of legislation relating to information use. This is the first book to offer a single point of reference and advice, which can be understood by the non-legal professional. The ...

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 ...