Library & Information Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936117017Author Maria AccardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Litwin Books, LLCPublisher Litwin Books, LLCWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Jane Secker and Chris Morrison have completely revised and updated this highly successful text to take into account recent developments in the field and changes to the law in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Through its practically based overview of...

". . . An essential, unique, and thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional reference and guide that should be an integral part of every author and every publisher's professional book marketing plan instructional reference collection." - Midwest Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438149Author World Language Institute SpainFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams)...

Playing Games in the School Library is a comprehensive resource for those looking to explore the use of game-based learning and gamification in the library setting. It illustrates how game play can be developed through applying learning theory to...

Here are the stories of how music archives are preserving independent music and saving a part of our cultural heritage. Music Preservation and Archiving Today moves beyond the how-to and assembles the work currently being done to preserve music and...

Scholarly communication covers a broad range of topics and issues including copyright and intellectual property, research policy, metadata, indexing practices and data analysis techniques. But how do we approach these topics in a manner that is easy to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Computing & Information Sciences, presented by the...

Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Library and Information Professionals is a simple, jargon-free guide to using data for decision making in library services. The book walks readers step-by-step through each stage of implementing, reviewing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578802220Author Siddharth JainFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Siddharth JainPublisher Siddharth JainWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm...

A new volume in the English Episcopal Acta series, this book draws together for the first time the surviving documents issued by the bishops of the small diocese of Rochester from the mid-thirteenth to the early-fourteenth century: men who varied from...

Imagine a records management (RM) future where the user community collectively describes the value and properties of a record using the wisdom of the crowd; where records retention, description and purpose are determined by their users, within general...

Cultural heritage professionals-museum curators, museum professionals, archivists, and librarians- use their specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of their collections. Preservation managers and collections care specialists draw from experts in...

Drawing on the authors' experience gained from library projects around the world, this book charts a readable path through everything from the planning of a new library, to major refurbishment, or the remodelling of a current library. It clearly explains...

From a culture too often forgotten, overlooked or even oppressed; here are more than 30 tales, representing all regions of Kurdistan and the four main Kurdish dialects-from the Kurdish Cinderella story and animal stories to stories based on legendary...

Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral...

Here are forty-one tales gathered from Amazonian fishermen, hunters, lodgers, small plot farm gardeners, and villagers in Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Organized thematically, these tales for mature readers convey...

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and demonstrates their value to information professionals. More data and information is being created than ever before. Ontologies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438163Author Christian StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634626767Author Hakan EdvinssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Technics Publications LLCPublisher Technics Publications LLCWeight(grams) 388g

Searching the Grey Literature is for librarians interested in learning more about grey literature. If you have ever been asked for a grey literature search but didn't know where to start, this book will help you craft your search successfully. If you are...

A bilingual collection of enchanting folk tales from the peoples of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, and Paraguay, accompanied by historical and geographical background as well as color photographs. Containing numerous tales that have never...

Communication complexity is the mathematical study of scenarios where several parties need to communicate to achieve a common goal, a situation that naturally appears during computation. This introduction presents the most recent developments in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981758411Author Marcia J BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Ketchhikan PressPublisher Ketchhikan PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A hands-on lab guide in the R programming language that enables students in the life sciences to reason quantitatively about living systems across scalesThis lab guide accompanies the textbook Quantitative Biosciences, providing students with the skills...

Now more than ever, libraries must find ways to engage with their communities in order to demonstrate the value they create and deliver. Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing is a comprehensive resource that provides an overview of...

The Data and Analytics Playbook: Proven Methods for Governed Data and Analytic Quality explores the way in which data continues to dominate budgets, along with the varying efforts made across a variety of business enablement projects, including...

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936117086Author Monika AntonelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Litwin Books, LLCPublisher Litwin Books, LLCWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This timely book helps educators unleash the interactive potential of PowerPoint to build their own multimedia material that perfectly matches the needs of their students.While PowerPoint affords powerful capabilities for creating dynamic classroom...

The 2nd edition of The Care of Prints and Drawings provides practical, straightforward advice to those responsible for the preservation of works on paper, ranging from curators, facility managers, conservators, registrars, collection care specialists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715731Author Andrew CousinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

The Role of Today's Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide, the publics to whom they are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634000178Author Nicole A CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Litwin Books, LLCPublisher Litwin Books, LLCWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term 'Digital Humanities'...

A vast literature exists on theories of public opinion - how to measure, analyze, predict, and influence it; however, there is no synthesis of best practices for interpreting public opinion: existing knowledge is disparate and spread across many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536172Author Anna-Sophie SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 130mm * 11mm

The news and scholarly literature are replete with stories and articles describing the challenges that diverse individuals face in their local communities and workplaces. In Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for...

Since 1994, Nancy Mulvany's "Indexing Books" has been the golden standard for thousands of professional indexers, editors, and authors. This long-awaited second edition, expanded and completely up-dated, will be equally revered. Like its...

Producing the Archival Body draws on theoretical and practical research conducted within US and Canadian archives, along with critical and cultural theory, to examine the everyday lived experiences of archivists and records creators that are often...