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Foundations of Information Ethics John T F Burgess 9781783304271
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £45.95As discussions about the roles played by information in economic, political, and social arenas continue to evolve, the need for an intellectual primer on information ethics that also functions as a... -
Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World by Steve Bailey
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £57.94Imagine 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... -
The E-copyright Handbook by Paul Pedley
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This handbook provides library and information professionals with practical guidance to minimize the risk of copyright infringement in the era of information sharing and online collaborative working... -
The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries Helen Rimmer 9781783307128
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.29Information professionals work in dynamically changing environments with a diverse range of patrons, which can sometimes present stressful situations. This book seeks to aid staff in information and... -
Library Services for Children and Young People: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age Carolynn Rankin 9781856047128
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97A vision for children's library services in the next decade.This book provides a sound background to all aspects of library provision for 6-18 year olds. It is designed to support the strategic... -
The Library Marketing Toolkit by Ned Potter 9781856048064
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98This Toolkit provides you with everything you need to successfully market any library. As libraries continue to fight for their survival amid growing expectations, competition from online sources and... -
How to Give Your Users the LIS Services They Want by Sheila Pantry 9781856046725
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £58.50In these turbulent times, with the challenges of a constantly changing job market, shifting information-seeking behaviour and a vast array of new resources continually being produced, library and... -
Better Library and Learning Space: Projects, trends, ideas by Les Watson 9781856047630
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £54.47What are the most important things a 21st-century library should do with its space? Each chapter in this cutting-edge text addresses this critical question, capturing the insights and practical... -
Marketing Your Library's Electronic Resources, 2nd Edition: A How-to-do-it Manual by Marie R. Kennedy
Booksplease Price: £58.36Marketing Your Library's Electronic Resources shows library and information professionals how to develop strategic marketing plans to inform users how their library's e-resources can have an impact... -
The Innovative School Librarian Sharon Markless 9781783300556
RRP: £67.50Booksplease Price: £55.98This book takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries and will inspire and enable school librarians to think creatively about their work and the community in which they operate... -
Information Literacy Through Theory by Alison Hicks 9781783305896
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.98Information literacy research is growing in importance, as evidenced by the steady increase in dissertations and research papers in this area. However, significant theoretical gaps remain.Information... -
Information Literacy Through Theory by Alison Hicks 9781783305902
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £90.77Information literacy research is growing in importance, as evidenced by the steady increase in dissertations and research papers in this area. However, significant theoretical gaps remain.Information... -
The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries Helen Rimmer 9781783307135
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £81.96The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries is a pioneering guide that addresses the critical need to foster kindness and wellbeing within library workplaces and... -
The No-Nonsense Guide to Project Management by Barbara Allan
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98This book provides a 'no-nonsense' guide to project management which will enable library and information professionals to lead or take part in a wide range of projects from large-scale... -
Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval. 2nd Edition: Understanding metadata and its use by David Haynes
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98This new and updated second edition of a classic text provides a thought provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals. Metadata for Information... -
Social Tagging for Linking Data Across Environments: A New Approach to Discovering Information Online by Diane Pennington
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.97Social tagging (including hashtags) is used over platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Tumblr and YouTube across countries and cultures meaning that one single hashtag... -
The Scholarly Communication Handbook: From Research Dissemination to Societal Impact by Lai Ma 9781783306244
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.99Scholarly 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... -
Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding metadata and its use by David Haynes 9781783301157
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £108.74This new and updated second edition of a classic text provides a thought provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals. Metadata for Information... -
Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work by David A. Hurley
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.39Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It... -
Reference and Information Services: An introduction Kay Ann Cassell 9781783306329
Booksplease Price: £78.68Keeping pace with the rapidly shifting environment for all information services workers, in this book provides readers with the knowledge and tools needed to manage the ebb and flow of reference... -
Practical Tips for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries Beth Montague-Hellen 9781783306022
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.71Libraries can find themselves struggling to identify and serve the needs of their whole community, ensuring they take into consideration all nine characteristics protected by the UK Equality Act. By... -
Is Digital Different?: How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are being Transformed by Michael Moss
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98This edited collection brings together global experts to explore the role of information professionals in the transition from an analogue to a digital environment.The contributors, including David... -
RDA and Serials Cataloguing Ed Jones 9781783307357
RRP: £57.50Booksplease Price: £47.99Reflecting the new modelling for serials introduced by IFLA's Library Reference Model in the most recent revisions to RDA, this up-to-date resource is an important tool for day-to-day practice as... -
Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries by Jess Crilly
RRP: £57.50Booksplease Price: £47.99The demand to decolonise the curriculum has moved from a protest movement at the margins to the centre of many institutions, as reflected by its inclusion in policies and strategies and numerous... -
The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forward, and Creating Change by Cathryn M. Copper 9781783306985
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.99Libraries that experiment are better positioned to adapt to rapidly changing environments and evolving user needs and behaviors. This guide shows how to draw from new approaches and technologies to... -
The Practical Handbook of Library Architecture by Fred Schlipf 9781783307173
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £118.46Distilling hard fought wisdom gleaned from hundreds of successful library construction projects they've supervised or coordinated, the authors present this definitive resource on library architecture... -
Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries by Jess Crilly 9781783304981
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £93.95The demand to decolonise the curriculum has moved from a protest movement at the margins to the centre of many institutions, as reflected by its inclusion in policies and strategies and numerous... -
Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches Amber Billey 9781783307265
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.44Filling a gap in the literature, this volume provides librarians and catalogers with practical approaches to reparative cataloging as well as a broader understanding of the topic and its place in the... -
Let's Roll: A Guide to Setting up Tabletop Role-Playing Games in your School or Public Library Lucas Maxwell 9781783306138
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.99Master all the skills you need to deliver a tabletop role-playing game programme in the library!For librarians or teachers who aren't players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem... -
Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings by Vanda Broughton
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £58.53Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. In... -
Padfield on Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers Tim Padfield 9781783307364
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.80As an archivist or records manager, it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and Padfield on Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers has been described... -
Copyright and E-learning: A guide for practitioners . Jane Secker 9781783300600
Booksplease Price: £81.63Jane 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... -
Metadata in the Digital Library: Building an Integrated Strategy with XML Richard Gartner 9781783304844
RRP: £52.50Booksplease Price: £43.99The range of metadata needed to run a digital library and preserve its collections in the long term is much more extensive and complicated than anything in its traditional counterpart. It includes... -
Privileged Spaces: Academic Libraries in University Estates Strategy Regina Everitt 9781783306466
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Privileged Spaces draws on the knowledge and experience of library leaders, estates directors, space managers and researchers to examine how the demands on library space change due to evolving... -
Social Media in Healthcare Information Paula Younger 9781783306787
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Social media has now been an integral part of life for over 20 years, revolutionising so many aspects of our lives that it is now difficult to imagine a world without it. As smartphone technology has... -
Digital Archives: Management, access and use by Milena Dobreva 9781856049344
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the... -
Social Media in Healthcare Information Paula Younger 9781783306794
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £97.95Social media has now been an integral part of life for over 20 years, revolutionising so many aspects of our lives that it is now difficult to imagine a world without it. As smartphone technology has... -
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians by Gregory S. Hunter
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £57.94Since its original publication, no text has served as a better overview of the field of archives than Hunter's manual. Newly revised and updated to thoroughly address our increasingly digital world,... -
The Social Future of Academic Libraries: New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement Tim Schlak 9781783304714
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95The current focus in higher education on student engagement, holistic education, social responsibility and community partnerships demands a significant mind-shift for academic libraries to reclaim... -
Privileged Spaces: Academic Libraries in University Estates Strategy by Regina Everitt 9781783306473
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £97.95Privileged Spaces draws on the knowledge and experience of library leaders, estates directors, space managers and researchers to examine how the demands on library space change due to evolving...