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The Networked Librarian: The School Librarians Role in Fostering Connections, Collaboration and Co-creation Across the Community by Sarah Pavey 9781783306206
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.38The role of the school librarian is varied, extending far beyond resource management and collection curation, to include collaboration and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders for... -
A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System by Alex Kyrios 9781783306107
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £90.77The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), used in 200,000 libraries across 140 countries, has entered a new age, primarily maintained today as a continuously revised electronic system rather than an... -
A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System by Alex Kyrios
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.98The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), used in 200,000 libraries across 140 countries, has entered a new age, primarily maintained today as a continuously revised electronic system rather than an... -
Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings by Ayub Khan 9781783305711
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £97.95Drawing 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... -
Delivering the Visitor Experience: How to Create, Manage and Develop an Unforgettable Visitor Experience at your Museum by Rachel Mackay 9781783305506
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98Visitor experience has been a long neglected aspect of museum practise, receiving less academic attention than areas such as exhibition design or collections care. Despite this, the quality of the... -
The No-Nonsense Guide to Born Digital Content by Heather Ryan
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98This book offers a comprehensive, entry-level guide for librarians and archivists who have found themselves managing or are planning to manage born-digital content. Libraries and archives of all... -
Putting Library Assessment Data to Work Selena Killick 9781783302208
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98Effective library assessment is crucial for a successful academic library. But what do we mean by library assessment and how can it be used to improve the library service? This new book provides a... -
School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing by Margaret K. Merga
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.99Student literacy is a perennial concern in and across nations, with measurement and accountability continually ramped up at both individual student and school levels. Debates about literacy and how... -
The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook by Claire McGuinness
RRP: £57.50Booksplease Price: £47.99The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook is a comprehensive resource for academic library professionals and LIS students looking to pursue a teaching role in their work and to develop this aspect... -
Delivering the Visitor Experience: How to Create, Manage and Develop an Unforgettable Visitor Experience at your Museum by Rachel Mackay 9781783305490
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £29.98Visitor experience has been a long neglected aspect of museum practise, receiving less academic attention than areas such as exhibition design or collections care. Despite this, the quality of the... -
Practical Data Science for Information Professionals by David Stuart
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.98The growing importance of data science, and the increasing role of information professionals in the management and use of data, are brought together in Practical Data Science for Information... -
Information for Sustainable Development: Technology, People and Society by G. G. Chowdhury 9781783306671
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £97.95Information for Sustainable Development is a landmark publication that examines the perspectives, challenges and progress towards achieving the targets of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs),... -
Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings by Ayub Khan
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Drawing 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... -
Linked Data for Cultural Heritage by Ed Jones
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95Linked data is now essential for sharing collections on the open web. Linked Data for Cultural Heritage gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by... -
The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries: Global Challenges, Local Politics and Strategy Development John Cox 9781783306909
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.47The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries explores the influence exerted by trends in higher education and the wider world on the position of academic libraries, alongside an analysis of their... -
Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace by Gunilla Widen 9781783305797
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.83Digitalisation has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this... -
Creating a Reading Culture in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Practical Guide by Margaret K. Merga 9781783306398
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.71Did your school encourage a life-long love of reading?Children who identify as readers are three times more likely to have good mental wellbeing. A reading culture that permeates a school can... -
Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources by Michael F. Bemis
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95This unique annotated bibliography is a complete, up-to-date guide to sources of information on library and information science. Far from just compiling a simple list of sources, author Michael... -
Creating a Reading Culture in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Practical Guide Margaret K. Merga 9781783306381
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.99Did your school encourage a life-long love of reading?Children who identify as readers are three times more likely to have good mental wellbeing. A reading culture that permeates a school can... -
A Practical Guide to Privacy in Libraries Paul Pedley 9781783304684
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98Privacy is a core value of librarianship and yet as a concept, it is difficult to define and in practice, a challenge to uphold. This groundbreaking new book considers how privacy issues can arise in... -
Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice by Denise Koufogiannakis 9781783300716
RRP: £67.50Booksplease Price: £55.98This book builds a research-grounded, theoretical foundation for evidence based library and information practice and illustrates how librarians can incorporate the principles to make more informed... -
Information Resource Description: Creating and managing metadata by Philip Hider
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98This new edition offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the... -
Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace by Gunilla Widen
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Digitalisation has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this... -
The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook by Paul Gibbons
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98Freedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens. Since 2005, the UK's Freedom of... -
Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals by David Stuart 9781783305667
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.98Library and information professionals increasingly need to create, manage, and monitor a wide range of online content, from a library's social media account and web sites to the new and traditional... -
Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery by Timothy W. Cole
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £45.95This practical guide will be essential reading for all those needing to come up to speed quickly on XML and how it is used by libraries today. XML and its ancillary technologies XSD, XSLT and XQuery... -
Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging practices in academic libraries by Lindsey Martin 9781783301102
RRP: £62.50Booksplease Price: £51.99This book provides strategic insights drawn from librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with... -
Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing by Mr Terry Kendrick 9781783303830
RRP: £62.50Booksplease Price: £52.49Now 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... -
Library Improvement through Data Analytics by Lesley Farmer
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95This book shows how to act on and make sense of data in libraries. Using a range of techniques, tools and methodologies it explains how data can be used to help inform decision making at every level... -
Information Law: Compliance for Librarians, Knowledge Managers and Information Professionals by Charles Oppenheim
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £107.79Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation's legal compliance and have roles and responsibilities in both complying... -
Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Librarians and Information Professionals by Amy Stubbing 9781783304783
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.41Data 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... -
Information Law: Compliance for Librarians, Knowledge Managers and Information Professionals by Charles Oppenheim 9781783303663
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation's legal compliance and have roles and responsibilities in both complying... -
Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Librarians and Information Professionals by Amy Stubbing 9781783304790
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £81.96Data-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... -
Digital Literacy, Inclusivity and Sustainable Development in Africa Helena Asamoah-Hassan 9781783305124
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £107.79Sustainable development can only be achieved when no one is left behind. An enduring lesson from the COVID-19 crisis is how important the availability of digital infrastructure and skills for... -
Essential Law for Information Professionals by Paul Pedley 9781783304363
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £107.79Essential Law for Information Professionals, fourth edition, provides up-to-date and easy-to-follow practical guidance on the law as it affects information management and the principles underlying... -
Feminist Librarianship: Principles, Practices and Provocations Kirsten MacQuarrie 9781783308033
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £29.98Women constitute 75% of library and information workers and yet their achievements and contributions to the LIS sector are often unspoken, overlooked and undervalued in every sense.This agenda... -
From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation: A Cultural and Methodological Introduction by Mauro Guerrini 9781783306299
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.97Cataloguing has always produced a catalogue, while the creation of metadata has produced the metadata of given resources. However, in this digital age, the two are more connected than ever. A... -
Entity Modeling: The Third Generation of Cataloguing Tiziana Possemato 9781783307272
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Combining theory and practical knowledge, this guide is an essential companion to library and information specialists looking for an introduction to and solid grounding in aspects of new cataloguing... -
Visual Literacy for Libraries: A practical, standards-based guide by Nicole E. Brown
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £45.95This book will give you an understanding of how images fit into your critical practice and how you can advance student learning with your own visual literacy. The importance of images and visual... -
Entity Modeling: The Third Generation of Cataloguing Tiziana Possemato 9781783307289
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £97.95Combining theory and practical knowledge, this guide is an essential companion to library and information specialists looking for an introduction to and solid grounding in aspects of new cataloguing...