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Social Media in Healthcare Information Paula Younger 9781783306787
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $64.47Social 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: $96.75Booksplease Price: $79.94This 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: $154.80Booksplease Price: $126.36Social 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... -
Understanding Public Libraries: Strategy, Leadership, Ideology by John Pateman 9781783306831
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $127.49Understanding Public Libraries: Management, Leadership and Ideology sets out a robust new analytical framework for understanding, managing and supporting public libraries. Drawing on the ideas of... -
The Social Future of Academic Libraries: New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement Tim Schlak 9781783304714
RRP: $77.34Booksplease Price: $64.44The 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: $154.80Booksplease Price: $126.36Privileged 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... -
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians by Gregory S. Hunter
RRP: $90.24Booksplease Price: $74.74Since 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 Networked Librarian: The School Librarians Role in Fostering Connections, Collaboration and Co-creation Across the Community by Sarah Pavey 9781783306206
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $36.61The 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: $141.90Booksplease Price: $117.09The 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... -
The No-Nonsense Guide to Born Digital Content by Heather Ryan
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.63This 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: $90.30Booksplease Price: $74.79Effective 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... -
Practical Data Science for Information Professionals by David Stuart
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $59.31The 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: $154.80Booksplease Price: $126.36Information 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: $77.40Booksplease Price: $64.47Drawing 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... -
RDA Glossary by Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.55The four-year RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project included a major expansion of the standard to align RDA: Resource Description and Access with the IFLA Library Reference Model, which is the... -
School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing by Margaret K. Merga
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.17Student 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: $74.18Booksplease Price: $61.91The 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: $45.14Booksplease Price: $38.67Visitor 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... -
A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System by Alex Kyrios
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $59.31The 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: $154.80Booksplease Price: $126.36Drawing 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: $90.30Booksplease Price: $74.79Visitor 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... -
Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources by Michael F. Bemis
RRP: $77.34Booksplease Price: $64.44This 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: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.17Did 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: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.63Privacy 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... -
Information Resource Description: Creating and managing metadata by Philip Hider
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.63This 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: $77.40Booksplease Price: $64.47Digitalisation has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this... -
Linked Data for Cultural Heritage by Ed Jones
RRP: $77.34Booksplease Price: $64.44Linked 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: $77.40Booksplease Price: $65.11The 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: $154.80Booksplease Price: $127.49Digitalisation 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: $129.00Booksplease Price: $106.70Did 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... -
The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook by Paul Gibbons
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $74.79Freedom 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... -
Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery by Timothy W. Cole
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $59.28This 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... -
Library Improvement through Data Analytics by Lesley Farmer
RRP: $77.34Booksplease Price: $64.44This 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... -
Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging practices in academic libraries by Lindsey Martin 9781783301102
RRP: $80.63Booksplease Price: $67.07This 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: $80.63Booksplease Price: $67.71Now 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... -
Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals by David Stuart 9781783305667
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $59.31Library 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... -
Information Law: Compliance for Librarians, Knowledge Managers and Information Professionals by Charles Oppenheim 9781783303663
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.63Library, 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: $129.00Booksplease Price: $105.73Data-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... -
Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Librarians and Information Professionals by Amy Stubbing 9781783304783
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.71Data 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
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $139.05Library, 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...