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Seeing Sense: Visual literacy as a tool for libraries, learning and reader development by Jake Hope
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.99The burgeoning field of visual literacy can be universally understood across a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, regardless of traditional literacy levels. A key tool for navigating digital... -
Libraries and Sanctuary: Supporting Refugees and Other New Arrivals by John Vincent
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.99Libraries and Sanctuary is a practical guide to how libraries and their staff can support 'new arrivals' - people who have crossed borders to reach a country. The book looks at the different drivers... -
The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory: Practical Applications in Library Settings by Ann Medaille 9781783306992
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.99This book will help library and information professionals better understand how people learn in order to improve support for instruction in their library.From book clubs to media facilities,... -
Do Archives Have Value? Michael Moss 9781783303328
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.56This book will explore ways of establishing value and measuring in the archives and specials collections. There is a vast literature about ways of measuring value for cultural heritage assets as a... -
Information for Sustainable Development: Technology, People and Society by G. G. Chowdhury 9781783306664
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.98Information 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),... -
Copyright: Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information services by Graham P Cornish 9781783304240
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £107.79Cornish's Copyright is the standard work in its field and is indispensable for all librarians and information professionals who are looking for solutions to their copyright problems. The book... -
No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries by Barbara Allan 9781856048286
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97Straightforward and practical guidance for library and information workers in all sectors who are involved in training users, colleagues or other groups. In order to make an impact with their... -
Practical Digital Preservation: A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size by Adrian Brown 9781856047555
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98A practical guide to the development and operation of digital preservations services for organizations of any size Practical Digital Preservation offers a comprehensive overview of best practice and... -
A Guide to Teaching Information Literacy: 101 Tips by Helen Blanchett 9781856046596
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £53.94This easy-to-use book is an invaluable source of inspiration for any librarian involved in teaching information literacy, providing practical guidance on tried and tested ideas and techniques for... -
Sustainability of Scholarly Information by G. G. Chowdhury 9781856049566
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability. Taking as its starting point... -
Information Rights for Records Managers by Rachael Maguire 9781783302444
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.42Records Managers have tended to find themselves given the responsibility for managing requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) and Data Protection Acts (DPA), without necessarily having... -
Practical Knowledge and Information Management by Katharine Schopflin 9781783303359
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.74This book provides a practical guide to implementing knowledge and information initiatives in the workplace. Drawing on case studies from practitioners in a range of different work environments, it... -
Digital Information: Order or Anarchy? by Hazel Woodward 9781856046800
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £67.70If the vision for the future of digital information is order, ease of access, discoverable resources and sustainable business models, how might this be achieved? In an information environment shaped... -
Research, Evaluation and Audit: Key Steps in Demonstrating Your Value by Maria J. Grant 9781856047418
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.42This handbook provides library and information professionals with the information they need to undertake research projects in the workplace in order to inform their own practice and improve service... -
Preparing Collections for Digitization by Anna E. Bulow 9781856047111
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £63.02Most libraries, archives and museums around the globe are now confronting the challenges of providing digital access to their collections. As digitization becomes more widespread, there is huge... -
Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0 by Peter Godwin 9781856047623
Booksplease Price: £85.04This book offers practical strategies for all library and information practitioners and policy makers with responsibility for developing and delivering information literacy programmes to their users... -
Preserving Archives by Helen Forde 9781856048231
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.74A brand new and fully updated edition of this seminal work on archival preservation. Access to archival material - the documentary heritage of people all over the world that gives them their... -
Maxwell's Handbook for RDA: Explaining and illustrating RDA: Resource Description and Access using MARC21 Robert L Maxwell 9781856048323
Booksplease Price: £86.56Designed to interpret and explain RDA: Resource Description and Access, this handbook illustrates and applies the new cataloguing rules in the MARC21 environment for every type of information format... -
Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age by Michele V. Cloonan
RRP: £79.95Booksplease Price: £67.54Drawing on historical texts, this all-encompassing, accessible volume provides a comprehensive understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. By grounding key... -
Foundations of Information Policy by Paul T. Jaeger
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £45.95Foreword by Alan S. Inouye; Afterword by Nancy KranichThis important new text provides a much-needed introduction to the myriad information policy issues that impact information professionals,... -
Delivering Impact with Digital Resources: Planning your strategy in the attention economy by Simon Tanner
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97Companion website https://www.bvimodel.org/ featuring additional content, BVI model implementations, adaptions and templates and much more. This book provides practical guidance for delivering and... -
Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure Joy Court 9781856047470
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.42Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research. Government actions such as the priority given to reading in the review of the National Curriculum... -
Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval by Ian Ruthven 9781856047074
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems. Information science has contributed much to the design and evaluation of previous generations of IR system... -
CILIP Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries Sue Shaper 9781856049696
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98This fully updated version of the CILIP-endorsed guidelines for secondary school libraries addresses the changing schools' landscape and impact of technological changes of recent years. Focusing on... -
Organizing Information: From the Shelf to the Web by G. G. Chowdhury 9781856045780
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95Tomorrow's LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from the traditional library shelf to full-scale digital... -
Why Data Culture Matters: Tips, Tricks and Games for Fostering a Successful Data Strategy in Your Organisation Marion Shaw 9781783308705
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.38In today’s digital era, organisations are investing billions in data technologies, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence. Yet, despite this technological progress, many data strategies fail... -
Better Library and Learning Space: Projects, Trends, Ideas by Les Watson 9781783303113
RRP: £129.95Booksplease Price: £107.79What 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... -
Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers by Tim Padfield 9781783304486
Booksplease Price: £71.50As 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 has been described as an... -
The Academic Library by Peter Brophy 9781856045278
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £67.70This authoritative and wide-ranging textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing functions of higher education libraries and the organizational cultures in which they operate. It offers... -
E-books in Libraries: A Practical Guide by Kate Price 9781856045728
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.42Despite the fact that eBooks have been in existence for decades in various guises and added to library collections for several years now, there has been a noticeable lack of published manuals on the... -
Being an Information Innovator by Dr. Jennifer Rowley 9781856046718
Booksplease Price: £85.04Whilst there is no shortage of professional literature discussing the changing nature of libraries and information organizations in the digital age, words such as innovation, entrepreneurship and... -
Information Science in Transition by Alan Gilchrist 9781856046930
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £68.00Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all... -
The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving Brianna H. Marshall 9781783302666
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95Everyone needs assistance and guidance on managing their personal digital information and library and information professionals are in a unique position to help. This book will help them pass on... -
Qualitative Research for the Information Professional: A Practical Handbook by Gary. E. Gorman
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £12.17Join our mailing list Qualitative Research for the Information Professional, 2nd editionA practical handbook G. E. Gorman and Peter ClaytonAbout the book Table of contents Reviews About the author... -
Digital Consumers: Re-shaping the Information Profession by David Nicholas
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £67.70The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and... -
Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management by Kelvin Smith
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £68.00Many organizations are moving away from managing records and information in paper form to setting up electronic records management (ERM) systems. There is a range of reasons for this: economic... -
Introduction to Documentation Studies by Niels Windfeld Lund 9781783301898
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.99This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to... -
Understanding Public Libraries: Strategy, Leadership, Ideology John Pateman 9781783306824
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.47Understanding Public Libraries: Management, Leadership and Ideology calls on practitioners, students and researchers to fully understand public libraries in order to change them and ensure their... -
Putting Library Assessment Data to Work by Selena Killick 9781783302215
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £116.86Effective 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 book provides a... -
International School Librarianship: Advice and Stories from Around the Globe Alan Jacques 9781783307609
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.99International school librarians come from various backgrounds and work in diverse situations, but it is common for them to serve as the sole library professional in large educational institutions...