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Seeing Sense: Visual literacy as a tool for libraries, learning and reader development by Jake Hope
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.99The 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: £33.99Libraries 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... -
Maxwell's Handbook for RDA: Explaining and illustrating RDA: Resource Description and Access using MARC21 Robert L Maxwell 9781856048323
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £60.10Designed 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: £61.97Concern 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... -
Practical Digital Preservation: A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size by Adrian Brown 9781783303151
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £116.15A 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... -
Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval by Ian Ruthven 9781856047074
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £75.84Information 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... -
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
Booksplease Price: £11.96Join 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... -
Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management by Kelvin Smith
Booksplease Price: £84.05Many 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... -
Museum Collections Management: A Handbook by Freda Matassa
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This landmark publication is the first to draw together all aspects of museum collections management in one handbook. It is designed for anyone with responsibility for a cultural collection and... -
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... -
Digital Literacy, Inclusivity and Sustainable Development in Africa by Helena Asamoah-Hassan 9781783305117
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98Sustainable 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... -
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... -
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval by G. G. Chowdhury 9781783303229
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £116.15An information retrieval (IR) system is designed to analyse, process and store sources of information and retrieve those that match a particular user's requirements. A bewildering range of techniques... -
Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change by John Feather 9781856048187
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.98What is information? Who are the information rich and who are the information poor? How can there be equality of access for users in the light of the political, economic and cultural pressures that... -
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... -
Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison Richard Moniz 9781783300051
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.95This handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline to help academic liaison librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library. ... -
Mastering Digital Librarianship: Strategy, Networking and Discovery in Academic Libraries Alison Mackenzie 9781856049436
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This book examines the changing roles of the librarian and how working within a rich digital environment has impacted on the ability of professionals to develop the appropriate 'know how', skills,... -
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... -
Copyright: Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information services Graham P. Cornish 9781783304233
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £53.98The author's Copyright is the standard work in its field and is indispensable for all librarians and information professionals and who are looking for solutions to their copyright problems. The book... -
Information Rights for Records Managers Rachael Maguire 9781783302444
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97Records 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... -
Organizing Exhibitions: A Handbook for Museums, Libraries and Archives by Freda Matassa
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97This ground-breaking book is the first to provide museum staff, librarians and archivists with practical guidance on creating and organizing successful exhibitions. Drawing on international museum...