Books from Facet Publishing

  • Archives: Principles and Practices
    Archives: Principles and Practices
    By Laura Millar

    The Nakouru City and Community Archives (the Archives) gratefully acknowledges the loan of the archival material described below, for the purposes of reproduction, and wishes to thank Martin Kisembi for this valued addition to the ...

  • Archives: Principles and practices
    Archives: Principles and practices
    By Laura A. Millar

    Purcell, A. D. (2016) Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives: developing, managing, and sustaining unique digital collections, ALA Neal-Schuman. *Sitts, M. K. (ed.) (2000) Handbook for Digital Projects: a management tool ...

  • The Innovative School Librarian
    The Innovative School Librarian
    By Elizabeth Bentley, Sarah Pavey, Sue Shaper

    This 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 Governance and Assurance: Reducing risk, promoting policy
    Information Governance and Assurance: Reducing risk, promoting policy
    By Alan MacLennan

    An information security framework – deciding what to implement Ma, Johnston and Pearson (2008) developed a 'parsimonious framework' for information security, based on objectives and practices found in the literature, in standards and in ...

  • Know it All, Find it Fast: An A-Z Source Guide for the Enquiry Desk
    Know it All, Find it Fast: An A-Z Source Guide for the Enquiry Desk
    By Robert John Duckett, Bob Duckett, Peter Walker

    ... services and local information, are the canal user's 'Bible'. Pearson's canal companions, J. M. Pearson & Sons Less detailed than Nicholson, but adequate for the water user. The candid observations of places covered are a feature.

  • Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects
    Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects
    By Karen Calhoun

    Mitchell, Carmen, and Daniel Suchy (2012) Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections. D-Lib Magazine 18 (1/2) (January). doi:10.1045/january2012-mitchell. Mitchell, Erik T. (2012) Why Digital Data Collections Are Important.

  • Qualitative Research for the Information Professional: A Practical Handbook
    Qualitative Research for the Information Professional: A Practical Handbook
    By G. E. Gorman, Peter Robert Clayton, Sydney J. Shep

    108. 9 S. L. Gill and A. L. Delbecq, 'Nominal Group Technique (NGT)'. In Group Planning 10 11 12 13 and Problem-solving Methods in Engineering Management, ed. S. A. Olsen (New York: John Wiley and Sons), p. 287; and C. M. Moore, ...

  • Introduction to Information Science
    Introduction to Information Science
    By David Bawden, Lyn Robinson

    Sonnenwald, D.H., Lassi, M., Olson, N., Ponti, M. and Axelsson, A-S. (2009) Exploring new ways of working using virtual research environments in library and information science, Library Hi-Tech, 27(2), 191–204.

  • Leadership: The Challenge for the Information Profession
    Leadership: The Challenge for the Information Profession
    By Sue Roberts, J. E. Rowley

    Robson, W. (1997) Strategic Management and Information Systems: an integrated approach, 2nd edn, Harlow, FT Prentice Hall. Rowley, J. (2006) Information Marketing, 2nd edn, Aldershot, Ashgate. Schein, E. H. (1985) Organizational Culture ...

  • Managing Information Services
    Managing Information Services
    By Sue Roberts, Jennifer Rowley

    ... Matrix (based on Robson, 1997) This matrix can be used in a similar way to the BCG Matrix to make investment decisions for the future. In terms of cash flow, organizations should be investing in strategic systems or services, ...

  • Information Needs Analysis: Principles and practice in information organizations
    Information Needs Analysis: Principles and practice in information organizations
    By G. E. Gorman, Daniel G. Dorner, Philip J. Calvert

    Professionals, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York. Bogdan, R. and Biklen, S. K. (2003) Qualitative Research for Education: an introduction to theory and methods, 4th edn, Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA. Bryman, A. (2008) The End of the ...

  • The Silence of the Archive
    The Silence of the Archive
    By David Thomas, Simon Fowler, Valerie Johnson

    Roitblat, H. L., Kershaw, A. and Oot, P. (2010) Document Categorization in Legal Electronic Discovery: computer classification vs. ... www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/ understanding-digital-continuity.pdf.

  • Seeing Sense: Visual Literacy as a tool for libraries, learning and reader development
    Seeing Sense: Visual Literacy as a tool for libraries, learning and reader development
    By Jake Hope

    ... or its equally unsatisfactory and even less descriptive abbreviation, 'GN'. In the mid-1980s, the first boom of GNs, spearheaded by Art Spiegelman's Maus, Moore and Gibbon's Watchmen and Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, ...

  • Preserving Archives
    Preserving Archives
    By Jonathan Rhys-Lewis, Helen Forde

    Matthews, G., Smith, Y. and Knowles, G. (2009) Disaster Management in Archives, Libraries and Museums, Ashgate. McCormick-Goodhart, M. H. (1996) The Allowable Temperature and Relative Humidity Range for the Safe Use and Storage of ...

  • Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity
    Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity
    By Jeannette Bastian, Andrew Flinn

    References Berlant, L. (2011) Cruel Optimism, Duke University Press. Bersani, L. (1987) Is the Rectum a Grave?, October, 43, 197–222. Bersani, L. and Phillips, A. (2008) Intimacies, University of Chicago Press.

  • Information 2.0: New models of information production, distribution and consumption
    Information 2.0: New models of information production, distribution and consumption
    By Martin De Saulles

    In 2010 the then UK Communications Minister Ed Vaizey was reported by Halliday (2010) as arguing in a conference speech that ISPs should be able to abandon network neutrality and allowed to provide preferential service to content ...

  • A Guide to Finding Quality Information on the Internet: Selection and Evaluation Strategies
    A Guide to Finding Quality Information on the Internet: Selection and Evaluation Strategies
    By Alison Cooke

    ... Sue Welsh, previously also at the National Institute for Medical Research; Bob Parkinson at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University; and Wendy Roberts at the School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University).

  • Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals
    Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals
    By David Stuart

    ... 91 Suda, B. 46 Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) 14–15 Sun, Q. 42 Sun, Y. 120 SUO-KIF 15 Swanson, D.R. 21, ... 34–5, 37, 39, 62, 84, 114, 130 XSLT 115 Yahoo 74, 77 Yandex 74 YouTube 2 Ziman, J.M. 4 Zins, C. 5 Zuasti Urbano, ...

  • The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
    The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
    By Claire McGuinness

    This approach derives from the early work of Schön, who famously distinguished between two forms of practice, namely 'reflection-on-action,' which takes place after an event or situation, and 'reflection-in-action' which encompasses ...

  • The Chief Data Officer's Playbook
    The Chief Data Officer's Playbook
    By Peter Jackson, Caroline Carruthers

    This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment.