Books from Facet Publishing
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Library Services from Birth to Five: Delivering the Best Start
By Avril Brock, Carolynn RankinDudek, M. (2001) Building for Young Children: a practical guide to planning, designing and building the perfect space, ... Feinberg, S., Deerr, K., Jordan, B., Byrne, M. and Kropp, L. (2007) The Family-centered Library Handbook, ...
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Library Services for Children and Young People: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age
By Avril Brock, Carolynn RankinIn Baker, D. and Evans, W. (eds), Libraries and Society: role, responsibility and future in an age of change, Chandos. Feinberg, S., Deerr, K., Jordan, B., Byrne, M. and Kropp, L. (2007) The Family-Centered Library Handbook, ...
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Delivering the Best Start: A Guide to Early Years Libraries
By Avril Brock, Carolynn RankinDfEE (Department for Education and Employment) (1999) SureStart: a guide for trailblazers, HMSO and www. ... Feinberg, S., Deerr, K., Jordan, B., Byrne, M. and Kropp, L. (2007) The Family-Centered Library Handbook: rethinking library ...
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Using Web 2.0 for Health Information
By Peter Morgan, Paula YoungerThis new book is designed to meet this need, by drawing together international case studies and reflections on using Web 2.0.
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Competing with Knowledge: The Information Professional in the Knowledge Management Age
By Angela Abell, Nigel OxbrowThe KM focus in DERA is on improving technology and processes, on improving organizational culture and environment, on changing behaviours and developing people, on the better management of explicit knowledge among three groups ...
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Collection Development in the Digital Age
By Maggie Fieldhouse, Audrey MarshallThis topical edited collection is cross-sectoral and international in scope, drawing together the perspectives of practitioners and academics at the forefront of modern collection development.
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Measuring Library Performance: Principles and Techniques
By Peter BrophyThis important book is the first to provide an accessible account of current thinking on the evaluation of library services, both traditional and - importantly - electronic library services.
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Practical Tips for Facilitating Research
By Moira J. BentThis practical guide offers innovative tips and reliable best practice to enable new and experienced library and information professionals to evaluate their current provision and develop their service to meet the evolving needs of the ...
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Developing the New Learning Environment: The Changing Role of the Academic Librarian
By Sue Roberts, Philippa Levy"This key text captures and critically discusses the librarian's changing learning support role in an educational context, providing guidance and practical support.
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Essential Thesaurus Construction
By Vanda BroughtonThis practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step-by-step through the process of creating a ...
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The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook
By Paul Gibbonsthe role of the Information Commissioner before summarising the implications of appeal to the various further stages. Internal review The Information Commissioner does not have to consider any complaint made to her office where 'the ...
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Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval
By Allen Foster, Pauline RaffertyLuckow, R. (2010) Unnamed Things: creating a controlled vocabulary for the description of animated moving image content ... O'Connor, B. and Wyatt, R. (2004) Photo Provocations: thinking in, with, and about photographs, Scarecrow Press.
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The New Walford: Guide to Reference Resources
By Ray LesterThe New Walford highlights the best resources to use when undertaking a search for accurate and relevant information, saving you precious time and effort. For those looking for a...
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Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption
By Margaret Weaver, Leo AppletonAre librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st century? This is a fundamental question and one that presents differing opinions across the many diverse information sectors.
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Reader Development in Practice: Bringing Literature to Readers
By Susan Hornby, Bob GlassTully, J. (1984) Natfact 7, Methuen. Prince, A. (1986) The Others, Methuen. Westall, R. (1979) The Vacuum and the Myth. In Kennerley, P. (ed), Teenage Reading, Ward Lock. Westall, R. (1983) Futuretrack 5, Kestrel Winn, ...
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Practical Cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC 21
By Anne Welsh, Sue BatleyThere is also a fully explained worked example based on RDA Appendix M. Readership: Written at a time of transition in international cataloguing, this book provides cataloguers and students with a background in general cataloguing ...
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Information Literacy in the Workplace
By Marc FörsterThis book explains how information literacy (IL) is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice.
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Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory
By Jeannette Allis Bastian, Ben Alexander... Eclectic Views on Gay Male Pornography: pornucopia, Haworth. Sullivan, A. (ed.) (2004) Same-Sex Marriage Pro & Con: a reader, Vintage. Sullivan, N. (2003a) A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, NYU Press.
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Introduction to Resource Description and Access: Cataloguing and Classification in the Digital Era
By Shawne D. MiksaTheir principal goal is to facilitate resource discovery with library catalogues in a more consistent and powerful way than was possible with AACR, and this book is a guide to how to use them to achieve bibliographic control.
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A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals
By Katharine SchopflinThis edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments.