Books from Facet Publishing
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Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics
By Andy TattersallThis book gives an overview of altmetrics, its tools and how to implement them successfully to boost and measure research outputs.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication
By Claire SewellThe book will also be of interest to public librarians who may be dealing with supporting their own research communities and those who are considering taking on a career in this growing area but are unsure where to turn for guidance ...
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Digital Humanities in Practice
By Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Claire WarwickCrowdsourcing is an increasingly popular way of gathering content within an academic environment. Several authors have been working on a classification of crowdsourcing projects. For instance, Dawson's 'Crowdsourcing landscape' (2010) ...
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Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning and Designing a New Library Building
By Ayub KhanThis much-needed book takes as its starting point the fact that few architects know very much about libraries, and fewer librarians know about architectural planning and designing.
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Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age
By Sudatta Chowdhury, G. G. CHOWDHURYChowdhury, G. G. (2009b) Towards a New Service Model for the Content Supply Chain, [paper given at the] Seventh Book Conference, University of Edinburgh, 16–18 December 2009, http://2009.booksandpublishing.com/sessions/index.html.
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Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era
By G. E. GormanFor instance, the institutional repository movement has taken hold and the potential for libraries to take a more proactive role in the production, storage and dissemination of scholarly knowledge has become apparent.
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Collaboration in Libraries and Learning Environments
By Margaret Weaver, Maxine MellingThis collection of essays considers the changing context and broad principles affecting the ways in which we need to manage and provide services and offers case studies of changes that have already taken place.
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Dynamic Research Support in Academic Libraries
By Starr HoffmanThis inspiring book will enable academic librarians to develop excellent research and instructional services and create a library culture that encompasses exploration, learning and collaboration.
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Emergency Planning and Response for Libraries, Archives and Museums
By Emma DadsonReadership: This is the ultimate resource for all those who work with collections in libraries, archives, museums and historic houses internationally, whether large or small.
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Introduction to Information Behaviour
By Nigel FordReadership: This book will be core reading for students around the world, particularly those on library and information science courses.
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How to Do Research: A Practical Guide to Designing and Managing Research Projects
By Nick MooreThis new edition of Nick Moore's highly successful How to do Research offers an accessible guide to the complete research process.
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Setting Up a Library and Information Service from Scratch
By Sheila Pantry, Peter GriffithsMcCracken, C. (2001) Illumination not Enumeration: information audits are not a counting exercise but a platform from which ... Pantry, S. and Griffiths, P. (2002) Creating a Successful E-information Service, London, Facet Publishing, ...
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How to Give Your Users the LIS Services They Want
By Sheila Pantry, Peter Griffiths(1999) Building Community Information Networks: strategies and experiences, Library Association Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85604-337-3. ... Pantry, S. and Griffiths, P. (2002) Creating a Successful E-information Service, ...
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Managing Stress and Conflict in Libraries
By Sheila PantryPantry, Sheila and Griffiths, Peter (2003) Your Essential Guide to Career Success, 2nd edn, Facet Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85604-491-2. Pantry, Sheila and Griffiths, Peter (2002) Creating a Successful E-information Service, ...
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Managing Your Internet and Intranet Services: The Information Professional's Guide to Strategy
By Peter Griffiths... supplier is probably not used to working with libraries, just as you may not be used to working with designers! References 1 For further discussion see Pantry, S. and Griffiths, P. (2002) Creating a Successful E-Information Service, ...
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The Intranet Management Handbook
By Martin Scott WhiteThis is the first book to offer practical advice on intranet management, based on the work of the author as an intranet consultant over the past fifteen years.
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Digital Consumers: Reshaping the Information Professions
By David Nicholas, Ian RowlandsRay, K. L. (2001) The Postmodern Library in an Age of Assessment, ACRL Tenth National Conference, ... Wisner, W. (2000) Whither the Postmodern Library?: libraries, technology, and education, McFarland. Wolf, F. A. and Buttman, ...
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Essential Classification
By Vanda BroughtonThis guide is essential reading for library school students, novice cataloguers and all information workers who need to classify but have not formally been taught how.
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Essential Dewey
By J. H. BowmanIn this book, John Bowman helps novice and out-of-practice classifiers to understand how to use Dewey to classify works.
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Digital Literacies for Learning
By Dan Madigan, Allan MartinThis collection brings together a global community of educators, educational researchers, librarians and IT strategists, to consider how learners need to be equipped in an educational environment that is increasingly suffused with digital ...