Books from Facet Publishing
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Organizing Exhibitions: A handbook for museums, libraries and archives
By Freda MatassaThis ground-breaking book is the first to provide museum staff, librarians and archivists with practical guidance on creating and organizing successful exhibitions.
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Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives
By G. G. CHOWDHURY, Schubert FooLog analysis seems to be as popular for exploring digital library users' activities as are surveys and interviews. An exhaustive review of the studies using log analysis (92 studies) over the last decade is provided in Agosti et al.
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Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice
By Alison Brettle, Denise KoufogiannakisThis book builds a research-grounded, theoretical foundation for evidence based library and information practice and illustrates how librarians can incorporate the principles to make more informed decisions in the workplace.
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Bibliotherapy
By Sarah McNicol, Liz BrewsterThis book draws on the latest international practical and theoretical developments in bibliotherapy to explore how libraries can best support the health and wellbeing of their communities.
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Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums
By G. E. Gorman, Sydney J. ShepThis is an informed and essential guide to managing collection and preservation strategies for anyone working in the library, archive, museum or broader cultural heritage sectors.
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Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time
By Tim Buckley OwenUlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com Britain/World Know It All, Find It Fast Know It All, Find It Fast for Academic Libraries Know It All, Find It Fast for Youth Librarians and Teachers ...
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Your Essential Guide to Career Success
By Sheila Pantry, Peter GriffithsThere are reports that some employers are starting to use more aggressive forms of these tests such as a test ... Many major employers now use assessment centres to select new trainees, and invariably include aptitude tests as part of ...
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User Studies for Digital Library Development
By Milena Dobreva, Andy O'Dwyer, Pierluigi FeliciatiThis landmark text captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries.
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Information Policies and Strategies
By Ian V. CorneliusThis book examines the issues from varying standpoints, including the human rights approach, the commercial approach, and the states-interest approach. These are all placed within the context of arguments about the public sphere.
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Evaluating and Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections
By Lorna M. HughesThis book brings together a group of international experts to consider the following key issues: What is the role of digital resources in the research life cycle? Do the arts and humanities face a 'data deluge'?
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Changing Roles and Contexts for Health Library and Information Professionals
By Alison Brettle, Christine UrquhartThis timely edited collection examines the evolving role of health professionals and explores the role they play in the context of where they work.
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The Library in the Twenty-first Century
By Peter BrophyThis is leading to a fundamental rethinking of the role of the library in society.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
By Barbara AllanBradley, P. (2007) How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library, Facet Publishing. ... Briscoe, J.P. and Hall, D.T. (2006) The Interplay of Boundaryless and Protean Careers: combinations and implications, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 69, 4–18.
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Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World
By Steve BaileyA thought-provoking book which questions the received wisdom and suggests radical new solutions to the very real issues records management faces.
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The No-nonsense Guide to Archives and Recordkeeping
By Margaret CrockettThe book covers all aspects of recordkeeping and archives management.
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Practical Digital Preservation: A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size
By Adrian BrownA 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 is aimed at the non-specialist, assuming ...
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Digital Preservation
By Marilyn Deegan, Simon TannerSo how can information professionals try to remedy this situation? Digital preservation is a complex issue, with many different aspects and views, so in this book each chapter is written by an international expert on the topic.
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Open Heritage Data: An introduction to research, publishing and programming with open data in the heritage sector
By Henriette Roued-CunliffeFeaturing sample code, case examples from around the world and step-by-step technical tutorials, this book will be a valuable resource for anyone in the GLAM sector involved in, or who wants to be involved in creating, publishing, using and ...
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Organizing Information: From the Shelf to the Web
By Gobinda G. Chowdhury, Sudatta ChowdhuryIn Williamson, N. and Beghtol, C. (eds), Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval, Haworth Information Press. ... Introduction, Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly, 39 (3/4), 1–13.
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Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the library collections of the future
By Melissa Terras, Paul GoodingElectronic Legal Deposit: the New Zealand experience. Paper given at the conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, ...