Library and information services Books
University of Texas Press A Library for the Americas
Book SynopsisThis splendidly illustrated volume presents the treasures of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austinone of the world's great libraries for the study of Latin America and Latinas/os in the United States.Trade ReviewA fascinating view into the history and contents of one of the most important Latin American archives in the United States...The selected contributions did an outstanding job of shedding light on both the nature of the collection and the experience of scholars who have consulted these archives. * Chiricú *UT Austin has one of the best collections of Latin American rare books and artifacts, and this tome will bring them into your home library. Showcasing the treasures of the library in full color, you'll be able to page through treasures of Latin American history—codexes, paintings, and more. * Remezcla *[A] coffee table collector's item...The book...offers more than 192 sumptuous color plates than span 500 years of Latin American history and recent archives that document Latino life in the United States. * Pasatiempo *[A] long-overdue publication...Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo's edited volume provides the full history of the Benson Library, making abundantly clear its intellectual consequence and relevance for scholars of all species. Although the title might suggest that the book is mainly targeted to specialized audiences, its eight essays are all pleasant and easy to read. * Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture *[A Library for the Americas] sparks much needed dialogue on the circulation of cultural materials…A Library presents as a coffee-table book but engages extant, though still sparse, scholarship linking Latin American studies and library history that identify custodianship with politics...an enticing preview of how varied and animated the discourse on custodial practice has been and will continue to be. * Libraries: Culture, History, and Society *Simply breathtaking and beautiful...This is a book meant to evoke intense emotional and aesthetic reactions. More important, it is a book to evoke curiosity. * Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, & the World *Table of Contents Foreword by Julianne Gilland, José Montelongo, Virginia Garrard, and lorraine j. haricombe Introduction: A Brief History of a Great Library, by David Block Latin American Collections 1. In Praise of the Benson Collection/Elogio de la Colección Benson, by Mauricio Tenorio 2. The Relaciones Geográficas, by Barbara E. Mundy 3. Archive in a Library: The Case of the Saint John d’El Rey Mining Company, by Richard Graham 4. A Walk through the Benson with Lucas Alamán, by Eric Van Young 5. La pasión por lo impreso: historia del Fondo Arturo Taracena Flores, by Arturo Taracena Arriola Plates Latina/o Collections 6. The Benson as an Oppositional Borderlands Archive, by David Montejano 7. Printed Proof: The Cultural Politics of Ricardo and Harriett Romo’s Print Collection, by Tatiana Reinoza 8. Telling Treasures: The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Archive at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, by Norma E. Cantú Plates Acknowledgments Contributors
£35.10
University of Toronto Press Minds Alive
Book SynopsisThis book explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries and archives as public institutions in the digital age.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Foreword Tami Oliphant, University of Alberta and Ali Shiri, University of Alberta Acknowledgments Introduction Patricia Demers, University of Alberta and Toni Samek, University of Alberta I. Enduring Values Libraries: Why Bother? Alice Crawford, University of St. Andrews Academic Library Spaces, Digital Culture, and Communities Guylaine Beaudry, Concordia University The Public Library’s Enduring Importance Marc Kosciejew, Western University II. Public Literacy and Private Oases Loss of the Social, Return of the Private: Acknowledging Public Failure in the Age of Boudoir Surplus Mario Hibert, University of Sarajevo Re-establishing Values, Constructing New Missions: The Value of the Modern Library in the Development of Information and Digital Literacy in Public Life Konstantina Martzoukou, Robert Gordon University III. Transformations and Resistance Libraries’ Shifting Roles and Responsibilities in the Networked Age Michael Carroll, American University Washington College of Law The Interface of the Digital Library: The Perseus Digital Library as a Case Study Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Sarah Vela, Lisa M. Cerrato, Mihaela Ilovan, Stan Ruecker, Perseus Digital Library, and the INKE Research Group Wanderbibliotheken: Travelling Books and DIY Libraries Carolyn Guertin, Western University IV. Disciplinary and Institutional Partnerships Is Professionalism Still an Acceptable Goal for Archivists in the Global Digital Society? Richard Cox, Comcast Digital Research with All Our Senses: How the Archivist, the Historian, and the Librarian Can Work Together on the New Frontier Nigel Raab, Loyola Marymount University The Critical, Diverse (and Sometimes Neglected) Roles of Libraries and Archives in a Museum Setting Brendan Edwards, Royal Ontario Museum V. Curation and Commons Beyond Place: Data Curation Possibilities for Post-custodial Archives and Libraries Seamus Ross, University of Toronto "The X-Files": The Truth is in the Archives, but Access is Restricted Frank J. Tough, University of Alberta Works Cited Contributors Index
£47.60
Skyhorse Publishing The Library
Book Synopsis“An eloquent account of the noble history of libraries, as it has unfolded from the earliest times to the present.” —Nicholas A. Brasbanes, author of A Gentle Madness Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished—and the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day. The Library invites you to enter the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and modern-day America, and speaks to the book lover in all of us. Incorporating beautiful illustrations, insightful quotations, and many marvelous mysteries of libraries—their books, patrons, and keepers—this book is certain to provide you with a wealth of knowledge and enjoyment.
£18.04
Skyhorse Publishing Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring
Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider's look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institutions! Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens' experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn about strange things librarians have found in book drops, weird and obscure reference questions, the stress of tax season, phrases your local librarians never want to hear, stories unique to children's librarians, and more. Ottens uncovers common pet peeves among his colleagues, addresses misguided assumptions and stereotypes, and shares several hilarious stories along the way. This book is must reading for any librarian, or anyone who loves books and libraries, though non-library folks will also laugh and cry (from laughing) while reading this lighthearted analysis of your local community pillar, the library.
£16.14
Skyhorse Publishing Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring
Book SynopsisPublished in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider's look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institutions! Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens's experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in
£22.49
Brandeis University Press The Lost Library
Book SynopsisThe story of the greatest prewar Jewish library in Europe
£26.60
Manchester University Press Creativity and Resistance in a Hostile World
Book SynopsisWhat can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, ‘do’? Creativity and resistance in a hostile world draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world, this volume seeks to understand how creative acts have agitated for social change. The book suggests that creative actions themselves, and acting together creatively, can at the same time offer vital sources of hope.Drawing on a series of case studies, this volume focuses on the past and emergent grassroots arts work that has responded to racisms, the legacies of colonialism or the depredations of capitalist employment across several contexts and locations, including England, Northern Ireland and India. The book makes a timely intervention, foregrounding the value of creativity for those who are commonly marginalised from centres of power, including from the mainstream cultural industries. The authors also critically reflect on the possibilities and limitations of collaborative research within and beyond the academy.Table of ContentsForeword: A history of struggle for now - Benjamin Zephaniah Foreword: On radical transformation – Bidisha Introduction: Creativity and resistance in a hostile world – Sarita Malik, Churnjeet Mahn, Michael Pierse and Ben Rogaly1 Radical openness in a hostile world – Churnjeet Mahn, Sarita Malik, Michael Pierse and Ben Rogaly 2 ‘Lived Theory’: the complexities of radical openness in collaborative research - Daisy Hasan-Bounds, Sarita Malik and Jasber Singh3 Creative anti-racisms: screen and digital labour as resistancePhotini Vrikki, Sarita Malik and Aditi Jaganathan 4 Workers: creative resistance to racial capitalism within and beyond the workplace - Agnieszka Coutinho, Jay Gearing and Ben Rogaly5 Creatively connecting civil rights: co-creation, theatre and collaboration for social transformation in Belfast – Michael Pierse, Martin Lynch and Fionntán Hargey6 Re-curating a literary utopia: creative resistance in Preet Nagar - Churnjeet Mahn, Anne Murphy, Raghavendra Rao KV, Poonam Singh, Ratika Singh and Samia Singh Conclusion - Michael Pierse, Churnjeet Mahn, Sarita Malik and Ben RogalyIndex
£18.99
Fordham University Press Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation,
Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates how the Canadian state has used documents, lists, and databases to generate, make visible—and invisible—Indigenous identity. With an archive of legislative documents, registration forms, identity cards, and reports, Danielle Taschereau Mamers traces the political and media history of Indian status in Canada, demonstrating how paperwork has been used by the state to materialize identity categories in the service of colonial governance. Her analysis of bureaucratic artifacts is led by the interventions of Indigenous artists, including Robert Houle, Nadia Myre, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Rebecca Belmore. Bringing together media theories of documentation and the strategies of these artists, Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing develops a method for identifying how bureaucratic documents mediate power relations as well as how those relations may be disobeyed and re-imagined. By integrating art-led inquiry with media theory and settler colonial studies approaches, Taschereau Mamers offers a political and media history of the documents that have reproduced Indian status. More importantly, she provides us with an innovative guide for using art as a method of theorizing decolonial political relations. This is a crucial book for any reader interested in the intersection of state archives, settler colonial studies, and visual culture in the context of Canada’s complex and violent relationship with Indigenous peoples.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Acts | 25 2 The Register | 52 3 The Cards | 76 4 Seeing the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Crisis | 103 Conclusion: Displacing Settler Vision | 135 Acknowledgments | 145 Notes | 149 Index | 177
£79.90
Fordham University Press Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation,
Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates how the Canadian state has used documents, lists, and databases to generate, make visible—and invisible—Indigenous identity. With an archive of legislative documents, registration forms, identity cards, and reports, Danielle Taschereau Mamers traces the political and media history of Indian status in Canada, demonstrating how paperwork has been used by the state to materialize identity categories in the service of colonial governance. Her analysis of bureaucratic artifacts is led by the interventions of Indigenous artists, including Robert Houle, Nadia Myre, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Rebecca Belmore. Bringing together media theories of documentation and the strategies of these artists, Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing develops a method for identifying how bureaucratic documents mediate power relations as well as how those relations may be disobeyed and re-imagined. By integrating art-led inquiry with media theory and settler colonial studies approaches, Taschereau Mamers offers a political and media history of the documents that have reproduced Indian status. More importantly, she provides us with an innovative guide for using art as a method of theorizing decolonial political relations. This is a crucial book for any reader interested in the intersection of state archives, settler colonial studies, and visual culture in the context of Canada’s complex and violent relationship with Indigenous peoples.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Acts | 25 2 The Register | 52 3 The Cards | 76 4 Seeing the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Crisis | 103 Conclusion: Displacing Settler Vision | 135 Acknowledgments | 145 Notes | 149 Index | 177
£23.39
Rowman & Littlefield Eye-Popping, Show-Stopping Libraries: Trends and
Book SynopsisThis full-color, beautifully illustrated book presents AIA /ALA award-winning libraries as an exploration of the evolution of library service and design. It examines these libraries through big themes to explore how service trends and design trends have evolved. The book features extensive documentations through photographs and plans.
£69.35
Rowman & Littlefield Beyond the Information Commons: A Field Guide to
Book SynopsisIn the closing decades of the twentieth century, academic libraries responded to rapid changes in their environment by acquiring and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative new services and collaborative partnerships, and building new kinds of technology-equipped spaces to support changing user behaviors and emerging patterns of learning. The “Information Commons” or “InfoCommons” blossomed in a relatively short amount of time in libraries across North America, and around the world, particularly in Europe and the British Commonwealth.This book is more than a second edition of the 2009 book A Field Guide to the Information Commons which documented the emergence of a range of facilities and service programs that called themselves “Information Commons.” This new book updates this review of current practice in the Information Commons and other new kinds of facilities inspired by the same needs and intents, but goes beyond that by describing the continued evolution. This new book is an attempt to answer the question: “What might be the next emerging concept for a technology-enabled, user-responsive, mission-driven form of the academic library?”Like its predecessor, Beyond the Information Commons is structured in two parts. First, a brief series of essays explore the Information Commons from historical, organizational, technological, and architectural perspectives. The second part is a field guide composed of more than two dozen representative entries describing various Information Commons using a consistent format that provides both perspective on issues and useful details about actual implementations. Each of these includes photos and other graphics.
£53.20
Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and
Book SynopsisLeaders in the field of information literacy, Esther S. Grassian and Joan R. Kaplowitz have revised, expanded, and updated their comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of library instruction. This second edition covers all aspects and modes of information literacy instruction, including history and psychology, as well as how to create and design teaching materials, how to use new technology to support pedagogy, and how to utilize new developments in the field since the publication of the previous edition. The recommended readings and exercises at the end of each chapter help put ideas and concepts into practice. The companion CD-ROM includes institutional and library mission statements related to information literacy, a table listing pros and cons of assessment tools, a brief overview of learning styles table, examples of minimalist documentation, a sample PowerPoint slide show, a sample class outline, a two-minute yoga exercise, suggestions for further reading and the complete book bibliography, both with links to web pages.
£66.00
Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc Early Literacy Programming En Espanol: Mother
Book SynopsisEngage your Latino users with proven, effective bilingual early childhood programming - even if you're not a Spanish speaker! Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, award-winning creator of the widely-successful Mother Goose on the Loose[registered] (MGOL) early literacy program, has done it again! Using a combination of translated MGOL songs and traditional Spanish songs from around the world, this lively program helps children develop school readiness skills and presents child development tips to the adults in their lives. Diamant-Cohen, a much in-demand speaker at workshops throughout the United States and Canada, provides a complete, ready-to-use script for MGOL en Espanol in English and Spanish that is packed with rhymes, songs, large-motor activities, animal adventures, lullabies, and musical instrument exploration which provides all you need to joyfully engage bilingual learners in this exceptional program. Librarians will benefit from the book's wealth of lyrics, rhymes, activities, developmental tips, program aids, set-up instructions, worksheets, and bibliographies in both English and Spanish. Valuable advice for transforming the library into a welcoming environment for non-English speaking users, an explanation of the '80 per cent repetition formula', and practical suggestions for finding Spanish-speaking cultural partners to help plan and present these programs make program construction easy. There is a companion CD-ROM that includes a complete MGOL script along with reproducible forms and flannel board templates simplifies planning even more. This easy-to-follow, highly practical guide is essential for any librarian serving Spanish-speaking children.
£57.75
Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc Developing 21st Century Literacies: A K-12 School
Book SynopsisHere is a guide that shows you how to help student’s develop the critical thinking and learning skills necessary for effective and engaged citizens in the 21st Century. It provides tools and strategies to deliver a cutting-edge school library curriculum.
£62.25
Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc Information Literacy Instruction that Works: A
Book SynopsisInformation literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library's mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasingly diverse student body and an increasingly varied spectrum of majors? In this updated, expanded new second edition, Ragains and 16 other library instructors share their best practices for reaching out to today's unique users. Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college students, students with disabilities, and those in distance learning programs. Alongside sample lesson plans, presentations, brochures, worksheets, hand-outs, and evaluation forms, Ragains and his contributors offer proven approaches to teaching students in the most popular programs of study, including English Literature Art and Art History Film Studies History Psychology Science Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Hospitality Business Music Anthropology Engineering Coverage of additional special topics, including legal information for non-law students, government information, and patent searching, making this a complete guide to information literacy instruction.
£71.25
University of Massachusetts Press Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the contributors raise important questions about the material forms and social shapes of American culture. What is a library? How have libraries fostered communities of readers and influenced the practice of reading in particular communities? How did the development of modern libraries alter the boundaries of individual and social experience, and define new kinds of public culture? To what extent have libraries served as commercial enterprises, as centers of power, and as places of empowerment for African Americans, women, and immigrants? ""Institutions of Reading"" offers at once a social history of literacy and leisure, an intellectual history of institutional and technological innovations that facilitated the mass distribution and consumption of printed books and periodicals, and a cultural history of the symbolic meanings and practical uses of reading in American life. In addition to the editors, contributors include Elizabeth Amann, Michael Baenen, James Green, Elizabeth McHenry, Barbara Mitchell, Christine Pawley, Janice Radway, James Raven, Karin Roffman, and Roy Rosenzweig.Trade ReviewThis is a first-rate publication. It adds to the scholarly literature on the history of libraries and reading, and provides us with a dozen interesting and well-done case studies cutting across a variety of types of libraries, ethnic and racial groups, women, technological issues, and eras.... The book will appeal to historians of reading and libraries and to librarians interested in the origins of their institutions. - Richard J. Cox, University of Pittsburgh ""A much-needed addition to the field of library history, a field in which a great deal of research remains to be done. It will be useful also to cultural historians and scholars interested in the history of the book.... One of the real strengths of the work is the fact that it addresses issues from colonial times up to the present and into the future, presenting an overview of current scholarship in the field."" - Thomas G. Knoles, American Antiquarian Society
£26.06
University of Massachusetts Press Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the
Book SynopsisThis book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records, Christine Pawley reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to implement an official literacy policy. Central to the experiment were well-stocked bookmobiles that brought books to rural districts and the one-room schools that dotted the region. Three years after the project began, state officials and local librarians judged it an overwhelming success. Library circulation figures soared to two-and-a-half times their previous level. Over 90 percent of grade-school children in the rural schools used the bookmobile service, and their reading scores improved beyond expectation. Despite these successes, however, local communities displayed deeply divided reactions. Some welcomed the book-mobiles and new library services wholeheartedly, valuing print and reading as essential to the exercise of democracy, and keen to widen educational opportunities for children growing up on hardscrabble farms where books and magazines were rare. Others feared the intrusion of government into their homes and communities, resented the tax increases that library services entailed, and complained about the subversive or immoral nature of some books. Analyzing the history of tensions between various community groups, Pawley delineates the long-standing antagonisms arising from class, gender, and ethnic differences which contributed to a suspicion of official projects to expand education. Relating a seemingly small story of library policy, she teases out the complex interaction of reading, locality, and cultural difference. In so doing, she illuminates broader questions regarding libraries, literacy, and citizenship, reaching back to the nineteenth century and forward to the present day.Trade ReviewThis book is alive with the voices of oral interviews and a density of wonderful details relating to rural Wisconsin's encounter with modern print culture...Though the book is a case study, its recourse to multiple layers of analysis and its comprehensive attention to the lived experience of individual readers and workers will be of wide significance, helping scholars and students of the book to think more fully about their objects of study and the questions they bring to them.” -- Thomas Augst, co-editor of Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States "By using a variety of sources to create a "thick description" of local cultures and their connections to larger state and national issues, Pawley provides a model for future scholars and policy makers to determine why localities put differing value on literacy, which can greatly affect any region's economic and social development." -- Choice
£33.57
Smithsonian Books Rare Books and Special Collections in the
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated, full color survey of the valuable and unusual materials in the Libraries' Special Collections Department.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 General Knowledge Part 4 Museums Chapter 5 Early science museums Chapter 6 Scientific collecting and conservation Chapter 7 Smithsoniana Part 8 Physical Sciences and Mathematics Chapter 9 Mathematics Chapter 10 Mapping the earth and heavens Part 11 Earth Sciences Chapter 12 Geology and minerals Chapter 13 Paleontology Part 14 Technology, Industry, Engineering Chapter 15 Electrical engineering and magnetism Chapter 16 Mechanical and civil engineering Chapter 17 Flight Chapter 18 World's fairs and international expositions Chapter 19 Trade literature Part 20 Natural History Chapter 21 Zoology Chapter 22 Botany Chapter 23 Voyages and expeditions Part 24 Cultural and Social History Chapter 25 American history and life Chapter 26 African art Chapter 27 Juvenile literature Part 28 Anthropology Chapter 29 Native American studies Chapter 30 Missionary publications Chapter 31 Central and Latin America Part 32 Decorative Arts Chapter 33 Interior design Chapter 34 Landscape design
£18.95
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Assessing Information Needs: Managing Transformative Library Services
Book SynopsisBased on a tested model for community analysis, this book offers a guide to the management of client-centered transformative information services that can be applied in any type of library or information agency.Knowing a community enables library and information professionals to prioritize the community's information needs and design appropriate services for them. Assessing Information Needs: Managing Transformative Library Services was written to provide the rationale for community analysis, a model for gathering community data, and a process for analyzing data and applying it to the management of an information agency. The book explains why information professionals should customize services, as well as the "how to" of collecting data. A model for gathering community information is described, applied, and demonstrated through a case study. The book then shows how such information is interpreted and used to plan information services that are transformative for individuals and groups in the case-study community, providing lessons that readers can use with their own institutions. Rooted in a philosophy of customer service, the method presented here is perfect for public, school, academic, and special libraries or other types of information agencies. A case study of a community analysis for a county library system, illustrating how the model can be applied 13 tables presenting information collected from the case study Several graphic models, presented and described References at the end of each chapter A bibliography at the end of the book Trade Review"The title was written with all types of libraries in mind but will be more useful for library administrators, or library school/information studies students . . ." - VOYA"A how-to manual suitable for library managers." - Booklist Online
£57.57
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Slow Book Revolution: Creating a New Culture of Reading on College Campuses and Beyond
Book SynopsisThis inspiring guide shows how to implement the principles of the Slow Book movement in college campus libraries as well as public and high school libraries, with the ultimate goals of encouraging pensive reading habits and creating a lifelong enjoyment of books. In a world of constant Facebook posts and Tweets, digital distractions and online reading habits are wearing at students' ability to focus, reflect, synthesize, and think deeply. This professional text, based on a concept introduced by Maura Kelly in the online edition of The Atlantic, delves into the trend toward contemplative reading—otherwise known as the Slow Book movement—explaining what it is, why it's important, and how you can implement it in various ways and in multiple settings. Author and librarian Meagan Lacy, along with contributions from others in the field, offers insights, advice, and practical tools to help you foster an appreciation of reading in students both during and after college. The first part of the book establishes the importance of the Slow Book movement, while the second and third sections combine case studies and guidance for employing the principles of this method across multiple genres, including fiction, nonfiction, classics, and contemporary works. Chapters build a rationale for the approach, describe its underlying philosophy, and articulate concrete ways to apply the methodology in different venues.Trade ReviewThis title is a worthy purchase for every library. It is also a call to action and greater participation. * Technical Services Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments PART I: REASONS TO GO SLOW Chapter 1: What is Slow Books? Meagan Lacy Chapter 2: Slow Books in the Academic Library Meagan Lacy PART II: PROMOTING THE SLOW BOOKS MOVEMENT IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY Chapter 3: Getting Started: The Collection, the Service, and the Promotion Pauline Dewan Chapter 4: The Library Book Club at Regent University Harold Henkel Chapter 5: Ten Years of Theme Reading at Indiana University South Bend Julie Elliott Chapter 6: Readers' Advisory in the College Classroom Barbara Fister Chapter 7: Revisiting the Dormitory: The RPS Libraries of Indiana University Willie Miller Chapter 8: Virtual Readers' Advisory Elizabeth Brookbank PART III: BEYOND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY: A LIFETIME OF SLOW BOOKS Chapter 9: Collaborating with Local High Schools: Your Senior Will Be My First Year Student Sarah Fay Philips and Dr. Emerson Case Chapter 10: Beyond College: Collaborating with your Public Librarian Rebecca Malinowski Chapter 11: Redefining "Impossible": A Public Library's Journey Through the Classics Karen Hansen and Lesley Williams Conclusion Further Reading Index About the Editor and Contributors
£49.95
Purdue University Press Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards: A
Book SynopsisTechnical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively.Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.
£77.40
Purdue University Press Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards: A
Book SynopsisTechnical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively.Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.
£38.66
Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Libraries in the United States: Data,
Book SynopsisBook & CD-ROM. Public libraries provide critical learning and information resources for individuals, families, local businesses, and non-profits. They broaden opportunities for people of all ages through access to collections and technology and by providing expert assistance from information professionals. Many public libraries anchor community improvement efforts by providing programming that addresses the health, educational, and workforce development needs of local residents. In communities across the country, local libraries compliment commercial development activity and provide attractive neighbourhood amenities in residential settings. In FY 2010, there were 8,951 public libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia with 17,078 public library branches and bookmobiles. This total translates to approximately 3.0 public libraries and 5.8 outlets for every 100,000 people. This book focuses on the character of public library services, funding and resource changes, and current trends in the public library workforce, and also highlights statistics at the national level. Data from all states has been aggregated to provide current national estimates and to examine trends from prior years.
£189.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Theorizing Community Care: From Disciplinary
Book SynopsisAs we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimise an enforced obligation to care. The use of care management technologies that focus on assessment and inspection, can, in this policy climate, become a means of surveillance and enforcement of informal caring. It is argued that Michel Foucault offers a set of strategies (Foucault 1977: 205) for understanding how the discourses on community care construct older people''s experiences and their identities, as constructed subjects and objects of managerial knowledge. This book examines this and the dystopian implications for older people. The book attempts to move beyond such fatalism by introducing governmentality and the possibilities through social policy for older people. Finally, the book examines the emergence of personal care and the implications for personalization and tailored care services for older people.
£52.49
Information Age Publishing The Time is Now: Creating Community Through
Book SynopsisHigh school students, teachers, community members, and leaders come together in this innovative book to share the profound influence of artmaking and justice- oriented work. Authors paint vibrant images of being empowered and engaging in social change. Throughout their art-based meaning making, authors pose critical questions and unlock possibilities. Their first-tellings regarding the power of art provide readers with a lens to understand how they navigate injustices they endure and ways in which artmaking is a vehicle for transformation. Their artmaking is a call for change.Authors emphasize how artmaking bridges relationships and brings diverse community members together with purpose. Together, they engage in new understandings of self and other. Authors identify how their arts-based collaborations publicly showcase their justice-oriented work, but more importantly, promote possibility and hope. Youth explore how artmaking plays a vital role in promoting collective efficacy and engaging diverse communities in social transformation.Artmaking mobilizes people. And once activated, these authors utilize their newly cultivated communities to foster justice-oriented work throughout schools and communities. Their justice-oriented artmaking affords community members opportunities to respond in new ways by embracing community strengths and students' lived experiences. This authentic collaboration empowers the artmaker and community to promote justice-oriented work and practices centered on diversity and inclusivity.Trade ReviewReading Christa Boske's The Time is Now is to find a profound sense of joy, wholeness, and energy to push out the borders of consciousness too tightly bound to the hyperrationalism of the workday world grounded in materialism and business transactions. The collected authors in Christa's book give form to the spirit world, and its proclivity to allow the whole human being to embrace it, putter in it, explore it and find themselves in the journey. Artmaking is about self-discovery and emancipation. It's a must read for anyone who wants re-establish a belief in themselves and in humanity."" — Fenwick W. English, Professor and Department Chair, Ball State University""Read this compelling new resource if you want to engage the next generation of youth activists in transforming our world. Truly, The Time is Now offers school leaders the most exciting, creative avenues for generating justice we've seen in a long time. This book rises to the challenge of being real when so much is at stake."" —Margaret Grogan, Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Chapman University""The Time is Now. A profound title that encapsulates so much regarding what we need in today's world. Woven through the various narratives, we accept the invitation to hear the stories of artists and explorers in their respective communities. An authentic confrontation of the many tensions that exist in our quest to seek out equity in the areas of diversity, inclusivity, and lived experiences. Voices that ring of radical change, the reconceptualization of freedom, and the agentive stance we are called to take to realize a higher state of being and a more noble existence. The stories remind us that the dream of transformation is our most compelling force- this book gives us a map of all that is possible if we work together."" — Lillian McEnery-Benavente, Director and Professor, University of Houston""Christa Boske's edited book, The Time is Now, provides readers with a profound sense of what it means to live through injustice. The book, though, is not just a collection of heartbreaking stories, but a chronicle of triumphs, as the previously unheard are finally given a voice through artmaking. In chapter after deeply moving chapter, I was struck by the simultaneous vulnerability and bravery of the artists who shared their stories. What was clear, was that artmaking was a form of awakening for the artmakers: awakening to social justice issues, awakening to their ability to connect to the community through art and even awakening to their own value, which for so many, had been wholly unrecognized prior to this experience. This book comes at a time of deep reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion in our nation and the stories remind us that our children are absorbing these conversations. They are living these experiences and their voices are an essential part of the dialogue."" — Habeebah R. Grimes, Chief Executive Officer
£42.46
Information Age Publishing The Time is Now: Creating Community Through
Book SynopsisHigh school students, teachers, community members, and leaders come together in this innovative book to share the profound influence of artmaking and justice- oriented work. Authors paint vibrant images of being empowered and engaging in social change. Throughout their art-based meaning making, authors pose critical questions and unlock possibilities. Their first-tellings regarding the power of art provide readers with a lens to understand how they navigate injustices they endure and ways in which artmaking is a vehicle for transformation. Their artmaking is a call for change.Authors emphasize how artmaking bridges relationships and brings diverse community members together with purpose. Together, they engage in new understandings of self and other. Authors identify how their arts-based collaborations publicly showcase their justice-oriented work, but more importantly, promote possibility and hope. Youth explore how artmaking plays a vital role in promoting collective efficacy and engaging diverse communities in social transformation.Artmaking mobilizes people. And once activated, these authors utilize their newly cultivated communities to foster justice-oriented work throughout schools and communities. Their justice-oriented artmaking affords community members opportunities to respond in new ways by embracing community strengths and students' lived experiences. This authentic collaboration empowers the artmaker and community to promote justice-oriented work and practices centered on diversity and inclusivity.Trade ReviewReading Christa Boske's The Time is Now is to find a profound sense of joy, wholeness, and energy to push out the borders of consciousness too tightly bound to the hyperrationalism of the workday world grounded in materialism and business transactions. The collected authors in Christa's book give form to the spirit world, and its proclivity to allow the whole human being to embrace it, putter in it, explore it and find themselves in the journey. Artmaking is about self-discovery and emancipation. It's a must read for anyone who wants re-establish a belief in themselves and in humanity."" — Fenwick W. English, Professor and Department Chair, Ball State University""Read this compelling new resource if you want to engage the next generation of youth activists in transforming our world. Truly, The Time is Now offers school leaders the most exciting, creative avenues for generating justice we've seen in a long time. This book rises to the challenge of being real when so much is at stake."" —Margaret Grogan, Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Chapman University""The Time is Now. A profound title that encapsulates so much regarding what we need in today's world. Woven through the various narratives, we accept the invitation to hear the stories of artists and explorers in their respective communities. An authentic confrontation of the many tensions that exist in our quest to seek out equity in the areas of diversity, inclusivity, and lived experiences. Voices that ring of radical change, the reconceptualization of freedom, and the agentive stance we are called to take to realize a higher state of being and a more noble existence. The stories remind us that the dream of transformation is our most compelling force- this book gives us a map of all that is possible if we work together."" — Lillian McEnery-Benavente, Director and Professor, University of Houston""Christa Boske's edited book, The Time is Now, provides readers with a profound sense of what it means to live through injustice. The book, though, is not just a collection of heartbreaking stories, but a chronicle of triumphs, as the previously unheard are finally given a voice through artmaking. In chapter after deeply moving chapter, I was struck by the simultaneous vulnerability and bravery of the artists who shared their stories. What was clear, was that artmaking was a form of awakening for the artmakers: awakening to social justice issues, awakening to their ability to connect to the community through art and even awakening to their own value, which for so many, had been wholly unrecognized prior to this experience. This book comes at a time of deep reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion in our nation and the stories remind us that our children are absorbing these conversations. They are living these experiences and their voices are an essential part of the dialogue."" — Habeebah R. Grimes, Chief Executive Officer
£78.20
Society Publishing Library Administration
Book Synopsis
£121.50
Emerald Publishing Limited Advances in Library Administration and
Book SynopsisAs it continues to publish work that is relevant for both researchers and library practitioners, Volume 30 of "Advances in Library Administration and Organization" contains articles describing efforts at cooperation and collaboration within the library profession. This volume includes scholarship that illustrates both concepts, best defined in one of the chapters as terms 'often used loosely to describe relationships among entities or people working together.' Topics explored within the volume include an examination of public and academic libraries as places that provide purposeful spaces specific to providing user need fulfilment; library services in juvenile detention centers; and, the contribution of school library media specialists. The development of electronic institutional repositories, primarily in academic libraries and based on efforts to encourage campus community involvement and partnerships between librarians and the faculty they serve is discussed. Successful fund raising in libraries is explored through the examination of the impact of organizational placement of the library development officer in universities.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction. A Critical Analysis of the Discourse on Academic Libraries as Learning Places. The Rural Public Library as Place: A Theoretical Analysis. A Framework for Institutional Repository Development. Interagency Cooperation in Juvenile Detention Center Library Services: An Introduction to the Issues. Perceptions of School Library Media Specialists Regarding the Practice of Instructional Leadership. The Perceptions of High School Teachers on the Roles and Responsibilities of Library Media Specialists. About the Authors. Advances in library administration and organization. Advances in library administration and organization. Advances in library administration and organization. Copyright page.
£103.99
Emerald Publishing Limited Librarianship in Times of Crisis
Book SynopsisThe field of librarianship has undergone traumatic shifts (mostly downward) due to the global financial meltdown that began in the fall of 2008. Libraries have been deeply affected by the worst recession since the Great Depression. While "Advances in Librarianship" endeavors to identify trends and innovations, the trend addressed in this volume is admittedly not a happy one. The current climate does however, present opportunities for analysis, and far reaching searches for solutions and innovations that can alleviate the challenges created by the clash of fiscal retrenchment with steadily increasing use of libraries. Therefore this volume addresses the ripple effects of the economic recession from the point of view of librarianship, the need for advocacy, and the necessity to tout the value that libraries bring to their communities. Chapters focus on identifying means to change library and library related organizations so that they focus on distinctive assets and strengths, use free or low cost resources and technologies, and position themselves to take advantage of collaborative initiatives.Table of ContentsContributors. Preface. A Library “State of the State”: Trends, Issues, and Myths. The Role of Public Libraries, the Internet, and Economic Uncertainty. Cutback Management in US Public Libraries: Deliberations, Decision Spaces, and Reflections. Forced Advocacy: How Communities Respond to Library Budget Cuts. Changing Organizations: Three Case Studies. Refocusing Distinctive Capabilities: Strategic Shifts in Harvard's Baker Library Services. The Best Things in Life Are Free (Or Pretty Cheap): Three Mobile Initiatives That Can Be Done Now. “Free Puppies”: Integrating Web Resources into Online Catalogs. Bringing Order Out of Chaos: Benchmarking Tools Used in Merging University Libraries in Finland. Innovation for Survival: From Cooperation to Collaboration. Author Index. Advances in Librarianship. Editorial Advisory Board. Advances in Librarianship. Copyright page. Subject Index.
£90.99
Emerald Publishing Limited Facets of Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of
Book SynopsisThe ISKO UK Biennial Conference, 4th - 5th July, 2011, London honoured the life and achievements of Brian C. Vickery. His influence on the development of the information profession is celebrated in this book, with contributions from over 50 authors to address research and developments in knowledge organization, ranging from the theoretical basis of information retrieval to the practical application of ontologies in driving news and sport presentation on the BBC website. ISKO UK is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines.
£108.29
Emerald Publishing Limited Web Search Engine Research
Book Synopsis"Web Search Engine Research", edited by Dirk Lewandowski, provides an understanding of Web search engines from the unique perspective of Library and Information Science. The book explores a range of topics including retrieval effectiveness, user satisfaction, the evaluation of search interfaces, the impact of search on society, reliability of search results, query log analysis, user guidance in the search process, and the influence of search engine optimization (SEO) on results quality. While research in computer science has mainly focused on technical aspects of search engines, LIS research is centred on users' behaviour when using search engines and how this interaction can be evaluated. LIS research provides a unique perspective in intermediating between the technical aspects, user aspects and their impact on their role in knowledge acquisition. This book is directly relevant to researchers and practitioners in library and information science, computer science, including Web researchers.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Chapter 1 New Perspectives on Web Search Engine Research. Chapter 2 The Many Ways of Searching the Web Together: A Comparison of Social Search Engines. Chapter 3 Local Web Search Examined. Chapter 4 The Computational Analysis of Web Search Statistics in the Intelligent Framework Supporting Decision Making. Chapter 5 Evaluating Web Retrieval Effectiveness. Chapter 6 Diversity-Aware Search: New Possibilities and Challenges for Web Search. Chapter 7 Personalised Search Engine Evaluation: Methodologies and Metrics. Chapter 8 Search Engines and Rank Correlation. Chapter 9 Beyond Search: A Technology Probe Investigation. Chapter 10 How Search Engine Users Evaluate and Select Web Search Results: The Impact of the Search Engine Interface on Credibility Assessments. Chapter 11 What Would Kant Think? Testing Truth Claims in Research Traditions, and Proposing Deeper Meanings for the Concept of “Search”. About the Authors. Web Search Engine Research. Library and Information Science. Library and Information Science. Copyright page. Editorial Advisory Board. Subject Index.
£98.99
Emerald Publishing Limited Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in
Book SynopsisAssessment and outcomes evaluation have become increasingly important in librarianship. Although initially used in educational contexts to measure student learning, the strategy has migrated to other contexts such as hiring, employee development, overall organizational and institutional successes, measuring the outcomes of projects and operational changes, and self assessment at the personal level. This growing emphasis is partly due to increasingly stringent requirements that funds are used effectively to improve services and operations. The current economic climate and retrenchments in non-profit agencies, have raised the need for assessment and outcomes evaluation to a critical level. 'Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship' focuses not on the how of undertaking assessment and outcomes evaluation, but rather on their successes and failures in various contexts in which these tools have been and will be used.Table of ContentsContributors. Preface. Changes in Library Evaluation: Responding to External Pressures in the Institution of Museum and Library Services’ Measuring Success Initiative. The New York State Library's Outcome-Based Evaluation Training Initiative: Using Training, Online Support, and Integration to Measure Impact. Documenting the Results of Good Intentions: Applying Outcomes Evaluation to Library Services for Children. Assessment in a Medium-Sized Academic Library: A Success Story. Using Needs Assessment to Develop Research and Grant Support Services. The Relationship between Collection Strength and Student Achievement. Learning Outcomes Assessment via Electronic Portfolios. Evaluating Teaching in Online Programs: Comparing Faculty Self-Assessment and Student Opinion. Author Index. Subject Index. Advances in Librarianship: Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship. Editorial Advisory Board. Advances in Librarianship: Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship. Copyright page.
£88.34
Emerald Publishing Limited Developing People's Information Capabilities:
Book SynopsisDeveloping People's Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts is Vol 8 of the well regarded Library and Information Science Series. This book hones in on accessible issues across different work and educational contexts and is of value to both academic and practitioner.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Editorial Advisory Board. Preface. Introduction — Information Literacy and Information Behaviour, Complementary Approaches for Building Capability. Transforming Information Literacy for Higher Education in the 21st Century: A Lifelong Learning Approach. Curriculum and Curriculum Integration of Information Literacy in Higher Education. The Construction of Information and Media Literacy in Education Policy: A Study of Singapore. Information Literacy in Higher Education: Research Students’ Development in Information Search Expertise. Mediating Culture: Media Literacy and Cultural Awareness The Representation of Race and Ethnicity in Maya and Miguel. Empowering Professional Practices of a Community of e-Learners: Special Education Teachers in Alaska and their Information Literacy Conceptions. Information Literacy of Undergraduate Students in Thailand: A Case of the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Thailand. Building Partnerships for Information Literacy among HE Institutions in African Universities: Opportunities and Challenges — A Case Study. Perspectives on Legal Education and the Role of Information Literacy in Improving Qualitative Legal Practice. Information Literacy in the Business School Context: A Story of Complexity and Success. Workplace Reflections of Information Literacy Training: The Case of the Agriculture and Health Sectors in Tanzania. Workplace Information Literacy: It’s Different. Diversifying Information Literacy Research: An Informed Learning Perspective. The Use of Participatory Techniques in the Communication of Information for Communities: Information Literacy and Collaborative Work for Citizenship Development. About the Authors. Developing People’s Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts. Library and Information Science. Developing People’s Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts. Copyright page. Index.
£106.99
Facet Publishing Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians,
Book SynopsisThis book gives an overview of altmetrics, its tools and how to implement them successfully to boost and measure research outputs. New methods of scholarly communication and dissemination of information are having a huge impact on how academics and researchers build profiles and share research. This groundbreaking and highly practical guide looks at the role that library and information professionals can play in facilitating these new ways of working and demonstrating impact and influence. Altmetrics focuses on research artefact level metrics that are not exclusive to traditional journal papers but also extend to book chapters, posters and data sets, among other items. This book explains the theory behind altmetrics, including how it came about, why it can help academics and where it sits amongst current measurements of impact. Editor Andy Tattersall draws on the expertise of leading altmetric innovators and practitioners, with chapters from Euan Adie, the founder of Altmetric.com; William Gunn, the Head of Academic Outreach at Mendeley and Ben Showers, author of the bestselling Facet title Library Analytics and Metrics. Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics will empower library and information professionals working in higher education, researchers, academics and higher education leaders and strategists to develop the skills and knowledge needed to introduce and support altmetrics within their own institutions.Trade Reviewextremely timely ... rather than focusing on the nitty-gritty and details of numbers and metrics, the book offers a very readable and accessible overview of the topic - why and how altmetrics have developed, a snapshot of what they look like today, and a glimpse of what we might see in the future. -- Michelle Dalton * Libfocus *Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics is very welcome as it is one of very few textbooks revisiting the theory behind the growth of altmetrics, providing a comprehensive snapshot of what they look like today and demonstrating their value if applied in a meaningful manner. All in all, this is a worthwhile read, especially for any LIS professional interested in improving their understanding of altmetrics. -- Nathalie Cornée * LSE Review of Books *The targeted audience is library and information professionals doing altmetrics outreach to researchers, but the work is written to appeal to researchers and academics generally. A list of key points at the end of each chapter is particularly helpful for newcomers. -- Michael Rodriguez * Library Journal *The end of every chapter features “Key Points,” “Conclusions,” a “Reference List,” and “Further Reading,” making the text useful for reference purposes ... Overall, this readable book enables LIS professionals to help faculty and researchers understand the theoretical underpinnings of the development of altmetrics as well as navigate the variety of altmetrics technologies and tools. This book is recommended for academic and special librarians, information specialists, and graduate students pursuing an advanced degree in library science or information science. -- Sarah H. Jeong * Technical Services Quarterly *This book is a great addition to the literature on measuring scholarly productivity and is written by prominent experts in the field. This book is a practical step-by-step guide to boarding the altmetrics train and explores the new frontiers in scholarly communications metrics and public scholarship. It is an important addition to the conversation on scholarly metrics and opens a dialogue about other social media measurements through the many unanswered questions posed within the book. -- Innocent Awasom * The Library Quarterly *'This book provides a very practical, informative,and even inspiring springboard for library professionals and scholars to begin or expand an exploration into the advantages and opportunities afforded by altmetrics.'- Sarah Tusa, Lamar University, Serials Review * Serials Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction - Andy Tattersall 2. Road map: From web 2.0 to altmetrics - Andy Tattersall 3. "Metrics of the trade": where have we come from? - Andrew Booth 4. The evolution of library metrics - Ben Showers 5. The rise of altmetrics - Euan Adie 6. Beyond bibliometrics: altmetrics reflects information about enagagement with more types of scholarly content from more types of consumers - William Gunn 7. Considerations for implementing new technologies - Andy Tattersall 8. Resources and tools - Andy Tattersall 9. The connected academic - implementing altmetrics within your organisation - Andy Tattersall 10. Appmetrics - improving impact on the go - Claire Beecroft 11. Open peer review - Andy Tattersall 12. Conclusion - Andy Tattersall
£51.00
Facet Publishing Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging
Book SynopsisThis book provides strategic insights drawn from librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with researchers, scholars, colleagues and students. The impact of digital on libraries has extended far beyond its transformation of content, to the development of services, the extension and enhancement of access to research and to teaching and learning systems. As a result,the fluidity of the digital environment can often be at odds with the more systematic approaches to development traditionally taken by academic libraries, which has also led to a new generation of roles and shifting responsibilities with staff training and development often playing ‘catch-up’. One of the key challenges to emerge is how best to demonstrate expertise in digital scholarship which draws on the specialist technical knowledge of the profession and maintains and grows its relevance for staff, students and researchers. This edited collection spans a wide range of contrasting perspectives, contexts, insights and case studies, which explore the relationships between digital scholarship, contemporary academic libraries and professional practice. The book demonstrates that there are opportunities to be bold, remodel, trial new approaches and reposition the library as a key partner in the process of digital scholarship. Content covered includes: the impact of digital scholarship on organizational strategies an insight into new services and roles, partnerships and collaborations case studies exploring new technologies to support research and development new approaches to service delivery re-visioning of space, physical and virtual. This is an essential guide for librarians and information professionals involved in digital scholarship and communication, who wish to extend their awareness of emerging practices, as well as library administrators and students studying library and information science.Trade Review. . . a welcome addition to the literature about the on-going changes in academic librarianship . . . I would recommend the book for both teachers and students of library and information science, but also for practitioners who will find interesting projects carried out by their colleagues in different libraries. -- Elena Maceviciute * Information Research *Developing Digital Scholarship is a critically important read for all members of private, corporate, governmental, community and academic libraries who are charged with developing and/or upgrading digital elements of their library systems for the benefit of their patrons. -- Library BookwatchCoherent, well-edited, referenced and indexed, this collection hangs together, with little or no duplication. It is a very welcome addition to the sparse literature on digital scholarship. It offers a lifeline to librarians struggling to develop a coherent response to the challenges posed by the profound changes in scholarship found in modern academia. Anyone seeking to understand why, how and where libraries enable and enrich modern digital scholarship will find it useful. -- An LeabharlannAlong with a definition and review of the existing literature on digital scholarship and librarianship, other chapters and case studies include both theoretical and practical discussions of personnel, spaces, services, and communication tools... this book provides a good framework for conversation for strategic planning purposes. -- Linda Frederiksen * Library Journal *As computer-assisted academic research is often diverse, dynamic and even chaotic in nature, many academic libraries are currently struggling with the increasingly pressing challenge of developing useful and adequate forms of support for scholarship based on digital technologies. Developing Digital Scholarship provides a thorough and systematic overview of the different strategies and best practices that have been developed by leading libraries in the US and in the UK. The case studies that are included in the book offer valuable insights into the various ways in which librarians can manage innovative and experimental projects that often demand new areas of expertise and new models for interacting with academic staff. The book usefully highlights the new roles and the new responsibilities that are needed when librarians aim to facilitate data-intensive, interdisciplinary and collaborative forms of research. As such, it forms essential reading for all librarians engaged in the complicated process of supporting and promoting digital scholarship. At Leiden University Libraries, we are currently setting up a new Centre for Digital Scholarship, and the book has given us much inspiration for the development of new services. -- Paul VerhaarDeveloping Digital Scholarship will be of interest primarily to library administrators who already have the context and resources to shape their institutions’ digital scholarship initiatives. It will also be useful for students who are still in the process of choosing a specialty or for practitioners desirous of broadening their skill sets. Most readers will respond to the book’s optimistic mindset, best captured in its final sentence: “The groundwork for success is rooted in the resilient attitudes and behaviours of individuals in relation to the digital environment. -- Richard Nathan Leigh * ARBA *Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging Practices in Academic Libraries...combines literature review, theory, and case studies to advance our understanding of digital scholarship and the library’s role. The articles have an international bent, with authors from the U.K., Australia, and the U.S.The book will be of greatest interest to academic and other research librarians. -- Gwen M. Gregory * Information Today *...this collection offers a broad overview of different expressions of digital scholarship and how this developing field impacts current library practice. Given the title and the focus on skills and case studies, this collection seems to be most appropriate for academic libraries in the early stages of implementing digital scholarship services; however, it may also present relevant research and new ideas for libraries in which these services are already well established. -- Gesina A. Phillips * Catholic Library World *Table of ContentsPART 1: A REVIEW OF THE LANDSCAPE 1. The university library and digital scholarship: a review of the literature – Lindsey Martin 2. Digital scholarship: scanning library services and spaces - Alison MackenziePART 2: THE AGILE LIBRARIAN 3. Librarian as partner: in and out of the library - Roz Howard and Megan Fitzgibbons 4. Novice to Expert: developing digitally capable librarians - Charles Inskip 5. Lean in the Library: building capacity by realigning staff and resources - Jennifer BremnerPART 3: DIGITAL SPACES AND SERVICES 6. Digital Scholarship Centres: converging space and expertise - Tracy C. Bergstrom 7. Building scalable and sustainable services for researchers - David ClayPART 4: COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL NETWORKING 8. Social networking with the scholarly community: a literature review - Suzanne Parfitt 9. Developing Digital Scholars: from the Ivory Tower to the Twittersphere - Alison Hicks 10. Reflections on digital scholarship: so many reasons to be cheerful - Alison Mackenzie and Lindsey Martin
£45.00
Facet Publishing Introduction to Documentation Studies
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a composer, a writer, a painter, a historian, a political activist, and a social agency office have in common? They all create documents to communicate and inform the world, making documentation a necessity for any human interaction in society. Through six case-studies, the book shows how a complementary analysis of the intertwined processes of documentation, communication, and information in any kind of human interaction can be conducted. It demonstrates the relationships between the agents involved, the means chosen and in which modes the resulting complexes of documents are created, regardless of the field.The complementary analytical model and method is relevant not only for documentation, communication, and information scholars, but to a range of fields of research in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences/engineering and design.Written by an expert in documentation, this book provides a solid theoretical and analytical framework for professionals in archives, libraries, and museums, and for all those who manage documents as part of their professional life in healthcare, transportation, education, production and trade.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: DOCUMENTATION THEORY1 Setting the Stage2 A Complementary Theory of Documentation3 A Model for a Complementary Documentation AnalysisPart 2: DOCUMENTATION IN PRACTICE4 Music: A Requiem for Countess von Walsegg, aka Mozart's Requiem5 Literature: "Indian Camp" - A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway6 Art: The Girls on the Bridge - One Title - Many works7 Science: "The Danish Revolution 1500-1800" - A Doctoral dissertation8 Politics: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 19639 Identity Documentation: Name and numberPart 3: DOCUMENTATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE10: Documentation in a comparative perspective11: A complementary discipline of documentation, information, and communicationEpilogue
£50.00
Facet Publishing Introduction to Documentation Studies
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a composer, a writer, a painter, a historian, a political activist, and a social agency office have in common? They all create documents to communicate and inform the world, making documentation a necessity for any human interaction in society. Through six case-studies, the book shows how a complementary analysis of the intertwined processes of documentation, communication, and information in any kind of human interaction can be conducted. It demonstrates the relationships between the agents involved, the means chosen and in which modes the resulting complexes of documents are created, regardless of the field.The complementary analytical model and method is relevant not only for documentation, communication, and information scholars, but to a range of fields of research in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences/engineering and design.Written by an expert in documentation, this book provides a solid theoretical and analytical framework for professionals in archives, libraries, and museums, and for all those who manage documents as part of their professional life in healthcare, transportation, education, production and trade.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: DOCUMENTATION THEORY1 Setting the Stage2 A Complementary Theory of Documentation3 A Model for a Complementary Documentation AnalysisPart 2: DOCUMENTATION IN PRACTICE4 Music: A Requiem for Countess von Walsegg, aka Mozart's Requiem5 Literature: "Indian Camp" - A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway6 Art: The Girls on the Bridge - One Title - Many works7 Science: "The Danish Revolution 1500-1800" - A Doctoral dissertation8 Politics: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 19639 Identity Documentation: Name and numberPart 3: DOCUMENTATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE10: Documentation in a comparative perspective11: A complementary discipline of documentation, information, and communicationEpilogue
£130.05
Facet Publishing Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure
Book SynopsisReading is an essential life skill not only for an individual's development and life chances but for social cohesion and a developed democracy. This book focuses on the importance of reading for pleasure and the difference that it can make to a person’s life chances, with a focus upon how libraries and librarians help reluctant and struggling readers: those who might fall through the net or be left behind. Reading by Right provides an edited collection of chapters covering aspects of overcoming reading difficulties or reading reluctance in children and young people from birth right through to teenage. The book examines the research into problems with the acquisition of reading and highlights some of the best practise to be found internationally, both as a practical aid but also to inspire partnership and cooperation. Content covered includes: an outline of the political and strategic framework that library and education practitioners face in trying to overcome the barriers to reading a review of the past several decades of research in this area how youngsters become ‘reluctant readers’ and how to improve the situation for everyone examples of successful projects from Korea and Finland, countries that consistently perform well in reading tests and international league tables a wealth of practical context, including case studies and perspectives from school and public libraries an overview of the ongoing relevance of debates and discussion around diversity in publishing and children’s books, including some potential solutions. The book will be invaluable reading for practitioners and students of librarianship in both the public and school sectors. It will also be of great interest to all teachers, consultants and educators concerned with literacy and reading, and to policy makers in both the school and library sectors.Trade ReviewThis book is a great read (no pun intended!), but it is far more than that. This is an essential toolkit for anyone working with children’s reading. Alongside the research there are many practical ideas for parents, librarians and teachers to take reading forward. Carrying this book around is the equivalent of having a vast library of information at your fingertips, curated by some of the finest librarians and experts. Personally I consider the index a thing of great beauty and the references and appendices are a wonderful resource on their own. -- Dawn Finch * Awfully Big Reviews *This book would best be utilized by library systems but could also be useful to an enterprising and creative individual librarian. -- Cheryl Clark * VOYA *Reading by Right provides the reader with many excellent examples of how to engage with children and young people in developing their reading skills. The key elements include allowing children to have ownership of their reading material. No material is inappropriate. Allow them to read picture books, graphic novels, educational graphic novels, non-fiction, audiobooks, etc. Allow them to play instead of reading if they prefer. Develop games that incorporate the books you’d like them to be reading. Support them in developing their own reading habits. Encourage reading for pleasure. The book provides an excellent bibliography throughout and also websites for further study on this topic. I am inspired to see how much of what I have learnt from this book I can bring to my library service. * An Leabharlann *Thoughtful and inspiring essays address the importance of reaching all readers, strategies for encouraging reluctant readers, and reasons why some children become reluctant readers...This reading is “right” and highly recommended. -- Renee McGrath * School Library Journal *'Most of us utilise reading every day of our lives, for our work, as part of study/education, for enjoyment and when seeking information. Very few of us dissect how we got to be able to do that. The beauty of this book is that it gets us to reflect on the ‘how’, and the challenges faced by those children who may not be able to acquire that skill as a matter of course, but who may need interventions to ensure that they develop competence, and equally importantly, an enjoyment of reading as they proceed through life.'- Josipa Crnic, Deakin University, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association * Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association *'Most of us utilise reading every day of our lives, for our work, as part of study/education, for enjoyment and when seeking information. Very few of us dissect how we got to be able to do that. The beauty of this book is that it gets us to reflect on the ‘how’, and the challenges faced by those children who may not be able to acquire that skill as a matter of course, but who may need interventions to ensure that they develop competence, and equally importantly, an enjoyment of reading as they proceed through life.'- Josipa Crnic, Deakin University, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association * Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association *'Ensuring that every child is given the best chance in life to become a lifelong reader is the central tenet of editor Joy Court's excellent book. A collection of 11 chapters, the foundation of which stand firm on well-informed theory and practice, Reading by Right provides us with a range of successful strategies for engaging and enthusing readers across the globe who need support, motivation or the right book to guide them towards the path of becoming someone who reads for pleasure.' -- Matthew Tobin * Literacy *Table of ContentsForeword – Chris Riddell Introduction – Joy Court 1. Supporting every child to read – Alexandra Strick and Wendy Cooling 2. Listening to their voices: what research tells us about readers – Teri S. Lesesne 3. Becoming a reluctant reader – Prue Goodwin 4. Reading Club: a case study from Finland – Mervi Heikkilä and Sara Tuisku 5. Trained reading helpers: Beanstalk’s magic ingredient – Ginny Lunn and Hilary Mason 6. Let all children experience the joy of reading: promoting children’s reading in Korea – Yeojoo Lim 7. Reflecting readers: ensuring that no one is excluded – Jake Hope 8. Pulling in reluctant readers: strategies for school librarians – Alison Brumwell 9. Not just for the avid reader: inclusive Carnegie and Kate Greenaway shadowing – Amy McKay and Joy Court 10. Listen up! How audiobooks support literacy – Rose Brock 11. Reading the future – Jake Hope
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Facet Publishing The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook
Book SynopsisFreedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens. Since 2005, the UK’s Freedom of Information Act has opened up thousands of public bodies to unparalleled scrutiny and prompted further moves to transparency. Wherever the right to know is introduced, its success depends on the way it is implemented. In organisations worldwide, FOI only works because of those who oversee its operation on a day-to-day basis, promoting openness, processing requests and advising colleagues and the public. FOI is dependent on the FOI Officers. The Freedom of Information Officer’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to FOI and its management. It is designed to be an indispensable tool for FOI Officers and their colleagues. It includes: a guide to the UK’s FOI Act, the right to know and the exemptions clear analysis of the most important case law and its implications for the handling of FOI requests pointers to the best resources to help FOI officers in their work explanations of how FOI interacts with other legislation, including detailed explorations of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and how the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation impacts on FOI a look at requirements to proactively publish information and the effect of copyright and re-use laws on FOI and open data comparisons of the UK’s Act with FOI legislation in other jurisdictions from Scotland to South Africa an exploration of the role of the FOI Officer: who they are, what they do, their career development and what makes them effective suggestions on how to embed FOI within an organisation using effective procedures, technology and training a stage-by-stage guide to processing requests for information. The Freedom of Information Officers’ Handbook includes the latest developments in FOI including amendments made to the UK’s FOI Act by the Data Protection Act 2018 and the revised s.45 code of practice published by the Cabinet Office in July 2018.Trade Review'Comprehensive, authoritative, definitive, exceptionally well organized and presented, "The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook" is a complete and thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional guide and reference for anyone charged with FOI responsibilities and responses to requests. An essential and core addition to governmental information policy maker reference collections, "The Freedom of Information Officer's Handbook" is essential reading for all journalists and is unreservedly recommended for community, college, university collections.'- Able Greenspan, Midwest Book Review * Midwest Book Review *'The book is an absolute must read for staff new to FOI (and new to complex UK legislation) as they navigate their way through this new world and language. However, it is also a wonderful resource for more experienced staff to dip into as and when required. Every FOI Officer should have a copy on their desk.'- Lynn Wyeth, Head of Information Governance at Leicester City Council, Freedom of Information Journal * Freedom of Information Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1: Understanding FOI1. A brief history of freedom of information2. Understanding the Act3. The exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act4. The FOI officer’s toolkitPart 2: FOI in Context5. The Environmental Information Regulations6. The Freedom of Information Act, personal information and the GDPR7. Records and archives8. Publication schemes and proactive disclosure9. Copyright and re-use of informationPart 3: FOI in Practice10. The FOI officer11. Embedding FOI12. Managing FOI requests13. Communicating with applicants14. Internal reviews and appealsAppendicesAppendix 1 - Methodology of survey of English local authoritiesAppendix 2 - FOI response templatesAppendix 3 - Privacy notice for FOI requestsNotesIndex
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Facet Publishing The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is a comprehensive resource for academic library professionals and LIS students looking to pursue a teaching role in their work and to develop this aspect of their professional lives in a holistic way throughout their careers. The book is built around the core ideas of reflective self-development and informed awareness of one’s personal professional landscape. Through engaging with a series of exercises and reflective pauses in each chapter, readers are encouraged to reflect on their professional identity, self-image, self-efficacy and progress as they consider each of the different aspects of the teaching role. This handbook will:provide a comprehensive resource on teaching, professional development and reflective practice for academic teaching librarians at all stages of their careersexplore the current landscape of teaching librarianship in higher education, and highlight the important developments, issues and trends that are shaping current and future practiceexamine the roles and responsibilities of the academic teaching librarian in the digital eraintroduce the essential areas of development, skill and knowledge that will empower current and future professionals in the roleinspire prospective and current academic teaching librarians to adopt a broad conception of the role that goes beyond the basic idea of classroom-based teaching, and provide practical tools to engage in personal development and career planning in this area. The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is an indispensable reference, suitable for early career professionals at the start of their teaching journey, as well as mid- or late-career librarians who may have moved into leadership and managerial roles and who wish to advance their teaching role to the next level. Trade Review'I have admired the easy to read but very professional language of the author and also explored the methods and techniques that she has used throughout the text as educational devices: personal reflection points, cleverly constructed exercises, usage of layout means, structuring of the text and figures. This book is definitely for librarians, but also for students of information science and their teachers.'Ona Norvaišaitė, Information ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Constructing the academic teaching librarian 1 Shaping the academic teaching librarian 1.1 Introduction: critical issues for academic teaching librarians 1.2 Conceptions of literacy: terminology and the academic teaching librarian 1.3 New frameworks: information literacy in context 1.4 Critical information literacy 1.5 Social media and filter bubbles: the rise of ‘fake news’ 1.6 Learning analytics 1.7 E-research and datafied scholarship 2 Defining the academic teaching librarian 2.1 Introduction: who is the academic teaching librarian? 2.2 Professional identity and ‘teacher identity’ 2.3 Roles and responsibilities of academic teaching Librarians 2.4 The information-literate self 2.5 Reflective practice for academic teaching librarians 2.6 Developing a personal teaching philosophy 3 Becoming an academic teaching librarian 3.1 Introduction: choosing the academic teaching librarian pathway 3.2 Looking inwards: self-analysis and the teaching role 3.3 Does a ‘teaching personality’ exist? 3.4 Mapping your teaching profile 3.5 Planning and developing your teaching role 3.6 Keeping current with teaching trends 3.7 Documenting and showcasing your work; teaching portfolios for librarians Part 2 Excelling as an academic teaching librarian 4 Technology and the academic teaching librarian 4.1 Introduction: the digital environment for academic teaching librarians 4.2 Teaching, learning and technology – key concepts 4.3 The digital imperative in higher education 4.4 Digital education in higher education (HE): state of the art 4.5 Digital learning and the academic teaching librarian 4.6 Digital learning knowledge domains: a framework for academic teaching librarians 4.7 Levels of skill and expertise for digital learning 4.8 Additional digital learning competence frameworks 4.9 A reflective approach to planning and designing digital learning 4.10 A final word on digital learning 5 Leading and co-ordinating for the academic teaching librarian 5.1 Introduction: leadership, management and culture 5.2 Leadership and the academic teaching librarian 5.3 Coordinating your library’s information literacy programme 5.4 Creating an information literacy culture in your institution 5.5 Engaging with the wider community of teaching librarians 6 Advocacy and the academic teaching librarian 6.1 Introduction: reflecting on advocacy 6.2 Advocacy and libraries 6.3 Advocacy and academic teaching librarians 6.4 Information literacy: communicating value 6.5 Ways of engaging in advocacy 6.6 Writing for academic publications: a reflective view
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Facet Publishing The Social Future of Academic Libraries: New
Book SynopsisThe current focus in higher education on student engagement, holistic education, social responsibility and community partnerships demands a significant mind-shift for academic libraries to reclaim their place at the heart of academic institutions that are reinventing themselves as social enterprises. The professional response to social trends in the academy and society includes moves such as converged services, embedded librarians, relationship management, inside-out libraries and design thinking. But such work is often confined to small parts of the library and has not created the largescale change in strategy and culture required to turn libraries into dynamic social organisations in the connected digital world. Incremental enhancement of services, spaces and structures is not enough. The present context calls for radical rethinking of library mission and service philosophy to realign resources, processes and practices to institutional needs. New ways of working must be guided by new ways of thinking that empower librarians to view practices holistically through a social lens. Intellectual and social capital theories offer new perspectives on library work and a proven conceptual framework for the reset needed to keep academic libraries relevant in the 21st century. The Social Future of Academic Libraries starts with the developments in thinking and practice that constitute the ‘social turn’ in communities, professions, the economy, the academy and libraries, while also introducing the core concepts of intellectual and social capital and networks. Part II presents nine case studies illustrating how social capital perspectives and social network theory can facilitate organisational learning, service development and collaborative relationships across different areas of library practice. Examples cover collection development, data services, information literacy, liaison librarians, library fundraising, service design, space utilisation, subject specialists and student success. The volume is accompanied by a keyword guide to the concepts, theories and models referenced in the text via two downloadable glossaries with related bibliographies to inform current reading and future work.Table of ContentsForeword: Capital, Value and the Becoming Library Stephen Town Introduction: Charting a Course to the Social Future of Academic Libraries Tim SchlakPart 1 Contexts and Concepts 1 The Social Turn in Communities, Professions and the Economy Sheila Corrall2 Networks, Higher Education and the Social Future of Libraries Paul J. Bracke3 Renewing and Revitalising the Social Mission of Higher Education Sheila Corrall4 Social Capital and Academic Libraries: the Basics Tim Schlak5 The Social Mission of Academic Libraries in Higher Education Sheila Corrall6 Forecasting a Future for Academic Libraries: Engagement, Community Building and Organisational Development Tim SchlakPart 2 Theory into Practice 7 Knowledge and Networks: Subject Specialists and the Social Library James Kessenides and Michael Brenes8 Conceptualising the Sociocultural Nature of the Development of Information Literacy in Undergraduate Education Amanda L. Folk9 Social Network Theory in Emerging Library Learning Spaces and Programs Alice Rogers, Sara Sweeney Bear and Scott Fralin10 Advancing Research Data Management: A Social Capital Perspective on Functional Librarianship Andrea Kosavic and Minglu Wang11 Relational Capital and Turnover in Liaison Roles in Academic Libraries Alice Kalinowski12 Beyond Individual Relationships: Programmatic Approaches to Outreach and Engagement at UC Santa Barbara Library Rebecca L. Metzger13 The Role of Academic Libraries in Developing Social Capital by Promoting Quality Reading in Local Communities Matthew Kelly14 Social Capital in Academic Libraries: – A Model for Successful Fundraising Kathryn Dilworth15 Design as an Accelerator of Social Capital in Academic Libraries Andrew DillonConclusion: Into the Social Future Paul J. Bracke
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Facet Publishing Libraries and Sanctuary: Supporting Refugees and
Book SynopsisLibraries 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 behind an individual’s move, their need for signposting, and at the sorts of barriers that are faced by new arrivals and people seeking sanctuary. Readers will discover the background reasons for migration, the global political context of migration, and the likely impacts of both of these. They will also gain an understanding of just how much work libraries have done so far; learn from practical initiatives, ‘what works’ examples and longer case studies; identify gaps in library provision; and find inspiration to start similar initiatives in their own institution. Drawing on the author’s decades of work in libraries and social exclusion, this is a book for anyone seeking to create an inclusive and welcoming library community.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Definitions and scope of the book: when we talk about "refugees and other new arrivals", who exactly do we mean? 2. What has been the response in the UK? 3. What does any of this have to do with libraries? 4. Libraries' responses in the UK – historical background 5. What barriers are there to the take-up of library services by new arrivals? And how can we begin to dismantle these? 6. How are libraries responding today? And what more can we do? Some practical ideas … 7. And what can we learn from elsewhere? Conclusions Appendix 1: Main countries of origin of people seeking asylum Appendix 2: Immigration status Appendix 3: A note on funding Appendix 4: A brief look at the supply of library materials Appendix 5: Outline for a course, "Working with new arrivals" Appendix 6: Some sources of information about new arrivals locally and regionally Appendix 7: Effective communications Appendix 8: Community cohesion
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Facet Publishing Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for
Book SynopsisInformation has become one of the most crucial commodities in today’s world. From multinational corporations to single individuals, we all make critical decisions based on the information available to us. However, modern ease of access to information does not often guarantee access to good information. In this digital age, where facts can be easily manipulated to align with political, social or monetary aims, media literacy has become an essential skill. Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and other Information Professionals is an invaluable toolkit for navigating the fraught information landscape. From the history of media manipulation to practical applications of media literacy, this book will offer a thorough grounding in teaching students to defend themselves from mis-and dis-information. It discusses how technology affects the information we receive, offers a brief look at the psychology behind how we process information, describes the various means by which media can be manipulated and provides tips about how to recognize and avoid false or misleading information. Featuring numerous classroom exercises and case studies specific to each aspect of media manipulation, this book is essential reading for students and educators in communications, media and information literacy as well as librarians and anyone interested in developing their media literacy skills. Trade Review"This newly published book is a CPD must-have for any librarian who delivers an information and media skills programme. It covers a huge amount of information including the history of media and manipulation, selecting sources and evaluating them, and the language used in media messages. Bots, trolls, algorithms, deep fakes, trending, and representation of cultural groups and stereotypes are just a few of the topics covered. Extremely interesting and accessible, and backed-up with recent research, there are suggestions on how we can help in the classroom as well as exercises designed to engage students that can be adapted for different age groups." * Barbara Band, Amazon UK Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1 A brief history of media and media manipulation Chapter 2 Psychology of memory and learning Chapter 3 The Internet, technology and the media Chapter 4 Selecting information sources Chapter 5 Expertise, authority and Credibility Chapter 6 Language in media messages Chapter 7 Algorithms, Bots, Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligence Chapter 8 Statistics and data visualizations Chapter 9 Images, Reverse Image Searching and Deepfakes Chapter 10 Media manipulation and Fact Checking Chapter 11 The ethics of likes, clicks, shares and data harvesting Chapter 12 How we can help ourselves
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Facet Publishing The Special Collections Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive desk reference providing the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting and covering all aspects of special collections work: preservation; developing collections; understanding objects; emergency planning; security; legal and ethical concerns; cataloguing; digitisation; marketing; outreach; teaching; impact; advocacy, and fundraising. This new edition has been revised and updated to incorporate the many developments in the field, reflecting the growth and dynamism of the sector and the complexity of the environment in which we operate. This will include: Enriched and updated guidance on decolonising collections management and all other elements of special collections work working towards zero-carbon buildings, preservation, and other aspects of special collections work lessons/impact of Covid-19: managing remote access by staff and users, emergency planning, health and safety, risk assessments new legislation affecting special collections, notably in the UK the Data Protection Act 2018 new and revised standards, such as the new British Standards relating to collections care, BS EN 16893 and BS 4971, which replace PD5454 new and emerging technologies in collections discovery, digitisation, digital resource and digital libraries, and how to manage them and build capacity. Particular attention will be paid to the implications of the ‘digital shift’ and the place of special collections in online and hybrid learning. Comprehensive and written in a highly accessible manner, The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition will be an essential resource for staff working with special collections in a wide range of settings, including academia, public libraries, religious organisations, museums, and at scales from solo librarians to ‘nationals’. Trade Review'The Special Collections Handbook, third edition by experienced special collections librarian Alison Cullingford is an ideal and unreservedly recommended textbook for college and university Library Science curriculums and instructional reference collections, as well as an essential instructional resource for the personal and professional reading lists of both novice and experienced librarians, including special collection custodians and stewards.' * The Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsPart 1. Discovering collections1 Understanding objects in Special CollectionsPart 2. Collections management2 The care of Special Collections3 Emergency planning for Special Collections4 Acquiring and developing Special Collections5 Cataloguing, description and metadata in Special Collections6 Digitization and digital libraries in Special CollectionsPart 3. Managing public access7 Legal and ethical issues in Special Collections8 User services in Special Collections9 Marketing and communications in Special Collections10 Widening access to Special Collections11 Using Special Collections in educationPart 4. Governance and resources for Special Collections12 Special Collections spaces13 Organizational resources for Special Collections: people14 Influencing and fund-raising for Special CollectionsAppendix A The Special Collections reference shelfAppendix B Skills for your Special Collections careerAppendix C Latin and palaeography
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Facet Publishing Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning,
Book SynopsisDrawing on the authors’ experience gained from library projects around the world, this book charts a readable path through everything from the planning of a new library, to major refurbishment, or the remodelling of a current library. It clearly explains the library design language and processes needed by professionals overseeing any project, and covers essential aspects including ensuring cost-effectiveness, eco-efficiencies, improved service and community impact meet the organisation’s objectives. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes coverage of: the need for flexible and adaptable library spaces the environmental impact of building design, construction and use the trend towards multi-use, multi-purpose buildings to serve community, cultural and educational needs a customer-centred approach to service delivery heightened focus on health and wellbeing for all stakeholders the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and customer access needs on the design and layout of a library the rapid growth of digital services. International and cross-sectoral in scope, this book is an essential guide for library professionals or architects involved in library building, remodelling or development. It will also be a valuable reference for students of both library and architectural design. Table of ContentsLibraries after 2020 Project Management Project and Design Teams Partnership and Community Engagement The Design Brief Design Quality Space Planning and Access Occupancy and Post-occupancy Evaluation Building Libraries for the Future: a Summary Bibliography and Further Reading
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Facet Publishing School Libraries Supporting Literacy and
Book SynopsisStudent literacy is a perennial concern in and across nations, with measurement and accountability continually ramped up at both individual student and school levels. Debates about literacy and how it can best be improved are never far from media headlines. However, relatively little consideration is given to the role that school libraries and their staff play in building and maintaining student literacy, despite research linking school libraries and qualified staff to student literacy gains. With the number of students who struggle with basic literacy skills increasing in many nations, school libraries can play an important role in improving the academic, vocational and social outcomes for these young people, thereby increasing their opportunities. Fostering student wellbeing is also a key priority for schools given the challenges young people face in current times. This book seeks to promote greater understanding of the links between reading, literacy and wellbeing that could help students cope with these challenges, and the role of the school library in leading this approach. It explores the current role of school library professionals and highlights how literacy and wellbeing education and support sit within this, paying specific attention to how school library professionals build reading engagement and promote student wellbeing through various approaches, such as fostering health literacy and creating nurturing environments. Readers will be empowered to build a case for the importance of their role and library, and audit their current literacy and wellbeing offerings, and adjust or extend them where applicable based on best practice. The book also explores some of the many challenges facing school libraries and their professional staff that may need to be mitigated to ensure that they can reach their full potential for supporting student literacy and wellbeing. Trade Review'With as many as one-in-five young people experiencing mental health problems globally, this book is an important resource to help support literacy development and holistic wellbeing of students.' -- Cathal CoyleTable of Contents1. What do school library professionals contribute to student learning and support? A focus on Australia and the UK 2. School libraries and reading engagement for literacy 3. Librarians supporting struggling literacy learners beyond the early years 4. School libraries and reading engagement for student wellbeing 5. School libraries, health resourcing and information literacy 6. Librarians creating environments for reading and wellbeing 7. Challenges to visibility and advocacy for school libraries and staff 8. Conclusions and directions for future research
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Facet Publishing Supporting People to Live Well with Dementia: A
Book SynopsisLibraries have enormous potential to support people with dementia and their carers, and demand for dementia-friendly library services is only likely to increase in the future as the numbers of people affected by dementia rise and there is greater emphasis on community-based care. Taking action to create a dementia-friendly library can initially feel like a massive undertaking, but small changes can make a big difference.Supporting People to Live Well with Dementia describes how to effectively develop, promote and evaluate services for people with dementia. It provides readers with an understanding of the different ways in which library customers may be affected by dementia, and an appreciation of some of the ways they can continue to contribute positively to their communities. It then suggests ways in which libraries can better support people with dementia and their carers through approaches to customer service, design, resources, reading interventions, online provision and a range of other activities that promote more positive and inclusive attitudes towards people living with dementia amongst library staff, customers and communities more widely. Table of ContentsIntroduction What is dementia?Types of dementia Stages of dementia Understanding dementia Potential impacts on the use of library services Person-centred care ConclusionsSupporting people living with dementia and their carers Social model of disability Supporting library customers with dementia and their carers Support for library staff affected by dementia Training opportunities ConclusionsLibrary design and environment Finding the library Getting around the library Case studies of dementia-friendly library design Sensory spaces Conclusion: maintaining dementia-friendly library designReading and DementiaDementia and imagination Dementia-friendly reading materials Reading activities for people with dementia and carers ConclusionsHealth, social and arts activitiesHealth and therapy-informed activities Activities supporting social connections Arts-related activities ConclusionsDigital and online provisionOnline activity provision for people with dementia Other technologies for people with dementia Online provision for carers ConclusionsPartnership workingGeneral partnership schemes Library-specific partnership schemes ConclusionsCommunications and marketingLanguage and terminology Design of communications materials Working with the media and other partners ConclusionsEvaluation and service developmentKey concepts Recruiting participants Evaluation and research methods Ethics ConclusionsFuture TrendsDemographic changes Changes in care provision Conclusion: future library provision for people with dementia and their carersSummary: Ten actions for dementia-friendly libraries
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Facet Publishing Roll for Adventure
Book SynopsisIn this highly-anticipated sequel to Let's Roll, Maxwell will enable readers to start their adventures with confidence and fun, with a focus on 'Plug & Play' D&D sessions.
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