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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The premier volume of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI), edited by Samantha Kelly Hastings, is the polestar publication for cultural heritage scholars, professionals, and students. Featuring sixteen original works selected by the distinguished editorial board of international...
Pervasive Information Architecture
Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Pervasive Information Architecture explains the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of pervasive information architecture (IA) through detailed examples and real-world stories. It offers insights about trade-offs that can be made and techniques for even the most unique design challenges. The book will help readers...
by Virginia L. Wallace, Whitney N. Husid
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This newly updated and expanded second edition of Collaborating for Inquiry-Based Learning explains effective IBL scaffolding and the school librarian's role as the lead in the collaborative process of inquiry-based teaching.
• Positions the librarian as a key leader and collaborator in the...
by Randell K. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This book helps educators foster academic success and college readiness: it demonstrates how to instruct high school students to find, process, and think about new information, and then synthesize that knowledge.
• Introduces the Information Search Process to students
• Supplies...
A Handbook of Practical Wisdom
Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The current financial and on-going ecological crises have taught us that without practical wisdom, business, organisations and leadership cannot be sustainable. In response to this situation, the Handbook of Practical Wisdom presents a critically informed understanding of wise practices, contributing...
Information Literacy Landscapes
Information Literacy in Education, Workplace and Everyday Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Drawing upon the author’s on going research into information literacy, Information Literacy Landscapes explores the nature of the phenomenon from a socio-cultural perspective, which offers a more holistic approach to understanding information literacy as a catalyst for learning. This perspective...
Multilingual Information Management
Information, Technology and Translators
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Multilingual information is in high demand in today’s globalised economy. Industry and market globalisation, intensified collaboration between European countries, technological developments, the advent and consolidation of the Internet, the rise of electronic business, and the increased use of electronic...
The Metadata Manual
A Practical Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Cultural heritage professionals have high levels of training in metadata. However, the institutions in which they practice often depend on support staff, volunteers, and students in order to function. With limited time and funding for training in metadata creation for digital collections, there are...
Digital Futures
Expert Briefings on Digital Technologies for Education and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
A co-branded book project with Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Commitee), off the back of DigiFest 2014, a digital festival run by Jisc for the first time in 2014. The aim of the book is to bring cutting-edge discussion as heard at DigiFest to the information professional/academic librarian...
Marketing and Social Media
A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a much-needed guide to marketing for libraries, archives, and museum professionals in the social media age. This book is both an introductory textbook and a guide for working professionals who want to go beyond mere promotion...
Rural and Small Public Libraries
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Rural and small public libraries provide invaluable services to their communities. These information institutions operate in areas that, when compared to national averages, have poor broadband accessibility and weaker connection speeds, low home internet adoption rates, higher unemployment rates,...
Digital Information Strategies
From Applications and Content to Libraries and People
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time.
This helpful resource explores the impact of developing technologies on the information...
Ways of Experiencing Information Literacy
Making the Case for a Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book has two aims: firstly to present an investigation into information literacy by looking at how people engage with information to accomplish tasks or solve problems in personal, academic and professional contexts (also known as the relational approach). This view of information literacy illustrates...
Re-Inventing the Book
Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Re-Inventing the Book: Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry chronicles the significant changes that have taken place in the publishing industry in the past few decades and how they have altered the publishing value chain and the structure of the industry itself.
The book examines...