Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Disaster Planning for Libraries
Process and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical...
Security Risks in Social Media Technologies
Safe Practices in Public Service Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Security measures can be used by management, IT staff, and users in participatory/collaborative service provision within the public sector. Security Risks in Social Media Technologies explores this use. Topics are targeted, and issues raised and lessons learnt are analyzed. The book helps the reader...
Information Cosmopolitics
An Actor-Network Theory Approach to Information Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Information Cosmopolitics explores interaction between nationalist and information sharing practices in academic communities with a view to understanding the potential impacts of these interactions. This book is also a resounding critique of existing theories and methods as well as the launching point...
Globalization and the Chinese Retailing Revolution
Competing in the World’s Largest Emerging Market
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Chinese retailing serves 1.3 billion consumers and is developing with high economic growth rates. This detailed reference examines the following issues: the revolution happening in Chinese retailing; the evolution of the opening-up policy of Chinese retailing; the great opportunities brought about...
Records Management for Museums and Galleries
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The systematic management of records is an important activity for ‘information businesses’ such as museums and galleries, but is not always recognized as a core function. Record keeping activities are often concentrated on small groups of records, and staff charged with managing them may have...
Why Blog?
Motivations for Blogging
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
'Weblogging' or ‘blogging’ has joined e-mail and Internet home pages as one of the most popular uses of the Internet. This book focuses on the British blogosphere, comparing British bloggers to the more researched US. Motivations covered include the desire to connect with others online, the need...
Eve on Top
Women’s Experience of Success in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten ‘successful’ women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences. Each case study includes a...
Managing People Globally
An Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This wide-ranging review of human resources management (HRM) in Asia draws attention to issues which are substantially different from those which a Western-trained manager or student would expect. Intra-regional issues are examined and, in an unusual approach, topics are organised thematically, rather...
by Yong Tan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Due to the financial crisis around the world, stability of the banking sector is critical. Several rounds of banking reforms in China have aimed to improve performance and competition, and Performance, Risk and Competition in the Chinese Banking Industry provides a comprehensive analysis of performance,...
Records Management and Knowledge Mobilisation
A Handbook for Regulation, Innovation and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
This book argues that records management can contribute to public sector reform and transformation in the new climate of austerity, without losing its essential characteristics. Over the last 15 years, records management has prospered, tackling problems of electronic information and building a strong...
Library Technology and User Services
Planning, Integration, and Usability Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Written as a technology guide for students, practitioners, and administrators, the focus of this book is on introducing current and future trends in library technology and automation within the larger context of strategic and systems planning, implementation, and continuous improvement. Technology...
Web 2.0 Knowledge Technologies and the Enterprise
Smarter, Lighter and Cheaper
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Whilst enterprise technology departments have been steadily building their information and knowledge management portfolios, the Internet has generated new sets of tools and capabilities which provide opportunities and challenges for improving and enriching knowledge work. This book fills the gap between...
Becoming a Lean Library
Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development.
Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success, Becoming a Lean Library provides library leadership...
Succeed or Sink
Business Sustainability Under Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Aimed at business strategists, policy makers, researchers and adult learners, this book has an Asian perspective on business sustainability and is about understanding how recent developments and future actions in one part of the world will have a global impact. The book magnifies the concept of so-called...