Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Electronic Resource Management
Practical Perspectives in a New Technical Services Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A significant shift is taking place in libraries, with the purchase of e-resources accounting for the bulk of materials spending. Electronic Resource Management makes the case that technical services workflows need to make a corresponding shift toward e-centric models and highlights the increasing...
The Teaching Librarian
Web 2.0, Technology, and Legal Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Librarians need to utilize web 2.0 tools to generate rich-text learning environments, creating enriching, challenging, and supportive learning platforms for students. The Teaching Librarian shows how to utilize wikis, mindmaps, and Second Life to improve pedagogy for librarians. This title covers...
Making a Collection Count
A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection’s life cycle. Relationships between collections and other...
Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Policy Issues, the Workplace, Health and Public Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book reviews the role of information literacy (IL) in developing employability skills, personal health management and informal learning from a variety of areas including: information policy issues, information usage and training needs and skills development. Early years education, lifelong learning...
by Luis Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Private Philanthropic Trends in Academic Libraries is written with the senior library administrator and the development officers of academic institutions in mind. Chapters provide a historical perspective of the funding trends of the private philanthropic foundations and corporate giving programs...
Networked Collaborative Learning
Social interaction and Active Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
The sustainability of Networked Collaborative Learning (NCL) is a key topic of discussion amongst the institutions where it has been or may potentially be introduced. In order to determine the extent of NCL's sustainability, the added value university education may yield by adopting collaborative...
Making a Collection Count
A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Library collection management is a vital part of any library’s operations. Making a Collection Count takes a holistic look at library collection management, connecting collection management activities and departments, and instructs on how to gather and analyse data from each point in a collection’s...
Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0
After Avatars, Trolls and Puppets
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. The book provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns...
Personal Knowledge Capital
The Inner and Outer Path of Knowledge Creation in a Web World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Intangible value leads to new insights and ideas, and higher levels of creativity and innovative thinking. Personal knowledge capital focuses on the knowledge worker, knowledge creation, and third generation knowledge management. A focus on the ‘inner and outer’ aspects of personal knowledge capital...
iPhone Application Development
Strategies for Efficient Mobile Design and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
iPhone application development is explained here in an accessible treatment for the generalist Library and Information Science (LIS) practitioner. Future information-seeking practices by users will take place across a diverse array of ubiquitous computing devices. iPhone applications represent one...
Do You Web 2.0?
Public Libraries and Social Networking
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Web 2.0 technology is a hot topic at the moment, and public librarians in particular are beginning to feel the pressure to apply these tools. Indeed, Web 2.0 has the potential to transform library services, but only if the policy and strategy for those services are ready to be transformed. The author...
The Host in the Machine
Examining the Digital in the Social
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
This book tackles online social networks by navigating these systems from the birth to the death of their digital presence. Navigating the social within the digital can be a contentious undertaking, as social networks confuse the boundary between offline and online relationships. These systems work...
by Celeste Varum, Can Huang, Joaquim Borges Gouveia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
A comprehensive description of China’s innovation system through in-depth analysis of its transformation in the past two decades. The most recent developments are included in order to summarize Chinese experience of reforming its industry and academy sector to meet the challenge of innovation. The...
Cathedrals of Learning
Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and natural history collections they have accumulated...