Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Virtual Research Environments
From Portals to Science Gateways
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Virtual Research Environments examines making Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) usable by researchers working to solve “grand challenge problems in many disciplines from social science to particle physics. It is driven by research the authors have carried out to evaluate researchers’...
Libraries and Public Perception
A Comparative Analysis of the European Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
What is the future of libraries? This question is frequently posed, with widespread research into the social and economic impact of libraries. Newspapers play an important role in forming public perceptions, but how do newspapers present libraries, their past, present and future? Nobody has yet taken...
Information Services and Digital Literacy
In Search of the Boundaries of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Despite new technologies, people do not always find information with ease. Do people still need help in finding the information they need, and if so, why? What can be made easier with new tools and techniques?
Information Services and Digital Literacy is about the role of information services...
Collective Action 2.0
The Impact of Social Media on Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Collective Action 2.0 explores the issues related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in detail, providing a balanced insight into how ICTs leverage and interact with collective action, which will have an impact on the current discourse. Recent events in different authoritarian regimes,...
Stepping Away from the Silos
Strategic Collaboration in Digitisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
For over twenty years, digitisation has been a core element of the modern information landscape. The digital lifecycle is now well defined, and standards and good practice have been developed for most of its key stages. There remains, however, a widespread lack of coordination of digitisation initiatives,...
Academic Libraries in the US and China
Comparative Studies of Instruction, Government Documents, and Outreach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Academic libraries have a long history both in the USA and China, with institutions developing along different trajectories, and responding to the rapidly changing library environment globally. Academic Libraries in the US and China compares current practices within Library and Information Science...
Managing Social Media in Libraries
Finding Collaboration, Coordination, and Focus
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Web 2.0 first created a scramble among librarians to participate in Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and other social media applications, and the turn is now towards management and consolidation. Managing Social Media in Libraries explores the developing information environment, the collaboration among library...
Knowledge Management in Libraries
Concepts, Tools and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Knowledge Management in Libraries: Concepts, Tools and Approaches brings to the forefront the increasing recognition of the value of knowledge and information to individuals, organizations, and communities, providing an analysis of the concepts of Knowledge Management (KM) that prevails among the...
by Masanori Koizumi
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Inherent Strategies in Library Management describes general and specific strategies for libraries based on core library values, and does so through concrete research. Many strategic management books for libraries introduce concepts of business management to the library world, but often neglect traditional...
Leadership in Academic and Public Libraries
A Time of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In a time when libraries have to face constant change, this book provides examples and advises on how to lead when change is needed (for example, when quality management is implemented or when libraries have to merge or to relocate). Engaging with how constant change affects leadership in libraries...
by Rajendra Kumbhar
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century traces development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century. It reviews literature published on various aspects of library classification, including modern applications of classification...
Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries
Reaching Across the Great Divide
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Meeting the Needs of Student Users in Academic Libraries surveys and evaluates the current practice of learning commons and research services within the academic library community in order to determine if these learning spaces are functioning as intended. To evaluate their findings, the authors examine...
by Lynda Kellam, Katharin Peter
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The proliferation of online access to social science statistical and numeric data sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Fact Finder, has lead to an increased interest in supporting these sources in academic libraries. Many large libraries have been able to devote staff to data services...
The Art of Teaching Online
How to Start and How to Succeed as an Online Instructor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Art of Teaching Online: How to Start and How to Succeed as an Online Instructor focuses on professionals who are not teachers, but who wish to enter the online education field as instructors in their disciplines. This book focuses mainly on how potential online instructors can create and maintain...