ilość książek w kategorii: 787
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Information Architecture for Information Professionals
ISBN: 9781843342328 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers the key aspects of information architecture: core elements of information management, indexing, cataloguing and classification - organising and recording information in the digital environment. Information Architecture for Information Professionals also focuses on design, specifically user-centred design: designing information systems that support the needs of users, by providing attractive, intuitive interfaces that support a range of information tasks and accommodate a range of individual resources.
This book covers the key aspects of information architecture: core elements of information management, indexing, cataloguing and classification - orga...
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234,09 zł |
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Improving Library Services to People with Disabilities
ISBN: 9781843342861 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book takes account of the key fact that to maximize their potential, people must have lifelong access to the information and services offered through books and libraries. Whether to address concerns of an ageing population or to enable all citizens to contribute fully through meaningful education and work opportunities, more emphasis is being given to promoting library services to people who have disabilities. This book is a compendium of articles focused on serving adults with disabilities in an international setting. From this book, librarians, policy makers and constituents will...
The book takes account of the key fact that to maximize their potential, people must have lifelong access to the information and services offered thro...
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207,30 zł |
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Joint-Use Libraries: Libraries for the Future
ISBN: 9781843343844 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines all aspects of joint-use libraries, from the implications of government policy, to design and operational issues and evaluation. It considers all forms of joint-use library (e.g. school-public, college-public, university-public, health-university), reflecting on different models adopted around the world. Some of the main issues discussed include: partnership working, staffing and management, stock, digital resources, learning and literacy and community involvement.
This book examines all aspects of joint-use libraries, from the implications of government policy, to design and operational issues and evaluation. It...
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234,09 zł |
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Library Performance and Service Competition : Developing Strategic Responses
ISBN: 9781843343141 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practice-driven and proven resource for library administrators of all types of libraries. The work describes how the library can identify the service environment factors impacting customers; strategic needs; identify library competitors; strategic abilities and service environment impacts; and use the combined results to develop proactive competitive responses that drive the service environment instead of reacting to the service environment. These strategic competitive responses would allow the library to increase the value of its service impact and effectiveness while increasing customer...
A practice-driven and proven resource for library administrators of all types of libraries. The work describes how the library can identify the servic...
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207,30 zł |
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Library Project Funding: A Guide to Planning and Writing Proposals
ISBN: 9781843343806 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managers and staff in libraries and information services in all sectors are increasingly required to prepare project proposals and bid for funding, usually for external funding, but also as part of internal strategic planning and management processes. The projects proposed must be realistic and feasible, because library managers and staff will be required to deliver their project on time and in budget. If managers get the planning wrong at project proposal stage, the consequences for implementation can be difficult to overcome. This book provides guidance on the various steps involved in...
Managers and staff in libraries and information services in all sectors are increasingly required to prepare project proposals and bid for funding, us...
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207,30 zł |
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Marketing the Best Deal in Town: Your Library
ISBN: 9781843343059 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers basic marketing tenets and terminology, how to go about setting up a marketing plan, and contemporary topics such as branding and marketing to women. This book is illustrated throughout with successful strategies libraries are currently using to market their services. Skill-building exercises are included for students and practitioners and cases studies are incorporated for analyzing current library marketing issues.
This book covers basic marketing tenets and terminology, how to go about setting up a marketing plan, and contemporary topics such as branding and mar...
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207,30 zł |
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A Short-Cut to Marketing the Library
ISBN: 9781843344254 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technological changes mean that the role of libraries is now not as obvious or assured as in the past. This means that to survive, libraries must actively market their products and services to their users and to their funding sources. A concise handbook which spells out the critical need for marketing for libraries, A Short-cut to Marketing The Library provides a series of practical and accessible tools to achieve success and includes publishers marketing suggestions.
Technological changes mean that the role of libraries is now not as obvious or assured as in the past. This means that to survive, libraries must acti...
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134,14 zł |
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Making a Collection Count : A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management
ISBN: 9781843347606 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 lifecycle. Relationships between collections and other library services are also explored. The result is a quality collection that is clean, current, and useful. The second edition includes expanded information on collection metrics, digital collections, and practical advice for managing...
Library collection management is a vital part of any library's operations. Making a Collection Count takes a holistic look at library collection manag...
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299,72 zł |
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Chinese Librarianship in the Digital Era
ISBN: 9781843347071 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The library in China has been transformed by rapid socioeconomic development, and the proliferation of the Internet. The issues faced by Chinese libraries andlibrarians are those faced by library practitioners more globally, however, China also has its own unique set of issues in the digital era, including developmental imbalance between East and West, urban and rural areas, and availability of skilled practitioners. Chinese Librarianship in the Digital Era is the first book on Chinese libraries responding to these issues, and more. The first part of the book places discussion in...
The library in China has been transformed by rapid socioeconomic development, and the proliferation of the Internet. The issues faced by Chinese libra...
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231,69 zł |
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Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World
ISBN: 9781591587064 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World" provides practical strategies and examples to effectively integrate Web 2.0 tools to support the inquiry process in the school library program and the classroom curriculum. Targeted for school librarians, this book addresses the questions: What is digital literacy? How is learning different in a digital world? And the most important questions, what are the best strategies, resources, and tools to support effective teaching and learning in a digital environment? The first two chapters of the book provide the important... "Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World" provides practical strategies and examples to effectively integrate Web 2.0 t... |
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200,25 zł |
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Convergence of Project Management and Knowledge Management
ISBN: 9780810876972 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the benefits of managing knowledge in projects and provides techniques that will increase the rate of return on projects. Addressing strategy and deployment issues, this volume also provides case studies, making this an invaluable tool for the success of projects and sustainability/growth of organizations.
This book discusses the benefits of managing knowledge in projects and provides techniques that will increase the rate of return on projects. Addressi...
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527,79 zł |
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Libraries and Identity : The Role of Institutional Self-Image and Identity in the Emergence of New Types of Libraries
ISBN: 9781843345411 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libraries and Identity summarizes the role of institutional identity in the emergence of new types of libraries such as joint-use libraries and digital libraries. Professional and institutional identity has shown to be one of the most problematic, yet overlooked issues to deal with when traditional libraries such as public libraries and academic libraries develop into new shapes. The author clearly outlines the importance of identity in making change and innovation in libraries understandable. Based on original research the book comprehensively explores the role of identity as a trigger for...
Libraries and Identity summarizes the role of institutional identity in the emergence of new types of libraries such as joint-use libraries and digita...
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268,28 zł |
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New Approaches to E-Reserve: Linking, Sharing and Streaming
ISBN: 9781843345091 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aimed at academic library practitioners, this book describes how e-reserve services can evolve and adapt to the changing virtual learning environment of higher education. New approaches discussed include: the integration of subscribed, free, and copyrighted resources within course management systems; innovative employment of open URL link resolvers to connect e-reserve with library e-resources and services; video streaming within course documents; and the creative use of bibliographic software to produce customized reading lists. New Approaches to E-Reserve includes detailed descriptions and...
Aimed at academic library practitioners, this book describes how e-reserve services can evolve and adapt to the changing virtual learning environment ...
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241,45 zł |
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Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services : The Impacts of Open Access Journals and E-Journals on a Changing Scenario
ISBN: 9781843346265 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Over the last three hundred years scholarly journals have been the prime mode of transport in communicating the scholarly research process. However in the last few decades, a changing scenario has been witnessed in their form and format. OA is an innovative idea that attracts a fair amount of support and opposition around the...
This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Sci...
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302,37 zł |
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Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management
ISBN: 9781856046152 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smith provides straightforward, practical guidance on how to prepare for and enable electronic records management. He sets out and explains the issues organisations need to consider and the procedures required for effective implemention.
Smith provides straightforward, practical guidance on how to prepare for and enable electronic records management. He sets out and explains the issues...
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521,41 zł |
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Patron-Driven Acquisitions
ISBN: 9783110253016 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate fewer than three times. By contrast, patron-driven acquisition allows a library to borrow or buy books only when a patron needs them. In a typical workflow, the library imports bibliographic records into its catalogue at no cost. When a patron finds a patron-driven record in the course of research, a short-term loan can allow him to borrow the book, and the transaction charge to the library will be a small percentage of the list price. Typically, a library will... About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate fewer than three tim... |
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532,20 zł |
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Cases on Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse Environments
ISBN: 9781466644663 / Angielski / Twarda / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While web-based accessible materials have offered academic libraries an effective approach to managing electronic records and resources for its service population, a cross-discipline approach has not yet been executed. Cases on Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse Environments brings together real-life examples of how electronic records and resource management have been implemented across disciplines. Offering theories amid legal and ethical concerns of electronic records and resource management, this publication is essential for professionals involved in the...
While web-based accessible materials have offered academic libraries an effective approach to managing electronic records and resources for its servic...
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894,46 zł |
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Library Scholarly Communication Programs: Legal and Ethical Considerations
ISBN: 9781843347170 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives. Library Scholarly Communication Programs is a practical primer, covering these issues for institutional repository managers, library administrators, and other staff involved in library-based repository and publishing services. The title is composed of four parts. Part one describes the evolution of scholarly communication programs within academic libraries, part two explores institutional repositories and part three covers library publishing services. Part...
Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives. Library Scholar...
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268,28 zł |
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Managing Burnout in the Workplace: A Guide for Information Professionals
ISBN: 9781843347347 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information professionals are under constant stress. Libraries are ushering in sweeping changes that involve the closing of branches and reference desks, wholesale dumping of print, disappearing space, and employment of non-professional staff to fill what have traditionally been the roles of librarians. Increasing workloads, constant interruptions, ceaseless change, continual downsizing, budget cuts, repetitive work, and the pressures of public services have caused burnout in many information professionals. Managing Burnout in the Workplace concentrates on the problem of burnout, what it...
Information professionals are under constant stress. Libraries are ushering in sweeping changes that involve the closing of branches and reference des...
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268,28 zł |
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The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System
ISBN: 9781843347385 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) is the world's most popular library classification system. The 23rd edition of the DDC was published in 2011. This second edition of The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System examines the history, management and technical aspects of the DDC up to its latest edition. The book places emphasis on explaining the structure and number building techniques in the DDC and reviews all aspects of subject analysis and number building by the most recent version of the DDC. A history of, and introduction to, the DDC is followed by...
The Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) is the world's most popular library classification system. The 23rd edition of the DDC was published in ...
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287,74 zł |