Making Search Work

Martin White

If you are responsible for implementing your organization's internal search strategy this book will give you crucial guidance to be found nowhere else.

• Contents
• Chapter 1: Search Must Work

Developing the New Learning Environment

the changing role of the academic librarian

edited by Philippa Levy and Sue Roberts

This key text captures and critically discusses the librarian's changing learning support role in an educational context, providing guidance and practical support.

• Chapter 4: Key issues in the design and delivery of technology-enhanced learning

An Introduction to Library and Information Work

by Anne Totterdell with contributions from Jane Gill and Alan Hornsey

This is an essential self-development tool for all new entrants to the sector. It is ideal for paraprofessional training and as a continuing professional education reader for the non-professional.

• Chapter 5: Services to users

Setting up a Library and Information Service from Scratch

by Sheila Pantry OBE and Peter Griffiths

This practical guide is written to help all those who need to set up a library or information centre within their organization, irrespective of subject background or type of organization.

• Chapter 1: Back to basics 

The Library and Information Professional's Internet Companion

by Alan Poulter, Debra Hiom and David McMenemy

This new desk reference book will keep practitioners ahead. Get a taster by downloading the following sample chapter.

• Chapter 8: Networking Technologies

Delivering Digital Services by David McMenemy and Alan Poulter

This timely book offers practical guidance and expertise for staff in libraries and learning centres in setting up, developing and managing effective digital services.

• Chapter 2: Managing access:legal and policy issues of ICT use

Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library by David Ball

The modern academic library stands at the centre of a complex network of relationships, commercial, academic and professional, with external institutions.   These relationships are essential to its operation, but can pose major challenges to assuring quality of service.   This new book examines these relationships in detail and offers tools, techniques and strategies for their successful management and for achieving and maintaining quality.

• Chapter 3: Relationships with suppliers

Managing Digital Rights edited by Paul Pedley

This book is a practical guide to the use of digital content. It deals with the question of how electronic information can be used legitimately, and suggests practical ways in which copyright clearance can be obtained whilst keeping the administration to a manageable level.

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• Preface

The Academic Library, 2nd edition, by Peter Brophy

This authoritative and wide-ranging textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing functions of higher education libraries and the organizational cultures in which they operate.

• Chapter 12: Management

Managing Outsourcing in Library and Information Services by Sheila Pantry and Peter Griffiths

This book shows how successful outsourcing can assist managers and staffing in providing the services users want.

• Chapter 1: LIS Outsourcing: an introduction

Managing Information Services by Sue Roberts and Jennifer Rowley

This essential textbook draws together in an accessible form the principles of management as they need to be understood by information professionals today.

• Contents/Introduction

Copyright

Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information services by Graham P. Cornish

This well-known handy book explains the provisions of the UK Copyright Act and supporting legislation in quick and easy question-and-answer form.

• Contents/Introduction

Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval by David Haynes

This thought-provoking, timely and useful introduction to metadata by one of its leading advocates assesses the current theory and practice and examines key developments – including global initiatives – in terms of both policy and technology.

• Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction

The Information Society: A study of continuity and change

Fourth edition by John Feather

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• Chapter 5: Information Rich and Information Poor

What is information? Who are the information rich and who are the information poor? How can there be equality of access for users in the light of the economic and cultural pressures that are placed upon information gatherers and keepers? Set against a broad historical backdrop, this key text (now in it's fourth edition!) explores the information revolution that continues to gather pace.

Building an Electronic Resource Collection: A practical guide Second edition by Stuart D. Lee and Frances Boyle

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Electronic resources are a fast moving area so the new revised edition of this invaluable guide has been brought completely up to date; emerging new areas such as Virtual Learning Environments and reading/resource list software are considered, and the helpful bibliography of sources expanded.

Practical Copyright for Information Professionals: the CILIP handbook by Sandy Norman

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This guide, written by a copyright expert, de-mystifies the complicated law of copyright and related rights. The recent changes emanating from the EU Copyright Directive are covered extensively together with in-depth chapters on compliance with the new rules.

Copyright for Archivists and users of archives Second edition by Tim Padfield

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• 5.3 Copying in libraries and archives

Copyright for Archivists is a book of copyright law for archivists and users of archival materials that is readable and accessible to people without legal training. It explains the provisions of copyright law in the UK with particular reference to unpublished material, the most important part of the holdings of any archive. This second edition is fully revised and updated to include changes to the UK law as a result of recent EU legislation.

Exploiting Knowledge in Health Services edited by Graham Walton and Andrew Booth

• Contents

• Chapter 9: The role of LIS in supporting
  learning

This is a valuable book for all health library and information service providers and students in the field. It is also of great use to the increasing number of healthcare professionals, such as research and development coordinators and clinical effectiveness/governance facilitators, required to access health information as part of their working roles.

Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals by Andrew Booth and Anne Brice

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• Chapter 9: Appraising the evidence

This book is of wide interest to all new and established information professionals, both those in fields such as healthcare where the evidence-based paradigm is already impacting on their work, and those in other fields encountering it for the first time. It is a core text in departments of library and information work.

Managing your Internet and Intranet Services: The information and library professional's guide to strategy 2nd edn by Peter Griffiths

• Contents

• Chapter 1 The internet revolution

The fully revised and updated edition of this successful book is a guide to developing a website strategy, defining objectives for your website, and gaining an understanding of how to publish information on the web. The new edition covers such key areas as information architecture, content management, portals, weblogs, outsourcing and reputation management.

The Internet and Information Skills: A guide for teachers and school librarians by James E Herring

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• Chapter 6 The PLUS model and the web

This new book provides teachers and school librarians with the ability to exploit the internet effectively both as a learning and a teaching resource; in particular to improve their skills in accessing the most relevant parts of the internet to improve their teaching and provide suitable information sources to aid students' learning. It offers valuable insights into information literacy skills and provides help with, and examples of, the most effective ways of teaching information skills to students.

Digitizing Collections: strategic issues for the information manager by Lorna Hughes

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• Chapter 1 Why digitize? The costs and benefits of digitization

Each book in the Digital Futures series examines the key strategic and practical issues facing libraries and other cultural institutions. This book runs through the digitization process step by step, and outlines the different techniques available to deal with a wide range of library resources, and explores the opportunities offered by a collaborative approach to digitization.

Information Architecture: Designing information environments edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry Mahon

• Contents and other preliminary pages

• Chapter 2 Document, information, data, content: How to model information? by CATHERINE LELOUP, Independent consultant, France

Essential Law for Information Professionals by Paul Pedley

• Contents

• Chapter 1, General law and background

This offers both a complete picture of the law as it affects information management and an exploration of the fundamental principles that underlie practice.

Information and IT Literacy: Enabling learning in the 21st century edited by Allan Martin and Hannelore Rader

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• 13 The Information Commons: strategies for integration, Susan Beatty

This state-of-the-art deskbook surveys and analyses current practice, emerging directions and ongoing issues relating to information and IT literacy, focusing on all aspects of learning enablement, including education and training at all levels, lifelong learning and eLearning.

Your Essential Guide to Career Success by Sheila Pantry, and Peter Griffiths

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• 1 Scene setting: the challenges of today's employment market

This book offers guidance on managing every stage of your career, whether you are a new entrant to the profession wishing to know how to get a foot on the ladder, an information professional in mid-career wishing to progress, or a candidate for a more senior position needing a view of the current state of the profession.

Reading and Reader Development by Judith Elkin, Briony Train and Debbie Denham

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• 2 Reader development, Briony Train

This much-needed new book considers in depth for the first time the theory of reading within the context of current reading initiatives and reader development practice. It integrates new definitions of reader development theory with research and practice-based initiatives worldwide, discussing their applicability to all members of society, whatever their age, social background or special need.

Success at the Enquiry Desk by Tim Buckley Owen

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• Chapter 1, What do you really want? How to make sure you really understand the question

This essential desk-book will help the information professional to become self-sufficient in answering enquiries. Step by step, it guides the reader through all the stages of research, from finding out what the enquirer really wants, to providing a polished, value-added answer.

Managing Records: A handbook of principles and practice by Elizabeth Shepherd and Geoffrey Yeo

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• 8, Implementing records management: practical and managerial issues
  

Introduction to Digital Libraries by G G Chowdhury and Sudatta Chowdhury

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• Chapter 8, Information access and user interfaces
  

Challenge and Change in the Information Society edited by Susan Hornby and Zoë Clarke

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• 4, Policy push, personal pull: trying to make sense of the journey towards the information society, Chris Batt
  

The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services edited by Dr G E Gorman

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• 6, Judging a book by its cover: e-books, digitization and print on demand, Shirley Hyatt

This is a volume in the annual International Yearbook of Library and Information Management (IYLIM) series.

Managing Your School Library and Information Service by Anthony Tilke

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• 5, Policy and development
  

Getting and Staying Noticed on the Web by Phil Bradley

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• 12, The competition
  

Creating a successful e-information service by Sheila Pantry and Peter Griffiths

• Contents

• 1 Introducing the Concept of the E-Information Service
  

Marketing Concepts for Libraries and Information Services 2nd edn by Eileen Elliott de Sáez

• Contents

• 4, The marketing mix
  

Digital futures: strategies for the information age by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner

• Contents

• 1 Digital Futures in Current Contexts
  

Information Services in an Electronic Environment edited by Dr G E Gorman

• Contents

• Part 1 THE EVOLUTION OF INFORMATION SERVICES

This is the second volume in the annual International Yearbook of Library and Information Management (IYLIM) series.