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Libraries across all sectors are responding to the call to decolonise,critically examining their own historic legacies and practices and supportinginstitutional change. This book brings together current thinking and emergingpractices around decolonising the library, providing conceptual frameworks, anddescribing emerging practices and their impact.

This book explores the rapid expansion of datasources, visualizations, and analytics created in the last decade and exploresthe strategies, tools, and approaches that educators and informationspecialists are employing to train a new generation of data professionals.

The fourth edition of the classic textbook offers a firm foundation of knowledge and guidance for library and information science (LIS) students and professionals alike.

The Academic Teaching Librarian'sHandbook is a comprehensiveresource on teaching and professional development for information professionalsand instructors at all career stages. It explores the current landscape ofteaching librarianship, and highlights and discusses the importantdevelopments, issues, and trends that are shaping current and future practice.

Written by two practicing Chief Data Officers, this book offers a practical, direct and engaging discussion of the role, its place and importance within organisations.

Completely revised and expanded to reflect the rapidly changing sphere of information services, this comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries builds the basic skills good library managers must exercise.

This groundbreaking book considers how privacy issues can arise in a library context and what library and information professionals can do to protect the privacy of their users.

Goodman's invaluable resource includes 72 time-saving guides that will streamline your processes. Addressing myriad marketing, publicity, and promotion activities, this book is packed with tried and true best practices and useful tips for organizations of all sizes.

This book provides students, researchers and practitioners with real examples of applied qualitative research from research design to dissemination. It combines theory and practice to provide readers with the theoretical underpinnings of different approaches to qualitative research whilst also providing a clear example of how and why it was used.

This important new text provides a much-needed introduction to the myriad information policy issues that impact information professionals, information institutions, and the users and communities served by those institutions.

This book offers a broad and accessible introduction to research based on text and data mining (TDM), focusing specifically on the ways in which TDM has been applied within the humanities.

Recordkeeping Cultures explores how an understanding of organisational information culture provides the insight necessary for the development and promotion of sound recordkeeping practices.

Information Literacy Research describes this research landscape, identifying the core qualitative approaches applied in the research of information literacy and less used or innovative applications

Offering practical advice on the law as it affects information management and the fundamental principles underlying practice, this title uses individual cases to illustrate underlying principles and contextualize regulations. It gives you the tools to quickly assess legal hazards and identify solutions.

TheKM Cookbook servesup a menu of success stories and strategies for organizations wanting to knowmore about Knowledge Management Standard ISO30401 - whether they intend to pursuecertification, or simply seek to use it as a framework to review their existingprogramme and strategy.

"e;Cornish's Copyright"e;, which has become a standard work in its field, explains the provisions of the UK Copyright Act and supporting legislation in quick and easy question-and-answer form. This latest edition is revised and expanded in the light of new legislation and some decisions by the courts which have changed our understanding of what the law means. There is also increased coverage of moral rights and the text has been expanded by the use of practical examples to illustrate complex points. Areas such as originality, databases, and the use of broadcast material in education all receive additional attention. And of course Wikipedia, Flickr, MySpace, Yahoo, Creative Commons and Open Archives are considered in a copyright context. All types of material that may attract copyright are considered, including: literary, dramatic and musical works; artistic works; sound recordings; films and videos; broadcasts; databases; and, computer programs and websites. The text is complemented by a detailed index that enables the enquirer to pinpoint topics and proposed action quickly and accurately. The appendices lay out the statutory declaration forms, and provide helpful lists of addresses and selected further sources of information.

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an informed role in society and its democratic processes.

This book provides a straight forward and pragmatic guide to leadership, management and team working in contemporary library and information services.

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an informed role in society and its democratic processes.

A-Z Common Reference Questions for Academic Librarians is a survival guide for frontline library staff to help them find appropriate information quickly, whether they are answering questions at a physical help desk or remotely by telephone, email or instant messaging service.

This book examines the creation and development of participatory archives, its impact on archival theory, and present case studies of its real world application

This book combines current research in open data practices in the heritage sector with technical step-by-step guides on how to work with heritage data for visualisation, mapping, and mining.

As discussions about the roles played by information in economic, political, and social arenas continue to evolve, the need for an intellectual primer on information ethics that also functions as a solid working casebook for LIS students and professionals has never been more urgent.

This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.

This edited collection provides a timely account of the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit.