Innovative School Librarian: Thinking Outside The Box
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 Innovative School Librarian: Thinking Outside The Box
Authors: Sharon Markless (editor), Elizabeth Bentley, Sarah Pavey, Sue Shaper, Sally Todd, Carol Webb
What the publisher says:
This book takes a strategic look at some of the issues currently of concern to school librarians. It is not a "how to run a school library" guide. Instead it raises important questions about the functions of the school librarian and sets out to encourage the reader to think outside the box. It takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries examining notions of professionalism, their effect on identity and models of library practice. This book aims to inspire and enable school librarians to think creatively about their work and the community in which they operate.
Written by leaders in the field, it addresses the practical issues through the use of vignettes, and appendices offer examples of sample documents. The book is divided into three main areas: Who is the Librarian?; Your Community: from perceptions to practice; and Moving Forward.
Key topics covered include:
The librarian's vision and values, how others see us
bridging the gap between different visions for the school library, identifying and understanding your community, making a positive response, keeping inspired and inspiring others
integrating the library, innovating.
This is an essential, thought-provoking book for all school librarians, practitioners in schools library services, and students of librarianship. It has plenty to interest school leadership, headteachers, educational thinkers, public library managers and local government officers and also has an international audience.
ISBN 13/10: 978-1-85604-653-4 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JULY 2009 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R764.00 (incl.)
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Access, Delivery, Performance
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 Access, Delivery, Performance
Authors: Jillian R Griffiths and Jenny Craven
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This book celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Whilst reflecting on his work, it is forward looking and challenging, and offers strategies for the future direction of library and information services in the virtual era.
Following an introduction and tribute to Peter on his retirement, the text is contributed by an international team of acknowledged leaders in their fields, and focuses on four key themes that have preoccupied Peter during his career and that remain of pre-eminent importance for the future of the profession:
- libraries, learning and distance learning
- widening access to information
- changing directions of information delivery
- performance, quality and leadership. - The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of Peter's work.
- This timely book addresses issues and concerns transferable across different areas of the information sector, including academic, public and special libraries, and will be stimulating reading for anyone working, studying, or teaching within the profession.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046473 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: NOV 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R 783.00 (incl.)
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Community Archives
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 Community Archives
Authors: Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander
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How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance to which archivists, record managers and museums professionals can turn to when faced with such issues in their daily work.
This edited collection explores the relationships between communities and the records they create at a practical and scholarly level. It focuses on the ways in which records reflect community identity and collective memory, and the implications of capturing, appraising and documenting them - with particular focus on the ways in which recent advances in technology can overcome traditional obstacles, as well as how technologies themselves offer possibilities of creating new virtual communities.
It is split into three parts:
- context and concepts
- case studies: community archives; community and non-traditional recordkeeping; record loss, destruction and recovery; online communities
- practical implications. - This will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and academics in the archives and records community and beyond.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046398 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JULY 2009 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R863.00 (incl.)
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Copyright Compliance
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 Copyright Compliance: Practical Steps to Stay within the Law
Authors: Paul Pedley
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Copyright is not a subject that most individuals or organizations want to study in depth. They simply wish to be able to copy material in the knowledge that what they are doing is within the law.
Library and information professionals must take a particular interest in copyright matters, because they find themselves placed in the difficult position of, on the one hand, being asked by their users to provide access to content, whilst, on the other hand, needing to be mindful of the legal rights of the creators and distributors of intellectual property.
Copyright law is extremely complex, and consulting a copy of the legislation is not easy or straightforward, given that the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 has been amended many times over the past two decades. This practical book aims to promote the understanding of copyright compliance by users, and to simplify the task of library and information professionals in advising on it.
Fully supported by examples of case law, the text is divided into two main parts. The first part considers what constitutes an infringement of copyright, and what happens when things go wrong. The second part deals with the question of how to stay within the law, and what one can do proactively to minimize the risks associated with copyright infringement. The contents cover:
- what constitutes infringement, and what are its consequences
- what are low, medium and high risk activities
- some copyright legal cases and what we can learn from them
- enforcement of intellectual property rights
- dispute resolution: court action, arbitration, mediation
- how to ensure that your copying is properly authorized
- the copyright clearance process
- practical steps you can take to stay within copyright law
- developing a copyright policy
- the copyright implications of freedom of information. - This essential guide will help any individual, organization or library and information professional to copy material with greater confidence that they are doing so legally.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046404 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: MAY 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R685.00 (incl.)
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Creating your Library's Business Plan
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 Creating Your Library's Business Plan
Author: Joy H P Harriman
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Ten years ago, few libraries had business plans. Today, more and more libraries are required to write them, or they do so because business plans help clarify goals, set reasonable time frames, articulate standards, measure performance, and announce a library's successes. A good business plan can guide your library's operations and ensure its viability and growth.
Chock-full of templates, worksheets, case studies, and samples from a wide variety of libraries, big and small, this how-to guide will demystify the business planning process and help you create your business plan quickly and efficiently, saving you time, money, and frustration. One of the forerunners in library business plan development and a popular workshop leader, Harriman guides you through every step of the process, beginning with the whys and wherefores of writing a plan and the function of each component - from the cover page to the appendix and everything in between. Key areas covered include:
- why write a business plan?
- the components of a business plan
- describing your service concept: vision and mission statements
- conducting assessments and creating a SWOT chart
- clarifying objectives
- determining strategies and action plans
- creating a marketing plan
- evaluating your business plan's success
- forming a financial plan
- writing an executive summary and communicating the plan.
Over 30 worksheets will help you pull your plan together, one component at a time. More than 25 sample plans from academic, public, medical, and special libraries worldwide are offered as examples of best practice. What's more, all of the templates, worksheets, and samples are reproduced on a companion CD-ROM to enable you to get started immediately.
This is the only guide you need to take your business plan from concept to completion efficiently, effectively, and without reinventing the wheel.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046565 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JUNE 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R1106.00 (incl.)
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Delivering the Best Start
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 Delivering the Best Start
Authors: Carolynn Rankin and Avril Brock
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The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is now statutory in the UK for children from birth to five years, and other countries are experiencing similar developments; early years librarians, teachers, nursery nurses, playgroup leaders and childminders all require knowledge of how to promote and encourage communication, language and literary skills. Parental reading with young children is clearly vitally important, and libraries are uniquely placed to support the development of literacy skills in pre-school children.
This book provides an understanding of how children develop such skills through enjoyable and meaningful learning experiences, and is a pioneering practical guide for library and information professionals involved in planning and delivering services in early years libraries. Drawing on the authors' underpinning contemporary research and examples from current best practice, it will equip practitioners with a broad range of knowledge and ideas. Key areas covered include:
take them to the library: the role of the early years professional people and partnerships:
- working across interdisciplinary boundaries, and how to involve parents and carers
- buildings, design and space: the children's libraries of the future
- resources for early years libraries: books, toys and other delights
- reaching your audience: the librarian's role
- planning and organizing: projects and reading sessions.
User-friendly and accessible, each chapter is clearly structured and sets outs the key issues for practitioners, scenarios offering insights into these, and practical ideas and resources for service provision. The book also includes case studies of successful pre-school library initiatives in a variety of global settings, useful information about relevant organizations, and links to helpful websites.
This valuable text is essential reading for all library and information professionals working with young children - whether those with responsibility for the strategic planning of services, or those involved in delivering them at community level. Essential for students of library and information studies or childhood studies, and practitioners undertaking NVQ qualifications, it also provides a sound background in early years literacy and provision for a range of local authority practitioners, such as nursery teachers and Children's Centre managers.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046107 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: NOV 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R685.00 (incl.)
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Information Science in Transition
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 Information Science in Transition
Author: Alan Gilchrist
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Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all into an inverted index. But now search engines are beginning to experiment with deep web searching and attention to taxonomies, and the Semantic Web is demonstrating how much more can be done with a computer if you give it knowledge. What does this mean for the skills and focus of the information science (or sciences) community? Should information designers and information managers work more closely to create computer based information systems for more effective retrieval? Will information science become part of computer science and does the rise of the term informatics demonstrate the convergence of information science and information technology - a convergence that must surely develop in the years to come?
Issues and questions such as these are reflected in this monograph, a collection of essays written by some of the most pre-eminent contributors to the discipline. These peer reviewed perspectives capture insights into advances in, and facets of, information science, a profession in transition.
With an introduction from Jack Meadows the key papers are:
- Meeting the challenge, by Brian Vickery
- The developing foundations of information science, by David Bawden
- The last 50 years of knowledge organization, by Stella G Dextre Clarke
- On the history of evaluation in IR, by Stephen Robertson
- The information user, by Tom Wilson
- The sociological turn in information science, by Blaise Cronin
- From chemical documentation to chemoinformatics, by Peter Willett
- Health informatics, by Peter A Bath
- Social informatics and sociotechnical research, by Elisabeth Davenport
- The evolution of visual information retrieval, by Peter Enser
- Information policies, by Elizabeth Orna
- Disparity in professional qualifications and progress in information handling, by Barry Mahon
- Electronic scholarly publishing and open access, by Charles Oppenheim
- Social software: fun and games, or business tools?, by Wendy A Warr
- Bibliometrics to webometrics, by Mike Thelwall.
This monograph previously appeared as a special issue of the Journal of Information Science, published by Sage. Reproduced here as a monograph, this important collection of perspectives on a skill in transition from a prestigious line-up of authors will now be available to information studies students worldwide and to all those working in the information science field.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046930 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: APRIL 2009 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R863.00 (incl.)
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Leadership: The Challenge for the Information Profession
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 Leadership: The Challenge for the Information Profession
Authors: Sue Roberts and Jennifer Rowley
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Effective leadership is key to the future of information services and professional practice, as demands on leaders within the sector are greater than ever before. Leadership skills are required at all levels of the profession, from the top, through to professional staff called upon to lead a team or to take a supervisory role. To meet these challenges, individuals must develop their leadership capacity.
This book invites information professionals across the sector and at different stages in their career to reflect on and engage with the development of their leadership role and contribution. Using theoretical concepts and models, coupled with practical tools, this book encourages readers to think about their own leadership and the leadership provided by others around them as the basis for continuing improvement in management and professional practice.
No other book offers such a comprehensive and topical perspective on leadership in the context of the information services and the wider information industry. Contents include:
- challenges in leadership
- knowing yourself as a leader
- leadership in context
- promoting change, innovation and creativity
- leading people
- setting direction and strategy
- leadership development
- influential leadership.
A range of features, including learning objectives, chapter summaries, review questions, case cameos and recommendations for further reading, encourages and facilitates engagement and reflection. This book is a must-have for information professionals and aspiring leaders seeking to understand leadership and to develop their own leadership practice, as well as the leadership potential in others. It is also a valuable professional education text.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046091 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: FEB 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R764.00 (incl.)
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Libraries and Information Services
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 Libraries and Information Services
What the publisher says:
For over forty years anyone needing information on British and Irish libraries has turned to Libraries and Information Services in the UK for the answer. This annually updated directory lists over 2,200 libraries in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland, with contact names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and URLs where appropriate. The listing is broken down into the following main categories, all fully indexed alphabetically:
- public library authorities, with entries for headquarters libraries plus the main administrative, divisional, area and regional libraries
- universities and institutes of higher education and other degree-awarding institutions, with entries for major departmental and site/campus libraries
- selected government, national and special libraries, together with schools and departments of information and library studies.
Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland provides a vital source of information in a quick easy-to-find format for all practising librarians and information professionals, as well as for the general reader and for organizations wishing to target UK library services.
Also available to rent as a mailing list for those organizations wishing to target UK library services.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046794 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: AUG 2009 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R842.00 (incl.)
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Managing Electronic Records
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 Managing Electronic Records
Author: William Saffady
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The extensively updated fourth edition of this best-selling classic is an essential practical resource for anyone responsible for the creation, maintenance, management, control and use of electronic records created by computer, audio and video systems. Written by renowned author and educator William Saffady and co-published by ARMA International, this timely guide thoroughly examines the pertinent concepts, procedures, methods of protection and daily management guidelines involved in this rapidly expanding field.
Saffady provides start-to-finish guidance for initiating effective programs for storing, retrieving and controlling electronic records, with coverage of vital components including:
- concepts and issues
- storage media
- file formats
- the electronic records inventory
- retention schedules
- managing vital electronic records
- managing electronic files and media - Valuable appendices provide suggestions for further study and research, and a comprehensive glossary defines important terms as they relate specifically to the records management arena.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046992 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MAY 2009 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R912.00 (incl.)
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Managing the Crowd
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 Managing the Crowd
Author: Steve Bailey
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Imagine a records management (RM) future where the user community collectively describes the value and properties of a record using the wisdom of the crowd; where records retention, description and purpose are determined by their users, within general boundaries defined by the records manager. It may sound far-fetched, but could represent a way forward for managing records.
It has never been more apparent that RM as traditionally practised will soon no longer be fit for purpose. With the increasing plurality of information sources and systems within an organization, as the deluge of content increases, so the percentage of the organization's holdings that can be formally classed as records declines.
In the Web 2.0 world new technology is continually changing the way users create and use information. RM must change its approach fundamentally if it is to have a role to play in this new world. This provocative new book challenges records managers to find time amidst the daily operational pressures to debate the larger issues thrown up by the new technological paradigm we are now entering, and the threat it poses to established theory and practice.
A range of stimulating ideas are put up for discussion: why not, for instance, embrace folksonomies rather than classification schemes and metadata schemas as the main means of resource discovery for unstructured data? Adopt a ranking system that encourages users to rate how useful they found content as part of the appraisal process? Let the content creator decide whether there should be any access restrictions on the content they have created?
This is a thought-provoking book which questions received wisdom and suggests radical new solutions to the very real issues RM faces. Every records manager needs to read this challenging book, and those that do may never think about their profession in quite the same way again.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046411 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: JUNE 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R685.00 (incl.)
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Reader Development in Practice
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 Reader Development Practice: Bringing Literature to Readers
Authors: Susan Hornby and Bob Glass
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Who is the reader? How do we reach them, and why? To what extent are readers determining what libraries offer? How has that changed since the birth of reader development? And what impact has organizational development had on the publishing and promotion of literature?
This edited collection covers all aspects of literature in relation to readership, exploring the chain of events connecting author and reader. It reflects on the challenges facing information professionals in reader development, looks at current promotion and partnership options, and offers new professionals and students fresh ideas, practical guidance and a firm underpinning knowledge upon which to build.
These user-friendly and clearly structured contributions bring together the work of expert practitioners and academics from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Key topics include:
- regional partnerships and reader development strategies
- social inclusion and accessibility
- emergent readers and social regeneration
- the roles of imaginative fiction in people's lives
- imaginative literature for children and young people
- imaginative literature for adults
- reading and information technology
- promoting books to readers
- sharing the knowledge - developing reflective practitioners. - This contemporary guide is essential reading for library andinformation professionals, students and academics. It will also beof great value to students taking literature and publishing courses.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046244 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: AUG 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R783.00 (incl.)
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Reference Information Services 21st Century
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 Reference Information Services 21st Century
Authors: Kay Ann Cassell and Uma Hiremath
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Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century is the most current introduction to reference work available. Its integrated approach effectively synthesizes the growing need for electronic resources with the continued importance of print titles and face-to-face transactions.
The second edition of this highly regarded textbook incorporates a timely new chapter, 'Using New Technology - Reference 2.0', which will include a wide range of new tools that can be used for reference purposes. There will also be new material on non-fiction reader's advisory work; chat and IM reference; marketing; and staff competencies and training in Reference 2.0, webpage development, database evaluation and multi-format referencing.
The text is divided into four sections. Part 1 covers the essentials of reference service - determining information need, developing a basic search strategy, and interviewing enquirers. The straightforward and practical Part 2 helps professionals master the materials most frequently used to answer questions about:
- government information
- current events and issues
- books, magazines and the publishing industry
- geography and travel
- biographical information
- ready reference
- medical, legal and business information
- language and grammar questions and more.
Each chapter in Part 2 highlights essential formats, features, and titles that reference librarians should consult to develop authoritative answers.
Part 3 focuses on special reference topics: reference services to children and young adults (authored by Mary K. Chelton); performing readers' advisory work; user instruction; and finding information on the internet. Finally, Part 4 addresses the crucial questions of selection and evaluation of material, management of the reference collection, assessment of services, and future development.
Striking an ideal balance between the practical and the theoretical, this innovative text will appeal to LIS educators, students, and both novice and experienced professionals.
A companion website at http://www.neal-schuman.com/reference21st/, featuring new readings for each chapter and information about changes in the reference tools as well as important new ones, keeps this text completely up to date.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046886 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: AUG 2009 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R783.00 (incl.)
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Transformation Learning Support Models in Higher Education
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 Transformation Leaning Support Models in Higher Education
Authors: Margaret Weaver
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The student learning experience in modern higher education settings is changing rapidly. Students no longer have a linear approach to education and increasingly their expectations are that there will be flexibility and support embedded in their courses. Consequently institutions need to have a holistic approach to enhancing student learning. The significance of the total learning environment - academic, physical, virtual, support - to the student experience is emerging; however, there has been little study of the impact of the new learning environments on student learning behaviours, in particular on support for learners.
Nonetheless, in practice, academic services - libraries, keys skills teams, student support, IT and academics - are working innovatively across service boundaries to bring about transformations in their students' lives. This edited collection from a team of international contributors plots these developments and uses carefully selected case studies to highlight global best practice in universities and colleges. The book is divided into three parts covering transformation through strategy, policy and organization; delivery; and integrative practice. Key areas covered are:
- the changing profile of learners
- the redesign of learning support
- engaging learners by reshaping learning environments
- next-generation learning spaces
- the integration of physical and virtual environments
- engagement in widening participation
- learning partnerships
- learning using research-informed approaches aligned to pedagogy.
This timely book will act as a strategic planning tool by uncovering models that will allow practitioners to reflect on their own organizational contexts. It will also help to raise the profile of learning support within institutions by keeping library managers, student service managers, academics and organizational leaders up to date with policy and developments; and, by interfacing with the global skills agenda, will be of interest to a wide range of staff including support professionals, educators and stakeholders. With its bite size chunks of information showing the diversity of the LIS sector and its opportunities for career development, it will also be a helpful text for students.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046442 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: OCT 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R702.00 (incl.)
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Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping
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 Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping
Authors: Philip C Bantin
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Content management systems, data warehouses, relational databases - the ways an institution can organize and store its information are changing rapidly, and it can be difficult to make sense of the myriad options.
This timely book is a comprehensive guide to the new technologies that can help information professionals and records managers better organize vital documents and information for preservation, search, and retrieval.
Bantin looks at the major types of resources - relational databases; data warehouses; and content, document, and knowledge management systems - and the ways in which each captures, stores and manages records. Each system is evaluated in light of its ability to manage digital content over the long term. The book also offers suggestions for adapting turnkey systems to better serve organizational needs, tips for implementing systems assessment, and guidance for ensuring that systems comply with legal requirements.
This is an essential resource for records managers, and for any organization interested in utilizing technology to better maintain their organizational records and data.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046275 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MARCH 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R851.00 (ncl.)
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Web Accessibility
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 Web Accessibility
Author: Jenny Craven
What the publisher says:
With ever greater provision of resources in electronic formats, formal recognition is increasingly being given to the growing awareness within the information profession that it is a moral duty as well as a legal requirement to take every feasible step to ensure that no one is excluded from access to goods and services, including web-based information and resources.
This timely book provides a practical introduction to web accessibility and usability specifically for information professionals, offering advice from a range of experts and experienced practitioners on the concerns relevant to library and information organizations. Contents include:
- tools used for widening access to the web
- Design for All - how web accessibility affects different people
- the importance of web accessibility
- accessibility advice and guidance
- accessibility evaluation and assessment
- issues for library and information services
- Design for All in the library and information science curriculum
- best practice examples of web accessibility
- web accessibility in the future.
Although its main focus is on UK legislation and other requirements, many of the featured guidelines and recommendations are of an international nature, so are transferable to other countries.
This approachable guide will enable information practitioners and students new to web accessibility to gain a good understanding of the issues involved in this vital area. The book can be used as a resource for developing staff training and awareness activities, or for developing course content. It will also be of value to website managers involved in web design and development who need to broaden a basic understanding of accessibility and usability issues.
ISBN 13/10: 9781856046251 | FORMAT: HARDBACK | DATE: MARCH 2008 | PUBLISHER: FACET PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R764.00 (incl.)
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