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Citation Tracking in Academic Libraries: An Overview presents results from the overarching need for researchers to get relevant advice for their scholarly pursuits. This is even more critical in the fast changing environment, where even those who are established...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-07-06
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Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework. The book...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-07-06
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Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age provides readers with an interesting discussion on the ways serendipity—defined as the accidental discovery of valued information—plays an important role in creative problem-solving.
This...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-06-13
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From Information Literacy to Social Epistemology: Insights from Psychology focuses on information and the ways in which information literacy relates to critical thinking in education, the workplace, and in our social life.
The broad context for our interest is the...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-06-08
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New Roles for Research Librarians: Meeting the Expectations for Research Support presents strategies librarians can use to adapt to the new conditions and growing expectations that are emerging from students and researchers. Even if they have never completed a PhD, or...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-05-20
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At last, the first systematic guide to the growing jungle of citation indices and other bibliometric indicators. Written with the aim of providing a complete and unbiased overview of all available statistical measures for scientific productivity, the core of this...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-05-04
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Institution Archiv gestern, heute und morgen. Was macht Archive so wichtig? Als politisches und kulturelles Gedächtnis initiieren und beherbergen sie zum einen Forschung, zum anderen führen sie den öffentlichen Dialog. Die Idee des Archivs und die Institution, Theorie...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Lessons in Library Leadership: A Primer for Library Managers and Unit Leaders takes on the topic of management positions within libraries and how many of them are filled by candidates with no formalized training. This lack of preparation often leads to added stress as...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-03-11
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Quality and the Academic Library: Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision provides an in-depth review and analysis of quality management and service quality in academic libraries. All aspects of quality are considered in the book, including quality...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-02-24
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Thesaurus of Rock and Soil Mechanics Terms is a book of synonym, including terms used in geology, mining, hydrology, engineering, and similar fields. The terms are organized alphabetically with preferred terms in bold and non-preferred terms in italic. This text also...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2016-01-21
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Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff. However, at the same time, the reality of acquiring ebooks, making...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-01-07
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Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development.
Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success,Becoming a Lean Library...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-12-07
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The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks,...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Aimed at practitioners, this handbook imparts guidance on project management techniques in the cultural heritage sector. Information professionals often direct complex endeavors with limited project management training or resources. Project Management for Information...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as "do they feel invisible?" and "How many times have they heard somebody say 'but everything is on the...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-10-31
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New Directions in Book History
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Selecting and Implementing an Integrated Library System: The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make focuses on the intersection of technology and management in the library information world. As information professionals, many librarians will be involved in...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-10-20
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Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstrates the lack of reported succession planning activities in Canadian...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-10-07
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The term 'customer service' is not new to the academic library community. Academic libraries exist to serve the needs of their community, and hence customer service is essential. However, the term can be applied in a variety of ways, from a thin veneer of politeness, to...
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Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-10-06
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Have you ever looked at your Library's key performance indicators and said to yourself "so what!"?Have you found yourself making decisions in a void due to the lack of useful and easily accessible operational data?Have you ever worried that you are being left behind...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2015-09-04
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