Library & Information Science

This important volume by one of the leading scholars in the field examines and discusses how library professionals can meet the demands of policy makers to open up the public library service without destroying it...

Universities are taking more strategic approaches to their buildings, including learning spaces. This book addresses the issue of informal learning space from the perspectives of a comprehensive range of stakeholders, including students, academics, facilities and university managers, IT managers, ar..

Coming Face to Face with your own practice is an emerging approach to management and professional research that has a significant impact on management practice, closing the gap between theory and practice. An existential form of research means that the researcher carefully attends to their experienc..

Coming Face to Face with your own practice is an emerging approach to management and professional research that has a significant impact on management practice, closing the gap between theory and practice. An existential form of research means that the researcher carefully attends to their experienc..

By critically examining Portuguese fortiifications across the former Lusophone empire, this book constructs a cultural and political geography that informs our understandings of the performance of the 'colonial present', it investigates how memory attaches itself to places and discusses how contempo..

Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management provides, for each country, such information as address and postcode formats, postbox names, salutations, personal name patterns, information about languages, diacritical marks, job titles, casing rules, street types and much more. It will make the manage..

The authors in this timely book are practitioners, scholars, and government officials. Together they provide an informed look at how managing government information is being tested at a time of rapid change. Part I addresses key issues for public, academic, and government libraries in organizing and..

The authors in this timely book are practitioners, scholars, and government officials. Together they provide an informed look at how managing government information is being tested at a time of rapid change. Part I addresses key issues for public, academic, and government libraries in organizing and..

Gower Handbook of Library and Information Management..

Gower Handbook of Library and Information Management..

This Handbook of Library Training Practice and Development addresses new aspects of service provision both in the UK and abroad, and provides an up-to-date review of the current developments which are becoming increasingly important to librarians through the influence of the electronic age and the ..

A dictionary of over nearly 10,000 terms, abbreviations, acronyms, URLs and other useful information relating to library and information management, archives, publishing, knowledge management and e-commerce...