In this work, an optimal approach for transitioning to a new XML workflow process in the publishing industry is illustrated based upon the exigencies of three different types of publishers: a publisher of literary fiction, a scientific publishing house, and a publisher of self-help and children's books. After presenting basic technical issues, a suitable cross-media publishing strategy is proposed for each type of publishing house.

The Internet has become mobile: the iPhone and the iPad have set off a wave of new developments, with eBooks, eJournals, and apps spearheading a new mass market. This volume contains practical instructions for the design and realization of products for the mobile publishing market. Starting from an analysis of how the market has developed, the authors use case examples to present the step-by-step course of product development. The presentation begins with a discussion of target group analysis and a consideration of suitable carrier media and product forms, and continues through marketing, a description of existing technologies, and a discussion of possible business models.

This book imparts the fundamental legal understanding required for the purchase and sale of marketing rights for publishing house products. The aim is to enable the reader to competently deal with publishing contracts of every kind. Specific areas of focus include classic copyright and publishing law, the role of collecting societies, issues related to subsidiary rights and their exploitation, as well as questions regarding royalties.

Mapping Information Landscapes presents the first in-depth study of the educational implications of the idea of information literacy as ‘the capacity to map and navigate an information landscape’. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it investigates how teachers and learners can use mapping in developing their ability to make informed judgements about information, in specific places and times. Central to the argument is the notion that the geographical and information landscapes are indivisible, and the techniques we use to navigate each are essentially the same. The book presents a history of mapping as a means of representing the world, ranging from the work of medieval mapmakers to the 21st century. Concept and mind mapping are explored, and finally, the notion of discursive mapping: the dialogic process, regardless of whether a graphical map is an outcome. The theoretical framework of the book weaves together the work of authors including Annemaree Lloyd, Christine Bruce, practice theorists such as Theodore Schatzki and the critical geography of David Harvey, an author whose work has not previously been applied to the study of information literacy. The book concludes that keeping information landscapes sustainable and navigable requires attention to how equipment is used to map and organise those landscapes. How we collectively think about and solve problems in the present time inscribes maps and positions them as resources in whatever landscapes we will draw on in the future. Information literacy educators, whether in libraries, other HE courses, high schools or the workplace, will benefit by learning about how mapping – implicitly and explicitly – can be used as a method of teaching IL. The book will also be useful reading for academics and researchers of information literacy and students of library and information science.

The ten chapters of this book examine all aspects of academic library systems at British universities. The volume includes library history, collection expansion, indexing, electronic resources, personnel structure, organizational structure, professional training, library statistics, and open access.

Library staff and faculty defend intellectual freedom and describe standing against book challenges. Book bans and challenges frequently make the news, but when the reporting ends, how do we put them in context? The Fight against Book Bans captures the views of dozens of librarians and library science professors regarding the recent flood of book challenges across the United States, gathered in a comprehensive analysis of their impact and significance. It also serves as a guide to responding to challenges. Chapter authors provide first-hand accounts of facing book challenges and describe how they have prepared for challenges, overcome opposition to certain books, and shown the value of specific library materials. Library science faculty with a range of specialties provide relevant background information to bolster these on-the-ground views. Together, the chapters both articulate the importance of intellectual freedom and demonstrate how to convey that significance to others in the community with passion and wisdom. This volume provides a timely and thorough overview of the complex issues surrounding the ongoing spate of book challenges faced by public and school libraries. Reinforces the significance of intellectual freedom to public and school libraries Describes how different librarians have responded to challenges and explained the importance of intellectual freedom to their communities Acts as a step-by-step guide to responding to challenges

This volume presents the prison library system in Germany and around the world. Besides describing the history of prison libraries, this book provides for the first time a comprehensive summary of the legal foundations and the range of library services available for people in prison.

The volume Erfolgreich recherchieren - Medizin Successful Research Strategies: Medicine] provides a comprehensive overview of information resources in all sectors of medicine. The work not only presents key research tools such as library catalogues, specialized bibliographies, Internet search engines, article databases, and reference works, but also includes strategies for conducting a successful literature search.

There is considerable pressure on libraries to change and evolve. Key elements here include the shift in the library sector from printed to digital literature and information, the major effects of this shift on the service portfolios, on working and organizational processes and on the deployment of staff. The potential conflict between service innovations and the need to cut costs presents a major challenge to information institutions; this collection of articles takes a solution-oriented approach to the various dimensions of the challenge.

The future viability of libraries and information establishments depends to a very great extent on their ability to anticipate social, political, economic and technological developments, and so to position themselves within the context of the cultural and educational landscape with innovative service concepts. The intention of the handbook is to apply current marketing strategies and methods to libraries and information institutions from a systematic perspective, so that they are practically relevant and theoretically sound. Open publication

This book is a complete guide to the entire range of communication situations between library staff and users, including initial contact, the reference interview, training situations, conflict situations, complaints, and user orientation. Each chapter begins with a specific example that serves as the basis for the analysis of a problem situation. Extensive exercises are provided for independent study. Helpful tips, templates for drafting documents, and interview guidelines make this a uniquely practical guide to everyday library communication.

Harvard's home for rare books and manuscripts opened in 1942, and thanks to the energy of a small group of librarians and the creativity and generosity of its benefactor, Arthur Houghton, it quickly emerged as a center of inquiry and memory without equal. This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.

The volume Erfolgreich recherchieren Jura (Successful Research Strategies: Law) provides a comprehensive overview of information resources for law. The book allows the student to quickly learn all the relevant essentials about library catalogs, specialized bibliographies, internet search engines, newspaper resources, reference works, and how to effectively use the library in person, digitally, and virtually."

The volume Erfolgreich recherchieren Geschichte (Successful Research Strategies: History) provides a comprehensive overview of information resources for history. The book allows the student to quickly learn all the relevant essentials about library catalogs, specialized bibliographies, internet search engines, newspaper resources, reference works, and how to effectively use the library in person, digitally, and virtually."

The Handbook of Collection Management in Public Libraries offers a comprehensive view of the subject. It illuminates current challenges in the book and media market, the rapid development of the internet, and the increasing competition between new providers of information and media, as well as current socio-political challenges which impose new demands on collection managements; for example demographic change, changing values in society and the growing competition for funding between public institutions.

Das Buch beschreibt den Wandel der Hochschulbibliotheken zu Lehr-Lernorten, zu "Teaching Libraries". Diese bieten Raume und Angebote zum wissenschaftsbezogenen Lernen, besonders zur Foerderung der Informationskompetenz. Veranderungen des Informationsverhaltens junger Menschen, der Umgang mit zunehmend digitaler Information, wichtige Fahigkeiten der Suche, der Auswahl, der Bewertung und der Verarbeitung von Informationen und Medien sowie Lerninfrastrukturen werden vorgestellt. Das Buch bietet zahlreiche Modelle und Praxisbeispiele mit internationalem Bezug (Grossbritannien und USA).

Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. "The Artist's Library" offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guidance and resources to make libraries of all sizes and shapes come alive as spaces for art-making and cultural engagement. Case studies included in the book range from the crafty (pop-up books) to the community-minded (library galleries) to documentary (photo projects) to the technically complex ("listening" to libraries via Dewey decimal frequencies).

The Library as Incubator Project was created by Erinn Batykefer, Laura Damon-Moore, and Christina Endres. It highlights the ways that libraries and artists can work together, and works to strengthen these partnerships. By calling attention to one of the many reasons libraries are important to our communities and our culture, it provides a dynamic online forum for sharing ideas.

Erinn Batykefer is a librarian, a writer, and a lifelong do-it-yourselfer. She earned an MFA in writing and a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first poetry collection, "Allegheny, Monongahela," won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize.

Laura Damon-Moore is a librarian, blogger, and avid art-maker in her spare time. Laura received her master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.

Jessica Pigza is the assistant curator in the New York Public Library's Rare Book Division. She also writes on handmade material culture, DIY, and handicrafts at "Hand-Made Librarian."

This volume deals primarily with the experiences of users and current methodological trends in digital libraries. It provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the user orientation of digital libraries(evaluation, usefulness, interculturality, web design, relevance ranking, mobile terminals).

This volume provides review of the increasing availability of electronic information resources for historians. The most important types and classes are presented with central examples. A more detailed look is taken at bibliographies and databases of articles, virtual specialist libraries and portals, e-books and digital libraries, reference works and information resources on literary source material, as well as the various areas of the auxiliary historical sciences.

Classification is the essential first step in science. The study of science, as well as the practice of science, will thus benefit from a detailed classification of different types of science.

In this book, science - defined broadly to include the social sciences and humanities - is first unpacked into its constituent elements: the phenomena studied, the data used, the theories employed, the methods applied, and the practices of scientists. These five elements are then classified in turn. Notably, the classifications of both theory types and methods allow the key strengths and weaknesses of different theories and methods to be readily discerned and compared. Connections across classifications are explored: should certain theories or phenomena be investigated only with certain methods? What is the proper function and form of scientific paradigms? Are certain common errors and biases in scientific practice associated with particular phenomena, data, theories, or methods? The classifications point to several ways of improving both specialized and interdisciplinary research and teaching, and especially of enhancing communication across communities of scholars. The classifications also support a superior system of document classification that would allow searches by theory and method used as well as causal links investigated.

Dieses Buch stellt einen Teil der Erweiterung und Entwicklung der Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records dar. Es enthAlt eine weitergehende Analyse der Merkmale verschiedener EntitAten, die im Fokus von Normdaten stehen (Personen, Familien, KArperschaften, Werke, Expressionen, Manifestationen, Exemplare, Begriffe, Objekte, Ereignisse und Orte), die Benennungen unter denen diese EntitAten bekannt sind, und die normierten Sucheinstiege, welche die Katalogisierer fA1/4r diese erzeugen.

The Information Management Systems group at the University of Padua has been a major contributor to information retrieval (IR) and digital libraries. The papers in this book include coverage of automated text categorizations, web link analysis algorithms, retrieval in multimedia digital libraries, and multilingual information retrieval. The text will appeal to institutions and companies working on search engines and information retrieval algorithms.

With the term "Library 2.0" the editors mean an institution which applies the principles of the Web 2.0 such as openness, re-use, collaboration and interaction in the entire organization. Libraries are extending their service offerings and work processes to include the potential of Web 2.0 technologies. This changes the job description and self-image of librarians. The collective volume offers a complete overview of the topic Library 2.0 and the current state of developments from a technological, sociological, information theoretical and practice-oriented perspective.