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Indexing consists of both novel and more traditional techniques.
Cutting-edge indexing techniques, such as automatic indexing,
ontologies, and topic maps, were developed independently of older
techniques such as thesauri, but it is now recognized that these
older methods also hold expertise.
This book has two aims: firstly to present an investigation into
information literacy by looking at how people engage with
information to accomplish tasks or solve problems in personal,
academic and professional contexts (also known as the relational
approach). This view of information literacy illustrates a
learner-centred perspective that will be of interest to educators
who wish to go beyond the teaching of information skills. The
second aim of this book is to illustrate how the relational
approach can be used as an investigative framework. As a detailed
account of a relational study, this book will appeal to researchers
interested in using the relational framework to examine pedagogical
experiences from the learner s perspective.
Taking a staff-led approach, this book helps libraries of all types create their own meaningful and authentic strategic plans while demystifying a process that can bring many benefits to the organization. With dwindling budgets to pay for consultants and a growing interest in collaboration across the organization, libraries are increasingly taking a do-it-yourself approach to strategic planning. This book takes a step-by-step approach to grassroots strategic planning for libraries of all types. The authors, who led a successful strategic planning process at their own library, provide practical advice and detailed information to guide library personnel through their own process. Topics include aligning with institutional and community values, creating vision and mission statements, researching stakeholder needs, conducting environmental scans, collaborative drafting of the plan, communication strategies, and implementation and assessment of the plan. Each chapter helps librarians create a strategic plan for a broad spectrum of libraries, including K–12, post-secondary, public, and special libraries. A unique feature of the book is its emphasis on the ways in which different library types can collaborate to meet shared goals. This book is a one-stop-shop, providing everything library staff will need to create a strategic plan without searching for additional sources. Understand the components of a strategic plan Learn steps to complete a staff-led strategic planning process Learn specific skills to conduct environmental and stakeholder research to support the planning process Learn approaches to workshop and write the plan with colleagues Understand how to build communication, transparency, accountability, and assessment into the plan
Information available through traditional business and competitive
resources can be complimented by information gained through social
media tools. Social Information is a must-have book for competitive
and business researchers in any discipline including librarians,
information professionals, intelligence analysts, students and
marketing personnel, and explores how more traditional resources
can be complimented by social media tools. The book outlines
different categories of social tools, competitive and business
applications of these tools, and provides example searches with
screenshots. The book provides concrete search examples, as well as
strategies and approaches for searching social tools that may be
available today or that may emerge tomorrow. Readers will learn
ways to quickly develop new search strategies as new tools and
features emerge. The future of social tools and information, and
the lasting impact that these tools have had on how information
plays a part in our lives, our businesses and our careers is
discussed. The title is structured into seven chapters, covering:
the impact of social media, and the approach of the book; a brief
history of business and competitive information and the rise of
social tools; blogs and microblogs; video, audio and images; social
search engines; and the future of social information.
This book is a significant step towards developing a body of
management knowledge pertinent to the context of Library
Information Science (LIS) and provides a succinct but deep account
of management and information organizations. Management of
Information Organizations presents a broad view of the information
organizations and the nature of management in these organizations,
and how information professionals are affected by such management
systems. The book equips the reader with the knowledge that will
enable them to develop a strong intellectual foundation relating to
management and its manifestation in an information organization and
provides a significant step towards developing a body of management
knowledge pertinent to the context of LIS.
Examining the different bodies that publish official material, this
book describes the types of material published, how it is made
available and how it is recorded. Finding Official British
Information focuses on the digital availability of official
information and considers how much is now freely available on the
web and how to locate it as well as addressing issues of web only
publishing. It covers public bodies in the UK and includes
publications issued by central and local government as well as the
devolved assemblies and the many other organisations that issue
official publications.
Many libraries and museums have adapted to the current information
climate, working with Google, Facebook, Twitter and iTunes to
deliver information for their users. Many have not. Google This
describes the variety of free or nearly free options for social
media, and shows how libraries are adapting, from the Library of
Congress to small public libraries. The author presents
conversations with social media innovators to show how their
experience can create success for your institution s library.
Chapters cover important aspects of social media for libraries
including: how they relate to the internet; web services such as
Google Custom Search, Facebook and Twitter, Flickr, iGoogle, and
more; electronic books; discovery platforms; and mobile
applications. The book ends by asking: Where is this all going?
The systematic management of records is an important activity for
information businesses such as museums and galleries, but is not
always recognized as a core function. Record keeping activities are
often concentrated on small groups of records, and staff charged
with managing them may have limited experience in the field.
Increasingly, library personnel are called upon to teach classes,
deliver presentations and represent their organizations in an
official capacity. This book is designed to assist those
professionals with little to no experience designing and delivering
training, instructional sessions, and presentations. Suitable for
all librarians, library staff and library school students, this
practical guide will get the library professional up and running as
a trainer and presenter.
Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing
librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries. It
examines the various models for providing public library services
around the world and discusses differences in such areas as funding
sources, standards, regulations and use. At a time when public
libraries are facing shrinking budgets and increasing pressure to
consolidate or otherwise modify their governance structure, this
book provides a timely glimpse into international best practices.
In the knowledge economy, professionals have to make decisions
about non-tangible, non-monetary, and largely invisible resources.
Information professionals need to understand the potential uses,
contributions, value, structure, and creation of broadly intangible
intellectual capital in libraries. In order to fully realize
intellectual capital in libraries, new practices and skills are
required for library management practitioners and researchers.
The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards—publications, citations, funding—systematically obstructs women’s career advancement. If current trends continue, women and men will be equally represented in the field of biology in 2069. In physics, math, and engineering, women should not expect to reach parity for more than a century. The gender gap in science and technology is narrowing, but at a decidedly unimpressive pace. And even if parity is achievable, what about equity? Equity for Women in Science, the first large-scale empirical analysis of the global gender gap in science, provides strong evidence that the structures of scientific production and reward impede women’s career advancement. To make their case, Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière have conducted scientometric analyses using millions of published papers across disciplines. The data show that women are systematically denied the chief currencies of scientific credit: publications and citations. The rising tide of collaboration only exacerbates disparities, with women unlikely to land coveted leadership positions or gain access to global networks. The findings are unequivocal: when published, men are positioned as key contributors and women are relegated to low-visibility technical roles. The intersecting disparities in labor, reward, and resources contribute to cumulative disadvantages for the advancement of women in science. Alongside their eye-opening analyses, Sugimoto and Larivière offer solutions. The data themselves point the way, showing where existing institutions fall short. A fair and equitable research ecosystem is possible, but the scientific community must first disrupt its own pervasive patterns of gatekeeping.
With chapters from established and emerging scholars in the field of archival studies, Disputed Archival Heritage extends and enriches the conversation that started with the earlier volume, Displaced Archives. Advancing novel theories and methods for understanding disputes and claims over archives, the volume includes chapters that focus on Indigenous records in settler colonial states; literary and community archives; sub-national and private sector displacements; successes in repatriating formerly displaced archives; comparisons with cultural objects seized by colonial powers; and the relationship between repatriation and reparations. Analysing key concepts such as joint heritage and provenance, the contributors unsettle Western understandings of records, place and ownership. Disputed Archival Heritage speaks to the growing interest in shared archival heritage, repatriation of cultural artefacts and cultural diasporas. As such, it will be a useful resource for academics, students and practitioners working in the field of archives, records, and information management, as well as cultural property and heritage management, peace and conflict studies and international law.
Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century traces
development in and around library classification as reported in
literature published in the first decade of the 21st century. It
reviews literature published on various aspects of library
classification, including modern applications of classification
such as internet resource discovery, automatic book classification,
text categorization, modern manifestations of classification such
as taxonomies, folksonomies and ontologies and interoperable
systems enabling crosswalk. The book also features classification
education and an exploration of relevant topics.
This book is aimed at guiding managers towards systematic
approaches to improve and facilitate necessary strategic business
development and planning. Conditions in the workplace for the
Library and Information Services (LIS) are rapidly changing: many
organizations are experiencing budget restrictions as well as
stakeholders questioning the value of the services. Strategic
Business Development for Information Centres and Libraries offers
methods and tools for LIS departments to ensure value and benefits
are delivered to the parent organization. It argues that LIS must
be prepared to change according to the parent organization's needs,
to develop strategies for important activities and to seek
alliances among key stakeholders. It also offers information on the
best practice from five top-performing international LIS units.
An invaluable guide for MLS professionals and students, this new
book explains how librarians can select an effective method of
library instruction based on their users, the objectives of the
instruction and the delivery environment. The content describes the
different methods available and in what circumstances the methods
are most effective. It includes descriptions of curriculums for the
methods currently available and describes a range of objectives the
curriculums meet and the common environments librarians use for
instruction. Information Literacy Instruction also introduces two
new ideas for methods of instruction: one which combines
information literacy with cyber-literacy (MLI) forming an
instructional method appropriate for internet users and internet
information and the Fully Automated Reference Instruction (FARI)
that actively involves users with the instruction while completing
research they are currently involved in for specific targeted
classes.
Human Action Recognition is a challenging area presently. The vigor of research effort directed towards this domain is self indicative of this. With the ever-increasing involvement of Computational Intelligence in our day to day applications, the necessity of human activity recognition has been able to make its presence felt to the concerned research community. The primary drive of such an effort is to equip the computing system capable of recognizing and interpreting human activities from posture, pose, gesture, facial expression etc. The intent of human activity recognition is a formidable component of cognitive science in which researchers are actively engaged of late. Features: A systematic overview of the state-of-the-art in computational intelligence techniques for human action recognition. Emphasized on different intelligent techniques to recognize different human actions. Discussed about the automation techniques to handle human action recognition. Recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in this arena. In the present endeavour the editors intend to come out with a compilation that reflects the concerns of relevant research community. The readers would be able to come across some of the latest findings of active researchers of the concerned field. It is anticipated that this treatise shall be useful to the readership encompassing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, researchers active as well as aspiring, not to speak of the senior researchers.
This book, divided into two parts, provides an introduction to the
quality management issues and gives a general overview to the use
of ISO 9001 in the library environment. The second part presents
the main features of ISO 9001:2008 with practical comments and
examples on how to implement its clauses in libraries. Whether in
the public or in the private sector, libraries can be seen as
service organisations: they act in very dynamic environments where
users are increasingly demanding new types of services. Thus the
adoption of a quality management system helps each library in
meeting the needs of the customers. This book covers some key ideas
about how to approach the ISO 9001 standard in library terms, or
any other information service unit. Managing Your Library and its
Quality offers not only a useful approach to quality but it is also
an excellent guide on how to manage knowledge within organisations
and, a priori, thus should be utilised by the information
professional.
Aimed at professionals and trainee professionals within the library
and information service (LIS) fields, this book reminds the reader
of the frequently ignored communication-gulf between the
professional and the layman, and in particular the lack of true
communication between LIS professionals and the user. It focuses
especially on non-standard users, such as non-native speakers or
those with some disability. The author provides accessible examples
of good practice, assesses their degree of success and suggests
further ways to improve performance in information provision.
Qualitative Research and the Modern Library examines the
present-day role and provides suggestions for areas that might be
suited to this type of research for the purposes of evaluation. The
author discusses how the results from such research might be
applied, and the overall impact of using this type of research to
inform development of a more user-centred organisation. The book
provides a thoughtful look at the implications of using qualitative
research to inform decision-making processes within libraries and
is written by an author and library researcher with international
experience in various types of libraries, implementing/improving
programs and services, and supporting user needs.
1. With contributions from a diverse group of librarians, who have experience working in different types of institutions and roles, the book showcases the actions information professionals, largely from historically marginalized groups, are taking to create a more socially responsible environment for themselves and their communities. 2. The chapters reflect on personal experiences, best practices for programming, professional development, effective collaboration, building inclusive community partnerships, anti-racist practices in the classroom, and organizational culture. 3. Exploring how and why library workers are incorporating anti-racist, and anti-oppressive work within their everyday roles, the book demonstrates that library workers are increasingly sending messages of protest, and advocating for equity, justice, and social change. Highlighting their experiences of marginalization and exclusion, contributors also reflect upon the impact social justice work has on their mental health, careers, and personal lives. 4. Practicing Social Justice in Libraries is essential reading for library and information workers and students who are searching for practical ways to implement more inclusive practices into their work.
This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students,
faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working
to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on
campus, and in the local community. This book illustrates how
universities are uniquely situated to engage students in
discussions about diversity and how academic libraries in
particular can facilitate and ease these discussions. A Diversity
Council and the projects and programs it has developed have been
instrumental in this work and may serve as an inspiration and
launch pad for other libraries. Diversity Programming and Outreach
for Academic Libraries details anecdotal experiences, and provides
practical suggestions for developing diversity programs and forming
collaborations with other campus units, regardless of size, staff,
or focus of the academic library.
Presents a broad examination of the nature of virtual worlds and
the potential they provide in managing and expressing information
practices through that medium, grounding information professionals
and students of new media in the fundamental elements of virtual
worlds and online gaming. The book details the practical issues in
finding and using information in virtual environments and presents
a general theory of librarianship as it relates to virtual gaming
worlds. It is encompassed by a set of best practice methods that
libraries can effectively execute in their own environments,
meeting the needs of this new generation of library user, and
explores ways in which information literacy can be approached in
virtual worlds. Final chapters examine how conventional information
evaluation skills work falls short in virtual worlds online.
This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public,
private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and
shaping society at local, regional, national and international
levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic
tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other
key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex
ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively.
Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society
and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and
Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the
major challenges that libraries - however defined, managed,
developed and provided - now face, and will continue to face in the
future. It also focuses on the emerging chapter in cultural,
economic and social history and the library s role in serving
diverse communities within this new era.
Web 2.0 technology is a hot topic at the moment, and public
librarians in particular are beginning to feel the pressure to
apply these tools. Indeed, Web 2.0 has the potential to transform
library services, but only if the policy and strategy for those
services are ready to be transformed. The author not only reviews
these tools and provides practical advice and case studies on how
they can be applied in the public library setting, but also
recommends the policies and business cases that begin to create a
new strategy for public libraries. |
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