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  • Raising the Tech Bar at Your Library

    Improving Services to Meet User Needs

    by Nick D. Taylor ...
    This book explains how librarians can capitalize on the growing interest and need of patrons for help with technology by expanding their library's tech services to build community engagement and support.Keeping up with technology is more critical and difficult than ever. This challenge exists not only for library staff but for their patrons as well. Today's librarians are often barraged with ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Using Google Earth in Libraries

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    by Eva H. Dodsworth, Andrew Nicholson ...
    Series series Practical Guides for Librarians
    Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world. The uses of Google Earth in academia, in libraries, and across disciplines are endless and each year more innovate research projects are being released. Since its launch, Google Earth has had an enormous impact on the way people ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Data Clean-Up and Management

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    by Margaret Hogarth, Kenneth Furuta ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using readily-available applications. The authors highlight the importance and methods of data analysis and presentation, and offer guidelines and recommendations for a data quality policy. The book gives step-by ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Digitizing Flat Media

    Principles and Practices

    by Joy M. Perrin ...
    Series series LITA Guides
    Here is a concise guide to the nuts and bolts of converting flat media (books, papers, maps, posters, slides, micro formats, etc) into digital files. It provides librarians and archivists with the practical knowledge to understand the process and decision making in the digitization of flat media. Instead of having to learn by trial and error, they will get a well-rounded education of the practical ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Serving Online Customers

    Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

    by Donald A. Barclay ...
    Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessible online. To compete in the digital age, libraries must provide outstanding customer service to their virtual users.In Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World, Donald A. Barclay carefully examines business literature ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries

    Applying Business Process Management

    by Lenore England, Stephen D. Miller ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries: Applying Business Process Management examines the use of Business Process Management (BPM) and the ways it can be beneficially applied to electronic resources management (ERM) to help organize processes in libraries. The book offers librarians a skillset that will make them ready for a variety of library environments. It focuses on the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Researching Developing Countries

    A Data Resource Guide for Social Scientists

    by Forrest Daniel Wright ...
    Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Why are some well governed while others experience frequent conflict? And how do you measure a country's true success anyways? Social scientists have attempted to answer these types of questions for decades, and have increasingly turned to data for this task. Researching Developing Countries: A Data Resource Guide for Social Scientists serves as a ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Academic Branch Libraries in Changing Times

    by Nevenka Zdravkovska ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Are academic branch libraries going to be extinct in the near future? In these difficult economic times, when collections are digitized rapidly, is there still a need for a separate unit within proximity to the department, school, or college with a subject-based or subject-specific collection? Academic Branch Libraries in Changing Times gives a brief historical overview of the role of a branch ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Information Literacy

    Infiltrating the Agenda, Challenging Minds

    by Geoff Walton, Alison Pope ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Focusing on important information literacy debates, this new book with contributions from many of the main experts in the field highlights important ideas and practical considerations. Information Literacy takes the reader on a journey across the contemporary information landscape, guided by academics and practitioners who are experts in navigating this ever-changing terrain. - Diversity of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management

    Edited by Dr James M. Matarazzo, Dr Toby Pearlstein ...
    Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein and Matarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experience in public, academic, government, and special library settings, including experienced independent information professionals, to address the critical issues facing Information Management (IM) today.This new handbook provides a context for approaching the ... Read more

    $241.09 USD

  • The Myth and Magic of Library Systems

    by Keith J. Kelley ...
    The Myth and Magic of Library Systems not only defines what library systems are, but also provides guidance on how to run a library systems department. It is aimed at librarians or library administrations tasked with managing, or using, a library systems department. This book focuses on different scenarios regarding career changes for librarians and the ways they may have to interact with library ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Customer Service in Libraries

    Best Practices

    Edited by Charles Harmon, Michael Messina ...
    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries’ best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused technology planning, picture book arrangement with patrons in mind, Web 2.0 tools to connect ... Read more

    $64.79 USD