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  • Facing Neuralgia

    by Wendy Evans ...
    At the age of thirty Wendy Evans, a vivacious, versatile and devoted primary school teacher with singing and acting talents, was struck down by a devastating and very rare nerve disease with serious and debilitating symptoms including pain and foreign body sensations in her throat, shock-like pains in her ears and neck, and difficulty and pain when talking, swallowing, chewing, coughing and ... Read more

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  • The End of Wisdom?

    The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age

    Edited by Wendy Evans, David Baker ...
    The End of Wisdom? The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age assembles opinion pieces, forecasts, strategy options, and case studies from leading worldwide politicians, academics, educators, authors, publishers, captains of industry, senior public sector workers, library directors, IT gurus and other key players in the field of information provision who discuss their views on the hypothesis ... Read more

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  • Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age

    Edited by Wendy Evans, David Baker ...
    Series series Chandos Digital Information Review
    Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of digital information today, exploring the impact of developing technologies on the information world. This book emphasises important contemporary topics and ... Read more

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  • Digital Information Strategies

    From Applications and Content to Libraries and People

    Series series Chandos Digital Information Review
    Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time. This helpful resource explores the impact of developing technologies on the information world. Written from an international perspective, the book emphasizes key current topics and ... Read more

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  • A Handbook of Digital Library Economics

    Operations, Collections and Services

    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the 'how to' of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management. The emphasis is on case studies and practical examples drawn from a wide variety of contexts. A Handbook of Digital Library Economics is a practical manual for those involved – or ... Read more

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  • Libraries and Society

    Role, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change

    Edited by Wendy Evans, David Baker ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    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 ... Read more

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  • Innovation in Libraries and Information Services

    Edited by David Baker, Wendy Evans ...
    Series Book 35 - Advances in Library Administration and Organization
    This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and Information Services. It considers the various types of innovation through case studies and exemplars both from within the LIS sector and other cognate industries and environments. It will look at both the last and the next thirty years by charting major ... Read more

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    Organizations in ever-changing environments depend upon their knowledge, as their survival depends upon effective thinking and agile actions. Any organization's knowledge is its prime asset yet its true value requires the activations of structure, query, search and decision. Shaping Knowledge provides an introduction to the key tools for thinking required by decision-making professionals in today ... Read more

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  • Data Clean-Up and Management

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    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

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  • Managing eBook Metadata in Academic Libraries

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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 them discoverable, and managing them presents library staff with many new challenges. Traditional methods of cataloging and managing ... Read more

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  • The Preservation and Protection of Library Collections

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    by Bogdan Zerek ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Preservation involves a complex of activities including climate, air-quality, and surface control, as well as microbiological control, which is a key part of preserving and protecting library collections. The Preservation and Protection of Library Collections examines microbiological control for preservation of library and archival collections. A supporting tool for conservators, this title should ... Read more

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  • The Patron-Driven Library

    A Practical Guide for Managing Collections and Services in the Digital Age

    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections to services, placing the reader at the center of library activities. The book reveals the way library ... Read more

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