Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
by Mahsood Shah, Chenicheri Sid Nair, John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Measuring and Enhancing the Student Experience provides insights on how student experience measures could be used to inform improvements at institutional, course, unit of study and teacher level. The book is based on a decade of research and practitioner views on ways to enhance the design, conduct,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes...
50 Specialty Libraries of New York City
From Botany to Magic
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Everyone knows that New York maintains one of the great library systems in the world - the two lions that guard the 42nd street library among the most important icons in the city. Less well known are a host of specialty libraries that have grown up around the rich intellectual and cultural life of...
Universal Design
A Practical Guide to Creating and Re-Creating interiors of Academic Libraries for Teaching, Learning, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Universal Design provides practitioners, graduate students, and other professionals interested in obtaining practical advice on how to effectively create and re-create interiors of academic libraries for teaching, learning, and research. The academic library ‘as place’ continues to evolve around...
The Rapidly Transforming Chinese High-Technology Industry and Market
Institutions, Ingredients, Mechanisms and Modus Operandi
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
A number of indicators point to rapid and extraordinary shifts in the Chinese high-technology landscape. This book places special emphasis on ulta-modern and crucial ICT industries in which Chinese players possess a competitive advantage. It analyzes how formal and informal institutions and associated...
Plagiarism Education and Prevention
A Subject-Driven Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Academic librarians and university instructors worldwide are grappling with an increasing incidence of student plagiarism. Recent publications urge educators to prevent plagiarism by teaching students about the issue, and some have advocated the value of a subject-specific approach to plagiarism prevention...
Libraries and Archives
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Libraries and Archives analyses the facts and arguments behind an increasing debate as to what extent libraries and archives are fulfilling the same missions. Despite the fact that they have different legal statuses, legal frameworks, and the work-flow looks very different, some politicians and bureaucrats...
Information Literacy in the Digital Age
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
This book examines the various types of literacy that are important in the Digital Age of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources in a variety of formats. According to the American Library Association (www.ala.org), “information literacy is a set of abilities requiring...
Archives and Societal Provenance
Australian Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia’s indigenous people represent the oldest living culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial society now heavily multicultural in outlook. Archives and Societal Provenance explores this...
Map Librarianship
A Guide to Geoliteracy, Map and GIS Resources and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Map Librarianship identifies basic geoliteracy concepts and enhances reference and instruction skills by providing details on finding, downloading, delivering, and assessing maps, remotely sensed imagery, and other geospatial resources and services, primarily from trusted government sources. By offering...
by Janneka Guise
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstrates the lack of reported succession planning activities in Canadian academic libraries. Site visits...
Quality and the Academic Library
Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Quality and the Academic Library: Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision provides an in-depth review and analysis of quality management and service quality in academic libraries. All aspects of quality are considered in the book, including quality assessment, quality review, and quality...
Student Feedback
The Cornerstone to an Effective Quality Assurance System in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In recent years, student feedback has appeared at the forefront of higher education quality. In particular, the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. Despite this,...
by Bang Nguyen, Chris Rowley
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
There is a growing interest in firms’ adoption of ethical and social marketing approaches among academics and practitioners alike. Ethical Marketing is the application of ethics into the marketing process, and Social Marketing is a concept that seeks to influence a target audience for the greater...