Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Libraries and Society
Role, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
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...
Collaboration and the Academic Library
Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International exploresthe considerable change that has affected universities and academic libraries in recent years. Given this complex and important context, it is clear that the academic library increasingly...
Television Versus the Internet
Will TV Prosper or Perish as the World Moves Online?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book will explore the questions raised by the technological developments that have encouraged the multiplication of TV channels. TV is moving through a period of rapid change. Governments around the world are switching from analogue to digital forms of transmission to further expand the amount...
The Fortuitous Teacher
A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Fortuitous Teacher: A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction discusses how librarians have become accidental teachers in the academic university setting. It covers how (if at all) librarians are prepared by MILS programs to teach, compares typical characteristics of teachers versus librarians,...
Creating a New Library
Recipes for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Creating a New Library: Recipes for Transformation offers ways to make your library group space into one conducive to transformational learning. The book is structured as a cookbook with an introduction to the idea, then directions on its execution.
Next, the book gives tips on how to adapt...
by Gillian Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In today’s digital environment the workplace is characterised by individuals creating information perhaps independently of formal systems, or establishing new systems without knowledge of information management requirements. This book explains and explores the concept of organisational culture,...
News Search, Blogs and Feeds
A Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to...
Emerging Technologies for Librarians
A Practical Approach to Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation focuses on the practical applications of emerging technologies in libraries, defining the technologies in the context of their use in real situations.
Each chapter includes an overview of the use of emerging technologies...
The Information and Knowledge Professional's Career Handbook
Define and Create Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The definitive guide to developing and managing a successful career in the information profession: Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers deal with significant challenges in building successful careers for a number of reasons associated with common misperceptions of their expertise and roles....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have real world experience with transformational...
Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries
A Decision Maker's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decision Maker's Guide includes innovative ways libraries are engaging students, including the practice of setting aside high-tech spaces for creativity. Five models of library creative spaces are explored in this book, including digital media...
by Tibor Koltay, Sonja Spiranec, Laszlo Z Karvalics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Research 2.0 and the Future of Information Literacy examines possible congruencies between information literacy and Research 2.0, because the work of today’s researcher mobilizes a number of literacies. From among the various types of relevant literacies, at least three types of literacies can be...
Multinational Corporation Subsidiaries in China
An Empirical Study of Growth and Development Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This comprehensive study examines the global strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), the strategic evolution and the categories of their subsidiaries in China based on 150 MNCs. It is the first large-scale project of this nature to be conducted. The research has significant bearing on strategic...
by Stephen Mossop
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Academic libraries undergo episodes of strategic change. Transformational change may be seen as fundamentally different from other kinds of change. A part of this process is often deep level cultural change. At the individual level this may be traumatic, but at the strategic level, such change can...