Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Open Access and its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians
Collection Development, Public Services, and the Library and Information Science Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
This book is aimed at the practicing academic librarian, especially those working on the ‘front lines’ of reference, instruction, collection development, and other capacities that involve dealing directly with library patrons in a time of changing scholarly communication paradigms. The book looks...
Practising Information Literacy
Bringing Theories of Learning, Practice and Information Literacy Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community...
by Qing Lu
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
The rapid growth of foreign banks has aroused a growing interest in the academic field and specifically as regards to the question of why foreign banks exist. This book aims to establish the relationship between trust as contextual knowledge capital built between the Chinese government and foreign...
Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities
Crowds, Communities and Co-production
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries....
Digital Participation through Social Living Labs
Valuing Local Knowledge, Enhancing Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Digital Participation through Social Living Labs connects two largely separate debates: On the one hand, high speed internet access and associated technologies are often heralded as a means to bring about not only connectivity, but also innovation, economic development, new jobs, and regional prosperity....
by Steven Ovadia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research. The Librarian’s Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud is a practical guide to using cloud services from a librarian’s point of view. As well as discussing how to use various cloud-based services, the title considers the various...
Collection Management
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
The rapidly increasing reliance on digital rather than print-based resources has not diminished the importance of library collection management, but it has required significant modification in the thinking and the practice of collection managers, who today usually have to consider their clients' need...
Libraries and Key Performance Indicators
A Framework for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Libraries and Key Performance Indicators: A Framework for Practitioners explores ways by which libraries across all sectors can demonstrate their value and impact to stakeholders through quality assurance and performance measurement platforms, including library assessment, evaluation methodologies,...
Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities
Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Archives and special collections departments have a long history of preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records, rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful curatorial attention to...
Social Justice and Library Work
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization....
by Angela Jones, Rebecca Jane Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The concept of ‘live’ has changed as a consequence of mediated culture. Interaction may occur in real time, but not necessarily in shared physical spaces with others. The Digital Evolution of Live Music considers notions of live music in time and space as influenced by digital technology. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Nanoscience has become one of the key growth areas in recent years. It can be integrated into imaging and therapy to increase the potential for novel applications in the field of photomedicine. In the past commercial applications of nanoscience have been limited to materials science research only,...
by Hong Zhen Zhu, Shiyan Lou
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
The Chinese higher education sector is an area subject to increasing attention from an international perspective. Written by authors centrally located within the education system in China, Development and Reform of Higher Education in China highlights not only the development of different aspects...
Truths and Half Truths
China’s Socio-Economic Reforms from 1978-2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Truths and Half Truths is aimed at economic and social science academics and students who are interested in the dynamics of China’s institutional development and societal transformation. Covering the complexity of the social, economic, and governance reforms behind the economic miracles achieved...