Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Mid-Career Library and Information Professionals
A Leadership Primer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities. Literature on leadership is expanding in the field of library and information sciences, and more and more seminars and workshops are being offered for new and seasoned leaders....
Bioengineering for Surgery
The Critical Engineer Surgeon Interface
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Bioengineering is the application of engineering principles to address challenges in the fields of biology and medicine encompassing the principles of engineering design to the full spectrum of living systems. In surgery, recent advances in minimal invasive surgery and robotics are the culmination...
Yunnan-A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia
A Case Study of China’s Political and Economic Relations with its Neighbours
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Chinese Government’s five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for ‘opening the country’ to southeast Asia and south Asia. Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia traces the dynamic process which...
Managing Burnout in the Workplace
A Guide for Information Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Information professionals are under constant stress. Libraries are ushering in sweeping changes that involve the closing of branches and reference desks, wholesale dumping of print, disappearing space, and employment of non-professional staff to fill what have traditionally been the roles of librarians....
by James Powell
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Graphs are about connections, and are an important part of our connected and data-driven world. A Librarian's Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web is geared toward library and information science professionals, including librarians, software developers and information systems architects who...
Distributed Learning
Pedagogy and Technology in Online Information Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The field of distributed learning is constantly evolving. Online technology provides instructors with the flexibility to offer meaningful instruction to students who are at a distance or in some cases right on campus, but still unable to be physically present in the classroom. This dynamic environment...
Archives
Recordkeeping in Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Archives: Recordkeeping in Society introduces the significance of archives and the results of local and international research in archival science. It explores the role of recordkeeping in various cultural, organisational and historical contexts. Its themes include archives as a web of recorded information:...
An Introduction to Bibliometrics
New Development and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
An Introduction to Bibliometrics: New Development and Trends provides a comprehensible, readable and easy to read introduction to bibliometrics. Importantly, the book surveys the latest developments of bibliometrics (such as altmetrics, etc.) and how the field is likely to change over the next decade....
Whole Brain® Learning in Higher Education
Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Facilitating of learning in higher education can be transformed through the use of Whole Brain® learning. Whole Brain® Learning in Higher Education argues that facilitating learning in Higher Education should undergo transformation in order to develop the full academic potential of all stakeholders...
Practical and Effective Management of Libraries
Integrating Case Studies, General Management Theory and Self-Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Aimed at library science students and librarians with newly assigned administrative duties the book is about improving one’s thinking and decision making in a role as a library manager. Most librarians get very little exposure to management issues prior to finding themselves in a management role....
Female Entrepreneurship in East and South-East Asia
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This detailed study of female entrepreneurship in Asia examines the high economic growth that is increasingly driven by market-oriented economic reforms favouring entrepreneurship. There is a higher awareness by women of their political and socio-economic rights and recognition by society at large...
by Yvonne de Grandbois
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
As we transition to a service and information-based economy, information specialists are projected onto the leading edge of an emerging science*. Service Science and theInformation Professional* demonstrates how the power of this new transdisciplinary field can inform and transform the current information...
Bridges, Pathways and Transitions
International Innovations in Widening Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Bridges, Pathways and Transitions: International Innovations in Widening Participation shows that widening participation initiatives and policies have had a profound impact on improving access to higher education to historically marginalized groups of students from diverse socioeconomic and cultural...
by Alice Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Aimed at practitioners and students of librarianship, this book is about interesting and unusual practical projects currently being run by academic liaison librarians. It shows how liaison librarians can extend their roles beyond the established one of information literacy teaching and showcases areas...