Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Engineering Education
Curriculum, Pedagogy and Didactic Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Information about engineering education is highly relevant for improving communication between professors, researchers and students in engineering schools, institutions, laboratories and industry. Technological change is fundamental to the development of education systems. Engineering Education emphasises...
Ethical Behaviour in the E-Classroom
What the Online Student Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
This book covers ethical behaviour in the online classroom. Written for distance education students in higher education worldwide, the book serves as a guide for students in the e-classroom in examining ethical theories and behaviour. A number of salient questions are addressed: What is ethical? What...
Pursuing Information Literacy
Roles and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
The primary purpose of Pursuing Information Literacy is to inspire individual thinking and application. The book reviews important information literacy and its social significance and the application of information literacy in a number of different sectors. The future of information literacy is explored...
by Margareta Nelke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
This book is aimed at guiding managers towards systematic approaches to improve and facilitate necessary strategic business development and planning. Conditions in the workplace for the Library and Information Services (LIS) are rapidly changing: many organizations are experiencing budget restrictions...
Successful Fundraising for the Academic Library
Philanthropy in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Successful Fundraising for the Academic Library: Philanthropy in Higher Education covers fundraising, a task that is often grouped into a combination role that may include, for example, the university museum or performance venue, thus diluting the opportunity for successful fundraising.
Because...
by Margareta Nelke, Charlotte Håkansson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Information professionals should be able to take a proactive role as a strategic partner in their organization's competitive intelligence. Their role needs to focus on the "outside-in" approach, based on their organization's strategic needs and objectives. Competitive Intelligence for Information...
A Practical Writing Guide for Academic Librarians
Keeping It Short and Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Mastering the skills necessary for clear, effective writing can make writing tasks flow more easily. This book helps academic librarians who are new to the profession or new to a supervisory or management position, as well as those who want to be more productive and make the their writing for work...
Meeting Health Information Needs Outside Of Healthcare
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare addresses the challenges and ethical dilemmas concerning the delivery of health information to the general public in a variety of non-clinical settings, both in-person and via information technology, in settings from public and academic libraries...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Internationalization and Managing Networks in the Asia Pacific consists of theories and analysis in sections that are related to network management, the power of business networking and the significance and role that business networking plays in propelling organizations towards international business,...
China's Spatial (Dis)integration
Political Economy of the Interethnic Unrest in Xinjiang
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book is intended to provide the narratives and analytics of China’s spatial (dis)integration. Indeed, the Chinese nation is far too large and spatially complicated and diversified to be misinterpreted. The only feasible approach to analyzing it is, therefore, to divide it into smaller geographical...
Improving Student Information Search
A Metacognitive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and direct their personal cognitive strategies. Improving Student Information Search traces the impact of a tutorial on education graduate students’ problem-solving in online research databases. The tutorial...
The Strategies of China’s Firms
Resolving Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book aims to analyze how China’s firms in the consumer electronics (CE) sector have developed their business strategy and corporate governance during the reform process. This book examines the CE sector in particular because it is one of the country’s most important and dynamic manufacturing...
by Nicole Cooke, Jeffrey Teichmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Increasingly, library personnel are called upon to teach classes, deliver presentations and represent their organizations in an official capacity. This book is designed to assist those professionals with little to no experience designing and delivering training, instructional sessions, and presentations....
Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services
The Impacts of Open Access Journals and E-Journals on a Changing Scenario
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and quantitatively. Over the last three hundred...