Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice
Teaching Approaches and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice: Teaching Approaches and Case Studies considers the specific information literacy needs of communities of practice. As such, the book fills a gap in the literature, which has treated information literacy extensively, but has not applied...
Beyond Mentoring
A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals looks at mentorship, mentorship programs, what works, what doesn’t, and different techniques, such as group and peer mentoring. The book considers many aspects of mentoring, various programs, and their successes and failures,...
Proactive Marketing for the New and Experienced Library Director
Going Beyond the Gate Count
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia. Academic libraries, however, are as relevant as they...
From Fear to Flow
Personality and Information Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
From Fear to Flow explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information. Consideration is made for individual differences in information behaviour and reasons behind individual search differences. The book reviews personality and information behaviour and discusses...
Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurship in Australia from the 1990s
Case Studies of Success in Sino-Australian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
For more than two decades Australia has not only prospered without a recession but has achieved a higher growth rate than any Western country. This achievement has been credited to Australia’s historic shift to Asia; the transformation of the relationship between these two countries is one of the...
Digital Detectives
Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to...
The Political Economy of Business Ethics in East Asia
A Historical and Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The Political Economy of Business Ethics in East Asia: A Historical and Comparative Perspective deals with modes of ethical persuasion in both public and private sectors of the national economy in East Asia, from the periods of the fourteenth century, to the modern era. Authors in this volume ask...
The Experiential Library
Transforming Academic and Research Libraries through the Power of Experiential Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
The Experiential Library: Transforming Academic and Research Libraries through the Power of Experiential Learning features contributions—in a relatively conversational, practical, and "how-to" format—from various academic libraries across broad educational levels that have implemented experiential...
by Ana Dubnjakovic, Patrick Tomlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
From full-text article databases to digitized collections of primary source materials, newly emerging electronic resources have radically impacted how research in the humanities is conducted and discovered. This book, covering high-quality, up-to-date electronic resources for the humanities, is an...
by Waseem Afzal
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book is a significant step towards developing a body of management knowledge pertinent to the context of Library Information Science (LIS) and provides a succinct but deep account of management and information organizations. Management of Information Organizations presents a broad view of the...
Excellence in the Stacks
Strategies, Practices and Reflections of Award-Winning Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Excellence in the Stacks details the philosophies, practices and innovations of award-winning libraries over the last ten years. It will inform the profession and highlight the themes and strategies these liberal-arts colleges share, and where they differ. Using the Association of Research and College...
Managing Your Brand
Career Management and Personal PR for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Managing Your Brand: Career Management and Personal PR for Librarians sets out guidelines for developing career pathways, including options for career change and the exploration of community service, as an avenue that can provide new opportunities.
The text allows librarians at all levels to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
This book provides a range of case studies concerning the leadership and management of quality development in higher education. It captures the experiences of senior administrators and managers to the complexity of problems that quality development involves. The authors draw attention to the human-centred...
Overcoming Information Poverty
Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework. The book proposes a model for understanding...