Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
Working with Text
Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Text Mining
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
What is text mining, and how can it be used? What relevance do these methods have to everyday work in information science and the digital humanities? How does one develop competences in text mining? Working with Text provides a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives on text mining and its applications....
Indexing
From Thesauri to the Semantic Web
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Indexing consists of both novel and more traditional techniques. Cutting-edge indexing techniques, such as automatic indexing, ontologies, and topic maps, were developed independently of older techniques such as thesauri, but it is now recognized that these older methods also hold expertise.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Social media has an increasing role in the public and private world. This raises socio-political and legal issues in the corporate and academic spheres.
Public Interest and Private Rights in Social Media provides insight into the use, impact and future of social media. The contributors provide...
Google and the Digital Divide
The Bias of Online Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Beneficial to scholars and students in the fields of media and communication, politics and technology, this book outlines the significant role of search engines in general and Google in particular in widening the digital divide between individuals, organisations and states. It uses innovative methods...
by Kathleen Hanna, Mindy Cooper, Robin Crumrin
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students, faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on campus, and in the local community. This book illustrates how universities are uniquely situated to engage...
Managing Your Library and its Quality
The ISO 9001 Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
This book, divided into two parts, provides an introduction to the quality management issues and gives a general overview to the use of ISO 9001 in the library environment. The second part presents the main features of ISO 9001:2008 with practical comments and examples on how to implement its clauses...
by Guy Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Robertson on Library Security and Disaster Planning presents a collection of highly-cited, author published articles on security and disaster planning for libraries.
The book represents the only place where these articles are compiled, making it a go-to volume for practitioners. It includes...
The Patron-Driven Library
A Practical Guide for Managing Collections and Services in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections...
by Arthur Winzenried
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book examines the theory, behaviour, connections and issues of modern information organizations. Asking leading professionals where we may be in the near future, it challenges both our perceptions and preconceptions. Posing perhaps the most vital question of all… Are we prepared? Do we have a vision?
Academic Search Engines
A Quantitative Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Academic Search Engines: intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consistence of these services. The objective is to describe the main characteristics of these engines, to highlight their advantages...
Engaging First-Year Students in Meaningful Library Research
A Practical Guide for Teaching Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Aimed at teaching professionals working with first-year students at institutions of higher learning, this book provides practical advice and specific strategies for integrating contemporary information literacy competencies into courses intended for novice researchers. The book has two main goals...
The Lessons Learned Handbook
Practical Approaches to Learning from Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The phrase “lessons learned is such a common one, yet people struggle with developing effective lessons learned approaches. The Lessons Learned Handbook is written for the project manager, quality manager or senior manager trying to put in place a system for learning from experience, or looking...
Organising Knowledge
Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Taxonomies are often thought to play a niche role within content-oriented knowledge management projects. They are thought to be ‘nice to have’ but not essential. In this ground-breaking book, Patrick Lambe shows how they play an integral role in helping organizations coordinate and communicate...
Knowledge Management for Sales and Marketing
A Practitioner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
While this book is primarily aimed at those who are involved in Knowledge Management (KM) or have recently been appointed to deliver KM in sales and marketing environments, it is also highly relevant to those engaged in the management or delivery of sales and marketing activities. This book presents...