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News Search, Blogs and Feeds
This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, …
Web-Scale Discovery Services
Web-Scale Discovery Services: Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses summarizes and presents the state-of-the-art in WSDS. The title promotes a …
Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities
Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming …
Strategic Business Development for Information Centres and Libraries
This book is aimed at guiding managers towards systematic approaches to improve and facilitate necessary strategic business development and planning. Conditions in the workplace …
Libraries and Identity
Libraries and Identity summarizes the role of institutional identity in the emergence of new types of libraries such as joint-use libraries and digital libraries. Professional and …
Learning Commons
This book examines successfully planned and implemented learning commons at several different academic institutions around the world. These case studies provide a methodology for …
Scholarly Information Discovery in the Networked Academic Learning Environment
In the dynamic and interactive academic learning environment, students are required to have qualified information literacy competencies while critically reviewing print and …
The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System
The Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) is the world’s most popular library classification system. The 23rd edition of the DDC was published in 2011. This second edition of …
New Approaches to E-Reserve
Aimed at academic library practitioners, this book describes how e-reserve services can evolve and adapt to the changing virtual learning environment of higher education. New …
The Ecology of Academic Journals
The fate of academic journals is highly contested. Pessimistic pundits predict their imminent demise while others envisage a new era of participatory knowledge creation and web …
Facelifts for Special Libraries
Libraries/information centres are continuously evolving to keep up with rapid changes in information gathering, processing, and distribution. Corporate and non-profit special …
Recovery, Reframing, and Renewal
This book examines the difficulties confronting information professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their …