Library and information science research

Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics 2012-2013 Edited by Samantha K Hastings The Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) is a pivotal resource for cultural heritage scholars, professionals and students providing a compendium of current research, educational initiatives . . . read more >>>

Catalogue 2.0 The future of the library catalogue Edited by Sally Chambers Will there be a library catalogue in the future and, if so, what will it look like? In the last 25 years, the library catalogue has undergone an evolution, from card catalogues to OPACs, discovery systems . . . read more >>>

Cultural Heritage Information Access and management Edited by Ian Ruthven and G. G. Chowdhury This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types, their characteristic . . . read more >>>

Delivering Impact with Digital Resources Planning your strategy in the attention economy Simon Tanner This book provides practical guidance for delivering and sustaining value and impact from digital content. Our digital presence has the power to change lives and life opportunities. We must understand . . . read more >>>

Digital Archives Management, access and use Edited by Milena Dobreva and Gabriella Ivacs This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the landscape . . . read more >>>

Digital Consumers Re-shaping the information profession Edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive . . . read more >>>

Digital Humanities in Practice Edited by Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan This cutting-edge and comprehensive introduction to digital humanities explains the scope of the discipline and state of the art and provides a wide-ranging insight into emerging topics and avenues of . . . read more >>>

Digital Libraries and Information Access Research perspectives Edited by G. G. Chowdhury and Schubert Foo An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries. Internationally-renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect . . . read more >>>

Information Science in Transition Edited by Alan Gilchrist Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all into . . . read more >>>

Innovations in Information Retrieval Perspectives for theory and practice Edited by Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty The advent of new information retrieval (IR) technologies and approaches to storage and retrieval provide communities with previously unheard of opportunities for mass documentation, digitization, and . . . read more >>>

Is Digital Different? How information creation, capture, preservation and discovery are being transformed Edited by Michael Moss, Barbara Endicott-Popovsky and Marc J Dupuis This edited collection brings together global experts to explore the role of information professionals in the transition from an analogue to a digital environment. The contributors, including David . . . read more >>>

Preserving Complex Digital Objects Edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games. Drawing on the outputs of the JISC-funded . . . read more >>>

Preserving Our Heritage Perspectives from antiquity to the digital age Edited by Michele V. Cloonan 2016 Society of American Archivsts' Preservation Publication Award Winner This book aims to introduce students and professionals to readings that will help them in their studies and their professional . . . read more >>>

Process and Information Practice for Information Systems Christine Urquhart, Faten Hamad, Dina Tbaishat and Alison Yeoman This book adopts a holistic interpretation of information architecture, to offer libraries and information professionals a variety of methods, tools, and techniques that may be used when designing websites . . . read more >>>

Rethinking Information Literacy A practical framework for supporting learning Edited by Jane Secker and Emma Coonan A vision for the future of information literacy teaching.   Based on groundbreaking research, undertaken by the authors as part of the prestigious Arcadia Programme at Cambridge University, . . . read more >>>

Sustainability of Scholarly Information G. G. Chowdhury This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability.  Taking as its starting point . . . read more >>>

The Facet Information and Society Collection This Collection contains the following books: • Information 2.0: New models of information production, distribution and consumption, 2nd edition by Martin De Saulles • The Information Society: . . . read more >>>

The Facet Information Science Collection This Collection contains the following books: Cultural Heritage Information: Access and management Edited by Ian Ruthven and G. G. Chowdhury   Process and Information Practice for Information . . . read more >>>

The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping A reader Edited by Jennie Hill The way in which we view the nature of archives and the role of the archivist has changed significantly in the last few decades. With increasing interest from outside of the profession, the idea of archives . . . read more >>>