Library & Information Science

Protect your digital resources! This book addresses critical issues of preservation, giving you everything you need to effectively protect your resources-from dealing with obsolescence, to responsibilities, methods of preservation, cost, and metadata formats. It also gives examples of numerous natio... More

This guide has been completely updated with all of the latest technological advances to provide an exciting, alternative approach to teaching first-year television production to high school students. A combination of class instruction and independent video action projects based on the concept of the... More

In today's multimedia world, we are all called upon to be better communicators. More and more people are finding that they need to improve their basic writing skills in order to get their message across quickly and clearly on websites, in e-newsletters, or through press releases. This book provides ... More

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their authority. Even today, attempts by school boards, local governments, and religious fanatics to restrict our freedom to read ... More

"Museums After Modernism" is a diverse set of essays that addresses the urgent question of how the museum can be a public institution, a focus for critical debate and knowledge in an era when museums and galleries are increasingly being subsumed into national heritage and civic tourist industries th... More

Investigators within the law enforcement and cyber forensics communities are generally aware of the concept of steganography, but their levels of expertise vary dramatically depending upon the incidents and cases that they have been exposed to. Now there is a book that balances the playing field in ... More

"The Book History Reader" brings together a rich variety of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture. Arranged in thematic sections and featuring a general introduction to the "Reader" as well as an introduction to each section, the editors illustrate how book h... More

Since the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, books and print culture have been central to the shaping of culture and society. "The Book History Reader "is the first comprehensive volume to bring together a variety of work - much of which is now out of print or impossible to ac... More

Drawing from a wide range of experience, the authors propose the simple ideas which should underpin all professional museum training courses. Organized on a modular basis, "Museum Basics" provides a basic guide to best practice' in every aspect of museum work, from museum organization, through colle... More

Summary 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 groundbreaking book, Patrick Lambe shows how they play an integral role in helping organizations coordinate and communicat... More

Author Dr. Toni Samek is Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Canada. Toni chairs the Canadian Library Association's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom. Summary In this book, the reader will encounter a myriad of urgent library and info... More

The World Wide Web is rapidly filling with more text than anyone could have imagined a short time ago. However, the task of determining which data is relevant has become appreciably harder. In this original new work Richard Belew brings a cognitive science perspective to the study of information as ... More

This latest addition to the internationally acclaimed Library and Information Science Text Series presents up-to-date information on acquisitions management. The authors provide a thorough treatment of procedural and philosophical approaches, from a discussion of the organization of acquisitions dep... More

"One of the few essential books about publishing". -- Samuel S. Vaughan"An outstanding job of describing the publishing process". -- Jeremiah Kaplan... More

"Philip Seib is a journalist, a student of journalism, and a teacher of journalists, who has the rare talent of asking the right questions. His book, Beyond the Front Lines, has to be helpful to anyone who worries about the place of the news media in an increasingly complicated and dangerous world."... More

This collection of 22 highly informative essays offers important insight into current activities in the area of building planning. Written by recognized building experts from the United States and Australia, the essays discuss critical planning issues from a management perspective. Topics include sp... More