Library & Information Sciences

This book covers the basics of semantic web technologies and indexing languages, and describes their contribution to improve methods of formal know...

How do speakers of English as an additional language manage their talk and interaction in chat rooms? Christopher J.Jenks thoroughly analyses the i...

Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural...

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and recepti...

Marketing the 21st century library and information organization to its new age customers using Web 2.0 tools is a hot topic. These proceedings focu...

Band 5/2 der Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert behandelt vornehmlich Verlage der DDR. Er schließt damit an den ersten...

Library makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook edited by technology exp...

Helps readers understand what careers are available for graduates with a masters degree in library and information sciences.Written in a conversati...

Lessons, resources, and annotated answer keys for instructors at all levels in teaching copyright law. The teaching of copyright and related conce...

Patient engagement should be envisaged as a key priority today to innovate healthcare services delivery and to make it more effective and sustainab...

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, ps...

Helps readers understand what careers are available for graduates with a masters degree in library and information sciences. Written in a conversa...

This volume focuses on the Information and Communication (ICT) revolution and its impact on economic growth. Even though the emergence of the knowl...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline an...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...

This title was first published in 2000: European Intellectual Property is a survey and discussion of the impact of the economic principles of the E...

Learn how libraries have risen to the challenges created by the fall of Communism and the rise of information technology! How do librarians and res...

Convergenomics is about the megatrends that are shaping how people behave and organizations work. In this insightful analysis, Sang Lee and David O...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to a world in the midst of a telecommunications revolution. What this means is that societies through...

Title first published in 2003. Despite all the hype about e-learning, the real breakthrough in technology, at least as far as HR goes, is in the de...

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences an...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understan...

This title was first published in 2003. The UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries was founded in 1953. This volume of speci...

Displaced archives have long been a problem and their existence continues to trouble archivists, historians and government officials. Displaced Arc...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also ...

The Pharmaceutical Industry has been undergoing a major transformation since the heady days of 'big pharma' in the 1970s and 80s. Patent expiry, t...

Exploring technology, ethics, and culture to unlock digital scholarships futureFutures of Digital Scholarly Editing navigates the ever-shifting ter...

Despite ubiquitous powerful technologies such as networked computers, global positioning systems, and cell phones; human failures in decision-makin...

Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides ...