Library & Information Sciences

The open source phenomenon has attracted an increased interest among commercial firms and governments. It is becoming one of the most influential p...

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments ...

Innovation in technology and services was once the result of specialist knowledge developed within a single corporation; now, a single focus on the...

University libraries around the world have embraced the possibilities of the digital learning environment, facilitating its use and proactively see...

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are vari...

This book brings into focus the technologically augmented nature of global online communities, advancing research methods that reveal the imprint o...

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

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. Welive in one of the most divi...

Knowledge is a result of never-ending processes of circulation. This accessible volume is the first comprehensive multidisciplinary work to explore...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

In 1724, Sylvester, a native of the island of Cyprus, was elected Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East. For more than...

The book captures the essence of the International Conference on Data Science & Exploration in Artificial Intelligence and offers a comprehensi...

First published in 1992, this volume recognises that it is not unusual, when practising librarianship, to come across small to medium collections w...

Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusionexclusion debate. The author resp...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

As a celebration of Anne Thurstons pioneering work on records and archives management as an essential basis for demonstrating integrity in governme...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a mor...

Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digiti...

The digital humanities in academic institutions, and libraries in particular, have exploded in recent years. Librarians are constantly developing t...

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

Written by experienced practitioners and researchers, Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services provides the reader with many examples of how ...

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This bac...

This third edition of Jo Bryson's highly regarded Managing Information Services has been thoroughly revised with an emphasis on managing for a sust...

Virtual worlds are the latest manifestation of the internet's inexorable appetite for development. Organisations of all kinds are enthusiastically ...

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented to Classical scholarship by digital practice and resources. Drawing on the expertise ...

Libraries in today's global world have emerged as key players in building a culture for reading in communities while enhancing the literacy develop...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

Generational Use of New Media examines and contrasts how younger and older people, representing different generations, engage with the new media th...

Globalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in the period following the Second World War. Providing an exam...