Library & Information Sciences

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...

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

This title was first published in 2002.In this age of globalization, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society movements and coa...

The Historical Web and Digital Humanities fosters discussions between the Digital Humanities and web archive studies by focussing on one of the lar...

Within the UK and Europe, government legislation and policies concerned with demography have asserted a paradigmatic shift towards the increased en...

Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories a...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...

This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well as issues such as...

There is no area of business that is more dramatically affected by the explosion of web-based services delivered to computers, PDAs and mobile phon...

This book is an outcome of the conference on The Organization and Retrieval of Economic Knowledge held in Kiel, West Germany. It focuses on the tec...

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

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...