Library & Information Sciences

This new and extensively revised second edition offers an international perspective on archives management, providing authoritative guidance releva...

The first comprehensive history of the Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress, home of the US Copyright Offic...

The current focus in higher education on student engagement, holistic education, social responsibility and community partnerships demands a signifi...

The demand to decolonise the curriculum has moved from a protest movement at the margins to the centre of many institutions, as reflected by its in...

The study of the cultural landscape has gained momentum in recent years, revealing new insights to geographers, archaeologists, sociologists and ar...

"The Advances in Library Administration and Organization Series" provides a body of research literature that contributes to the base of organizatio...

In recent years, we have witnessed the mushrooming of pro- democracy and protest movements not only in the Arab world, but also within Europe and t...

What is the significance of heritage for how welfare is defined? What function does heritage have in the public realm and how is heritage becoming ...

The changing landscape of business information has created opportunities for business librarians to move beyond being reactive to business informat...

This book, first published in 1989, covers all aspects of sci-tech collection management. It analyses the planning, careful use of budgets and wise...

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the futu...

New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman declared the modern age in which we live as the ’age of distraction’ in 2006. The basis of his argument w...

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime hav...

With the start of the 21st Century, information services around the world are facing a host of challenges and changes unique to this era of exponen...

There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescrip...

Combining theory and practical knowledge, this guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to con...

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and o...

How do people become informed about risk and why is this important? This book draws upon three case studies to interrogate risk’s informational thr...

For many small businesses, organisations, clubs, artists, faith groups, voluntary organisations/charities and sole traders, applying the General Da...

Since the 1960s, Charles Chadwyck-Healey has been at the forefront of library publishing and the company he founded in 1973 remains a familiar bra...

While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography—as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category—is a modern inve...

This book draws on the contributions of a range of international experts to consider the current archival landscape and imagine the archive of the ...