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Summary of titles:
1]
Library Mashups
Exploring new ways to deliver library data
Nicole C Engard, editor
Facet Publishing, September 2009; 312pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-703-6;
£29.95
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2]
How to Give Your Users the LIS Services They Want
Sheila Pantry and Peter Griffiths
Facet Publishing, November 2009; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-672-5; £39.95
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3]
Copyright: Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information
services
(5th edn)
Graham P Cornish
Facet Publishing, November 2009; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-664-0; £44.95
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4]
Bite-sized Marketing
Realistic solutions for the overworked librarian
Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste and Jonathan Silberman
Facet Publishing, November 2009; 144pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-704-3; £32.95
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5]
MY WORD!
Plagiarism and College Culture
Susan D. Blum
US$24.95t cloth
2009, 240 pages, 6 x 9, 1 table
Cornell University Press
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4763-1
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6]
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Collective Wisdom from the Experts
Edited by Richard Monson-Haefel
O'Reilly
February 2009
Pages: 220
ISBN 10: 0-596-52269-X | ISBN 13: 9780596522698
US$34.99
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7]
Delivering the Best Start: a guide to early years libraries
Carolynn Rankin and Avril Brock
November 2008; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-610-7; £39.95
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1]
Library Mashups
Exploring new ways to deliver library data
Nicole C Engard, editor
Facet Publishing, September 2009; 312pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-703-6;
£29.95
As web users become more savvy and demanding, libraries are looking for
new ways to allow user participation. This unique book is geared to help
any library keep its website dynamically and collaboratively up-to-date,
increase user participation, and provide exemplary web-based service
through the power of mashups. Mashups – web applications that combine
freely available data from various sources to create something new – can
be one very powerful way to meet expectations and provide exemplary
web-based service.
This forward-thinking book, with contributions from a team of
international experts in the field, brings together definitions,
summaries, tools, techniques and real life applications of mashups in
libraries. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming
skills to make simple website updates to modifying the library OPAC, to
using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps and
Delicious to share and combine digital content.
Key areas covered include:
* what are mashups?
* mashing up library websites
* mashing up catalogue data
* maps, pictures, and videos
* adding value to your services.
A companion website at www.mashups.web2learning.net features an A-Z
listing of websites with definitions and examples of mashups, which will
be constantly maintained to keep this text completely up to date.
This timely and valuable guide is essential reading for all libraries
and librarians seeking a dynamic, interactive web presence. Whether you
are a ‘newbie’ beginner or a veteran programmer, this book is sure to
include something that will inspire you and make you think differently
about the services your library currently offers.
2]
How to Give Your Users the LIS Services They Want
Sheila Pantry and Peter Griffiths
Facet Publishing, November 2009; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-672-5; £39.95
In these turbulent times, with the challenges of a constantly changing
job market, shifting information-seeking behaviour and a vast array of
new resources continually being produced, library and information
services need to constantly keep one step, or more, ahead of their users.
The benefits of analysing user behaviour are self-evident: better
strategic planning, cost benefits and better use of budgets, better
marketing, satisfied customers, satisfied management, and a library or
information unit that is central to the needs of your parent organization.
However, paradoxically, user needs and levels of expectation, including
those of remote users, are often not fully explored. This accessible
text goes back to the basics and investigates the following key issues:
* Why this book? Defining your users
* Understanding users: the what, why, where, when, how and who
* What is the current knowledge of user behaviour and needs: is it
really predictable?
* Great expectations: how LIS professionals can manage and train users
* Using information about past user behaviour
* Making the most of knowing your users
* Keeping track of changes in what users want
* Tracking the future: electronic and social networking
* Future perfect?
This book will help any library or information professional anywhere to
take a fresh look at this important area and to tackle it in their
organization, so as to ensure that their users will always obtain
exactly what they want. Webmasters and knowledge managers will also find
much to interest them.
3]
Copyright: Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information
services
(5th edn)
Graham P Cornish
Facet Publishing, November 2009; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-664-0; £44.95
Cornish's Copyright, which has become a standard work in its field,
explains the provisions of the UK Copyright Act and supporting
legislation in quick and easy question-and-answer form.
This latest edition is revised and expanded in the light of new
legislation and some decisions by the courts which have changed our
understanding of what the law means. There is also expanded coverage of
moral rights and the text has been expanded by the use of practical
examples to illustrate complex points. Areas such as originality,
databases, and the use of broadcast material in education all receive
additional attention. And of course Wikipedia, Flickr, MySpace, Yahoo,
Creative Commons and Open Archives are considered in a copyright context.
All types of material that may attract copyright are considered, including:
* literary, dramatic and musical works
* artistic works
* sound recordings
* films and videos
* broadcasts
* databases
* computer programs and websites.
The text is complemented by a detailed index that enables the enquirer
to pinpoint topics and proposed action quickly and accurately. The
appendices lay out the statutory declaration forms, and provide helpful
lists of addresses and selected further sources of information.
4]
Bite-sized Marketing
Realistic solutions for the overworked librarian
Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste and Jonathan Silberman
Facet Publishing, November 2009; 144pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-704-3; £32.95
With the Internet and the emergence of a new wave of consumer-driven
marketing, libraries have finally become more active in the marketing
arena. Communication networks have evolved into social networks, Web 2.0
technology has provided tools that replace the need for million-dollar
budgets, and the new style of word-of-mouth marketing has emerged. This
new era of marketing makes it possible for any library to reach any
audience with a message about its programs, products, and services.
This timely book is a practical solution for the overworked librarian,
which provides an overview of the new media and marketing tools. It
takes a look at how libraries can integrate marketing into the every day
and make it manageable.
The expert author team brings together tangible ideas in bite-sized
chunks so librarians can dip in and out whenever they need to choose a
particular simple and cost-effective marketing strategy. It offers tips
on how to simplify and streamline your processes making the whole idea
of marketing less overwhelming.
The contents include:
* word-of-mouth marketing
* bring your library to life with a story
* how to market electronic resources
* public relations 101
* outreach
* advocacy
* the new marketing tools
* design
* branding
* marketing best practices.
This is essential reading for all librarians who want to promote their
libraries to existing and potential customers and to develop advocacy
networks to ensure future funding. Visually compelling and easy-to-read,
this book will challenge the reader to market their library in new and
original ways.
5]
MY WORD!
Plagiarism and College Culture
Susan D. Blum
US$24.95t cloth
2009, 240 pages, 6 x 9, 1 table
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4763-1
“Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet Offer
Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such as these have
been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating
in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having
cheated; 68 percent admit to cutting and pasting material from the
Internet without citation.
Professors are reminded almost daily that many of today's college
students operate under an entirely new set of assumptions about
originality and ethics. Practices that even a decade ago would have been
regarded almost universally as academically dishonest are now
commonplace. Is this development an indication of dramatic shifts in
education and the larger culture? In a book that dismisses hand-wringing
in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and act, Susan
D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily, side by side
in the classroom.
Relying extensively on interviews conducted by students with students,
My Word! presents the voices of today's young adults as they muse about
their daily activities, their challenges, and the meanings of their
college lives. Outcomes-based secondary education, the steeply rising
cost of college tuition, and an economic climate in which higher
education is valued for its effect on future earnings above all else:
These factors each have a role to play in explaining why students might
pursue good grades by any means necessary. These incentives have arisen
in the same era as easily accessible ways to cheat electronically and
with almost intolerable pressures that result in many students being
diagnosed as clinically depressed during their transition from childhood
to adulthood.
However, Blum suggests, the real problem of academic dishonesty arises
primarily from a lack of communication between two distinct cultures
within the university setting. On one hand, professors and
administrators regard plagiarism as a serious academic crime, an ethical
transgression, even a sin against an ethos of individualism and
originality. Students, on the other hand, revel in sharing, in
multiplicity, in accomplishment at any cost. Although this book is
unlikely to reassure readers who hope that increasing rates of
plagiarism can be reversed with strongly worded warnings on the first
day of class, My Word! opens a dialogue between professors and their
students that may lead to true mutual comprehension and serve as the
basis for an alignment between student practices and their professors'
expectations.
About the Author
Susan D. Blum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre
Dame. She is the author, most recently, of Lies That Bind: Chinese
Truth, Other Truths and editor of Making Sense of Language: Readings in
Culture and Communication.
6]
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Collective Wisdom from the Experts
Edited by Richard Monson-Haefel
February 2009
Pages: 220
ISBN 10: 0-596-52269-X | ISBN 13: 9780596522698
US$34.99
In this truly unique technical book, today's leading software architects
present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond
technology. More than four dozen architects -- including Neal Ford,
Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra -- offer advice for communicating with
stakeholders, eliminating complexity, empowering developers, and many
more practical lessons they've learned from years of experience. Among
the 97 principles in this book, you'll find useful advice such as:
* Don't Put Your Resume Ahead of the Requirements (Nitin Borwankar)
* Chances Are, Your Biggest Problem Isn't Technical (Mark Ramm)
* Communication Is King; Clarity and Leadership, Its Humble
Servants (Mark Richards)
* Simplicity Before Generality, Use Before Reuse (Kevlin Henney)
* For the End User, the Interface Is the System (Vinayak Hegde)
* It's Never Too Early to Think About Performance (Rebecca Parsons)
To be successful as a software architect, you need to master both
business and technology. This book tells you what top software
architects think is important and how they approach a project. If you
want to enhance your career, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should
Know is essential reading.
7]
Delivering the Best Start: a guide to early years libraries
Carolynn Rankin and Avril Brock
November 2008; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-610-7; £39.95
Delivering the Best Start: a guide to early years libraries
Carolynn Rankin and Avril Brock
November 2008; 208pp; paperback; 978-1-85604-610-7; £39.95
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is now statutory in the UK for
children from birth to five years, and other countries are experiencing
similar developments; early years librarians, teachers, nursery nurses,
playgroup leaders and childminders all require knowledge of how to
promote and encourage communication, language and literary skills.
Parental reading with young children is clearly vitally important, and
libraries are uniquely placed to support the development of literacy
skills in pre-school children.
This book provides an understanding of how children develop such skills
through enjoyable and meaningful learning experiences, and is a
pioneering practical guide for library and information professionals
involved in planning and delivering services in early years libraries.
Drawing on the authors’ underpinning contemporary research and examples
from current best practice, it will equip practitioners with a broad
range of knowledge and ideas. Key areas covered include:
* take them to the library: the role of the early years professional
* people and partnerships: working across interdisciplinary
boundaries, and how to involve parents and carers
* buildings, design and space: the children’s libraries of the future
* resources for early years libraries: books, toys and other delights
* reaching your audience: the librarian’s role
* planning and organizing: projects and reading sessions.
User-friendly and accessible, each chapter is clearly structured and
sets outs the key issues for practitioners, scenarios offering insights
into these, and practical ideas and resources for service provision. The
book also includes case studies of successful pre-school library
initiatives in a variety of global settings, useful information about
relevant organizations, and links to helpful websites.
This valuable text is essential reading for all library and information
professionals working with young children – whether those with
responsibility for the strategic planning of services, or those involved
in delivering them at community level. Essential for students of library
and information studies or childhood studies, and practitioners
undertaking NVQ qualifications, it also provides a sound background in
early years literacy and provision for a range of local authority
practitioners, such as nursery teachers and Children’s Centre managers.
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