The 2015 Facet Publishing catalogue is out now. You can download a PDF of the catalogue here: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Facet%20Publishing%20Catalogue%202015.pdf or email [log in to unmask] to request a paper copy.
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Cultural Heritage Information
Access and management
Edited by IAN RUTHVEN and G. G. CHOWDHURY
This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types, their characteristic and digitization challenges; cultural heritage content organization and access issues; users and usability as well as various policy and sustainability issues associated with digital cultural heritage information systems and services.
More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=049306#.VOSh8vmsUew
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Information Needs Analysis
Principles and practice in information organizations
DANIEL G. DORNER, G. E. GORMAN and PHILIP J. CALVERT
Analysing and assessing the information needs of clients is key to the provision of effective service and appropriate collections in both face-to-face and virtual library services. This textbook adopts a hands-on, jargon-free approach, and includes relevant examples, case studies, reader activities and sources of further reading. Key areas covered include:
• what is information needs analysis?
• how is needs analysis conducted?
• what are the varieties of needs analysis?
• how are analyses evaluated and reported?
More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=044844#.VOSldPmsUew
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Information Governance and Assurance
Reducing risk, promoting policy
ALAN MACLENNAN
"This is one of the few books that brings together the concepts of records and information management and information security and is a really solid introduction to the way in which the various information disciplines, whether concerned with security and protection or reuse and optimisation, need to come together to ensure that information remains useful yet is appropriately secured to minimise risk."
- Records Management Journal
More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=049405#.VOSlkvmsUew
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Information 2.0, 2nd edition
New models of information production, distribution and consumption
MARTIN DE SAULLES
This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms. This fully-updated second edition includes examples of organizations and individuals who are seizing on the opportunities thrown up by this once-in-a-generation technological shift providing a cutting-edge guide to where we are going both as information consumers and in terms of broader societal changes.
More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=300099#.VOSmJPmsUew
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Essential Classification, 2nd edition
VANDA BROUGHTON
Essential Classification leads the novice classifier step by step through the basics of subject cataloguing, with an emphasis on practical document analysis and classification. It deals with fundamental questions of the purpose of classification in different situations, and the needs and expectations of end users. The reader is introduced to the ways in which document content can be assessed, and how this can best be expressed for translation into the language of specific indexing and classification systems. Fully updated to reflect changes to the major general schemes (Library of Congress, LCSH, Dewey and UDC) since the first edition, and with new chapters on working with informal classification, from folksonomies to tagging and social media, this new edition will set cataloguers on the right path.
More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=300310#.VOSmMfmsUew
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Introduction to Information Behaviour
NIGEL FORD
This landmark textbook is the essential resource for students, academics and researchers globally exploring information behaviour, users and information literacy. Drawing on international research, practice and theory across sectors this provides the authoritative overview of the information behaviour field today.
More info: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=048507#.VOSmUvmsUew
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