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  • Designing Effective Library Tutorials

    A Guide for Accommodating Multiple Learning Styles

    by Lori Mestre ...
    Series series Chandos Learning and Teaching Series
    Learning styles are highly relevant for students in the online environment. Designing Effective Library Tutorials provides examples of, and steps for, how to create tutorials that match learning styles, based on usability studies of students from various cultural groups and styles of learning. The book presents studies, practical suggestions, and examples to assist librarians and faculty as they ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

    by Janelle Sander, Lori S. Mestre, Eric Kurt ...
    Series series Practical Guides for Librarians
    Providing library users with actual pieces of technological equipment that they can borrow is a continuously expanding service at many libraries, especially as faculty and teachers require multimodal projects. For some libraries, loanable technology may include calculators, gaming devices, headphones, e-readers, laptops, and tablets. Increasingly though, there is also demand for all types of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • Wearable Technology

    Smart Watches to Google Glass for Libraries

    by Tom Bruno ...
    Series series Library Technology Essentials
    Emerging devices are placing powerful computing abilities into the wardrobes of consumers through wearable technology which combines fashion and function in new and exciting ways. The most recognizable of these emerging gadgets is Google Glass. Wearable Technology: Smart Watches to Google Glass for Libraries provides a comprehensive overview of the current wearable technology landscape, the types ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Ace the Interview, Land a Librarian Job

    by Robin O'Hanlon ...
    One of the most critical elements of achieving a successful career, interviewing with poise and tenacity, is a skill to be learned—and this practical guide leads readers through that process, step by step.In a competitive job market, all candidates need to prepare to succeed. This certainly applies to job seekers looking for professional librarian positions in public, academic, and/or special ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • How Libraries Should Manage Data

    Practical Guidance On How With Minimum Resources to Get the Best From Your Data

    by Brian Cox ...
    Have you ever looked at your Library's key performance indicators and said to yourself "so what!"? Have you found yourself making decisions in a void due to the lack of useful and easily accessible operational data? Have you ever worried that you are being left behind with the emergence of data analytics? Do you feel there are important stories in your operational data that need to be told, but ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries

    Applying Business Process Management

    by Lenore England, Stephen D. Miller ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries: Applying Business Process Management examines the use of Business Process Management (BPM) and the ways it can be beneficially applied to electronic resources management (ERM) to help organize processes in libraries. The book offers librarians a skillset that will make them ready for a variety of library environments. It focuses on the ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Roll with the Times, or the Times Roll Over You

    Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2016

    Edited by Beth R. Bernhardt, Leah H. Hinds, Katina P. Strauch ...
    Series series Charleston Conference Proceedings
    Over one hundred presentations from the 36th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 1-5, 2016) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, streaming video, analysis and assessment, demand-driven acquisition, and open access publishing. While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with ... Read more

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  • Researching Developing Countries

    A Data Resource Guide for Social Scientists

    by Forrest Daniel Wright ...
    Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Why are some well governed while others experience frequent conflict? And how do you measure a country's true success anyways? Social scientists have attempted to answer these types of questions for decades, and have increasingly turned to data for this task. Researching Developing Countries: A Data Resource Guide for Social Scientists serves as a ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Your Library Is the Answer

    Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners

    by Christina T. Russo, Cathy Swan ...
    Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians. This book offers the 21st-century tools and know-how necessary for educators to appeal to and challenge students to learn—and to want to learn.What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library

    Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff

    Edited by Bradford Lee Eden ...
    Series series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library
    Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital scholarship, data management, library as publisher, web archiving, and the research lifecycle. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Using Social Media in Libraries

    Best Practices

    Edited by Charles Harmon, Michael Messina ...
    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    Since there’s no point in Twittering if no one acts on your tweets and there’s no point in having a Facebook page with a million “likes” if library use doesn’t increase, you’ll welcome the eight best practices presented here because they will help your library both actually do social media in a way that matters and do it well.The successful strategies presented here range from the Vancouver Public ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Patron-Driven Library

    A Practical Guide for Managing Collections and Services in the Digital Age

    by Dee Ann Allison ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections to services, placing the reader at the center of library activities. The book reveals the way library ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD