Library Analytics and Metrics

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This book will enable libraries to make informed decisions, develop new services and improve user experience by collecting, analysing and utilising data. With the wealth of data available to library and information services, analytics are the key to understanding your users and your field of operations better and improving the services that you offer. This book sets out the opportunities that…

Ford Nigel: Introduction to Information Behaviour

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: 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. Invaluable reading for library and information courses as well as related social…

Dobreva Milena: Preserving Complex Digital Objects

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games. Drawing on the outputs of the JISC-funded Preservation of Complex Objects (POCOS) symposia, enhanced with specialist pathfinder solutions, this book will cover topics such as the legal and technical challenges of preservation,…

Chowdhury G.G.: Sustainability of Scholarly Information

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This landmark text represents the first attempt to discuss the sustainable development of digital information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability. Taking as its starting point the premise that digital information systems and services form the backbone of a knowledge society and digital economy, this book explores the challenges of ensuring sustainability of…

Customer-based Collection Development: An Overview

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «This essential guide to customer-based/patron-driven collection development will allow librarians to navigate the rapid changes in what users expect of libraries. The traditional «top down» approach to collection development definitely has its drawbacks: even after spending a good deal of time, energy, and resources, librarians are sometimes frustrated to find that their library's collection is…