Monday 15 June 2009

A bumper issue of Just In!

Analysing Library Collection Use with Excel by Tony Greiner 025.210285
Starts with the basics of Excel then looks at what you might want to analyse and how to do it. May be as useful for the 'what' as the 'how'.

Disaster Management in Archives, Libraries and Museums. By Graham Matthews. 027.00684
The UK and international situation in disaster management and planning for libraries.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Robert E. Wolverton 025.1775
An overview of issues and practices relating to electronic theses and dissertations. Includes an annotated bibliography.

A Handbook for Media Librarians
Edited by Katherine Schopflin 025.17
The contributors to this book have experience working for a variety of news and media organisations.

Information Obesity. By Andrew Whitworth. 025.5
A different take on the familiar issue of information overload this book examines the possible effects of the changing quantity/quality balance of information and what it means to be 'literate' or 'educated'.

Keeping the User in Mind. By Valeda Dent Goodman. 025.5
Instructional design theory as it applies to information literacy training.

Leadership: the Challenge for the Information Profession by Sue Roberts 025.1
Looks at issues around leadership in library and information services with examples from a variety of sectors and a number of suggested points for reflection.

Libraries Without Walls 7: Exploring 'anytime' 'anywhere' delivery of library services. Edited by Peter Brophy. 021.24
Conference proceedings on a variety of issues in digital and distance library services.

M-libraries. By Gill Needham. 025.04
Conference papers on libraries use of mobile technologies.

Making the Most of RFID in Libraries. By Martin Palmer. 025.82
Everything you ever wanted to know about RFID in libraries.

Searching 2.0 by Michael Sauers 025.04
If you don't know what web 2.0 is by now - read this book! There's a whole chapter looking at what it is. This is followed by the specifics of what web 2.0 has done to search, looking at media search, print search, local search, searching the past and more. The final chapter looks towards the future with examples of data visualisation.