Category: Libraries

  • Empower people to take control of their personal digital information

    Empower people to take control of their personal digital information

    For immediate release 8th January 2018 Empower people to take control of their personal digital information Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving, edited by Brianna H Marshall Academics and the general public alike need help managing the digital information they create and save every day. But how can […]

  • Take your library users beyond Google to trustworthy scholarly resources

    Take your library users beyond Google to trustworthy scholarly resources

    For immediate release 2nd November 2017 Take your library users beyond Google to trustworthy scholarly resources Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources by Marie R. Kennedy and Cheryl LaGuardia. As every frontline librarian knows, if library users really knew and understood how many resources are […]

  • A practical guide to project management for library and information professionals

    A practical guide to project management for library and information professionals

    Facet Publishing have announced the release of Barbara Allan’s new book, The No-nonsense Guide to Project Management. Project work is widespread across the library and information sector ranging from small-scale and local such as introducing family history workshops within public library services, or large complex schemes, such as developing shared services across a number of […]

  • Practical guidance for valuing objects in cultural collections

    Practical guidance for valuing objects in cultural collections

    Facet Publishing have announced the release of Freda Matassa’s new book Valuing Your Collection: A practical guide for museums, libraries and archives Assigning a financial value to a cultural object is always difficult, as there is no right answer. It is one of the many tasks of the curator, whether they work in a gallery, […]

  • New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone

    New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone

    15th June 2017       For immediate release New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone Facet Publishing have announced the release of Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed. Literacy has been recognized as a human right for over 50 years in several international declarations and […]

  • Exercise your thinking skills to handle enquiries in any context

    Exercise your thinking skills to handle enquiries in any context

    27/4/2017        For immediate release Exercise your thinking skills to handle enquiries in any context Facet Publishing have announced the release of the seventh edition of Tim Buckley Owen’s Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time. When people want to satisfy their immediate curiosity they’re much more likely to use a search engine on their […]

  • Cutting through the complexity of electronic resources management

    Cutting through the complexity of electronic resources management

    Facet Publishing have announced the release of Alana Verminski and Kelly Marie Blanchat’s Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management. Electronic and digital resources are dynamic and ever-changing and there is an increasing demand for competent professionals to manage them. Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management cuts through the complexity and serves as an invaluable introduction to those entering the field […]

  • Talking through NCPH 2017: Community Engagement in a Digital World

    Talking through NCPH 2017: Community Engagement in a Digital World

    As a participant in the NCPH 2017 Working Group “Meeting in the Middle: Community Engagement in a Digital World,” ten public history practitioners and I are talking through the successes and struggles of web 2.0 projects. Seeing digital projects as places of shared authority, silence and exclusion, as well as part of the broader definition of […]

  • Crowdsourcing Tags

    Crowdsourcing Tags

         The crowdsourcing project I contributed to was Metadata games (http://www.metadatagames.org/), a self-described free and open source (FOSS) crowdsourcing game platform. Basically, the platform partners with 11 institutions and over 45 of their collections to crowdsource help in collecting metadata in the form of tags. These institutions are libraries, museums, and universities in the […]

  • Rhode Island: My City, My Place!

    Rhode Island:  My City, My Place!

    Our team is new to designing playlists, however, our collective skills and experiences have found a “home” in the playlist concept.  Our team consists of a technology trainer, adult education instructional designer, teen public librarian and high school educator.  We each bring a piece of the puzzle to the design of our playlist. Reviewing other playlists […]