Category: Libraries
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Practical guidance for any librarian learning to deal with data
Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Data Librarian’s Handbook by Robin Rice and John Southall. This new book, written by two data librarians with over 30 years’ experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, social and scientific […]