Librarianship Collection Blog

New books for Librarianship Collection June 2011

librarianshipcollection — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:43:48 +0000

Thank you for your support and suggestion, this year’s budget has been well used. The following books have been added into the collection for your work or for the library project.

A practical writing guide for academic librarians : keeping it short and sweet / Anne Langley and Jonathan D. Wallace. Oxford : Chandos, 2010

Being an information innovator / Jennifer Rowley. London : Facet, 2011

E-books in libraries : a practical guide / edited by Kate Price and Virginia Havergal. London : Facet, 2011

Effective blogging for libraries / Connie Crosby. London : Facet, 2010

Gaming in academic libraries : collections, marketing, and information literacy / edited by Amy Harris and Scott E. Rice. Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008

Improving student’s web use and information literacy : a guide for teachers and teacher librarians / James E. Herring. London : Facet, c2011

Mobile learning : structures, agency, practices / by Norbert Pachler … [et al.]. New York : Springer, c2010

Patron-driven acquisitions : current successes and future directions / edited by Judith M. Nixon, Robert S. Freeman, Suzanne M. Ward. London : Routledge, 2011

Plagiarism education and prevention : a subject-driven case-based approach / Cara Bradley. Oxford : Chandos, 2011

RDA : resource, description & access / developed in a collaborative process led by the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC). London : CILIP, 2010 (NOTFORLOAN, in Level 2 Library Office)

Teaching information literacy online / edited by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson. London : Facet, 2011

The 2011 guide to free or nearly-free e-books / compiled for UKeiG by Chris Armstrong. [London] : UKeiG, c2011.

Understanding healthcare information / Lyn Robinson. London : Facet, c2010

Using Web 2.0 for health information / Paula Younger and Peter Morgan. London : Facet, 2010

New books for Librarianship Collection Jan 2011

librarianshipcollection — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:10:52 +0000

Thank you for your support, the following books have been added into the stock since Aug. 2010. Please send me your suggestions for new books before end of May, a fund is available for the collection at moment.

Jenny Huang Email: zhenli.huang@imperial.ac.uk

The Yahoo! style guide : the ultimate sourcebook for writing, editing, and creating content for the digital world / Chris Barr and the senior editors of Yahoo! London : Macmillan, 2010

Information policies and strategies / Ian Cornelius. London : Facet, 2010

Envisioning future academic library services : initiatives, ideas and challenges / edited by Sue McKnight. London : Facet, 2010

M-libraries 2 : a virtual library in everyone’s pocket / edited by Mohamed Ally and Gill Needham. London : Facet, 2010

Mobile technology and libraries / Jason Griffey. London : Facet Pub., 2010.

Information skills : finding and using the right resources / Jonathan Grix, Gerald Watkins Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism / Colin Neville 2^nd ed. Maidenhead : Open University Press, c2010

Introducing RDA : a guide to the basics / Chris Oliver. London : Facet, c2010

Managing information for research : practical help in researching, writing and designing dissertations / Elizabeth Orna and Graham. 2^nd ed. Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Open University Press, 2009

Cite them right : the essential referencing guide / Richard Pears, Graham Shields. 8^th ed. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

New books in the collection April 2010

librarianshipcollection — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:26:40 +0000

Listed below are new books recently added to the Central Library, which now is located on the Level 5. Please email to me if you have any suggestions for new books or by leave a comment on the blog.

Evaluation of digital libraries : an insight to useful applications and methods / edited by Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou. Oxford : Chandos, 2009

Going beyond Google : the invisible web in learning and teaching / Jane Devine, Francine Egger-Sider. London : Facet, 2009.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint designer 2007 step by step / Penelope Coventry. Redmond, WA : Microsoft Press, 2008.

Seeing further : the story of science & The Royal Society / edited & introduced by Bill Bryson ; contributing editor Jon Turney. London : HarperPress, 2010.

Supporting research students / Barbara Allan. London : Facet, 2010

Survey of higher education faculty : use of print & electronic library collections of scholarly journals / Primary Research Group. New York, NY : Primary Research Group, 2010.

Taking charge of your career : a guide for library and information professionals / Joanna Ptolomey. Oxford : Chandos, 2009

The case for books : past, present, and future / Robert Darnton. New York : PublicAffairs, c2009

This book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all / Johnson, Marilyn [i.e. Marilyn Johnson]. New York : Harper, c2010.

New Titles – ordered in Feb 2010

librarianshipcollection — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:34:17 +0000

The following titles have been ordered, we will let you know all the details once they have arrived.

Supporting research students / Barbara Allan. London : Facet, 2010

The invisible web in learning and teaching / Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider. London : Facet, 2008

Taking charge of your career : a guide for library and information professionals / Joanna Ptolomey. Oxford : Chandos, 2009

Evaluation of digital libraries : an insight to useful applications and methods / edited by Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou. Oxford : Chandos, 2009

New books in the collection Feb. 2010

librarianshipcollection — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:32:06 +0000

Thank you very much for your suggestion for the librarianship collection. Some new books have been added and shelved at Haldane collection of the Central Library recently. Please send your comments and suggestions for the book purchase to me by email.

Jenny Huang

How to give your users the LIS services they want / Sheila Pantry and Peter Griffiths. London FACET, 2009.

Survey of higher education faculty : use of print & electronic library collections of scholarly journals / Primary Research Group. New York, NY : Primary Research Group, 2010

New books in the collection Nov 2009

librarianshipcollection — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:51:10 +0000

Teaching information literacy for inquiry-based learning / Hepworth, Mark. Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2009

Library mashups : exploring new ways to deliver library data / edited by Nicole C. Engard. London : Facet, 2009

Bite-sized marketing : realistic solutions for the over worked librarian / Nancy Dowd, Mary Evangeliste, and J. Chicago : American Library Association, 2010

The accidental library marketer / Kathy Dempsey. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, Inc., 2009

Comments are welcome for the following titles: shall we order them?

librarianshipcollection — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:45:44 +0000

Please find the following titles from the publishers , some of them are already published; to well use of the fund of librarianship collection, I would like to have your opinion for purchasing. If you are interested any of them and would like to give your comments on whether we need to purchase them or not, please let me know by email. Thank you.

Scholarly Communication for Librarians

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=1071919

Library and Information Science Research in the 21st Century: A Guide for Practicing Librarians and Students

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=1071923&t=o&cat_id=

Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=683689&t=t&cat_id=

Where are the librarianship journals?

librarianshipcollection — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:25:14 +0000

The print journals in the librarianship collection are now located on the shelves beside the level 2 staff office main door in the Central Library.

The electronic version of the journals are listed on the Electronic journals of the library web page.

New books in the collection – July 2009

librarianshipcollection — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:18:47 +0000

Access, delivery, performance: libraries without walls / edited by Jillian R. Griffiths and Jenny Craven. London : Facet, 2008. 020 ACC

Dewey decimal classification : principles and application / Lois Mai Chan, Joan S. Mitchell. 3^rd ed. Dublin, Ohio : OCLC, 2003. 025.431 CHA

The invisible web in learning and teaching / Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider. London : Facet, 2008. 024.04 DEV

Developing Web information systems : from strategy to implementation / Richard Vidgen … [and others]. Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. 005.72 DEV

Better by design : an introduction to planning and designing a new library building / Ayub Khan. London : Facet, 2009. 727.8 KHA

Business process management : a rigorous approach / Martyn A. Ould. Swindon : BCS, c2005. 658.403 OUL

Digital copyright / Paul Pedley. 2^nd London : Facet Publishing, 2007 347.78 PEDLEY

Digital information culture : the individual and society in the digital age / Luke Tredinnick. Oxford : Chandos, 2008. 303.483 TRE

New books in the Librarianship Collection – Feb 2009

librarianshipcollection — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:32:07 +0000

New books for the Librarianship Collection – Feb 2009

Scholarship in the digital age : information, infrastructure, and the Internet / Borgman, Christine L . Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2007. 025.3 BOR

Library 2.0 : a guide to participatory library service / Casey, Michael E., Information Today 2007. 025.1 CAS

Digital consumers : reshaping the information profession / Nicholas, David, FACET, 2008 025.04 DIG

Exploring methods in information literacy research / Lipu, Suzanne, CIS 2007 020.7 EXP

A short-cut to marketing the library / Helinsky, Zuzana. Chandos 2008 021.7 HEL

Information literacy : international perspectives / Lau, Jesus, K. G. Saur 2008 025.524 INF

Combating student plagiarism : an academic librarian’s guide / Lampert, Lynn D. Chandos, 2008 025.56 LAM

Emerging technologies for academic libraries in the digital age / Li, Lili. Chandos, 2009 027.7 LI

Intellectual property / Lindberg, Van. O’Reilly 2008 346.048 LIN

M-libraries : libraries on the move to provide virtual access / Needham, Gill. FACET, 2008 025.04 MLI

Born digital : understanding the first generation of digital natives / Palfrey, John. Basic Books 2008 302.231 PAL

Practical pedagogy for library instructors : 17 innovative strategies to improve student learning / Cook, Douglas. American Library Association, 2008 025.5 PRA

Information literacy education : a process approach : professionalising the pedagogical role of academic libraries / Torras, Maria-Carme. Chandos, 2008 025.5 TOR