The whole digital library handbook

Essential facts, advice, lists, documents, guidelines, lore, wit, and wisdom: Along with fun and irreverence, it's what readers have come to expect from the "Whole Library" series. In a one-volume compendium that's by turns encyclopedic, useful, and engaging, this latest entry provides an ...

Metadata in practice

In the "Wild West" of digital library projects, pioneering information specialists have uncovered successful solutions, learned what to avoid, and how to proceed amid constant change. As administrator of "AskDCMI," Diane Hillmann has fielded hundreds of questions from implementers. This new collection of reports from ...

Metadata fundamentals for all librarians

Priscilla Caplan, one of the nation's leading systems experts, presents the most comprehensive and clearest descriptions of the various forms of metadata, its applications, and how librarians can put it to work. Both descriptive and nondescriptive forms of metadata are defined (including the TEI ...

Librarian's guide to intellectual property in the digital age

copyrights, patents, and trademarks

This new book by intellectual property expert Timothy Wherry is an authoritative, quick reference for the thorny issues of copyright, trademarks, and patents

Licensing digital content

a practical guide for librarians

A detailed road map into territory for which industry standards do not exist, this guide to the digital information access frontier is a must- have for every librarian

Magic and hypersystems

constructing the information-sharing library

Are libraries the centers of influence in the great global information village? Food for thought and fresh ideas for growing the relational library of the future abound in this treatise on equal and limitless information access

Online community information

creating a Nexus at your library

Building from detailed research, this forward-looking new book addresses the ways that libraries can harness the power of the Internet to provide digitized community information to local audiences

Teaching the Internet in libraries

The definitive hands-on resource for teaching electronic information literacy? an important mission of any forward-looking library

Usability testing for library Web sites

a hands-on guide

Web-based instruction

a guide for libraries

With this comprehensive, soup-to-nuts guide, you will learn how to create a winning library instruction Web site even if you don't know where to start

Cybrarian's Manual 2

Following its predecessor, The Cybrarian#s Manual 2 is the essential handbook for the library perspective on online services, networking, and other issues relating to cyberspace. This edition, while maintaining a focus on technical topics, broadens its scope to address social and political issues sparked ...