The Facet LIS Textbook Collection contains ten core textbooks for students studying library and information science. The books included in the Collection are: Introduction to Information Science DAVID BAWDEN and LYN ROBINSON "..an admirable and highly readable introductory source. Accessible, comprehensive, far-reaching and offering an impressive overview of the relevant literature, Introduction to Information Science is an excellent resource that will likely serve as the standard text for the foreseeable future."- Partnership Research Methods in Information, 2nd edition ALISON JANE PICKARD "A strength of the work is its attempt to cover the entire spectrum of research relevant to the LIS community, and Pickard does so very competently ... this work has a clear role in guiding students and practitioners through the research process."- Online Information Review Exploring Digital Libraries Foundations, practice, prospects KAREN CALHOUN "The students studying Digital Libraries and Information Services Master's programme at our University are the first to whom I am recommending this book. I would suggest it also to other library and information science programmes as a course book - it addresses most of the topics related to digital libraries as collections and services."- Information Research Information Resource Description Creating and managing metadata PHILIP HIDER
"...an excellent introduction both for students and for practitioners new to the field, and the very readable text is well supported by numerous examples, and lists of additional reading. A welcome addition to the literature in this field."- Vanda Broughton, University College London Introduction to Information Behaviour NIGEL FORD This landmark textbook is an essential primer for students and practitioners interested in information seeking, needs and behaviour, user studies and information literacy. Using a combination of theory and practical context, Introduction to Information Behaviour maps out what information behaviour is and what we currently know about it, before addressing how it can be better understood in the future. Nigel Ford argues that new understandings of information behaviour research may help maximise the quality and effectiveness of the way information is presented, sought, discovered, evaluated and used. Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval, 3rd edition G. G. CHOWDHURY "Chowdhury provides a good understanding of where much of our current systems have come from this book would be a good resource for a basic information retrieval course."- College & Research Libraries Management Basics for Information Professionals, 3rd edition G. EDWARD EVANS and CAMILA A. ALIRE "For anyone teaching management concepts to library and information science (LIS) students, you could find no better text to assign than Management basics for information professionals. For recent graduates, and those beginning supervisory roles, this is definitely a book to keep in your office."- SLA Leadership and Management Division Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, 3rd edition PEGGY JOHNSON "Must now be considered the essential textbook for collection development and management the first place to go for reliable and informative advice."- Technical Services Quarterly Reference and Information Services, 3rd edition An introduction KAY ANN CASSELL and UMA HIREMATH "Different groups of readers will use the book in different ways. The comprehensiveness of its content may help new instructors to define the scope of a course on reference services, clarify the content of the course sections and design assignments. Library school students will benefit from reading the book cover-to-cover, and the most diligent of them will remember it as an important component of their education."- Collection Building The Information Society, 6th edition A study of continuity and change JOHN FEATHER "The sixth edition of what has now become a standard textbook in its field, this book has been updated about every four years since the first edition was published in 1994...As an introductory textbook that describes how information has been accumulated, analysed and disseminated through the ages, this book is recommended to library and information students."- Australian Academic and Research Libraries
Introduction to Information Science
Foreword
1. Information science and 21st century information pratices:
creatively engaging with information - Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson
Foreword
2. The emerging discipline of information - Andrew Dillon
Foreword
3. The scope of information science - Jonathan Furner
Foreword
4. A fascinating field and a pragmatic enterpirse - Birger Hjorland
Foreword
5. A slippery and ubiquitous concept - Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan
Foreword
6. The future of information science - Maja A Zumer
1. What is information science? Disciplines and professions
2. History of information: the story of documents
3. Philosophies and paradigms of information science
4. Basic concepts of information science
5. Domain analysis
6. Information organization
7. Information technologies: creation, dissemination and retrieval
8. Infometrics
9. Information behaviour
10. Communicating information: changing contexts
11. Information society
12. Information management and policy
13. Digital literacy
14. Information science research: what and how?
15. The future of the information sciences
Research Methods in Information, 2nd edition
PART 1: STARTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS
1. Major research paradigms Reviewing literature
3. Defining the research
4. The research proposal
5. Sampling
6. Research Data Management
7. Ethics in research
PART 2: RESEARCH METHODS
8. Case studies
9. Surveys
10. Experimental research
11. Usability testing
12. Ethnography
13. Delphi study
14. Action research
15. Historical research
16. Grounded theory: method or analysis?
PART 3: DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
17. Interviews
18. Questionnaires
19. Observation
20. Diaries
21. Focus groups
22. Analysis of existing, externally created material
PART 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH PRESENTATION
23. Qualitative analysis
24. Quantitative analysis
25. Presenting the research
PART 5: GLOSSARY AND REFERENCE
Exploring Digital Libraries
1. Emergence and definitions of digital libraries
2. Outcomes of digital libraries first decade
3. Key themes and challenges in digital libraries
4. Digital Library Collections: Repositories
5. Hybrid Libraries
6. Social Roles of Digital Libraries
7. Digital Libraries and their Communities
8. The Prospects of Open Access Repositories
9. Digital Libraries and the Social Web: Scholarship
10. Digital Libraries and the Social Web: Collections and Platforms.
Information Resource Description
1. Definitions and scope
2. Information resource attributes
3. Tools and systems
4. Metadata sources
5. Metadata quality
6. Sharing metadata
7. Metadata standards
8. Vocabularies
9. The future of metadata
Introduction to Information Behaviour
1. Introduction
2. What is information behaviour and why do we need to know about it?
3. Changing conceptions of information needs
4. Information seeking and acquisition are key components of information
behaviour
5. Information behaviour can be collaborative
6. Factors influencing information behaviour
7. Models and theories in information behaviour research
8. Research approaches
9. Research methodologies in action
10. Using knowledge of information behaviour to design information systems
11. Conclusion
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval, 3rd edition
1. Basic concepts of information retrieval systems
2. Database technology
3. Bibliographic formats
4. Cataloguing and metadata | Subject analysis and representation
5. Automatic indexing and file organization
6. Vocabulary control
7. Abstracts and abstracting
8. Searching and retrieval
9. Users of information retrieval
10 .User-centred models of information retrieval
11. User interfaces
12. Evaluation of information retrieval systems
13. Evaluation experiments
14. Online and CD-ROM information retrieval
15. Multimedia information retrieval
16. Hypertext and markup languages
17. Web information retrieval
18. Natural language processing and information retrieval
19. Natural language processing applications in information retrieval
20. Citation analysis and information retrieval
21. Information retrieval in digital libraries
22. Trends in information retrieval
Management Basics for Information Professionals, 3rd edition
PART I: MANAGERIAL ENVIRONMENT
1. Introduction
2. Operating environment
3. Legal issues and library management
PART II: MANAGERIAL SKILL SETS
4. The planning process
5. Power, accountability and responsibility
6. Delegating
7. Decision making
8. Communicating
9. Changing and innovating
10. Assessment, quality control and operations
11. Marketing and advocacy
PART III: MANAGING PEOPLE
12. Motivating
13. Leading
14. Building teams
15. Addressing diversity
16. Staffing
PART IV: MANAGING THINGS
17. Managing money
18. Managing technology
19. Managing and planning physical facilities
PART V: MANAGING YOURSELF AND YOUR CAREER
20. Ethics
21. Planning your career
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, 3rd edition
1. Introduction to collection management and development
2. Organizational models, staffing, and responsibilities
3. Planning, policy, and budgets
4. Developing collections
5. Managing collections
6. Marketing, liaison activities, and outreach
7. Collection analysis: evaluation and assessment
8. Cooperative collection development and management
9. Scholarly communication
Reference and Information Services, 3rd edition
PART 1: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
1. Introduction to Reference and Information Services
2. Determining the Question: In-Person, Telephone, and Virtual Reference
Interviews
3. Finding the Answer: Basic Search Techniques.
PART 2: INTRODUCTION TO MAJOR REFERENCE SOURCES
4. Answering Questions about Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Libraries and
Publishing, and Bibliographic Networks: Bibliographic Resources
5. Answering Questions about Anything and Everything: Encyclopedias
6. Answering Questions That Require Handy Facts: Ready Reference Sources
7. Answering Questions about Words: Dictionaries, Concordances, and Manuals
8. Answering Questions about Events and Issues, Past and Present: Databases
(and Indexes)
9. Answering Questions about Health, Law, and Business: Special Guidelines
and Sources
10. Answering Questions about Geography, Countries, and Travel: Atlases,
Gazetteers, Maps, Geographic Information Systems, and Travel Guides
11. Answering Questions about the Lives of People: Biographical Information
Sources
12. Answering Questions about Government and Related Issues: Government
Information Sources
PART 3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN REFERENCE AND INFORMATION WORK
13. When and How to Use the Internet as a Reference Tool
14. Readers' Advisory Services - Cindy Orr
15. Reference Sources and Services for Children and Young Adults - Meghan
Harper
16. Information Literacy in the Reference Department
PART 4: DEVELOPING AND MANAGING REFERENCE COLLECTIONS AND SERVICES
17. Selecting and Evaluating Reference Materials
18. Ethics in Reference - Angela Ecklund
19. Managing Reference Departments
20. Assessing and Improving Reference Services
21. Reference 2.0
22. The Future of Information Service
The Information Society, 6th edition
PART 1: THE HISTORICAL DIMENSION
1. From script to print
2. Mass media and new technology
PART 2: THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION
3. The information market-place
4. Access to information
PART 3: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION
5. Information rich and information poor
6. Information, the state and the citizen
PART 4: THE INFORMATION PROFESSION
7. The information profession: A domain delineated
8. Afterword: An information society?
David Bawden is Professor of Information Science at City University London, editor of Journal of Documentation, and a council member of Aslib. He is author of over 150 books, chapters, papers and published presentations. Lyn Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Information Science, and Director of the Postgraduate Information Studies Scheme, at City University London. She is author of numerous papers and published presentations, and has written two books, including Facet's Understanding Healthcare Information. Alison Jane Pickard is Head of Information and Communication Management and Director of Quality and Student Experience in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Northumbria, where she is also Programme Leader for the new Professional Doctorate in Information Sciences. She teaches Research Methods in Information and Communication Management, Information Sciences, as well as other subject areas, and has project managed a number of JISC and AHRB research projects. Karen Calhoun B.A., M.S., M.B.A. is an internationally respected librarian and change leader who is currently at the University of Pittsburgh helping to develop community-centred services. She is an active researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on digital libraries and related disciplines and has just completed a celebrated tenure at OCLC. Philip Hider is Head of the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He has worked, taught and researched in the field of information organization in the UK, Singapore and Australia. He holds a PhD from City University, London and was made a Fellow of CILIP in 2004. Nigel Ford is Professor of Information Science at Sheffield University, and is currently Deputy Director of the Information Schools Centre for Information Literacy Research. He has taught information behaviour at undergraduate and Masters level for 30 years and is a leading researcher in the field, with an extensive publication record spanning journals and books.
G G Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University he was a Professor and Director of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. For over 25 years he has worked as an academic and researcher in information science in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. For the past few years he has been actively involved in the iSchools activities. Professor Chowdhury has written or edited 15 books and over 150 research papers. G. Edward Evans is an administrator, researcher, teacher, and writer. He holds several graduate degrees in anthropology and library and information science. As a researcher he has published in both fields, and held a Fulbright (librarianship) and National Science Foundation (anthropology) Fellowship. His teaching experience has also been in both fields in the U.S. and the Nordic countries. Most of his administrative experience has been in private academic libraries--Harvard and Loyola Marymount Universities. He retired from full-time work as Associate Academic Vice president for Libraries and Information Resources. Author of numerous books, he consults for and volunteers at the Museum of Northern Arizona library and archives and Flagstaff City, Coconino Country Library System. Camila Alire is Dean Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University. She is Past-President of the ALA, ALA/APA, the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and also REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to the Spanish-speaking. She has co-authored books on library service to Latino communities and disaster planning and recovery. She was the first recipient of ALAs Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award and was named one year by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States. Peggy Johnson began her library career as a music cataloguer and has been a children's librarian in a public library, and serials cataloguer, technical services head, and a senior collection development officer in academic libraries. In 2002, she served as interim university librarian at the University of Minnesota. Johnson has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, Morocco, and China. She is a frequent speaker and consultant on collection development and management and on change in libraries, two areas of particular interest. She edits the journal Technicalities: Information Forum for the Library Services Practitioner, has published numerous papers, and written and edited several books. Kay Ann Cassell is a Lecturer and Director of the MLIS Program in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Uma Hiremath is Executive Director at the Ames Free Library, Massachusetts.
John Feather BLitt MA PhD FCLIP is Professor of Library and Information Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at Loughborough University; he is a former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University.
