{"product_id":"resource-discovery-for-the-twenty-first-century-library-9781783301393","title":"Resource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century Library","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscovery is central to academic activities at all levels and is a major focus for libraries and museums. Of all the parts of modern library provision, discovery services are the most clearly affected by developments in IT, from databases to search engines to linked data to machine learning. It is crucial to the relationship between libraries and their communities. This book will help its readers learn how to adapt in a fast changing area to continue to provide a high level of service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century Library\u003c\/i\u003e contains a range of contributions analysing the ways in which libraries are tackling the challenges facing them in discovery in the (post)-Google era. Chapters are written by experts, both global and local – describing specific areas of discovery and local implementations and ideas. The book will help with enhancing discovery both inbound – making locally held resources globally discoverable, and outbound – making global resources locally discoverable, in ways which are relevant to your user community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContent covered includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ea survey of what resource discovery is today\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ecase studies from around the world of interesting approaches to discovery\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eanalysis of how users approach discovery\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ehow to understand and make the best use of Internet search engines\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eusing limited resources to help users find collections\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003elinked open data and discovery\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ethe future of discovery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will be useful for subject librarians and others who give direct support to library users, digital library technicians, managers, staff with responsibility for managing electronic resources, metadata and discovery specialists, trainers and user education specialists. It will also be of use to curators and others who give direct support to researchers, managers of digitisation and cataloguing products, IT staff, trainers and user education specialists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607505191148,"sku":"9781783301393","price":329.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781783301393-resource-discovery-for-the-twenty-first-century-library.jpg?v=1778168880","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/resource-discovery-for-the-twenty-first-century-library-9781783301393","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}