Companion website with checklists and customizable templates provides extra guidance and reminders to help readers execute complex processes

June 4, 2010 (New York, NY) –People in institutions as varied as government agencies, libraries, universities, archives and corporations are grappling with the need to effectively appraise and preserve digitized resources. Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual to be published by Neal-Schuman on August 1, 2010 is a step-by-step guide to the best practices and key issues related to both  maintenance of data, and adding value to data so it can be found and understood in the future.

Author Ross Harvey, an international authority at the forefront of the digital curation movement, delivers this first comprehensive presentation of the emerging and rapidly-evolving field of digital curation and helps readers create their own individualized plan of action using his book’s password-protected companion website.  Harvey explains how digital curation addresses the issues and risks associated with data including technology obsolescence, the fragility of data, rapidly increasing amounts of data and inadequate infrastructure, and increased reliance on networked computing.

In the first part of his three-part work, Harvey outlines the scope and practice of digital curation, explains important concepts, describes why it is needed and what incentives exist, then defines data so readers can answer the key question:  “what exactly is that we want to curate?” His discussion includes models for the lifecycle of data, focusing on the Digital Curation Centre’s (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model. In Part II, Harvey identifies the basic requirements for data preservation needed for digital curation.   In Part III,   Harvey introduces and fully explains the sequence of actions called for by the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model: Conceptualize; Create or Receive; Appraise and Select; Ingest; Preservation; Action;  Store; Access, Use and Reuse; and Transform.

Whether librarian, archivist, records manager, researcher or scholar, readers of Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual will learn how to incorporate curation procedures into their own practice, figure out where to start when developing and implementing digital curation processes, and explore digital curation issues in the context of today’s best practices.  They will be better equipped to succeed at what Harvey calls the “sacred trust” of “preserving knowledge.”

Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual

Plus companion website at www.neal-schuman.com/curation that will be accessible beginning August, 2010.

ISBN: 978-1-55570-694-4
2010 | 8.5 x 11 | 250 pp. | $75.00

About the Author

Ross Harvey, recognized internationally as an author on digital curation, is visiting professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston. He holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and has taught internationally at universities in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Thailand, Scotland, and Canada.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers

Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, UK. Neal-Schuman is a leading publisher of professional and academic titles in all areas of library and information studies.

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June 3, 2010 (New York, NY) — As mobile devices are becoming increasingly prevalent, librarians are embracing ways to exploit this new technology. M-Libraries 2: A Virtual Library in Everyone’s Pocket to be released in North America by Neal-Schuman Publishers on July 20, 2010, will help information professionals understand the worldwide impact of mobile technology and educate them on the best ways of providing library services and content to mobile devices.

In this five-part guide, editors Mohamed Ally, and Gill Needham present contributions from a broad range of international experts in the field of mobile technology. Through research and real-life examples, contributors reveal the most effective means to create accessible information and library services for mobile devices.

The book opens with coverage of the global development of mobile technology, and how libraries around the world use mobile devices to improve access to education and share resources. In Part Two, contributors illustrate the specific technologies available to librarians, concentrating on software that easily formats information on mobile devices, while Part Three details the applications available for mobile libraries. Part Four explains how mobile libraries can aid academic work. Contributors also present data on the use of m-libraries including user surveys and the results of user behavior studies.  The book concludes with a discussion of the research available on this new and developing field of technology.

M-Libraries 2: A Virtual Library in Everyone’s Pocket is an indispensable guide for all information professionals in public, academic, medial and special library settings as well as, information studies students, application developers, and publishers.

M-Libraries 2: A Virtual Library in Everyone’s Office

ISBN 978-1-85604-696-1.
2010. 6 x 9. 273 pp.  $105.00.

About the Editors

Professor Mohamed Ally is Director of the Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada.

Gil Needham, is Associate Director, Information Management & Innovation at the Open University Library and Learning Resources Centre, UK.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers and Facet Publishing

Facet Publishing titles are exclusively available in the United States through Neal-Schuman Publishers, a leading provider of library management, Internet, and information technology resources. Facet is the imprint of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (formerly the British Library Association). Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, UK.

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(New York, NY) April 26, 2010—It is challenging for today’s busy school librarians and teachers to find high-quality reading resources that fit naturally with core curricular topics. The Neal-Schuman Guide to Recommended Children’s Books and Media for Use with Every Elementary Subject, Second Edition,to be published on June 15, 2010 by Neal Schuman Publishers, spans Pre-K through Grade 8 and helps educators meet this challenge by matching over 1,200 carefully selected books, videos, software, CDs, DVDs and web sites to key curriculum topics.

Authors Kathryn I. Matthew and Joy Lowe cover quality materials for each of the eight major subject areas: mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, physical education, art, and music.  They arrange informative, succinct annotations by grade level within each subject area and include high-quality children’s books, classic titles, award winners, videos, CDs, DVDs and web sites.

In their Introduction, Matthew and Lowe provide critical information on meeting the needs of individual students, making personal connections, extending learning, and responding to literature through writing, discussing, questioning and exploring.   Then in eight, information-rich chapters they cover all elementary-school subject areas, the latest educational standards, teaching methods, and instructional tools. Matthew and Lowe give readers strategies for integrating these resources with curricula and teaching English Language Learners and special needs children.  The authors include Subject and Author/Title Indexes, plus an Appendix containing a comprehensive listing of teacher and librarian resources including journals, professional organizations, and Internet sites.

The Neal-Schuman Guide to Recommended Children’s Books and Media for Use with Every Elementary Subject, Second Edition will help educators quickly choose and locate resources to enrich the curricula and help students score higher on the standards tests that increasingly determine success.

The Neal-Schuman Guide to Recommended Children’s Books and Media for Use with Every Elementary Subject, Second Edition

By Kathryn I. Matthew and Joy L. Lowe

ISBN 978-1-55570-688-3   2010.  8-1/2 x 11.  400 pp.  $65.00

About the Authors:

Kathryn I. Matthew is a former classroom teacher and is an associate professor at the University of Houston—Clear Lake. She received graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Orleans. She received an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on technology and reading from the University of Houston. She also wrote Developing Better Readers and Writers Using Caldecott Books, published by Neal-Schuman. With Joy L. Lowe, Matthew co-authored the Neal-Schuman Guide to Celebrations and Holidays around the World and Puppet Magic.

Joy L. Lowe is a former school and public librarian. She taught library science at Louisiana Tech University for 25 years. She received graduate and undergraduate degrees from Centenary College of Louisiana, Louisiana Tech University, and Louisiana State University. She received a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of North Texas. With Kathryn Matthew, Lowe co-authored the Neal-Schuman Guide to Celebrations and Holidays around the World and Puppet Magic.

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Neal-Schuman Publishers is the leading provider of library management, Internet and information technology resources, including the highly acclaimed “How-To-Do-It” series.  Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, UK.

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April 27, 2010 (New York, NY) — What skills must library managers develop themselves     and among their staff to build a confident, innovative, and capable cadre of new leaders?  Developing Library Leaders: A How-To-Do It Manual for Coaching, Team Building, and Mentoring Library Staff, to be published by Neal-Schuman on June 17, 2010, not only answers that question but provides practical tools and advice for cultivating and empowering emerging leaders.

Leadership gurus Robert D. Stueart and Maureen Sullivan have created a revolutionary step-by-step guide to developing a library or other information organization’s most valuable assets—its staff –to meet future service objectives.  They begin from the premises that developing potential leaders requires far more than informal mentoring and that we should rely on performance rather than longevity to identify future leaders for advancement.  Stueart and Sullivan then give readers a basic understanding of leaders and their specific, roles and responsibilities.

Over the remaining chapters, Stueart and Sullivan outline six key strategies for developing leaders: influence and persuasion; building and leading groups and teams; project management; coaching; mentoring; and succession planning. Each chapter presents both the theoretical aspects of the strategy and ways to implement it within an organizational structure.  They intersperse guidelines, examples, techniques, and other action-oriented elements throughout their book, including ways to measure how one improves in effectiveness as a leader and how to empower others in an organization.  Their final chapter combines all the previous concepts and strategies into a real-life example—an indispensible tool for putting the ideas into context for today’s libraries.

Using models, techniques and calls to action,  Developing Library Leaders: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Coaching, Team Building, and Mentoring Library Staff debunks the myth that “leaders are born, not made.”

Developing Library Leaders: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Coaching, Team Building, and Mentoring Library Staff is for individuals and organizations who seek to prepare the next generation of leaders in the information services arena.  More broadly, it is for everyone who aspires to the philosophy expressed in Will Rose’s adage:  Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but how many people you brought with you.

Developing Library Leaders: A How-To-Do It Manual for Coaching, Team Building, and Mentoring Library Staff

By Robert D. Stueart and Maureen Sullivan, with a Foreword by James G. Neal

ISBN: 978-1-55570-725-5.

2010, 8-1/2 x 11”.  105 pp. $75.00.

About the Authors

Robert D. Stueart is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston, MA.  His career has been honored with the JFK International Scholar Award, ALA’s Honorary Member award, Melvil Dewey Medal, Beta Phi Mu award, and the Humphrey/OCLC Forrest Press International Award, among many others.

Maureen Sullivan is Professor of Practice of the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and also an independent organization development consultant specializing in libraries and information services.  She recently received the 2010 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year award and has also been honored with the American Library Association’s Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers

Neal-Schuman Publishers is a leading publisher of professional books for librarians, archivists and knowledge managers. Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City, with offices in London, UK.

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