Is your library up-to-date with current medical information? Cutting-edge resources from the Medical Library Association (MLA) give you the most relevant health and medical information available. Now you can save 20% on your entire purchase when you place a standing order.

Check out the brand-new Medical Library Association’s Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries, Second Edition, an extensively revised edition of the book Library Journal called “the gold standard in its field.” This book brings that invaluable content up to date, tackling important changes in technology and the increasing financial pressures that have affected both the health care and library industries. A companion CD-ROM offers numerous management documents, forms, and live Web links.

And don’t forget to pre-order your copy of The Medical Library Association’s Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences, available this April. Encompassing 35 specialties, plus additional sub-specialties, providing over 1,600 authoritative recommendations, covering both the monographic and serial literature–print, digital, and online formats–this unique guide is an indispensable tool for librarians who must differentiate among the many choices of medical resources.

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The Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Out About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Health Informatics for Medical Librarians

The Medical Library Association’s Essential Guide to Becoming an Expert Searcher

Answering Consumer Health Questions

Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences

Answers to Health Questions People Ask in Libraries

The Medical Library Association’s Guide to Health Literacy at the Library

…and many more!

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March 10, 2011 (New York, NY) — E-books have emerged as one of the most revolutionary and widely used publishing platforms, yet there is little published material on the subject. On April 30, 2011, Neal-Schuman will release E-Books in Libraries: A Practical Guide, a landmark title that will answer all of librarians’ questions on practices, trends, and other information surrounding the e-book phenomenon.

Editors Kate Price and Virginia Havergal have assembled contributions from experts in a wide range of fields, including information technology, academia, publishing, digital resources, and information services. Contributing authors begin with a history of e-books, before describing how e-books come to be and are sold and produced. Next, contributors look at managing e-texts in public libraries, further education, and higher education. They then delve into the practicalities of delivering e-books to readers, encompassing a range of issues like cataloguing, technical issues, training, and support. They also explore reader engagement. Finally, contributors examine the future of e-books, looking into how they will become more universally used, and what the e-book landscape might look like. The editors and authors include plenty of Web links and references for further information.

Librarians developing an e-book collection from scratch or maintaining an existing one will find all the tools they need in E-Books in Libraries: A Practical Guide, one of the first books of its kind.

E-Books in Libraries: A Practical Guide

ISBN 978-1-85604-572-8.
2011. 6 x 9. 327 pp.  $95.00.

About the Authors

Virginia Havergal is a Learning Centers and e-Resources Manager for Petroc, a further education college in Devon, U.K.

Kate Price is Head of E-Strategy and Resources at the University of Surrey, U.K.

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 Library Association). Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, U.K.

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February 20, 2011 (New York, NY) — A long-contested measure of higher education quality, student feedback, is now regarded as one of the best ways to enhance both teaching and learning. Student Feedback: The Cornerstone to an Effective Quality Assurance System in Higher Education, to be released in North America by Neal-Schuman Publishers on March 30, 2011, discusses the use of student feedback as it expands worldwide, and highlights the unique facets of its role in academic development.

Editors Chenicheri Sid Nair and Patricie Mertova bring together contributions from a diverse group of international authorities on quality in academics from respected institutions like Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. In the first part of the book, contributors provide an overview of student feedback, focusing on the role of feedback on teaching and learning performance. In the second part, they offer international perspectives, looking at student feedback in four countries, including the U.S. In the third part, they focus on tools and administration. They explore concepts like Web vs. paper-based surveys, inclusive practice in student feedback systems, the feedback cycle, and using insights from feedback to promote better performance. Throughout the text, the editors and contributors offer many practical applications of feedback.NICE PARAGRAPH

Student Feedback: The Cornerstone to an Effective Quality Assurance System offers unique and diverse perspectives of student feedback, an integral part of the higher education system. Instructors and academic librarians will greatly benefit from the candid discussions about a fundamental and growing contribution to the teaching and learning process.

Student Feedback: The Cornerstone to an Effective Quality Assurance System in Higher Education

Chandos Publishing

ISBN 978-1-84334-573-2.
2011. 6 x 9. 162 pp.  $80.00.

About the Editors

Chnicheri Sid Nair is Professor of Higher Education Development with the Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He has extensive expertise in the area of quality development and evaluation, and is an international consultant in a number of countries in the areas of quality and stakeholder feedback.

Patricie Mertova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, England. She has research expertise in the areas of higher education and higher education quality.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers and Chandos Publishing

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. Since June 2009, Neal-Schuman has also been the exclusive North American distributor for titles from the United Kingdom’s Chandos Publishing, a division of Woodhead Publishing Limited.  Chandos books are a leading, highly practical source of authoritative information for professionals and researchers worldwide.

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February 20, 2011 (New York, NY) — Text-messaging reference was just the tip of the iceberg. Organizations of all kinds are creating iPhone aps, so why not libraries? Librarians and information professionals ready to take that leap will find welcome guidance in iPhone Application Development: Strategies for Efficient Mobile Design and Delivery, to be released in North America by Neal-Schuman Publishers on March 30, 2011. LIS and emerging technologies expert Jim Hahn’s practical book offers principles and practices that readers can apply to a range of handheld devices and software. He begins by describing the overarching concepts of the book, before focusing on specific types of applications. In each chapter, he offers detailed instructions and plenty of diagrams. He covers categories like transmitting an RSS feed to an iPhone, creading a podcast application, video tour application, custom template, utility application, Xcode module, and using PhoneGap framework within Xcode. Hahn also includes appendices with a safety framework for mobile computing and an iPhone orientation.

Any librarian whose patrons use mobile computing devices, or other information specialists who rely on these tools, will find invaluable advice in iPhone Application Development.

iPhone Application Development: Strategies for Efficient Mobile Design and Delivery

Chandos Publishing

ISBN 978-1-84334-582-4.
2011. 6 x 9. 158 pp.  $75.00.

About the Author

Jim Hahn is Orientation Services Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also the Vice-Chair of Emerging Technologies Interest Group of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers and Chandos Publishing

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. Since June 2009, Neal-Schuman has also been the exclusive North American distributor for titles from the United Kingdom’s Chandos Publishing, a division of Woodhead Publishing Limited.  Chandos books are a leading, highly practical source of authoritative information for professionals and researchers worldwide.

For More Information and/or Cover Art

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February 18, 2011 (New York, NY) — From public librarians helping users apply for government benefits to law librarians assisting patrons with accessing government cases, legislation, and regulations, finding government information is an integral part of librarians’ work. Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, and Using Government Resources, to be published by Neal-Schuman Publishers on May 30, 2011, is the first new government information text for the 21^st century, and details essential background knowledge and tools needed to use government documents.

Editors Eric J. Forte, Cassandra J. Hartnett, and Andrea L. Sevetson, along with numerous noteworthy contributors, use their extensive experience researching, teaching, and presenting government information to create a thorough text filled with insights, background, and strategies for navigating government information expertly. In the first part, they offer an overview of key government information resources. They present a history of government information and explain why people should and do have access to these documents. They also offer general tools and strategies, before exploring literature surrounding Congress, regulations, the law, and the president. In the second part, they take a closer look at the specifics of government information. In individual chapters, they look at the executive branch, statistical information, health information, education, scientific and technical information, environment and energy information, business, economic, and consumer information, census, and historical and archival information. The editors include more than fifty chapter exercises and offer models and techniques throughout the books. They also provide two complete indices arranged separately by subject and agency for easy reference.

Practical and easy-to-use, Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, and Using Government Resources is much-needed resource for librarians, library and information sciences students, and information seekers of all kinds.

Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, and Using Government Resources

ISBN: 978-1-55570-737-8.
2011 | 6 x 9 | 450 pp. | $75.00

About the Editors

Eric J. Forte is a Member Services Consultant with OCLC. He has worked as a librarian with government information at the University of Illinois, Western State College of Colorado, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Boise State University. He has taught, presented, and written about government information in various venues.

Cassandra J. Hartnett is U.S. Documents Librarian, University of Washington Libraries. She has worked at the University of Michigan Library, the University of Michigan School of Information, and Detroit Public Library. She served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School. She is a co-founder of the Northwest Government Information Network (NGIN) and was 2008-2009 chair of the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table.

Andrea L. Sevetson is a trainer with ProQuest. She has worked as a government documents librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, the U.S. Census Bureau, and LexisNexis. She served as the chair of the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table, and was appointed to the U.S. Depository Library Council to the Public Printer and served as its chair. She is the recipient of several prestigious government documents librarianship awards.

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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New book gives librarians and faculty 60 interactive class scenarios, plus educational tools and expert advice

February 15, 2011 (New York, NY) — Whether students are playing “Information Literacy Jeopardy,” “Confectionary Classification,” or “Winning Wordles,” games liven up the classroom and energize students and teachers. Let the Games Begin! Engaging Students with Field Tested Interactive Information Literacy Instruction, to be published by Neal-Schuman Publishers on July 31, 2011, includes sixty successfully-tested educational games created by librarians and professors that will help students learn information literacy skills and concepts through fun, interactive exercises.

Editor Theresa R. McDevitt brings more than thirty years of library experience to her selections of the best information literacy games from librarians and instructors. She opens the book with a literature review explaining how incorporating games into instruction improves learning in the classroom and describing the benefits of using games in information literacy instruction. The contributors offer a wide array of games across thirteen sections. Sections include ice breakers, such as “Tinker Toy Towers: Building Research Projects in Team,” and one-stop library orientation sessions, like “The Library Mystery Scavenger Hunt.” The contributors tackle concepts like organizing information sources, research processes, and online search techniques through the games “The Library Quest: A Game for Understanding Database Searching,” “Topical Full Monty,” “Twitter and Tagging Your Research Paper,” and many more.

Readers will learn new ways to build students skills in crucial areas, including evaluating the quality and authority of information resources, bibliographical citations, plagiarism awareness and prevention, and locating primary sources, by playing games like “Truth or Conseqeuences: An Internet Site Evaluation Game,” “Bibliography Tournament,” and “Ellie Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Archives.” Final sections cover games to assess and wrap up information literacy instruction sessions and library orientation techniques to help navigate new territory.

Each game description includes the title and author, an introduction, objectives, information literacy competency standards addressed, game background, audience, time required, materials and equipment needed, preparation, instructions for playing the game, evaluation, tips for introducing subject faculty to the game, and contributor contact information. McDevitt also offers tips on getting started with games, and includes an annotated list of articles, books, and Web sites.

Let the Games Begin! Engaging Students with Field-Tested Interactive Information Literacy Instruction is an exhaustive collection of unique, interactive games for teaching information literacy. Instructors and librarians looking for creative methods of engaging students in information literacy sessions and in the classroom are sure to find plenty of ideas in this book.

Let the Games Begin! Engaging Students with Field-Tested Interactive Information Literacy Instruction

ISBN: 978-1-55570-739-2.
2011 | 8.5 x 11 | 150 pp. | $65.00

About the Editor

Theresa R. McDevitt is a Government Documents/Reference Librarian at Stapleton Library, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was a Public Services Librarian, a Government Documents Specialist, a Special Collections and Archives Librarian, and Acting Associate  Dean and Interim Dean of Libraries.

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.

For More Information and/or Cover Art

Contact Laura Berlinsky-Schine

laura.berlinsky-Schine@neal-schuman.com

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