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The world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by the transformative forces of the Integrated Industrial revolution (4^th-5^th Industrial Revolutions)-a new era where data, connectivity, and human-machine interaction define progress. For libraries, this revolution presents both challenges and opportunities, demanding innovation in services, technologies, and strategies.

Both Volume 1 and 2 of Innovating in Libraries explore how academic libraries can harness emerging technologies, integrate Human-Tech synergistic and reciprocal solutions, and support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on education, industry innovation, and reducing inequality. Contributions from leading experts and practitioners-many drawn from across the globe and selections from the Zimbabwe University Library Consortium's 5th Biennial International Conference-offer global insights into spatial design for digital libraries, platform capitalism, open science, ethics, change management, and more.

With an international perspective and forward-thinking approach, Innovating in Libraries is essential for library professionals, educators, and policymakers navigating the future of information access in an era of rapid change.

A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity fosters a platform for information scientists to engage in reflection and contemplation regarding the profound questions of our era. By drawing insights from pioneers in the field whose contributions were once marginalized or, in some instances, overlooked within the realm of information science, chapter authors strive to re/center the field's focal point.

Chapter authors draw from a diverse array of frameworks including critical theory, deconstruction, queer theory, borderlands, among others. What sets this book apart is its direct confrontation of the status quo and aggressively re/claims intellectual space for "others". This is the only book to critique the entire discipline of Information Science from as many angles as possible in one volume and as far outside of the traditional organizations.

This edited volume explores the intersections of academic writing and academic integrity practices, policies and theory in increasingly pluralistic and heterogeneous higher education contexts. Responding to developments such as internationalisation, massification, equity, diversity and inclusion and decolonisation, the book asks important questions about social justice, access to education and hierarchies of knowledge which challenge established practices in European and North American academia. The contributors interrogate discourses on writing and integrity in higher education, reinterpreting them through the lens of cultural difference. The book will be of interest to university educators who wish to develop their understanding of pedagogy and improve their teaching and research practice.

This two-volume handbook, written by leading international scholars, provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on the collection, analysis, and application of time use data.

Time is a crucial yet finite social resource, fundamental to processes of growth, equality, and well-being. Much of the world's essential production-raising children, preparing food, household maintenance-occurs within households, and relies on time, rather than monetary exchange, as its central input. Despite its centrality, this non-market dimension is often overlooked in official indicators. Time use diary data is increasingly recognised as the foremost source of reliable information on these key temporal dimensions of daily life.

The first volume addresses methodological issues concerning the collection and analysis of data. Readers are introduced first to general methodology and design issues, followed by an overview of major time use diary surveys that are available worldwide, and an exploration of the innovations in design that are currently under development.

With a focus on practical knowledge and understandings of how to collect, manage and analyse this type of data, it will be a valuable point of reference for students and scholars with interests in the methodological aspects of time use research, and will be relevant to numerous fields including sociology, demography, social policy, economics, gender studies, psychology, leisure studies, public health, and related disciplines. The second volume of the handbook provides an authoritative outline of the contribution of time-use research to key contemporary scholarly and policy applications in both the Global North and the Global South, and is available at www.routledge.com/9781041123972.

Being ambitious and driven in academic research demands an unending well of courage from students and scholars. Whether it be pitching the quality of your project or presenting the extent of your credentials, resolve is an inherent prerequisite when asking for the resources necessary to have meaningful impact through research. Courageous Ambition comprehensively outlines the complete process of achieving research success and is intended for scholars at any point in their careers. Whether you are a student initiating your dissertation, an early-career researcher hoping for a tenure-track position, a mid-career scholar eager to reconnect with your research, or even a retired faculty member desiring to find the resources you need for research - this book is for you.

This book begins by defining what research excellence looks like in the humanities and social sciences through the prism of diversity and inclusion. Followed by chapter-length studies that examine the building blocks for creating a thriving research program, Courageous Ambition covers essential facets such as developing research questions, building research collaborations, acquiring funding and support, writing grants and scholarships, increasing both research productivity and the impact of outputs, and balancing research with life. Lauren Beck is an award-winning researcher with deep experience in these areas which are so critical to a researcher's success. She shares the failures and victories she and others have met along the way and offers concrete advice for forging sustainable impact.

A go-to resource for the PhD journey, The Prosperous PhD sets doctoral students on a path of healthy progress that helps them avoid the all-too-familiar pitfalls of program burnout and withdrawal.

With over 140 pieces of insightful wisdom from expert supervisors representing 45 institutions across eight countries, this book provides diverse perspectives to address themes of "Fostering Relationships," Seeking Balance," and "Focusing on Growth," among others. The advice points to attainable goals for any graduate student with concrete strategies to help achieve them. These lessons are taken a step further through dozens of detailed exercises that help graduate students apply the book's principles and better their lives.

The Prosperous PhD encompasses the gamut of graduate student experiences, tribulations, dilemmas, and decisions - from choosing a supervisor and a topic to writing up a dissertation to finding life balance, navigating departmental politics, and becoming an autonomous, happy researcher. Readers can study the book from start to finish to gain a holistic picture of the doctoral journey or select individual chapters to find the perfect piece of advice for their particular stage or challenge.

Created by a team with extensive experience on both sides of the doctoral journey - as PhD students and supervisors - this book is a student-friendly, practical guide that will propel readers towards a more prosperous PhD.

Now in its fifth edition, Teaching and Researching Writing offers a practical and accessible guide to understanding, researching and teaching writing in today's world. It explores what writing is, why it matters and how it is shaped by context, culture and technology - including the fast-changing role of Artificial Intelligence.

Drawing on real research cases and classroom practices, the book demonstrates how writing can be studied and taught across different settings. Readers will find practical tools such as blogs, wikis and e-portfolios, alongside discussions of key issues like feedback, plagiarism, identity and multimodal communication. Hyland also presents practical insights into researching writing, illustrating methods from questionnaires and interviews to corpus and ethnographic studies. By exploring the ethical dimensions of the interplay between technology and writing improvement, this book equips readers with both a reliable overview and innovative ideas they can apply critically in their own work.

Bridging theory and practice, this comprehensive book is an ideal resource for educators, researchers and students in applied linguistics, language teaching and TESOL interested in multiple frameworks for writing instruction. It is also a valuable companion for teacher training courses.

A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used word families in the language. This second edition provides expanded information, with notes on regional and internet variation and greater variety in the words included.

Based on a 300-million-word corpus of French which includes formal and informal writing and spoken material both from France and overseas, this dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the 5,000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence, its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the top 5,000 word families either through the main frequency listing or through alphabetical and part of speech indexes. Throughout the frequency listing there are thematically organized lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing, and family terms.

The full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work can be found at resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781032741178.

An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of French will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of French vocabulary.

With references to case law from multiple jurisdictions and arbitral tribunals, this is an incisive and invaluable resource for students, academics and legal professionals interested in international commercial law, trade law and public international law.

Key Features:

• Succinct bibliographies to guide further reading
• Entries organized alphabetically for ease of navigation
• Over 120 entries written by expert international academics and practitioners
• Highlights recent trends and developments in case law across global jurisdictions
• A concise overview of key and emerging topics in the field of international sales law

An Introductory Guide to Quantitative Data Analysis and Interpretation using SPSS 30 is a comprehensive guide to quantitative analysis. It integrates knowledge of research methods, data analysis, and report writing includes exploring data, data preparation, and data analysis.

This textbook provides readers with fundamental knowledge about quantitative data analysis through a sample of research objectives, step-by-step guidance in generating SPSS outputs, hypothesis testing, and interpreting the analysis outputs. It focuses on frequently used descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses, and discusses the assumptions and requirements for these methods. Using SPSS version 30 and also providing a complete case study, this book will help readers to get a big picture of how to get the collected data ready and complete further analysis. This is followed by a step-by-step guide to interpreting the outputs to match research objectives or hypothesis testing. Lastly, it provides a sample write-up for a research article or dissertation using APA format.

This guide will be an essential companion for beginner or university students who are learning quantitative data analysis using SPSS software and/or doing their research project. It will also be beneficial to professionals and researchers who want to revive their quantitative data analysis and format their academic papers to maintain clarity and professionalism in scientific writing using APA format.

This book showcases the critical contribution that scholarship in the field of social interaction can make to the study of the senses.

Centred on an understanding of the senses as interactionally configured between people and the ways in which people themselves experience the senses-how they build and negotiate meanings between each other about what is being sensed, what the social implications of the senses are, and how these might relate to sets of activities or interests-it brings together a range of case studies to show how talk, gesture, and various aspects of the physical environment can be mobilised to make the senses accountable to others.

Presenting the latest developments in interactionist research on the senses, Sensing Life will appeal to social scientists with interests in interactionist sociology and related approaches to research, and social understandings of the senses.

Navigating the World of Digital Data: The Challenges of Social Research Methods is a timely text that explores the emerging challenges and opportunities posed by digitalization in social research.

This book brings together foundational methodological concepts with a reflective openness to innovation. It examines how the spread of digital technologies has generated an unprecedented flow of data, opening up new opportunities to investigate social phenomena. The book explores the main features and challenges of digital data and shows how they reshape crucial aspects of social research. Rather than treating data as neutral, it highlights their cognitive, social, and technological construction processes and the interpretative work required to use them effectively. Classic methodological concerns are reaffirmed as highly relevant and are examined alongside the mediating role of platforms, infrastructures, and algorithms, offering readers a conceptual framework for critically engaging with digital data while preserving scientific rigor.

It is aimed at researchers, academics, and university students in sociology and the social sciences, as well as scholars in digital humanities and data studies. It encourages readers to cultivate methodological awareness and critical reflection when working with digital data in social research.

This book examines walking together as a research method, a social practice, and a paradigmatic social phenomenon. Anchored in long-term fieldwork in post-apartheid South Africa, it explores how walking together exposes the dissonance between lived racialized power asymmetries and methodological ideals that assume universal accessibility of public space. In doing so, the book turns a critical eye toward recent developments in social ontology and phenomenology that underpin walking methodology, interrogating their own theoretical commitments, their claims to universality, as well as their attempts to account for power inequality. The book further shows how the history of walking is deeply intertwined with the history of participant observation, revealing how methodological ideals have been shaped by the embodied, uneven conditions of research on the ground. Combining peripatetic ethnography with theoretical reflections on pace bias, hidden particulars, and agency, the book builds a case for a more accountable walking methodology and offers conceptual tools for working with, rather than smoothing over, difference. By unsettling idealized accounts of walking together, this book offers a fresh approach to movement- based methods that centers lived complexity. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, philosophy, sociology, urban studies, mobility, and methodology - as well as anyone curious about the politics of bodies in public.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This two-volume handbook, written by leading international scholars, provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on the collection, analysis, and application of time use data.

Time is a crucial yet finite social resource, fundamental to processes of growth, equality, and well-being. Much of the world's essential production-raising children, preparing food, household maintenance-occurs within households, and relies on time, rather than monetary exchange, as its central input. Despite its centrality, this non-market dimension is often overlooked in official indicators. Time use diary data is increasingly recognised as the foremost source of reliable information on these key temporal dimensions of daily life.

The second volume provides an authoritative outline of the contribution of time use research to key contemporary scholarly and policy applications in both the Global North and the Global South. The chapters consist of a wide-ranging selection of exemplary contributions chosen to illustrate the varied areas of substantive empirical research for which time use diary data has been used in research across the globe, including gender and life-course studies, research on employment and the labour force, care-giving, and contributions to the measurement of both population well-being and sustainable development goals.

With a focus on the application and future directions of time use research, it will be a valuable point of reference for students and scholars from fields including sociology, demography, social policy, economics, gender studies, psychology, leisure and tourism studies, public health, and legal studies. The first volume of the handbook addresses methodological issues concerning the collection and analysis of data and is available at www.routledge.com/9781041123934.

This pioneering guide explores podcasting as a powerful tool for data collection and knowledge production, demonstrating the value of the medium as a qualitative research method.

The book introduces three novel approaches: podcasting as participatory action research, enabling collaboration and public engagement; sonic elicitation, using sound to evoke rich, affective responses in interviews and focus groups; and podcast ethnography, where audio recordings are both data and narrative.

Key features include:

* Practical guidance on designing and producing research podcasts;

* In-depth examination of ethical considerations when working with sound and voice; and

* Exploration of podcasting's connection to longstanding traditions of orality in research.

Grounded in theory and practice, this is a must-read for researchers looking to innovate by creatively and critically engaging with sound in their work.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750. Relying on extensive archival research, it provides a rare contribution to global book history.
The libraries studied are mostly small in scale, with very different scopes and characters. Catholic missionary libraries and the Mediterranean and British companies' institutional libraries showed more standardization regarding the role books played in worship. In contrast, private libraries belonging to merchants, physicians, surgeons, scientific travellers, and ambassadors were characterized primarily by their owners' professions.
The volume also examines how policies like censorship shaped libraries. This may partially explain many libraries' more conservative characters, which manifested in the lack of broader Jansenist or clearly visible early and advanced Enlightenment influences. This book considers the "otherness" of Western cultural presence abroad until 1750: Westerners were just another trading population entering those regions. Performing a kind of proto-segregation, in "close distance" to their hosts, they mostly read books by other Westerners.

This textbook introduces invariant measurement in the human sciences based on the principles of Rasch measurement theory and presents explanatory Rasch models that integrate item and person covariates that can deepen the understanding of item response processes. The basic family of Rasch models reflects descriptive measurement models. This book describes explanatory item response models that can be used to explore and predict item response probabilities using item and person variables (covariates) that can be explicitly included in measurement models for the purpose of constructing scales to represent latent variables.

The analyses described in this book offer methodological tools that can be used to delve more deeply into person responses to a set of items designed to represent a latent variable or construct. Item and person covariates provide insight into aspects of measurement procedures that may influence or explain measurement properties, such as item difficulty or level of person achievement. Rasch measurement theory provides the opportunity to include both person and item covariates that allows for more nuanced substantive analyses of latent variables that go beyond description. Across chapters, the book progresses from foundational principles and generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) for estimating Rasch models, to applications in measurement quality evaluation, explanatory modeling, rater-mediated assessments, instrument development, and rating scale analysis.

Invariant Measurement with Explanatory Rasch Models in the Human Sciences will be a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the human sciences attending advanced undergraduate courses on test theory and measurement, as well as graduate-level courses and seminars on rating scales and invariant measurement. This book can also be used as a supplementary textbook in a variety of courses on research methodology in the social, behavioral and health sciences including psychology, public health, anthropology, sociology education and economics.

Written from an equitable data perspective, Questioning Technology: Addressing Divisive Data in Research and Practice translates the pressing challenges within data collection, data categorization and data commercialisation to enable researchers, SMEs, and practitioners to better question why and how they use data.

Offering an alternative that diverges from the current narrative of subjective ethics, this guide affords authentic perspective and confidence to respectively question the function of technology and the intensity of data collection, the ethics of data use, data collection risks and mitigation, data commercialisation, and the impact this has on digital policy. Split into three parts, the first part of the guide introduces the concepts surrounding digital inclusion, data dignity, technical language and the way in which humans are part of the digital ecosystem. The second part discusses and elaborates on the challenges within data collection, data categorization and commercialisation. The third part of the guide focuses on existing and recent policy progression around data and AI and to what degree this knowledge can be applied in the digital and physical realm.

Through a shared and accurate technological language informed by clear and equitable digital terminology and characteristics, O'Higgins and Halliday call for a step-change that can be used in industry and academia to bridge the language and knowledge gap for aligned collaboration through accessibility towards true digital equity.

The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas: State and Quasi-State Actors in Great Power Competition is a comprehensive, authoritative survey of the twenty-first century global politics. Going beyond the traditional state-centrism in the international relations discipline, this book re-orients both states and quasi-states as critical geopolitical actors.

This book challenges the state-centrism in orthodox international relations scholarship. Advancing a post-sovereign lens, this book re-imagines a global geopolitical map that features different types of states and quasi-states. By doing so, this book transcends the mainstream "great power-small state" framework in geopolitical studies and advances a novel agenda for investigating the interaction of states and quasi-states in global politics. It guides readers to interpret the twenty-first century global geopolitical map through a post-sovereign lens.

This book will be an essential reference for international relations scholars and students around the world. It will also appeal to global policy makers and practitioners who are observing the dynamics of contemporary great power competition.

This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women's writing globally. Focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500, this comprehensive reference work addresses a long-standing gap in scholarship on women writers from this period. It challenges current understandings of the literary tradition of women by incorporating early writers and texts that remain marginal and by expanding definitions of textual composition to include more collaborative and contextual activities. This encyclopedia also presents women in the context of the global Middle Ages. Entries extend beyond works written in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to include works by women from Europe, Africa, and Asia. By locating medieval women's writing within its cultural, social, religious, and political contexts, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages will be an ideal entry point for students and researchers coming into the field, and a valuable resource for established scholars.

This encyclopedia breaks new ground by unveiling how ancient spiritual wisdom can revolutionize modern diversity and inclusion practices. It brings together 227 cutting-edge chapters that explore transformative approaches-from Lakota relationship traditions to quantum thinking, and from AI bias mitigation to Eastern meditation practices in organizational change. Contributors worldwide demonstrate how spiritual consciousness creates deeper, more authentic diversity outcomes than traditional approaches. Whether addressing decolonization, technological ethics, or workplace wellbeing, this encyclopedia provides practical frameworks for leaders ready to move beyond surface-level diversity toward profound, spiritually-informed transformation that honors both individual uniqueness and universal connection.

Qualitative interviews offer rich opportunities to explore people's lived experiences, emotions and perspectives with depth and nuance.

This accessible and practical guide equips researchers with innovative techniques to enhance interview-based research. From incorporating objects, documents and sensory prompts to choosing the optimal interview format - plus drawing inspiration from fields like therapy and journalism - the book introduces creative strategies for generating more meaningful, credible data that centres the participant in every interaction.

Key features include:

* Support for researchers to deepen dialogue, connection and participant empowerment;

* Emphasis on the co-production of meaning, emotional and reflective engagement and authentic research encounters; and

* Insights and case studies from contemporary methods and lessons across diverse disciplines.

Ideal for postgraduate students, early career researchers and practitioners, this book demonstrates how to design interviews that are not only ethically grounded but also genuinely engaging, facilitating richer, multimodal and culturally sensitive qualitative research.

Conventional research methods often marginalise the voices of those most affected by the issues being studied, limiting the potential for meaningful, transformative change. In education, health, social care, community development and many other fields, there is a growing need for research that is inclusive, accessible, and responsive to real-world complexity.

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to co-operative inquiry: a participatory research methodology grounded in collaboration, reflection, and shared knowledge creation. Acting as a how-to guide and companion text, it supports readers in designing and conducting ethical, practice-based research that draws on lived experience as much as professional expertise. The authors demonstrate how co-operative inquiry can integrate action research and mixed methods to produce both nuanced and authentic insights.

With guidance from leading experts and emerging voices in the field, this book is an essential resource for ethical researchers at every career stage. It equips readers with the confidence, tools, and inspiration to generate impactful, equity-driven knowledge.