Library and information services

Positive and healthy work environments enhance job satisfaction and workplace engagement and play a significant role in the healthy functioning of library organizations.

Positive and healthy work environments enhance job satisfaction and workplace engagement and play a significant role in the healthy functioning of library organizations.

As classrooms and universities strive to adapt their instructional methods to an ever progressing technological age, it is imperative that academic libraries also revisit the ways in which reference and instruction services are organized and implemented.

Once considered designated storytellers, modern library professionals are emerging as experts in technology integration, information literacy, and curriculum alignment.

While high quality library and information services continue to thrive and strengthen economic and social development, much of the knowledge that exists on user's needs and behaviors is fundamentally based on the results of users in English-speaking, western developed countries.

"e;Resource discovery"e; has many meanings, and it is now being defined as library research software that allows a library user to search multiple Web-based resources simultaneously and generate usable search results.

In recent years, automation has played a vital role in library systems that handle tasks of acquisition, cataloging, serials, and circulation.

A vital component of any academic institution, libraries are held to and expected to maintain certain standards.

Playing Games in the School Library is a comprehensive resource for those looking to explore the use of game-based learning and gamification in the library setting.

50 Library Lessons and Ideas is packed full of fun, creative and engaging activities and ideas for school librarians and teachers to use with their students to help encourage reading for pleasure.

50 Library Lessons and Ideas is packed full of fun, creative and engaging activities and ideas for school librarians and teachers to use with their students to help encourage reading for pleasure.

Is artificial intelligence (AI) a question answering machine, a helpful companion, a persuasive storyteller, a deceitful often hidden system, or a global industry?

Is artificial intelligence (AI) a question answering machine, a helpful companion, a persuasive storyteller, a deceitful often hidden system, or a global industry?

In the last decade, data science has generated new fields of study and transformed existing disciplines.

La edición es una actividad profesional de palpitante actualidad, excitantes posibilidades de futuro y elevados estándares de cualificación técnica, por lo que cada vez es más frecuente la creación de ciclos formativos superiores en este campo.

Library and information professionals increasingly need to create, manage, and monitor a wide range of online content, from a library's social media account and web sites to the new and traditional research outputs that funders expect to be made available openly online.

Library and information professionals increasingly need to create, manage, and monitor a wide range of online content, from a library's social media account and web sites to the new and traditional research outputs that funders expect to be made available openly online.

Do you know how to work with your brain rather than against it?

Do you know how to work with your brain rather than against it?

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health.

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health.

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing.

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing.

As the mission statements of libraries across the nation change to reflect the realities of post-liberal America and its emphasis on economic values, librarians have had to pick up their long-standing paradigm and move it in an endless shuffle from knowledge stewardship, to information broker, to entertainment director.

As the mission statements of libraries across the nation change to reflect the realities of post-liberal America and its emphasis on economic values, librarians have had to pick up their long-standing paradigm and move it in an endless shuffle from knowledge stewardship, to information broker, to entertainment director.

This practical resource gives academic librarians and school media specialists a complete instructional program for introducing students to the process of library research.

This practical resource gives academic librarians and school media specialists a complete instructional program for introducing students to the process of library research.

Libraries are perpetually faced with the challenge of balancing ever-shrinking budgets while steadily improving library services.

Poetry in Literature for Youth offers teachers, librarians, parents, and students with an instrumental guide for incorporating all forms of poetry into the curriculum.

Information Horizons is the updated, definitive resource for the Information Horizon Theory and the Information Horizon Interview method.

Information Horizons is the updated, definitive resource for the Information Horizon Theory and the Information Horizon Interview method.

Libraries are perpetually faced with the challenge of balancing ever-shrinking budgets while steadily improving library services.

Experienced authors describe all aspects of a personal librarian program, including potential campus partners, diverse student populations, marketing approaches, technology integration, various assessment methods, and common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Poetry in Literature for Youth offers teachers, librarians, parents, and students with an instrumental guide for incorporating all forms of poetry into the curriculum.

Science for Girls: Successful Classroom Strategies looks at how girls learn, beginning with the time they are born through both the informal and formal education process.

There are many books that provide advice and booktalks for adults who work with children and teens.

There are many books that provide advice and booktalks for adults who work with children and teens.

Starting an Archives is designed for institutional administrators, archivists, and records managers thinking about beginning a historical records program in their organization.

Science for Girls: Successful Classroom Strategies looks at how girls learn, beginning with the time they are born through both the informal and formal education process.

Experienced authors describe all aspects of a personal librarian program, including potential campus partners, diverse student populations, marketing approaches, technology integration, various assessment methods, and common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Starting an Archives is designed for institutional administrators, archivists, and records managers thinking about beginning a historical records program in their organization.

For the elementary or middle school librarian (or the classroom teacher) looking to encourage literacy, this volume provides detailed ideas for promoting reading and encouraging students to learn about and use the library.

Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain.

Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain.

A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access.

Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age discusses the increasing amounts of information that are used in collection development.

Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age discusses the increasing amounts of information that are used in collection development.

A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access.

Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claimsno longer hold.

Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources and making claimsno longer hold.