Library and information services

Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in the library and information science profession.

Our sources of information, and the practices we use to find it, are in a period of rapid flux.

This book explains how librarians can capitalize on the growing interest and need of patrons for help with technology by expanding their library's tech services to build community engagement and support.

This book places guided inquiry in the context of curricular and technological change and provides guidelines for building the long-term culture and capacity for effective inquiry learning in schools.

This book helps students from diverse backgrounds and with various learning styles to master the material they learn with these practical examples for librarians teaching higher education information literacy.

Managing Your Brand: Career Management and Personal PR for Librarians sets out guidelines for developing career pathways, including options for career change and the exploration of community service, as an avenue that can provide new opportunities.

Students need to be able to distinguish good information from bad.

Join the world of balloons, pancakes, and musical instruments-just a few items to help improve early literacy in the library, the classroom, and at home.

In the halls of knowledge, amidst the towering stacks of books, more than just facts and fiction await.

In a rapidly changing environment where increasingly the boundaries are blurring between librarians' roles and those of learning technologists, information technologists, educational developers, skill support specialists and, indeed, academic staff, the academic librarian needs not only to embrace new opportunities but also to influence proactively the development of learning environments.

Tackling conflict and stress effectively is a legal responsibility for management, and can result in significant benefits for the organization in terms of recruitment and retention, employee commitment, performance and productivity, customer satisfaction, organizational image and reputation, and potential litigation.

Using concrete examples, The School Librarian's Technology Playbook offers strategies for school librarians to initiate and support innovative practices throughout their school community.

Selected as a 2025 Doody's Core TitleCollection development is a cornerstone of librarianship; and with the rapid pace that library materials are produced, a thorough knowledge of collection development is more important than ever before.

While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted.

Winner of the BCALA 2025 Literary Award for Outstanding Contribution to PublishingAs Dr.

School librarians need a simple action plan for overcoming the barriers to adopting School Library 2.

With tightened library budgets the norm, librarians run the risk of cutting back so much that they isolate themselves from their patrons and their communities.

This sixth edition of Library Unlimited's classic school library management text describes new approaches to management and addresses the realities that school librarians face in today's quickly evolving information-based world.

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) set forth Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline.

Python for Information Professionals: How to Design Practical Applications to Capitalize on the Data Explosion is an introduction to the Python programming language for library and information professionals with little or no prior experience.

Aligned with the Common Core, this book enables teachers and librarians to develop lessons and workshops as well as to teach high school students how to research and write a humanities paper using a guided inquiry approach.

In recent years, interest in International Librarianship has grown rapidly and will continue to grow as globalization influences education and librarianship.

This book takes the creativity and inventiveness of the maker movement and applies that energy in a new way to help children learn across all subject areas as well as broaden their world view.

This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature.

This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other.

This book is a toolkit for youth and young adult librarians-school and public-who wish to incorporate science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) into their programs and collections but aren't sure where to begin.

Addressing the needs of new adults-those ages 18-29-in the library is an important challenge.

Whilst there is no shortage of professional literature discussing the changing nature of libraries and information organizations in the digital age, words such as innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity make only occasional appearances.

An invaluable how-to text that details the workshop model, addresses the design challenges, and explains the best avenues for curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace.

This study revisits Gabriel Naude's foundational contributions to librarianship, particularly as outlined in his Avis pour dresser une bibliotheque.

Unleash new possibilities for reading promotion and readers' advisory with these technological tools that can help you to catch the interest of young readers and direct them toward positive reading experiences.

This professional primer provides the blueprint to help you create a school library program, covering all aspects of library management such as budgeting, eBook use, purchasing, and teacher collaboration.

Building on the author's work in The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists, this book provides 101 new and revised reading lists created in consultation with teachers and public librarians-an invaluable resource for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature.

This book demonstrates how aesthetics, design elements, and visual literacy can be implemented in the library to enhance spaces, programs, services, instruction, and outreach so that your library will appeal to all users.

Libraries and librarians have been defined by the book throughout modern history.

Information about engineering education is highly relevant for improving communication between professors, researchers and students in engineering schools, institutions, laboratories and industry.

Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills.

Tap into the tools, techniques, and resources necessary for enhancing the freshman library experience by utilizing this how-to guide that applies an innovative approach to literacy and library instruction for college freshmen.

A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice guides new informationists to a successful career, giving them a pathway to this savvier, more technically advanced, domain-focused role in modern day information centers and libraries.

For the first time, a library history is focused on the way in which libraries of all kinds have developed within a single state.

Library administrators have taken the student work force for granted for a long time and are only now beginning to realize that this important group accounts for a significant portion of the operating budget.

Appropriate for experienced elementary librarians as well as students in school library preparation programs, this powerful book explains the advantages of utilizing a flexible schedule with collaboration as compared to a fixed schedule without collaboration.

A new generation of learners in an increasingly global information environment require libraries to play a greater role than ever in the delivery of education and training.

Learn how to successfully employ practical techniques that infuse information literacy instruction with humor.

Teachers often assume students know how to do research.

European Guide to Social Science Information and Documentation Services provides an inventory of Social Science Information and Documentation (SSID) services.