Library and information services

This easy-to-use text teaches school librarians how to catalog materials using RDA.

Presenting beautifully illustrated picture book biographies, this book pairs narrative nonfiction biographies rich in language and illustrations with national content standards in the social studies, science, and the arts.

Highlighting activities and discussion questions that will pique student interest and facilitate instruction, the 8th edition of this well-known school library text gathers management articles into a ready-to-use volume that showcases current best practices.

Compact yet remarkably comprehensive, this book covers all the major aspects of school library services, from administration to instruction focused from the elementary school librarian perspective-now updated and expanded to include the latest developments in makerspaces, the Common Core, social networking, and eBooks.

Children love seeing ordinary objects such as paper and string transformed into extraordinary things.

Highlighting activities and discussion questions that will pique student interest and facilitate instruction, the 8th edition of this well-known school library text gathers management articles into a ready-to-use volume that showcases current best practices.

To keep school libraries relevant, their physical spaces need to be reinvented to mirror 21st-century learning models.

Exploring the ways in which today's Internet-savvy young people view and use information to complete school assignments and make sense of everyday life, this new edition provides a review of the literature since 2010.

Some students are more "e;challenging"e; than most.

Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K-12 schools.

This readable and practical book examines the changes in school libraries brought by the digital revolution-and describes how new and experienced librarians can take advantage of them.

Complement efforts in the classroom to work on social-emotional learning and understand the affective needs of young people in library settings.

Now available in paperback!

The performance librarian is the person responsible for managing, maintaining, and organizing the resources of a performance library.

As the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) celebrates the important milestone of its 60th anniversary this year, the editors have brought together in a single-volume anthology some of the best contributions to this field.

With the world becoming increasingly more dependent upon the Internet, libraries offer an essential service by providing access to this worldwide network.

Applicable for all types of libraries.

This is a book of fresh insights, perspectives, strategies, and approaches for managing electronic records and for addressing the implications for archival programs operating in a digital environment.

Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.

Every child is entranced by the magic of story, regardless of national boundaries.

Gough, Feehan, and Lyons have taken everything learned from their research on developing GrandFamily Resource Collections and leading grandfamily programming in several states and put it in this easy to use guide.

Ten years ago, most scholars and students relied on bulky card catalogs, printed bibliographic indices, and hardcopy books and journals.

Museums and libraries inspire us to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences of reflection and possibility.

To do solid academic research, college students need to look beyond the computer search engine.

This book, part of a larger work entitled How to Live, offers practical advice on how one might live (as opposed to just existing) within the confines of 24 hours a day.

Foreword by Mitch Freedman, a reprinted Counterpoise interview and 45 of Sanford Berman's U*L columns dealing with book-burning, genocide, government secrecy and repression, cataloging, indexing, classism, self-censorship and free speech for library staff (et cetera!

Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny.

Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age provides readers with an interesting discussion on the ways serendipity-defined as the accidental discovery of valued information-plays an important role in creative problem-solving.

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and Information Services.

All libraries have patrons and staff members with disabilities, making equitable service a priority for these organizations as they provide diverse services to their entire communities.

Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates.

The results of decades of research shows that children and adolescents encounter challenges and obstacles in searching for information and retrieving relevant results, and have difficulty interpreting results within various information environments.

Manufacturing Engineering Education includes original and unpublished chapters that develop the applications of the manufacturing engineering education field.

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries.

With the rapid development of information and communication technology and increasingly intense competition with other organizations, information organizations face a pressing need to market their unique services and resources and reach their user bases in the digital age.

We have made progress in many areas of human endeavour.

Ohiyesa, a Dakota Indian also known as Charles Alexander Eastman, is one of America's most fascinating and overlooked individuals.

This extraordinary book defines and describes librarianship and library science through insightful and thoughtful essays contributed by 17 recognized leaders of the profession.

The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed manifest destiny in many different waysand so have its many discontents.

In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard.

With the rise of unemployment, increased career growth opportunities, and changing workforce demographics, libraries can support job seekers in several ways.

Experts agree that it's essential for children to spend time exploring and enjoying the outdoors; when they come back in, librarians and teachers can supplement their adventures with nature storytimes.

Selected as a 2025 Doody's Core TitleIn Managing Health Sciences Libraries in a Time of Change, experienced leaders of the medical library community present insights into the current trends and issues faced by health sciences librarians and offer practical guidelines and management skills needed to create a culture of excellence.

El libro, destinado a docentes, estudiantes y bibliotecarios, expone experiencias de promoción de la lectura en bibliotecas populares, a partir de la inclusión social y la cooperación con universidades y la comunidad de San Carlos de Bariloche.

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

A companion volume to Immigrants and the American Experience (1999), this book covers American public library services to immigrants from 1876 to 2003.

First published in 1942,A Sun ChiefA is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C.

Cybermetric Techniques to Evaluate Organizations Using Web-Based Data proposes a complete and multifaceted analysis model, integrating quantitative and qualitative measures (extracted from web usability, SEO and design interaction metrics and evaluations) with a purpose of finding potential correlations.

In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society.

The current peer review process is broken and unless changes are made it will soon die.