Library and information services

Effective leadership is key to the future of information services and professional practice, and demands on leaders within the sector are greater than ever before.

The information needs of researchers and the ways in which the quality of information provision can be enhanced for researchers are currently a focus of attention globally, and are major priorities for higher education.

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.

Anyone wishing to be a successful supervisor must learn the interpersonal skills of communication, assertiveness and motivation in order to build a successful team with a positive ethos.

Measuring the performance of a library's services is a crucial part of good library management, since without a firm grasp of what is actually being achieved it is impossible to move forward to improved service.

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.

First applied to internet gateways such as Yahoo, the concept of the "e;portal"e; has evolved in a bewildering number of directions.

Information users and usability constitute the main building blocks of today's electronic information world.

What are the most important things a 21st-century library should do with its space?

A vision for the future of information literacy teaching.

The changing environment in higher education requires different approaches to be taken to the provision of professional support services.

Working together is a particular strength of information professionals, in all sectors.

This landmark text captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries.

The importance of supporting the needs of research students has recently risen higher up the academic agenda around the world.

Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research.

Project work is widespread in all types of library and information units, and typical projects can involve developing a new information service, moving a library, digitizing materials or introducing a new staff-development programme.

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.

This book provides a complete guide for anyone looking to build or maintain a cultural heritage web presence.

Every profession needs an introductory text to its core body of knowledge.

There is a queue, the phone is ringing, the photocopier has jammed and your enquirer is waiting for a response.

A brand new version of the best-selling enquiry desk reference text, Know it All, Find it Fast, specifically designed for those working with children and young people in schools, public libraries and at home.

This cutting-edge and comprehensive introduction to digital humanities explains the scope of the discipline and state of the art and provides a wide-ranging insight into emerging topics and avenues of research.

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence?

This timely edited collection examines the evolving role of health professionals and explores the role they play in the context of where they work.

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.

Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users.

This is the definitive handbook for all new information professionals wanting to thrive in their careers.

This Toolkit provides you with everything you need to successfully market any library.

The web is now an integral part of students' lives in school and in society, and they need to be ever more web alert in order to gain the most from their education.

This book offers practical strategies for all library and information practitioners and policy makers with responsibility for developing and delivering information literacy programmes to their users.

This easy-to-use book is an invaluable source of inspiration for any librarian involved in teaching information literacy, providing practical guidance on tried and tested ideas and techniques for sessions.

There are huge challenges facing the library and information science profession owing to the rapidly changing environment in which it exists.

Enterprise search engines locate information from internal servers and external information services and provide solutions for all organisations (including not-for-profit).

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has had a rapid impact on the library world.

The way in which we view the nature of archives and the role of the archivist has changed significantly in the last few decades.

All librarians and libraries have information policies, and so do most people.

This edited collection is drawn from the sixth Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2005.

This established text is the only introduction to qualitative research methodologies in the field of library and information management.

Public libraries have changed beyond anyone's predictions in the past ten years and are at a vital stage in their historical development.

This edited collection is drawn from the seventh Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2007.

Distributed learning is now in the mainstream of educational practice.

Libraries and information services are being transformed by the increasing availability of electronic information.

Evidence-based practice is a paradigm that originated within healthcare but is rapidly migrating to other fields.

In these turbulent times, with the challenges of a constantly changing job market, shifting information-seeking behaviour and a vast array of new resources continually being produced, library and information services need to constantly keep one step, or more, ahead of their users.

This book examines the changing roles of the librarian and how working within a rich digital environment has impacted on the ability of professionals to develop the appropriate 'know how', skills, knowledge and behaviours required in order to operate effectively.

In this controversial book, Terry Robson shatters the myth that the current community development movement has the potential to change the nature of society.

This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently facing libraries as institutions.

This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently facing libraries as institutions.

Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality.

Ce guide pratique contient toutes les étapes des tâches quotidiennes des bibliothécaires : le catalogage, le traitement des documents, l’organisation de la bibliothèque, pour ne citer que celles-ci.