Library and information services

Rapidly growing cognitive technologies (such as word processors, web browsers, cell phones, and personal data assistants) aid learning, memory, and problem solving, and contribute to every part of modern life from interviewing crime witnesses to learning a foreign language to calling one's mother.

Social Media: The Academic Library Perspective provides a step-by-step guide on social media as written by somebody who has already done the work.

Academic, public, school, and special libraries are all institutions of human rights and social justice, with an increasingly apparent commitment to equality, to ethical principles based on rights and justice, and to programs that meet needs related to human rights and social justice.

An insider's guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data.

This book will help public library administrators, managers, and board members to better plan, strategize, and understand their communities, enabling public libraries to become dynamic, proactive institutions.

Here is an accessible, step-by-step, easy to understand, and hands-on resource for any librarian who is interested in learning basic marketing tips to raise the profile of their library.

MLS programs do a good job of teaching the basic skills of being a librarian - how to catalog books, how to clarify a reference request, how to run a story hour.

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.

After years spent editing American Libraries and the many editions of The Whole Library Handbook, George Eberhart has collected a raft of arcane librariana and amusing trivia for this endlessly browsable volume.

If you're a librarian charged with collecting curriculum materials and children's literature to support the Common Core State Standards, then this book-the only one that offers explicit advice on collection development in curriculum collections-is for you.

The human resources (HR) function for libraries can range in size and scope, depending on the size of the library.

In this book, scholars examine the many prevailing arguments about media bias from a non-polemical perspective.

With thousands of new volumes lining the shelves of bookstores, abundant advertisements, and innumerable online reviews, it is becoming increasingly difficulty for the concerned adult to recommend literature that is of quality, yet speaks to young audiences.

Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections examines the rise of the "e;LAM, an acronym that stands for libraries, archives and museums.

Research Methods: Information, Systems, and Contexts, Second Edition, presents up-to-date guidance on how to teach research methods to graduate students and professionals working in information management, information science, librarianship, archives, and records and information systems.

Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens is a one-stop resource that encourages children and young adults to explore different cultures.

Social Networks in China provides an in-depth guide to Chinese social networks, covering behaviors, usage, key issues, and future developments.

Providing clear explanations of inquiry-based learning in the light of the Common Core, this book is a practical and graphical guide that will serve as a much-needed primer for librarians and educators.

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The library and information profession builds skills and expertise that cover a wide spectrum.

Developmental disabilities are the most numerous of disabilities, and they are exceptionally complex.

As the number of service learning courses and their requirements increase, it is essential for academic librarians to partner with faculty and administration to include lifelong research skills components.

Co-author of the popular titles Booktalking Bonanza and The Early Literacy Kit, Betsy Diamant-Cohen brings together 18 examples of successful outreach partnerships that children's librarians and administrators can adapt to their own situations.

Librarian Jim Hahn has carefully culled the over 500,000 available apps down to the 100 that are the absolute best for day-in, day-out library services.

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

Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens is a one-stop resource that encourages children and young adults to explore different cultures.

Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literatures of the two major countries of Oceania: Australia and New Zealand.

2025 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book AwardThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies.

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.

Let us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "e;how high is Mount Everest?

Reading is an essential life skill not only for an individual's development and life chances but for social cohesion and a developed democracy.

Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery.

The term 'customer service' is not new to the academic library community.

The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research.

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries.

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.

The role of providing public access to the law is a critical one for librarians.

What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do'?

This book discusses the issues surrounding the implementation and 'selling' of a comprehensive library staff training programme.

A vision for children's library services in the next decade.

The library programs featured in this unique collection are those that have been suggested, created, and led by youth with the help and guidance of the supportive adults at their library.

A Chronology of Librarianship, 1960-2000 continues the work of Josephine Smith in her original Chronology of Librarianship (Scarecrow, 1968).

Rebecca Browning Rankin was a politician in the best sense of the word.

A collection of versatile best practices for promoting literacy development by utilizing local community connections in school and public libraries.

This is a complete, year-long programming guide that shows librarians how to integrate nonfiction and poetry into storytime for preschool children in order to build literacy skills and overall knowledge.

Written by a popular performer and well-known storyteller, this entertaining compendium reveals the secrets for suspenseful storytelling and features 25 spooky stories for audiences of all ages.

A must-read for elementary school librarians interested in starting a makerspace at their school, but who are concerned about the cost and are looking for curriculum links for getting started.