Library and information services

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.

The authors present a multi-level theory of "e;Information Worlds"e; to investigate the ways in which information creates the social worlds of people.

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.

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

Healthcare professionals and health science librarians need to know more than research practices and clinical knowledge to become transformational individuals and leaders in their field.

Artificial Intelligence for Academic Libraries provides a clear and dependable guide to the history, theory, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in academic libraries, addressing the needs of librarians, staff, administrators, and other stakeholders.

Research institutions are under pressure to make their outputs more accessible in order to meet funding requirements and policy guidelines.

Is your library's portal as efficient as it could be?

This 30th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting value and enduring legacy of Carol C.

In the dynamic and interactive academic learning environment, students are required to have qualified information literacy competencies while critically reviewing print and electronic information.

Book Selection and Censorship offers an in-depth exploration of the interplay between library practices, community pressures, and the evolving cultural climate in mid-20th century California.

Dieser Band bietet anhand von zentralen Beispielen einen Überblick über das beständig wachsende Angebot elektronischer Informationsressourcen für Germanisten.

Knowledge Media Design (KMD) beschäftigt sich mit der Generierung, Verarbeitung, Vermittlung und Bewahrung von medial behandelbarem Wissen.

With contributions from library and information professionals (practitioners, researchers, faculty members, consultants, and others), Marketing Library and Information Services: A Global Outlook highlights a variety of exemplary LIS marketing practices and efforts from around the globe.

This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspective on the various issues that comprise "e;open access"e;.

Die „Christliche Weltchronistik“ stellt für fast eineinhalb Jahrtausende die fundamentale Form christlichen Geschichtsdenkens dar.

An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives.

We have made progress in many areas of human endeavour.

In an age of internet resource guides, which suffer from the malaise of being outdated before they are published, this much-needed publication addresses the information chain in its entirety, offering a timeless method of understanding healthcare information resources.

There is no doubt that reading with young children is important, and libraries are uniquely placed to support the development of literacy skills in pre-school children.

Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers.

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.

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.

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.