Library and information services

Packed with useful tips and techniques, this handy guide offers advice on working with both students and instructors to develop successful assignments that integrate your library's resources.

Packed with useful tips and techniques, this handy guide offers advice on working with both students and instructors to develop successful assignments that integrate your library's resources.

Reviews are an important resource for readers' advisory and collection development.

Reviews are an important resource for readers' advisory and collection development.

Urban Teens in the Library is the perfect solution for the concerns and uncertainty many librarians face when supporting this group of patrons and students.

Urban Teens in the Library is the perfect solution for the concerns and uncertainty many librarians face when supporting this group of patrons and students.

Based on more than twenty years' experience working to get boys interested in reading, Michael Sullivan now offers his first readers' advisory volume.

Based on more than twenty years' experience working to get boys interested in reading, Michael Sullivan now offers his first readers' advisory volume.

Including 66 focused snapshots of outreach in action, this resource reflects the creative solutions of librarians searching for new and innovative ways to build programs that meet customer needs while expanding the library's scope into the community.

Including 66 focused snapshots of outreach in action, this resource reflects the creative solutions of librarians searching for new and innovative ways to build programs that meet customer needs while expanding the library's scope into the community.

How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments?

How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments?

Celebrate librarianship and the love of libraries with this charming collection of quotes!

In their definitive new Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, editors Weible and Janke clearly explain the complexities of getting materials from outside the library for patrons.

In their definitive new Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, editors Weible and Janke clearly explain the complexities of getting materials from outside the library for patrons.

The best kind of learning is that which never ends-and a culture of training means that staff will be more flexible and responsive to new ideas and strategies, imperative in today's libraries.

The best kind of learning is that which never ends-and a culture of training means that staff will be more flexible and responsive to new ideas and strategies, imperative in today's libraries.

A celebration of children, families, and reading held annually since 1996, Children's Day/Book Day, known as Dia, emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

Academic libraries routinely struggle to afford access to expensive journals, and patrons may not be able to obtain every scholarly paper they need.

Academic libraries routinely struggle to afford access to expensive journals, and patrons may not be able to obtain every scholarly paper they need.

In difficult economic times people turn to their local library for help seeking new work.

Tightening budgets and ever-shrinking sources for funding have made winning grants more important than ever before.

Inspired by a new generation of librarians and children, Walter reconsiders the legacy passed on by the matriarchs of children's services and examines more recent trends and challenges growing out of changes in educational philosophy and information technology.

Inspired by a new generation of librarians and children, Walter reconsiders the legacy passed on by the matriarchs of children's services and examines more recent trends and challenges growing out of changes in educational philosophy and information technology.

As high school enrollment continues to rise, the need for effective librarianship serving young adults is greater than ever before.

Inside, Outside, and Online provides practical advice and inspiration for building community with your library.

Inside, Outside, and Online provides practical advice and inspiration for building community with your library.

In Marketing Today's Academic Library, Brian Mathews uses his vast experience to speak directly to the academic library practitioner about matching services with user needs.

In Marketing Today's Academic Library, Brian Mathews uses his vast experience to speak directly to the academic library practitioner about matching services with user needs.

E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers.

E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers.

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.

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.

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

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

Going green is now a national issue, and patrons expect their library to respond in the same way many corporations have.

Going green is now a national issue, and patrons expect their library to respond in the same way many corporations have.

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.

Master the huge array of quality children's books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children's librarian Elizabeth Bird.

Master the huge array of quality children's books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children's librarian Elizabeth Bird.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

In his hugely successful Connecting Boys with Books (2003), Sullivan delved into the problem that reading skills of pre-adolescent boys lag behind those of girls in the same age group.

In his hugely successful Connecting Boys with Books (2003), Sullivan delved into the problem that reading skills of pre-adolescent boys lag behind those of girls in the same age group.

Academic libraries are going through what may be the most difficult period in their history.

Academic libraries are going through what may be the most difficult period in their history.

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.

Readers' advisory has long ago sprinted past merely suggesting books to patrons; it now encompasses many different formats and means of communication--working with patrons of all types and ages, in and outside the actual library.

Has the information behavior of children and youth changed significantly over the last two decades?

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa J.