Library and information services

Professionals in all areas of librarianship will find inspiration in the essays collected here--each of them innovative tips for increasing circulation, enhancing collections, and improving flexibility.

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

In 1996, nearly 40 million United States citizens were reported to be living in poverty.

Now more than ever, librarians need good communication skills.

This fully revised and updated edition provides current information on automation and technology and on advocacy to help small public libraries strive to make available the same basic services as larger libraries.

In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life--not just work and education, but also leisure time.

With so much competing for the time of today's students, youth services librarians have an especially challenging job.

According to the end-of-millennium Arts and Entertainment Television Network survey, the single most influential person of the last thousand years was Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press.

Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it.

Is it true that, in this era of digitization and mass media, reading and writing are on the decline?

With an emphasis on instilling a love for the game, this handbook instructs parents and coaches on teaching the basics of baseball to young players.

To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement.

Designed for public librarians, school media specialists, teachers, and anyone with an interest in supporting teen literacy, this book features 133 nonfiction booktalks to use with both voracious and reluctant teen readers.

Building upon the legacy of Gay and Lesbian Library Service (1990, "e;invaluable"e;--Library Journal; "e;recommended"e;--Booklist), this current anthology brings the discussion into a 21st century context by broadening the community base served and by examining the role of the Internet and Web 2.

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

The gilded age was a formative period in the development and extension of American libraries.

This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries.

This is a practical guide written by two professionals with real-world experience establishing a library student advisory board.

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

An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone.

This thought-provoking collection of essays is essential reading for anyone who cares about cultural institutions and their role in the community of learners.

Focusing on the most compelling titles across the vast area of imaginative fantasy and science fiction literature and media, this book showcases creative ways to build on existing interest in these genres and promote reading, literacy, and critical thinking.

Arranged in three parts, this bibliography and guide to British directories in its second edition explains their evolution, describes the different types of directories and their content, and offers a new chapter on the use of directory material in historical studies.

This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other.

This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other.

SciFinder is rapidly becoming a preferred means to access scientific information in industry and universities worldwide.

A guide through the pitfalls, special needs, and unique demands of children's library services.

This volume provides the researcher with an excellent tool for investigating the history, politics, and culture of Paraguay.

This book offers novice and experienced reference librarians an introduction to tried-and-true genealogy techniques and resources.

Organized around the structure of a technology plan, this book explains each subject area and how each part of the plan is related.

Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies.

Learn how to provide exemplary library service to individuals in prison or jail, by applying the public library model when working with inmate populations.

Introduce students to some of today's best nonfiction authors and their writing-and promote nonfiction reading to young learners!

Gain the administrative support you need for your media center and library programs with this practical and enlightening guide.

As the electronic era blurs the boundaries between conventional and distance education and between remote and in-person library users, the literature on library issues and distance learning has proliferated immensely.

With insightful comments from a variety of sources-and a generous dose of humor-Shuman builds fictional scenarios that are guaranteed to get librarians thinking, What if.

Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library.

Since the mid 1980s academic libraries have established minority residency programs in an effort to increase the representation of librarians of color in their institutions.

Promote reading and literacy with this wonderful assortment of lively, fast-paced, fun-filled children's programs specifically designed for children aged 4 through 8.

Fifteen units focus on authors who speak about their ethnic heritage through their books and those who write or illustrate multicultural materials.

Solutions to the unique problems of academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas are provided in this professional handbook.

Get books moving off the library shelves and into the hands of children with this integrated package for thematic instruction.

Calling for structured interaction between students and books, Leonard specifies how teachers and media specialists can collaborate to create a library media-centered program that develops the talents of all K-6 students.

Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities.

Based on the author's experiences, this handy guide offers the kind of information not found in standard texts.

This practical and concrete guide shows you how to establish a collaborative approach in program planning, resource-based learning, teaching information process, and evaluation.

School library media specialists will find this concepts-based approach to teaching electronic literacy an indispensable basic tool for instructing students and teachers.

In a library, circulation is the process of lending books to borrowers and accurately reshelving them after they have been returned so that they will be retrievable by the next user.

Library administrators have taken the student work force for granted for a long time and are only now beginning to realize that this important group accounts for a significant portion of the operating budget.

This new guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums.