Library and information services

Robertson on Library Security and Disaster Planning presents a collection of highly-cited, author published articles on security and disaster planning for libraries.

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The Myth and Magic of Library Systems not only defines what library systems are, but also provides guidance on how to run a library systems department.

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

Aligned with the Common Core, this book enables teachers and librarians to develop lessons and workshops as well as to teach high school students how to research and write a humanities paper using a guided inquiry approach.

A fresh, detailed, and thoughtful examination of reference services in the context of evolving community information needs and habits, a changing technological landscape, and new search strategies.

"e;Redish has done her homework and created a thorough overview of the issues in writing for the Web.

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

Across the country educators are facing the challenge of restructuring the secondary school to meet the needs of students in the twenty-first century.

Understanding Diversity Through Novels and Picture Books goes beyond the usual multicultural lists and looks at the wide expanse of the diversity of cultures and lifestyles impacting children's lives in America today and identifies good books to have in library collections for them to read.

Health sciences librarianship today demands a balance among computer files, human ingenuity, and print sources.

This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when “books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon.

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.

The convergence of online book selling, digital printing, digital document workflow management and the computerization of small parcel logistics created a unique opportunity to create a viable commercial model for printing and supplying books on demand.

A fascinating and informative read for librarians, library staff, and MLIS students, this book offers practical information and professional guidelines to examine current issues in censorship and libraries while also enabling readers to consider their own opinions about intellectual freedom.

Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated.

This is the first academic volume to examine the librarian and archival professional through the lens of sequential art.

This volume shares some of the ways that librarians and library scholars are incorporating Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the field of library and information studies.