Library and information services

Library work often involves coordinating projects with many tasks and many stakeholders where cost and time limitations can be seen as opportunities.

Focusing on the attempted and successful banning of young adult fiction from media centers and classrooms, this book treats the legal and experiential history of censorship in libraries and public schools.

The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed.

With tightened library budgets the norm, librarians run the risk of cutting back so much that they isolate themselves from their patrons and their communities.

Foreword by Mitch Freedman, a reprinted Counterpoise interview and 45 of Sanford Berman's U*L columns dealing with book-burning, genocide, government secrecy and repression, cataloging, indexing, classism, self-censorship and free speech for library staff (et cetera!

The new essays on today's academic librarians examine above all their functions and responsibilities--since these have greatly changed just in recent years, especially in matters of technology.

Librarians are beginning to see the importance of game based learning and the incorporation of games into library services.

The myths of mental illness are numerous and negatively affect the lives of patients on a regular basis.

What do Casanova, Pope Pius XI, Benjamin Franklin and first lady Laura Bush have in common?

Practicing academic, public, school and special librarians and LIS faculty in the United States offer practical how-to essays on managing stress as working librarians.

Library exhibits are more than entertainment for patrons.

From the educational space of UC Berkeley to a one-room library in Silverado Canyon, this tour of thirty-two California libraries explores the sense of space and unique atmosphere a structure can provide.

The mission of libraries is to meet the information needs of the people they serve--but daily, sticky situations arise that make this tough to do.

From its earliest days to the present, the onscreen image of the librarian has remained largely the same.

Puppetry is an exciting, flexible, malleable art form that can engage the creative forces of children or adults.

Fresh, fun ideas for children's storytime fill this book.

Need ideas for library displays?

In this second edition to Museum Librarianship, the author offers guidance in planning and providing information services in a museum--beginning or revitalizing the library; collection development and the bibliographic process; technical services; administration; space and equipment requirements; fundamental services; extended information services; and the information partnership between museums and their libraries.

It is an exciting time to be a librarian.

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs.

'The practical advice in this book is gold dust not only for lonely people, but for those who long to help them.

'The practical advice in this book is gold dust not only for lonely people, but for those who long to help them.

Libraries of the ancient world have long held a place in the public imagination.

As classrooms and universities strive to adapt their instructional methods to an ever progressing technological age, it is imperative that academic libraries also revisit the ways in which reference and instruction services are organized and implemented.

In recent years, automation has played a vital role in library systems that handle tasks of acquisition, cataloging, serials, and circulation.

In the past decade, technology and the digital age has continued to shape our society.

Times have changed and library institutions struggle to maintain relevancy in the Information Age.

Times have changed and library institutions struggle to maintain relevancy in the Information Age.

Once considered designated storytellers, modern library professionals are emerging as experts in technology integration, information literacy, and curriculum alignment.

While high quality library and information services continue to thrive and strengthen economic and social development, much of the knowledge that exists on user's needs and behaviors is fundamentally based on the results of users in English-speaking, western developed countries.

"e;Resource discovery"e; has many meanings, and it is now being defined as library research software that allows a library user to search multiple Web-based resources simultaneously and generate usable search results.

While there are common misconceptions regarding the definition of a public law library, it can be defined as a government mandated library which provides the public with access to legal resources.

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality.

As in the second edition of Building Blocks for Planning Functional Library Space, this volume outlines the measures of space needed for the use of equipment and furniture within a library setting.

American Sign Language is more than just an assortment of gestures.

In the halls of knowledge, amidst the towering stacks of books, more than just facts and fiction await.

This extraordinary book defines and describes librarianship and library science through insightful and thoughtful essays contributed by 17 recognized leaders of the profession.

Editor Vibiana Bowman has drawn together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of children and childhood studies (CCS) in this guided approach to literature searching in CCS.

A valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature.

Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in the library and information science profession.

Applicable for all types of libraries.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.

Every child is entranced by the magic of story, regardless of national boundaries.

While online exhibitions vary in complexity, basic tenets apply to the design of fluid, descriptive, and easily navigable displays.

All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected.

The performance librarian is the person responsible for managing, maintaining, and organizing the resources of a performance library.