Library and information services

One of the key services librarians provide is helping readers find books they'll enjoy.

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

It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximize the return on investment of public funds.

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

Developing a Library Accessibility Plan: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides library professionals with the knowledge, tools and templates, and practical examples necessary for developing a tailored and comprehensive accessibility plan for their institution.

This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently facing libraries as institutions.

If you're new to running a library or looking for a refresher, this book can serve as your first reference source for school library operation, providing overview information on a wealth of topics, lists of resources for more in-depth information, and coverage of current topics such as Web 2.

This book explains how information literacy (IL) is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice.

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

Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill.

Focusing on student analysis of primary sources, this book explores several proven analysis strategies to use with students, including methods from the Library of Congress, the Stanford History Education Group, and Harvard's Project Zero.

This cutting-edge and comprehensive introduction to digital humanities explains the scope of the discipline and state of the art and provides a wide-ranging insight into emerging topics and avenues of research.

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

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Designed to promote literacy in young children and to empower parents, educators, and librarians, this guide is filled with simple strategies, creative activities, and detailed instructions that help make reading fun.

Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite.

Library marketing and advertising in schools are now very widespread practices.

Covering both classification and cataloging principles as well as procedures relevant to school libraries, this book provides a teaching kit for a course on this critical subject that includes content and practice exercises.

A master storyteller, John Marsden is Australia's best known writer for young adults.

LEARNING WALKTHRUs is a visual guide to key aspects of learning and studying at home and at school.

Digital asset management is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

Learn how to use rotating multimedia learning stations, employing databases, websites, education apps, videos, audio podcasts, online games, books, and more to build a strong, collaborative library program that helps you strengthen student understanding of the research process.

This comprehensive guide to tween library services begins with a developmental description of this ever-changing group and offers practical advice about materials and programming.

'Equal parts practical, funny and illuminating - belongs on the required reading list for life' - Sarah Knight, internationally bestselling author of Get Your Sh!

Research Data Management (RDM) has become a professional topic of great importance internationally following changes in scholarship and government policies about the sharing of research data.

Busy elementary librarians need help applying the new AASL Standards Framework, especially in collaboration with social studies teachers seeking to apply the social studies standards framework.

In resource poor, cost saving times, this book provides practical advice on new methods and technologies involved in systematic searching and explores the role of information professionals in delivering these changesThe editors bring together expert international practitioners and researchers to highlight the latest thinking on systematic searching.

First applied to internet gateways such as Yahoo, the concept of the "e;portal"e; has evolved in a bewildering number of directions.

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.

Libraries and information services are being transformed by the increasing availability of electronic information.

Social media technologies can help connect local communities to the wider world.

This book provides research assistance for 99 current and provocative issues students can use to write a brief argumentative paper.

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

So, what are library patrons doing with makerspaces and other innovative technology?

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

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

This edited collection is drawn from the sixth Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2005.

Securing the interest of energetic, independent middle school students is one of the greatest challenges of school librarians.

Libraries are dealing with unprecedented changes on several fronts: technological developments, funding difficulties, and an increasing need to prove themselves to a demanding population.

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.

Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia.

Science for Girls: Successful Classroom Strategies looks at how girls learn, beginning with the time they are born through both the informal and formal education process.

Common Core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development-where to begin?

Emerging technologies can intimidate with their cost and uncertainty-this book provides flexible options for adopting the most popular ones.

Changes in technology, in society, and in your role as a library media specialist have spawned hundreds of new words, phrases, and acronyms.

How do we deal with challenging life events?

Transform any public library into a truly sustainable organization-not just environmentally sustainable, but economically and socially sustainable as well-by following the directions and practices described in this book.

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

Recent Advances in School Librarianship presents several discussions that aim to improve the quality of school library services.

The way in which we view the nature of archives and the role of the archivist has changed significantly in the last few decades.