Library and information services

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.

There are huge challenges facing the library and information science profession owing to the rapidly changing environment in which it exists.

Working together is a particular strength of information professionals, in all sectors.

This book presents a comprehensive, international and up-to-date review of the key contributions of information services to the Knowledge Economy.

This book takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries and will inspire and enable school librarians to think creatively about their work and the community in which they operate.

How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments?

Cataloguing and Classification introduces concepts and practices in cataloguing and classification, and common library standards.

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.

As the mission statements of libraries across the nation change to reflect the realities of post-liberal America and its emphasis on economic values, librarians have had to pick up their long-standing paradigm and move it in an endless shuffle from knowledge stewardship, to information broker, to entertainment director.

Information users and usability constitute the main building blocks of today's electronic information world.

This study revisits Gabriel Naude's foundational contributions to librarianship, particularly as outlined in his Avis pour dresser une bibliotheque.

A timely reference for all public librarians who serve the business community in libraries, regardless of size or location-from small rural outposts to bustling big-city branches.

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

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.

Teaching to Individual Differences in Science and Engineering Librarianship: Adapting Library Instruction to Learning Styles and Personality Characteristics applies learning styles and personality characteristics to science and engineering library instruction.

The results of decades of research shows that children and adolescents encounter challenges and obstacles in searching for information and retrieving relevant results, and have difficulty interpreting results within various information environments.

This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006).

Despite the fact that eBooks have been in existence for decades in various guises and added to library collections for several years now, there has been a noticeable lack of published manuals on the subject.

This title defines what is required to achieve a culture of effective data management offering advice on the skills required, legal and contractual obligations, strategies and management plans and the data management infrastructure of specialists and services.

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and Information Services.

Enterprise search engines locate information from internal servers and external information services and provide solutions for all organisations (including not-for-profit).

Of the many themes occurring in young adult literature, one that bears more extensive exploration is the adolescent-animal connection.

The digital is the new milieu in which academic libraries must serve their patrons; but how best to utilize the slew of digital devices and their surrounding trends?

This book builds a research-grounded, theoretical foundation for evidence based library and information practice and illustrates how librarians can incorporate the principles to make more informed decisions in the workplace.

This book reviews the role of information literacy (IL) in developing employability skills, personal health management and informal learning from a variety of areas including: information policy issues, information usage and training needs and skills development.

Archives in the Digital Age: Standards, Policies and Tools discusses semantic web technologies and their increased usage in distributing archival material.

Cultural heritage professionals have high levels of training in metadata.

This is the third and final volume in a broad study about the role of information largely in the Unites States since the early nineteenth century.

"e;An invaluable resource giving librarians the tools to assess copyright issues, risks, and approaches both domestically and internationally.

The world of the school librarian has changed significantly over the past ten years with the proliferation of technology into all phases of education; this book attempts to address these issues.

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

Informed Learning Applications: Insights from Research and Practice is the latest volume of rigorous research in the Advances in Librarianship series.

Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and direct their personal cognitive strategies.

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.

One of the most revered authors of young adult books, Richard Peck has penned several critical and commercial successes including Dreamland Lake, The Ghost Belonged to Me, and the National Book Award finalist, A Long Way from Chicago.

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

Complement efforts in the classroom to work on social-emotional learning and understand the affective needs of young people in library settings.

Covering more than 500 titles, both classics and newer publications, this book describes what titles are about and why teens would want to read them.

Terrific Makerspace Projects: A Practical Guide for Librarians features fifteen customizable projects that were designed as projects created by librarians/makerspace facilitators, rather than projects in which librarians guided others (makerspace users).

This work presents the history and impact of the seven most important progressive library organizations worldwide--in Austria, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, and two in the United States.

Managing Academic Libraries: Principles and Practice is aimed at professionals within the Library and Information Services (LIS) who are interested in learning more about the management of academic libraries.

This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques.

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

Provides information literacy practitioners with a thorough exploration of how threshold concepts can be applied to information literacy, identifying important elements and connections between each concept, and relating theory to practical methods that can transform how librarians teach.

Occupational Health: A Guide to Sources of Information is a compilation of papers that can be used as reference when seeking information and knowledge related to health hazards found in the workplace.

Emerging Library Technologies, is written for librarians/information professionals, teachers, administrators, researchers, undergraduate/graduate students, and others who are interested in learning about some of the most popular emerging technologies in the media today such as artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, driverless vehicles, big data, virtual/augmented reality, 3D printing, and wearable technologies.

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters Volume 1 of the two part collection Stories and Lessons from the World s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship.

This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.

This edited collection is drawn from the seventh Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2007.