Library and information services

E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers.

Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves.

Mixed-heritage people are one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States, yet culturally they have been largely invisible, especially in young adult literature.

Research institutions are under pressure to make their outputs more accessible in order to meet funding requirements and policy guidelines.

Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-19th century, the history of libraries is much older, and people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for many thousands of years.

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

MLS programs do a good job of teaching the basic skills of being a librarian - how to catalog books, how to clarify a reference request, how to run a story hour.

The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture.

Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals.

The Intersection: Where Evidence Based Nursing and Information Literacy Meet describes how the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework and Information literacy Competency Standards for Nursing mesh with nursing essentials, thus speaking to the information needs of nurses, nurse educators, and librarians who support worldwide nursing programs.

This collection of ideas for lessons provides school librarians with inspiration for meeting the tsunami of new standards dictating change for today's next generation learners.

As we transition to a service and information-based economy, information specialists are projected onto the leading edge of an emerging science.

Discover new approaches for extending children's library services beyond the library building and learn how to utilize technology to bring learning to children wherever they may be.

Today's students need to be fully prepared for successful learning and living in the information age.

In the closing decades of the twentieth century, academic libraries responded to rapid changes in their environment by acquiring and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative new services and collaborative partnerships, and building new kinds of technology-equipped spaces to support changing user behaviors and emerging patterns of learning.

Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world.

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

Planning and implementing a 3D printing service in a library may seem like a daunting task.

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

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

Social media have accelerated communication, expanded business horizons and connected millions of individuals who otherwise would never have met.

The first comprehensive, scholarly history of Trinity College Library Dublin, Ireland''s foremost library and home to the Book of Kells.

Did you know that Walter Reed was once a librarian at the National Library of Medicine?

“A fascinating look into a world many of us never see, and a powerful story about one woman’s journey to find her own strength, with a clear message of the importance of books and information for all.

Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased.

A deep and penetrating exploration of the key concepts of information and communications sciences by one of its founders, this book covers everything in its subject that you want to know more about including the bedrock topics of signs, symbols, information, and communication, all considered from an historical and foundational perspective that is satisfying to the beginning student and worthwhile for practitioners of long standing.

As it continues to publish work that is relevant for both researchers and library practitioners, Volume 30 of "e;Advances in Library Administration and Organization"e; contains articles describing efforts at cooperation and collaboration within the library profession.

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

This down-to-earth book offers practical marketing solutions for reaching students, faculty, and administration in community college and university libraries, based on real-world examples of team-based communication and practice.

School librarians are prepared to be leaders and can use their strengths to advocate for policy that benefits school libraries.

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.

With more universities facing financial difficulty and academic libraries being asked to do more with less, fundraising has been transformed from a luxury to a necessity.

The amount of published literature can be overwhelming for scientists and researchers moving from a broad disciplinary research area to a more specialized one, particularly in fields that use information from more than one discipline.

This practical guide offers innovative tips and reliable best practice to enable new and experienced library and information professionals to evaluate their current provision and develop their service to meet the evolving needs of the research community.

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.

In recent years, interest in International Librarianship has grown rapidly and will continue to grow as globalization influences education and librarianship.

Published in partnership with the International Association of School Librarianship, this work gathers together the latest and most important research on the topics of social justice and cultural competency in school libraries.

To keep school libraries relevant, their physical spaces need to be reinvented to mirror 21st-century learning models.

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

Libraries and writers have always had a close working relationship.

Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers.

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries.

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence?

Going green is now a national issue, and patrons expect their library to respond in the same way many corporations have.

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.

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

There is no doubt that reading with young children is important, and libraries are uniquely placed to support the development of literacy skills in pre-school children.

Following the same format as the highly praised 2000-2004 edition, Recommended Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults, 2004-2008 is an outstanding reference tool that includes annotated entries for more than 1,200 books in Spanish published between 2004 and 2008 in the U.

Adolescence is a time of growth, change, and confusion for young women.