Library and information services

This is not a book about the history of computing or the history of information.

Calling for structured interaction between students and books, Leonard specifies how teachers and media specialists can collaborate to create a library media-centered program that develops the talents of all K-6 students.

The old image of an entrepreneur as a scrappy, independent risk-taker has been replaced by the reality of individuals incorporating innovative ideas in more traditional settings.

Is the traditional library business model a victim of disruptive digital technologies?

Today's increasingly interconnected and globalized world demands that students be taught to appreciate human diversity and recognize universally held values and beliefs.

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

In the last two decades, advancement in technology has transformed every aspect of librarianship.

The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented.

An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives.

In difficult economic times people turn to their local library for help seeking new work.

This volume provides the researcher with an excellent tool for investigating the history, politics, and culture of Paraguay.

Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein andMatarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experiencein public, academic, government, and special library settings, includingexperienced independent information professionals, to address the criticalissues facing Information Management (IM) today.

In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries' best practices in this key area.

Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International explores the considerable change that has affected universities and academic libraries in recent years.

When disaster strikes, school librarians can play a key role in keeping kids safe.

This book will explore the issue of information disorder in our society, explore how conspiracy theories are shaping citizen engagement with information and reality, and weave throughout how metaliteracy and information literacy can be utilized to produce a more democratic, civil discourse.

This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries.

Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling.

In the last two decades, advancement in technology has transformed every aspect of librarianship.

If you want to boost your library's relevancy and support youth learning, consider incorporating connected learning at your library.

Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library.

Quantitative studies of science and technology represent the research field of utilization of mathematical, statistical, and data-analytical methods and techniques for gathering, handling, interpreting, and predicting a variety of features of the science and technology enterprise, such as performance, development, and dynamics.

Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, in particular the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to improve higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of student tertiary experience.

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

Now more than ever, librarians need good communication skills.

Law Librarianship in the 21st Century, a text for library and information science courses on law librarianship, introduces students to the rapidly evolving world of law librarianship.

With the start of the 21st Century, information services around the world are facing a host of challenges and changes unique to this era of exponential technological growth.

Game Theory and Applications outlines game theory and proves its validity by examining it alongside the neoclassical paradigm.

Libraries are charged with fostering new skills and capabilities, a challenging task in an era of rapid technological change.

In a library, circulation is the process of lending books to borrowers and accurately reshelving them after they have been returned so that they will be retrievable by the next user.

In today's world of modern research methods, the irony is that even though more materials are readily available now than ever before, this proliferation of sources has actually made the process more difficult for the novice researcher.

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.

This volume, one in the Undergraduate Companion series, focuses on American and British writers for children and young adults and is addressed to students in both English and Education classes.

In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library's role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated.

Has the information behavior of children and youth changed significantly over the last two decades?

The book report is due and panic sets in.

Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule.

Simple, straightforward guidance for the practitioner who wants to use assistive technologies to extend library access.

If libraries are to remain centers for lifelong learning, then that learning must increasingly be e-learning.

Everyone has a story to tell, and this book will inspire and guide readers to teach and learn through the production of digital narratives.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

Freedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens.

In 1967 the University of Toronto School of Library Science held a two-day colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, the first public discussion of the new cataloguing code.

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.

Created in consultation with teachers and public librarians, this fantastic collection of 101 ready-to-use book lists provides invaluable help for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature.

Just as Andrew Carnegie's support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple's launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services.

Science, Computers, and the Information Onslaught: A Collection of Essays covers the proceedings of the 1981 meeting on "e;Science and the Information Onslaught, held at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

With the rapid development of information and communication technology and increasingly intense competition with other organizations, information organizations face a pressing need to market their unique services and resources and reach their user bases in the digital age.

This holistic guide explains how school librarians and teachers can successfully integrate relevant health concepts and life skills throughout the curriculum for students K through 12.