Library, archive and information management

This management book is published in association with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

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A newly revised edition of the 2011 Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Award winner.

This book covers the key current topic of electronic library resources and learning in the digital age.

This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libraries, especially academic and research libraries.

Archives: Recordkeeping in Society introduces the significance of archives and the results of local and international research in archival science.

The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences.

This revised text is aimed specifically for library support staff and purposefully aligned with the American Library Association Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) competency standards for Cataloging and Classification.

Cultural heritage professionals have high levels of training in metadata.

This book extensively covers the use of graph-based algorithms for natural language processing and information retrieval.

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

Helps readers understand what careers are available for graduates with a master's degree in library and information sciences.

This book contains the papers delivered at sessions organised by the Genealogy and Local History Section at the annual conferences of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) between 2001 and 2005; many of these are updated versions of the original presentations.

View the author's companion website for more information and extra materialsWhether they have full governance powers or are just there in an advisory capacity, trustees on library boards need to understand the complex issues that affect a library's ability to provide its community with materials and services that support lifelong learning, jobs, and quality of life.

Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand.

This book presents a proven year-long program to boost student productivity and train high school library aides while offering services to all patrons of the school library.

Beneficial to scholars and students in the fields of media and communication, politics and technology, this book outlines the significant role of search engines in general and Google in particular in widening the digital divide between individuals, organisations and states.

This collection of collaborative, high-impact learning experiences in information literacy teaches librarians how to engage students in hands-on, experiential learning.

The convergence of online book selling, digital printing, digital document workflow management and the computerization of small parcel logistics created a unique opportunity to create a viable commercial model for printing and supplying books on demand.

Digital Disruption and Electronic Resource Management in Libraries identifies issues in the management of e-resources.

Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates.

Written as a textbook for LIS students taking reference courses, this fully updated and revised seventh edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction also serves as a helpful handbook for practitioners to refamiliarize themselves with particular types and formats of sources and to refresh their knowledge on specific service topics.

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.

Developing People's Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts is Vol 8 of the well regarded Library and Information Science Series.

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

This key book examines the role of the printed book in contemporary societies, its demographics and its relation to the other media.

How do different gender identities interact with the key challenge of decolonising higher education?

Digital Teaching, Learning and Assessment: The Way Forward is the result of the continuous discussion taking place in the teaching and learning space of what the future holds for academics and their stakeholders, post pandemic students.

Maker learning spaces in schools and public libraries are made real through the narratives of professional librarians around the world, comprising the collaborative activities, experiences, and perspectives of librarians as they have implemented makerspaces for students of all ages.

This compilation reveals how followers help an organization get better and how effective followers-leading from the middle-are essential to the best kind of leadership.

This quick-start guide explains how to use inquiry to promote civic engagement in the school library makerspace and provides ready-to-use ideas for hands-on service projects.

Measuring the performance of a library's services is a crucial part of good library management, since without a firm grasp of what is actually being achieved it is impossible to move forward to improved service.

Learn how to assist library patrons, including self-represented litigants, through legal research instruction, programming, and outreach.

Change is inevitable and essential to any functioning institution.

Manufacturing Engineering Education includes original and unpublished chapters that develop the applications of the manufacturing engineering education field.