Library, archive and information management

Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new, unified cataloguing standard.

This book, divided into two parts, provides an introduction to the quality management issues and gives a general overview to the use of ISO 9001 in the library environment.

This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the short-term staff, and library personnel in general.

This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the 'how to' of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management.

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After explaining the importance of diversity audits, this book offers a range of options for how to go about conducting them.

This book examines the following factors: sponsorship of research, control of the dissemination of research, effects of dominant research paradigms, financial interests of authors, publishers, and editors, role of new technologies (for example, Web 2.

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 flexible text can serve as the basis of a course in information literacy or as a supplemental text or basic research guide in any course.

Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time.

The increasing volume of information in the contemporary world entails demand for efficient knowledge management (KM) systems; a logical method of information organization that will allow proper semantic querying to identify things that match meaning in natural language.

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

Digital information is a constantly developing field.

Information and how we manage, process and govern it is becoming increasingly important as organizations ride the wave of the big data revolution.

Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933 provides an overview of German-speaking exile literature in the USA.

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.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023Offers librarians an authoritative overview of the full spectrum of significant issues and controversies related to open scholarship in a candid and fair-minded manner.

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

Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution.

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

Licensing Electronic Resources in Academic Libraries: A Practical Handbook provides librarians charged with reviewing, negotiating, and processing licenses with fundamental information that will ensure they not only understand the contents of a license, but are also able to successfully complete the licensing life cycle from start to finish.

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

"e;[T]his volume provides a wealth of information for all librarians dealing with copyright.

When you picture a librarian, what do you imagine?

Identifies evidence-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for encouraging young people to read, and helps you to position your library as an indispensable resource for supporting reading.

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 book is about news search and monitoring.

Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community presents the scholarship and insights of seasoned academic researchers and experienced practitioners as well as emerging scholars, graduate students, new professionals and activists in the field of LIS on the topic of antiracism.

This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises.

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

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Libraries need to be open and inviting, yet safe for patrons, staff, and collections.

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.

This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international levels.

A practical guide to cataloguing and processing the unique special collections formats in the Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL) and the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives (MLSRA) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) (e.

How to Build a Digital Library reviews knowledge and tools to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose.

Lessons in Library Leadership: A Primer for Library Managers and Unit Leaders takes on the topic of management positions within libraries and how many of them are filled by candidates with no formalized training.

Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries.