Library, archive and information management

There are many books that provide advice and booktalks for adults who work with children and teens.

Donna Jo Napoli has received acclaim for her young adult works and is especially known for her historical novels and her retellings of myth and fairy tales.

With the rise of unemployment, increased career growth opportunities, and changing workforce demographics, libraries can support job seekers in several ways.

The Fortuitous Teacher: A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction discusses how librarians have become accidental teachers in the academic university setting.

Digital Participation through Social Living Labs connects two largely separate debates: On the one hand, high speed internet access and associated technologies are often heralded as a means to bring about not only connectivity, but also innovation, economic development, new jobs, and regional prosperity.

This book presents a series of case studies from systems librarians all over the world.

Qualitative Research and the Modern Library examines the present-day role and provides suggestions for areas that might be suited to this type of research for the purposes of evaluation.

Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries demonstrates that public librarians can promote learning by combining the elements of Information Literacy Instruction (ILI) with traditional practices of public libraries.

Gerade in den geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen sind Festschriften ein beliebtes wissenschaftliches Forum.

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.

The term 'customer service' is not new to the academic library community.

Youth librarians and early literacy educators will find this book a helpful tool for making storytimes more inclusive and better representative of their community and the world at large.

This timely edited collection examines the evolving role of health professionals and explores the role they play in the context of where they work.

An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations.

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Following on from the first edition of this book, the second edition fills the gap between more complex theoretical texts and those books with a purely practical approach.

Reference service, the idea that librarians provide direct assistance to users, has been a central function of libraries for over a century.

Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, Freedom of Information and the Developing World identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen's relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse.

This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning.

This book is a vivid reminder of the early days of library development in Ontario.

This book is both an update and an extension of The Information Literate School Community: Best practice which has been used as a student textbook and practitioners guide in a number of countries.

This book demonstrates how aesthetics, design elements, and visual literacy can be implemented in the library to enhance spaces, programs, services, instruction, and outreach so that your library will appeal to all users.

This book offers a fresh perspective on understanding university library work with international users in North America.

An important component of library administration and organization in the modern age is managing projects.

Science Libraries in the Self Service Age: Developing New Services, Targeting New Users suggests ways in which libraries can remain relevant to their institution.

Die vorliegenden Bände bieten mit ihren annotierten Verzeichnissen erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über die deutschsprachigen Handschriften-Bestände des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit in den wichtigsten Archiven der Slowakischen Republik.

This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field.

Since the publication of the 2nd edition additional countries especially in Asia have become more prominent in industry.

This comprehensive textbook discusses the legal, organizational and ethical aspects of information governance, assurance and security and their relevance to all aspects of information work.

Libraries are continuing to evolve as a result of the dual pressures of technology and user access.

How do you find good library shelvers and keep them for more than a few months?

Based in part on a selection of the author's past blog postings, Information Professionals' Career Confidential is a convenient, browsable, and illuminating pocket compendium of insights on topics relevant for information and knowledge professionals at any stage of their careers.

Advocating a strategic approach, this book shows how to form a plan, secure funding and support, and create effective programs for adults, children, and youth who are experiencing homelessness.

Transmedia is a technique of delivering a single piece of content in individual parts via different media and communication platforms (books, films, TV shows, games, live performances, etc.

This book outlines how network technology can support, foster and enhance the Knowledge Management, Sharing and Development (KMSD) processes in professional environments through the activation of both formal and informal knowledge flows.

In this century the central and quintessential correctional facility program ought to be the library.

The importance of supporting the needs of research students has recently risen higher up the academic agenda around the world.

Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment.

Written specifically to address the library's role in education, this book provides guidance on performing assessment at academic institutions that will serve to improve teaching effectiveness and prove your library's impact on student learning outcomes-and thereby demonstrate your library's value.

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

Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons.