Library, archive and information management

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

From Lending to Learning provides a theoretical overview and practical guide to the functional area of delivering learning services within public libraries.

This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature.

This book provides strategies and practical tips for leadership development in the field of librarianship.

Covers the priorities and challenges facing organisations who are increasingly focused on 'knowledge work'; it is written from a human relations - rather than a technological - perspective.

How do library professionals talk about and refer to library users, and how is this significant?

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.

The only book currently available that comprehensively integrates research and evaluation for evidence-based library and information science practice.

Whilst there is no shortage of professional literature discussing the changing nature of libraries and information organizations in the digital age, words such as innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity make only occasional appearances.

A strategic plan is a useful tool for communicating the purpose of the library media center (LMC) to the administrators, teachers, and parents of the school community.

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 valuable book shows how to get your community behind your library by making it an essential part of community life and demonstrating its benefit to all members of the community.

Libraries and librarians have been defined by the book throughout modern history.

Presents a comprehensive set of lessons for the KM practitioner, covering all phases of planning, design, implementation and assessment of knowledge management.

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the first new international cataloguing standard for nearly thirty years.

Hugh A.

Everyone knows that New York maintains one of the great library systems in the world - the two lions that guard the 42nd street library among the most important icons in the city.

This book explains how and why to get an international library job, what to expect when you arrive in your host country, and how to overcome challenges in your new home.

The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice.

This book discusses library services to Hispanic/Latino teens, highlighting best practices, examining relevant and responsive services and programs, and reframing existing approaches to serving this segment of the population.

This unique textbook intersects traditional library science with data science principles that readers will find useful in implementing or improving data services within their libraries.

Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries: Applying Business Process Management examines the use of Business Process Management (BPM) and the ways it can be beneficially applied to electronic resources management (ERM) to help organize processes in libraries.

When you picture a librarian, what do you imagine?

This is a pioneering introduction to the emergent field of information history.

The first comprehensive history of the Library of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress, home of the US Copyright Office, and a public forum for artistic and literary culture.

The new ACRL information literacy concepts brings renewed interest in information literacy instruction and skills for librarians.

Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills.

The library and information profession builds skills and expertise that cover a wide spectrum.

Discover how-with relatively straightforward scripts and minimal coding-to customize the user interfaces to third-party systems from your library's website for better communication with your users and to lead them to your library's services.

This revised and updated sixth edition of Reference and Information Services continues the book's rich tradition, covering all phases of reference and information services with less emphasis on print and more emphasis on strategies and scenarios.

A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice guides new informationists to a successful career, giving them a pathway to this savvier, more technically advanced, domain-focused role in modern day information centers and libraries.

Aimed at teaching professionals working with first-year students at institutions of higher learning, this book provides practical advice and specific strategies for integrating contemporary information literacy competencies into courses intended for novice researchers.

Leadership is separate from, but integral to, management; and library directors today and for the foreseeable future can be expected to play an institutional role as they lead the library to contribute towards the mission of their college and university.

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

Records Managers have tended to find themselves given the responsibility for managing requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) and Data Protection Acts (DPA), without necessarily having training and/or an academic background in legal studies.

Security measures can be used by management, IT staff, and users in participatory/collaborative service provision within the public sector.

A rare opportunity to discover international trends and developments in access to government information is presented to you in selected papers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East , Oceania and Russia.