Library, archive and information management

The law should be accessible to every professional, which is the philosophy behind The Law of Libraries and Archives.

Gough, Feehan, and Lyons have taken everything learned from their research on developing GrandFamily Resource Collections and leading grandfamily programming in several states and put it in this easy to use guide.

The technological interoperability of digital libraries must be rethought in order to adapt to new uses and networks.

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.

Content Licensing is a wide-ranging and comprehensive guide to providing content for dissemination electronically.

The transformation of the Bodleian Libraries provides an example of how major libraries can meet twenty-first century challenges: in 2008 it was facing a failed system installation, a failed plan to cope with its storage needs and the threat of losing status as a repository suitable to house important manuscripts.

Environmental Consciousness in China: Change with Social Transformation discusses the status of environmental consciousness within China from both an economic and political view.

Excellent business communication skills are especially important for information management professionals, particularly records managers, who have to communicate a complex idea: how an effective program can help the organization be better prepared for litigation, and do it in a way that is persuasive in order to win records program support and budget.

Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia's indigenous people represent the oldest living culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial society now heavily multicultural in outlook.

Digital heritage can mean many things, from building a database on Egyptian textiles to interacting with family historians over Facebook.

This book is intended as a guide for those people who have been charged with establishing a library or information service in their organisation.

Any competent librarian can have good accounting skills-after all, attention to detail, correct classification, and effective documentation are essential to both kinds of tasks.

Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework.

Selected as a 2025 Doody's Core TitleThis book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of health literacy work in libraries.

A Most Delicate Monster will be particularly useful for practitioners.

Despite the volumes of information they contain, few libraries know how to prepare for, endure, and survive any type of disaster.

Science is first and foremost an intellectual activity, an activity of thought.

Academic libraries are going through what may be the most difficult period in their history.

Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a "e;backbone support organization"e; for collective impact initiatives.

Are academic branch libraries going to be extinct in the near future?

Wondering what your library can do for your community's immigrant population?

Imagine a records management (RM) future where the user community collectively describes the value and properties of a record using the wisdom of the crowd; where records retention, description and purpose are determined by their users, within general boundaries defined by the records manager.

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning is highly beneficial to those who teach or train people and need to develop systematic ways of using information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning.

A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn''t) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.

In this down-to-earth guide, educators will learn successful strategies for embedding digital citizenship into their library and school instruction.

All librarians and libraries have information policies, and so do most people.

Who is the reader?

This book offers time management tools, tips, and techniques for busy librarians, so they can better serve their communities and feel greater satisfaction with work and life.

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an informed role in society and its democratic processes.

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

Is it possible to both cut costs and improve public library programming for all ages?

Academic libraries have a long history both in the USA and China, with institutions developing along different trajectories, and responding to the rapidly changing library environment globally.

As a branch of International and Area Studies Librarianship (IASL), East Asian Librarianship has become increasingly important in an age of globalization as scholars engage in interdisciplinary research and study.

This book, aimed at an international audience, provides an overview of Information Literacy (IL) in practice; what it is, why it's become so important in the library profession and demonstrates how librarians can cultivate a better understanding of IL in their own organisations.

With contributions from library and information professionals (practitioners, researchers, faculty members, consultants, and others), Marketing Library and Information Services: A Global Outlook highlights a variety of exemplary LIS marketing practices and efforts from around the globe.

As school districts across the United States increasingly question the need for trained librarians, this collection of research-based evidence helps make the case for a state-licensed librarian in every school.

Making a Collection Count, A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management, Third Edition is unique in its focus on collection quality, including topics on making the most of a library collection budget, performing physical inventory, and gathering/using data and statistics about collection use.

Knowledge management is the process of creating value from an organization's intangible assets.

With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital to the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as in public administration and private enterprise.

Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs).

A Librarian's Guide on How to Publish discusses the publishing strategies needed for the development of skills that are essential for successful job requirements and the production of quality print and electronic publications.

Traditionally, libraries have served as storage spaces offering access to diverse physical collections.

Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decision Maker's Guide includes innovative ways libraries are engaging students, including the practice of setting aside high-tech spaces for creativity.