Library, archive and information management

Discovering what characterizes strong clinical medical librarianship and how those characteristics have been and are supporting clinicians in their delivery of evidence-based medicine can help those in this profession evaluate and strengthen their own programs.

What is text mining, and how can it be used?

Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.

Library Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries: Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity contains three sections, each comprised of several topical chapters on a particular subject.

Management and Leadership Innovations, vol.

A master storyteller, John Marsden is Australia's best known writer for young adults.

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

Ist die Bibliothek im Zeitalter von Internet, Wikipedia und E-Books vom Aussterben bedroht?

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Twenty Five Volume Set, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other.

Concentrating on privacy issues in public, school and academic libraries, this title pays particular attention to the effect of technology on personal privacy in these settings.

This book is about news search and monitoring.

Do you have a great idea for an innovation in your library?

Productivity for Librarians provides tips and tools for organizing, prioritizing and managing time along with reducing stress.

Graphs are about connections, and are an important part of our connected and data-driven world.

This is one of the very few books that systematically explores the characteristics of scholarly communication outside the West.

Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the management of technology in a strategic context.

Single sourcing is more than mechanical document conversion.

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries.

This research-based book with practical applications teaches academic librarians to support their transfer students effectively at both universities and community colleges, even when transfer students' information literacy needs differ from those of other students.

Librarians constantly conduct searches for their customers and for themselves.

This is a book of fresh insights, perspectives, strategies, and approaches for managing electronic records and for addressing the implications for archival programs operating in a digital environment.

Libraries hoping to make their services and programs fully accessible will want to check out this useful and thoughtful guide.

This book is aimed at the practicing academic librarian, especially those working on the 'front lines' of reference, instruction, collection development, and other capacities that involve dealing directly with library patrons in a time of changing scholarly communication paradigms.

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.

A practical guide to current Institutional Repository (IR) issues, focussing on content - both gaining and preserving it and what cultural issues need to be addressed to make a successful IR.

The proliferation of online access to social science statistical and numeric data sources, such as the U.

Public libraries can increase their impact on knowledge development, innovation, and social change by promoting parent and family engagement in children's learning.

This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently facing libraries as institutions.

Begins where diversity audits end, informing and supporting academic, school, and public librarians in the quest to embed diversity, equity, and inclusion in a meaningful and sustainable manner throughout collections, policies, and practices.

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

A quick, easy-to-read synthesis of theory, guidelines, and evidence-based research, this book offers timely, practical guidance for library and information professionals who must navigate ethical crises in information privacy and stay on top of emerging privacy trends.

The last 46 years have witnessed a deep and continued interest in information literacy.

Academic librarians and university instructors worldwide are grappling with an increasing incidence of student plagiarism.

American Sign Language is more than just an assortment of gestures.

This book examines the difficulties confronting information professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career options.

When teens volunteer at the library, they gain new skills, make connections, and build their resumes, while libraries benefit from a new generation of advocates.

Why should inquiry be possible, only if some knowledge is required to guide it, as conventionally understood?

Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection's life cycle.

This enlightening book presents a hypothetical evaluation case study to explore and propose tools for effective library program assessment.

Whether you are just starting to create a digital repository or your institution already has a fully-developed program, this book provides strategies for building and maintaining a high-use, cohesive, and fiscally-responsible repository with collections that showcase your institution.

Published in association with the Society of American Archivists Trusting Records in the Cloud presents key findings of InterPARES Trust, an international research project that has investigated issues of trust in, and trustworthiness of records and data online, with respect to privacy, accessibility, portability, metadata and ownership.