Library and information sciences / Museology

Filling a gap in the existing library and information science literature, this book consolidates recent research and best practices to address the need for diversity and social justice in the training and education of LIS professionals.

The most current and complete guide to a favorite teen genre, this book maps current releases along with perennial favorites, describing and categorizing fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction titles published since 2006.

Practical advice on how best to serve veterans, service members, and their families in your community, including effective ways to develop new outreach partnerships and collaborations.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze.

Aligned with the Common Core, this book enables teachers and librarians to develop lessons and workshops as well as to teach high school students how to research and write a humanities paper using a guided inquiry approach.

This dynamic approach to an exciting form of teaching and learning will inspire students to gain insights and complex thinking skills from the school library, their community, and the wider world.

Stay current, meet educational standards, and keep your students coming back again and again by incorporating the latest technologies into your school library.

Authored by an experienced librarian, digital resource manager, and professor in the field of library science, this book explores the wide-reaching impact of second-generation web technologies on library organization and services-and how library staff must respond.

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

With new technologies and additional goals driving their institutions, archives are changing drastically.

In today's world of modern research methods, the irony is that even though more materials are readily available now than ever before, this proliferation of sources has actually made the process more difficult for the novice researcher.

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

In the quiet halls of the natural history museum, there are some creatures still alive with stories, whose personalities refuse to be relegated to the dusty corners of an exhibit.

Editors Marta Deyrup and Beth Bloom have brought together well-known educators from the fields of library science, communication, composition, and education to show you how to develop successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers.

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

Information Technology (IT) is conquering the world.

Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves.

Cloud computing can be confusing - the number and types of services that are available through "e;the cloud"e; are growing by the day.

Law Librarianship in the 21st Century, a text for library and information science courses on law librarianship, introduces students to the rapidly evolving world of law librarianship.

For the first time, a library history is focused on the way in which libraries of all kinds have developed within a single state.

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

This book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information.

As budgets for libraries continue to shrink, the key challenge facing the 21st century librarian is finding how to do more with less.

Teaching Information Fluency describes the skills and dispositions of information fluency adept searchers.

The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature.

Just as Andrew Carnegie's support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple's launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services.

Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies.

Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule.

Since there's no point in Twittering if no one acts on your tweets and there's no point in having a Facebook page with a million "e;likes"e; if library use doesn't increase, you'll welcome the eight best practices presented here because they will help your library both actually do social media in a way that matters and do it well.

In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries' best practices in this key area.

If libraries are to remain centers for lifelong learning, then that learning must increasingly be e-learning.

Green buildings are better buildings.

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

In today's world of modern research methods, the irony is that even though more materials are readily available now than ever before, this proliferation of sources has actually made the process more difficult for the novice researcher.

The associate university librarian is tasked with running the various services and workflows of academic research libraries, allowing the head university librarian to focus on the acquisition of resources through fundraising and external public relations.

Today, government archivists and manuscript collectors are often in conflict over government-created documents that come up for sale out of private hands.

In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy-muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women.

In this collection of essays that represent original and interdisciplinary work, respected scholars address a number of privacy issues.

This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006).

Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers.

Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill.

Although the United States prides itself as a nation of diversity, the country that boasts of its immigrant past also wrestles with much of its immigrant present.

Canada's rich literary heritage, dominated by a multicultural and multilingual presence, reflects the country's unique history and experience.

Since her first book, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, was published in 1978, Robin McKinley has enchanted young adult readers for more than thirty years.

Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literatures of the two major countries of Oceania: Australia and New Zealand.

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

The diverse literatures of Victorian and Edwardian Britain have provided a wealth of research materials for novice and expert researchers alike.

This edition of the History of Libraries in the Western World represents a substantial revision of the earlier edition, taking into account the "e;information revolution"e; that has swept the West since 1945 and the political revolution that swept across Europe beginning in 1986.

In 1951, the American Library Association (ALA) Council approved new standards for accrediting library education programs.

The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985.