This book stimulates informed dialogue between librarians and historians regarding the changing nature of history and the resultant needs for a wider variety of collections and library services, including inter-library loan, library instruction, outreach, and reference.
This book leads readers through an intriguing examination of how books began and have evolved through history and explores where future technologies may lead them.
This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information.
This essential guide covers the basics of planning to safeguard your library's digital assets-library catalog and circulation data, online resources, etc.
Two authors with more than 40 years of combined library experience tap into their wealth of knowledge about discovery and user experience, sharing proven methods for setting up, promoting, and teaching their own discovery systems.
The third edition of Crash Course in Collection Development is a must-have for librarians just entering the field and professionals in need of a refresher in effective library operations.
Providing clear explanations of inquiry-based learning in the light of the Common Core, this book is a practical and graphical guide that will serve as a much-needed primer for librarians and educators.
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.
Concise, informative, and well-indexed, this book helps readers get the "e;big picture"e; as well as the considerable number of details involved in managing the finances for a library.
Inclusive of the scope and authoritative references from earlier editions, this edition additionally embraces the digital world and provides practical suggestions for performing the "e;act of teaching.
Borrowing winning techniques from the business world, this book examines ways you can make library service more personalized, focused, and solutions-oriented for your patrons.
Learn how to improve teen services in public libraries by better understanding teen development and having positive interactions with teens to provide appropriate and interesting collections and services.
A convincing explanation of why interactive or movable books should be included in the library collection that documents their value as motivational instructional tools-in all areas of the school curriculum, across many grade levels.
Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience-fans as well as librarians-this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles.
Help your library leverage opportunities in the popular do-it-yourself publishing movement by following this guide's process for creating and producing books.
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.
Providing perspectives of early- and mid-career librarians as well as highly seasoned professionals, this book offers leadership advice that will help academic librarians of all experience levels to surmount the issues they face and overcome new challenges.
Learn the concept of passive programming and get started easily with plans for implementing a wide array of intergenerational programs in libraries with this professional primer.
This book offers a practical template for training patrons to use eBook, streaming video, online music, and journal collections that is practical, adaptable, and most importantly, sustainable.
This unique guide offers you a thorough understanding of multilingual information access (MLIA) and services and related concepts, such as database design, information retrieval, machine translation, and natural language processing.
A New Scientist, Globe and Mail, and Eater Best Book of 2023In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, a surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines (Kirkus, STARRED)from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauceand why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future.
This book compiles selected articles from Library Media Connection to help school librarians and pre-service librarians learn about how to implement best practices for school library management.
This guide for the evaluation of school libraries both in practice and in research covers analysis, techniques, and research practices for conducting evaluations of curriculum, collections, facilities, and library personnel performance.
This book provides practical information and insights to library administrators and building plan team members at academic and public libraries who are considering or starting a library expansion or reconfiguration of existing space.
This book will help public library administrators, managers, and board members to better plan, strategize, and understand their communities, enabling public libraries to become dynamic, proactive institutions.
This broad introduction to museums benefits all educators who teach introductory museum studies, addressing the discipline from a holistic, dynamic, and document-centered perspective.
Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.
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 book helps students from diverse backgrounds and with various learning styles to master the material they learn with these practical examples for librarians teaching higher education information literacy.
This book illustrates crowdsourcing techniques that will help you to raise money and collect community knowledge so your library can be its most impactful.
The second edition of this innovative textbook illustrates research methods for library and information science, describing the most appropriate approaches to a question-and showing you what makes research successful.
Explore exciting programs and initiatives that can both engage undergraduate students with academic libraries and assist academic librarians in creating a vibrant library atmosphere.
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.
