Library and information sciences / Museology

Selected as a 2025 Doody's Core TitleIn Managing Health Sciences Libraries in a Time of Change, experienced leaders of the medical library community present insights into the current trends and issues faced by health sciences librarians and offer practical guidelines and management skills needed to create a culture of excellence.

The sustainability of Networked Collaborative Learning (NCL) is a key topic of discussion amongst the institutions where it has been or may potentially be introduced.

This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international levels.

Scientific Publishing addresses the issue of business models in scientific publishing and how these relate to the research process (e.

The efforts of ethnic-minority librarians to become leaders in Western libraries are an important topic for any librarian working towards becoming a leader, with issues such as cross-cultural leadership relevant for all aspiring librarians.

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

Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution.

Social media technologies can help connect local communities to the wider world.

Academic and professional publishing represents a diverse communications industry rooted in the scholarly ecosystem, peer review, and added value products and services.

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.

In a world where computing power, ubiquity and connectivity create powerful new ways to facilitate learning, this book examines how librarians and information professionals can utilize emerging technologies to expand service and resource delivery.

This book tackles online social networks by navigating these systems from the birth to the death of their digital presence.

This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services.

From full-text article databases to digitized collections of primary source materials, newly emerging electronic resources have radically impacted how research in the humanities is conducted and discovered.

Measuring Academic Research outlines how to undertake a bibliometric study, a topic of vital importance in academic research today.

Libraries and Archives analyses the facts and arguments behind an increasing debate as to what extent libraries and archives are fulfilling the same missions.

Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment.

This book outlines how network technology can support, foster and enhance the Knowledge Management, Sharing and Development (KMSD) processes in professional environments through the activation of both formal and informal knowledge flows.

Facilitating of learning in higher education can be transformed through the use of Whole Brain(R) learning.

Institutional repositories remain key to data storage on campus, fulfilling the academic needs of various stakeholders.

Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation focuses on the practical applications of emerging technologies in libraries, defining the technologies in the context of their use in real situations.

Examining the different bodies that publish official material, this book describes the types of material published, how it is made available and how it is recorded.

Web 2.

As from 1 January 2005, Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation will come fully into force throughout the UK and could potentially change the way in which the public sector manages information.

Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries.

What would a synthetic theory of Digital, Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) look like?

Computers for Librarians is aimed primarily at students of library and information management and at those library and information service professionals who feel the need for a book that will give them a broad overview of the emerging electronic library.

The emerging generation of research and academic library users expect the delivery of user-centered information services.

Managing the one-person library provides a useful and needed resource for solo librarians confronted with the challenges of running a small library.

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

This book has been written with a view to understand the validity of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) field.

This book addresses the question of how knowledge is currently documented, and may soon be documented in the context of what it calls 'semantic publishing'.

'Weblogging' or 'blogging' has joined e-mail and Internet home pages as one of the most popular uses of the Internet.

Librarians need to utilize web 2.

The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies.

Contemporary library managers face the need to make difficult choices regarding resource allocation in the modern business environment.

The definitive guide to developing and managing a successful career in the information profession: Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers deal with significant challenges in building successful careers for a number of reasons associated with common misperceptions of their expertise and roles.

Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels.

Digital Dialogue and Community 2.

Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century traces development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.

Information Consulting presents a closer look at what makes information consultants successful and how they develop a productive relationship with their clients.

Academic Search Engines intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consistence of these services.

Which are the oldest public libraries in the world?

Civics education is "e;on the books"e; in all 50 states, yet civic illiteracy is widespread.

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

This book provides a range of case studies concerning the leadership and management of quality development in higher education.

There is a complex and contested terrain of cultural heritage in the library, archive and museum context.

This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society-agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC.

The digital or virtual libraries have brought the revolutionary changes in the entire concept of library organization, management and operations.

The Present Publication Comprises Three Well-Structured Compilation To Cover Such Crucial Areas In The Definition, Development And Design Of Library Science And Information Technology, Perspective And Profiles In Library Science And Information Technology , Library Resource Development And Training , And Library And Information Science In Planned Development .