Library and information sciences / Museology

All librarians and library and information science scholars can benefit from learning more about intellectual freedom.

Caregiver involvement is key to a child's reading success story, and libraries are in the perfect position to provide the guidance needed for parents and caregivers to embrace their role as their children's first and most enduring teachers.

Every library needs to have a disaster management plan in place before disaster strikes.

This book offers step-by-step details on how to plan and execute library workshops and programs to inspire creativity in teens.

Instead of using expensive off-the-shelf surveys or relying on a poorly worded survey, read Making Surveys Work for Your Library and design your own that collect actionable data.

This book will be invaluable for those in the academic library who want to understand how best to serve students on the autism spectrum and how those students can contribute to the library.

You've created a STEAM program in your library, but how do you work literacy into the curriculum?

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.

Draws on critical and radical change theory to equip both aspiring and practicing library and teacher candidates with practical, research-based ideas for enacting critical literacy practices in middle grade libraries and classrooms.

This book explores Guided Inquiry Design(R), a simple, practical model that addresses all areas of inquiry-based learning and sets the foundation for elementary-age students to learn more deeply.

Focusing on student analysis of primary sources, this book explores several proven analysis strategies to use with students, including methods from the Library of Congress, the Stanford History Education Group, and Harvard's Project Zero.

As adult instruction becomes a more common part of library practice, librarians need guidance in an area that may not always have been a part of their library science education.

This guide will show you how to reinvigorate your library's volunteer program using your community as a resource.

Advocating a strategic approach, this book shows how to form a plan, secure funding and support, and create effective programs for adults, children, and youth who are experiencing homelessness.

As a teen librarian, you are more likely than not to encounter teens with mental health issues.

Offers an instructional plan for plagiarism education for middle school and high school students, allowing librarians to become a resource for students, teachers, and school administrators.

Many librarians' job responsibilities increasingly require them to understand and handle data.

School librarians are prepared to be leaders and can use their strengths to advocate for policy that benefits school libraries.

If you're new to running a library or looking for a refresher, this book can serve as your first reference source for school library operation, providing overview information on a wealth of topics, lists of resources for more in-depth information, and coverage of current topics such as Web 2.

Featuring 20 selected bully-themed children's picture books, this teacher-friendly resource book offers lesson plans and activities to assist educators in strengthening bystander support against bullying.

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation.

As one of the most visited museums in Germany s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity.

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts.

The world s collective archaeological heritage is threatened by war, development, poverty, climate change, and ignorance.

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon.

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage.

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities.

There is a World Heritage Craze in China.

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997.

Eugene Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures.

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry.

"e;As is well known, Pete is an outstanding storyteller, and this book is no exception.

Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake.

In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "e;museum object.

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity.

Since the 1960s, nations across the developed world have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization.

The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity.

Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age.

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War.

This collection seeks to define the emerging field of "e;ubiquitous learning,"e; an educational paradigm made possible in part by the omnipresence of digital media, supporting new modes of knowledge creation, communication, and access.

Bridging the gap in expertise between coal and coalbed gas, subfields in which opportunities for cross training have been nonexistent, Coal and Coalbed Gas sets the standard for publishing in these areas.

Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservatorsand millions of tourists.

The field of pediatric nutrition has developed into an area essential to the components of academic pediatric programs throughout the world.

With the amount of data a business accumulates now doubling every 12 to 18 months, IT professionals need to know how to develop a system for archiving important database data, in a way that both satisfies regulatory requirements and is durable and secure.

This book brings together a range of chapters about the trends in education and research in the field of library and information science (LIS) in the Asia-Oceania region of the world.

New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr.

"e;Studies in Information"e; publishes monographs on critical issues in the information society.

Volume 32 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a collection of studies which highlight up and coming issues that today's library managers and researchers face.

Volume 36 provides a broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation.

Management and Leadership Innovations, vol.