Library and information sciences / Museology

As families are looking for better ways to educate their children, more and more of them are becoming interested and engaged in alternative ways of schooling that are different, separate, or opposite of the traditional classroom.

As new technology and opportunities emerge through the revolutionary impacts of the digital age, the function of libraries and librarians and how they provide services to constituents is rapidly changing.

Social media have accelerated communication, expanded business horizons and connected millions of individuals who otherwise would never have met.

The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed.

Occupational Health: A Guide to Sources of Information is a compilation of papers that can be used as reference when seeking information and knowledge related to health hazards found in the workplace.

Focusing on the attempted and successful banning of young adult fiction from media centers and classrooms, this book treats the legal and experiential history of censorship in libraries and public schools.

This book advances the belief that the library--more than any other cultural institution--collects, curates and distributes the results of human thought.

Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider's account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and climate change.

The field of information ethics (IE)--a subdivision of ethics--was developed during the 1980s, originating and maturing in library science and slowly working its way into other disciplines and practical applications.

Solar Energy Index is an index of resources dealing with solar energy, including archival materials from the International Solar Energy Society collection; references to articles in major solar journals; patents and pamphlets; National Technical Information Service reports; unbound conference proceedings; and other assorted reports.

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Though still hampered by some challenging obstacles, Latin American collection development is not the static, tradition-bound field many believe it to be.

Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth.

"e;Creativity is just connecting things,"e; observed Steve Jobs.

The new essays on today's academic librarians examine above all their functions and responsibilities--since these have greatly changed just in recent years, especially in matters of technology.

This work presents the history and impact of the seven most important progressive library organizations worldwide--in Austria, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, and two in the United States.

Librarians are beginning to see the importance of game based learning and the incorporation of games into library services.

The role of library and information sciences (LIS) in, for, and about Arctic and Northern studies is underexplored.

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever-thanks to digital copies online.

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Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss and Paul Cezanne; Etta Cone and Henri Matisse; G.

This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "e;Latin American art"e; in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays.

In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library's role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated.

There's no denying the fact that we are moving towards a "e;computer world.

Many professionals in the Library and Information Services (LIS) area are using Web 2.

Written from a global perspective, this book reviews sharing of library resources on a global scale.

The increasing volume of information in the contemporary world entails demand for efficient knowledge management (KM) systems; a logical method of information organization that will allow proper semantic querying to identify things that match meaning in natural language.

As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities.

Following on from the first edition of this book, the second edition fills the gap between more complex theoretical texts and those books with a purely practical approach.

Managing Academic Libraries: Principles and Practice is aimed at professionals within the Library and Information Services (LIS) who are interested in learning more about the management of academic libraries.

A Most Delicate Monster will be particularly useful for practitioners.

The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change.

Workplace culture refers to conditions that collectively influence the work atmosphere.

Social media is here to stay.

This book covers the different aspects, such as patents, trademarks and copyright of Intellectual Property (IP) from a more practical business perspective.

Whilst enterprise technology departments have been steadily building their information and knowledge management portfolios, the Internet has generated new sets of tools and capabilities which provide opportunities and challenges for improving and enriching knowledge work.

This book focuses on the role of special libraries as knowledge management centres in their organisations.

Taxonomies are often thought to play a niche role within content-oriented knowledge management projects.

Do librarians 'rock the boat'?

The originality of this book, which deals with such a new subject matter, lies in the application of methods and concepts never used before - such as ontologies and taxonomies, as well as thesauri - to the ordering of knowledge based on primary information.

The Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) is the world's most popular library classification system.

Aimed at professional librarians and archivists, this book explores connecting students and faculty with the archival and digital collections of the university's library and archives.

Digital information is a constantly developing field.

From Lending to Learning provides a theoretical overview and practical guide to the functional area of delivering learning services within public libraries.

This book examines the theory, behaviour, connections and issues of modern information organizations.

Supporting Research in Area Studies: A Guide for Academic Libraries focuses on the study of other countries or regions of the world, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and social sciences.

Assessment and outcomes evaluation have become increasingly important in librarianship.

Throughout its history, the Western library has played a significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western scholars.

Presents a broad examination of the nature of virtual worlds and the potential they provide in managing and expressing information practices through that medium, grounding information professionals and students of new media in the fundamental elements of virtual worlds and online gaming.

This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students, faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on campus, and in the local community.