Library Information Services category: 2034 books
IMPACT Learning
Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education describes how academic libraries can enable the success of higher education students by creating or partnering with teaching and learning initiatives that support meaningful learning through engagement with information. Since...
by Brian J. Baird
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Designed as a “how-to” manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and...
Facelifts for Special Libraries
A Practical Guide to Revitalizing Diverse Physical and Digital Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Libraries/information centres are continuously evolving to keep up with rapid changes in information gathering, processing, and distribution. Corporate and non-profit special libraries face special challenges in revitalizing their physical space and providing efficient access to digital content. This...
Privacy in America
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
In this collection of essays that represent original and interdisciplinary work, respected scholars address a number of privacy issues. These include how governmental and private sectors develop and deploy technologies that can pose serious compromises to the privacy of individuals and groups; how...
by Masanori Koizumi
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Inherent Strategies in Library Management describes general and specific strategies for libraries based on core library values, and does so through concrete research. Many strategic management books for libraries introduce concepts of business management to the library world, but often neglect traditional...
From Knowledge Abstraction to Management
Using Ranganathan’s Faceted Schema to Develop Conceptual Frameworks for Digital Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
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. On this concept, the role...
Teaching Civics in the Library
An Instructional and Historical Guide for School and Public Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Civics education is “on the books” in all 50 states, yet civic illiteracy is widespread. Only one third of 12th graders are able to explain the significance of the Declaration of Independence, and fewer than half of 8th graders know the purpose of the Bill of Rights. This instructional guide explores...
by Lois Mai Chan, Sheila S. Intner, Jean Weihs
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Like earlier editions, this thoroughly updated sixth edition of the classic textbook provides readers with a basic understanding of the Library of Congress Classification system and its applications.
• Serves primarily as an introductory textbook for core LIS courses in cataloging and classification...
The Education of Alice M. Jordan
Navigating a Career in Children's Librarianship
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
A biography of Alice M. Jordan, who headed children’s work at the Boston Public Library (BPL) from 1902 to 1940, is long overdue. Daughter of a Maine sea captain and a Massachusetts schoolteacher, she was one of the pioneering generation of children’s librarians, women who entered the field when...
Strategic Planning for Social Media in Libraries
(THE TECH SET® #15)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This practical guide provides a scalable, step-by-step plan for creating and maintaining a successful library social media strategic plan. You’ll find detailed tips and advice on strategizing for social media services in a way that guides employee decision-making, maximizes efficiency, creates positive...
When We Are No More
How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Community life is built on its stories. Our history and culture—those of society and of individuals—are passed from generation to generation through stories. Engaging Community through Storytelling: Library and Community Programming examines a wide variety of model storytelling projects across...
Library 2020
Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves. (No doubt seminars were organized by the Alexandria Librarians Association on the future of the scroll and what to do about the rising barbarian tide.) At no time in our memory, though,...
The Meaning of the Library
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining...