Library Information Services category: 2034 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
With the introduction of the Bologna Process, the emphasis on the importance of international librarianship and its activity between governmental or non-governmental institutions, organizations, and groups of nations has continued to grow. Collaboration in International and Comparative Librarianship...
The Mindful Librarian
Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases,...
Literature Search Strategies for Interdisciplinary Research
A Sourcebook For Scientists and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The amount of published literature can be overwhelming for scientists and researchers moving from a broad disciplinary research area to a more specialized one, particularly in fields that use information from more than one discipline. Without a focused inquiry, the researcher may find too little information...
Teaching to Individual Differences in Science and Engineering Librarianship
Adapting Library Instruction to Learning Styles and Personality Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Teaching to Individual Differences in Science and Engineering Librarianship: Adapting Library Instruction to Learning Styles and Personality Characteristics applies learning styles and personality characteristics to science and engineering library instruction. After introducing the idea that individuals...
Library Makerspaces
The Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a comprehensive road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or repurpose space or to develop creative, hands-on maker-style programming. It features guidance on:
Holding stakeholder discovery sessions for community-driven...
by Jody K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This reference provides school library professors with strategies and tips for creating future school leaders out of current LIS students. Drawing upon her extensive experience as a school librarian, author Jody K. Howard heralds the library professional's role as information specialist, instructional...
Teens Have Style! Fashion Programs for Young Adults at the Library
Fashion Programs for Young Adults at the Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Teens Have Style!: Fashion Programs for Young Adults at the Library provides an easy-to-follow template for creating popular programs within the public or school library setting that will capture the attention of most teenaged girls.
In Teens Have Style!, librarians will find programs they...
Linked Data Tools
Connecting on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
FRBR, RDA: Resource Description and Access, and Library of Congress’s commitment to a new bibliographic framework all point toward opportunities for shared, linked library data. In this issue of Library Technology Reports, Karen Coyle updates readers on the development of fundamental resources such...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Today's librarians must be comfortable working in online learning environments, teaching information literacy courses, and supporting online students across curricula. With the rapid proliferation of the Internet and online technologies in the last decade, however, it is not uncommon for some library...
The Intersection of Library Learning and Second-Language Learning
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language learning and library learning in a university setting are closely related endeavors that intersect at various times and locations, and with various teachers and learners. This book is an examination of how these intersections are experienced by language learners. Its aim is to explore the...
Transforming Our Image, Building Our Brand: The Education Advantage
The Education Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
While there is no question that what librarians and library professionals do is critically important, the ways in which these roles and responsibilities are described can mean the difference between being valued as essential to the community or considered optional. Something as simple as a choice...
Scales on Censorship
Real Life Lessons from School Library Journal
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Pat Scales has been a passionate advocate for intellectual freedom long before she launched the “Scales on Censorship” column with School Library Journal in 2006. Decades of experience as a school librarian informs her ongoing work on these important and often volatile issues, as did her tenure...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Editors Marta Deyrup and Beth Bloom have brought together well-known educators from the fields of library science, communication, composition, and education to show you how to develop successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers. Chapters cover each...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Learn how acquisitions librarians successfully serve specialized users!
In this book, you’ll find profiles, methods, and processes for acquisitions in specialized subject areas, such as local and regional poetry, oceanography, educational information in electronic formats, popular fiction,...