Library category: 2034 books
FRBR, Before and After
A Look at Our Bibliographic Models
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Coyle’s expert ability to draw from the deep historical background of cataloging theory to illuminate the potentials of library data on the Web helped win her the 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award. Here she persuasively argues that to more effectively connect library users with books, movies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Using a library’s facilities to bring arts to the community is not only a valuable service, but also a wonderful marketing and outreach opportunity, a tangible way to show the public that libraries offer value, thus shoring up grassroots support. Editor Smallwood has combed the country finding examples...
Hope, Hype and VoIP: Riding the Library Technology Cycle
A Library Technology Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the time that personal computers became ubiquitous, there’s been no shortage of “the next big thing” in technology. While some new technologies do prove to be revolutionary, there are plenty that flame out very quickly. Librarians often work with limited financial resources, so when a library...
by Peter Hernon, Joseph R. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Academic and public libraries are much different today than they were even 15 years ago. With even bigger changes on the horizon, what lies in store? This volume offers ideas to academic and public librarians about the future of library services. Editors Hernon and Matthews invite a raft of contributors...
Computers for Librarians
An Introduction to the Electronic Library
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
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. It takes a top-down approach, starting with...
by Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
What is content marketing? Simply put, it’s the most effective way to increase your value to customers. When you deliver content that library users find useful and relevant, you give a compelling answer to their question, “What’s in it for me?” Author of the best-selling book The Librarian's...
by Stacey Hayman, Cherie P. Pandora
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The current economic crisis has had a drastic impact on both public and school libraries. As budgets shrink, resources become scarcer, and the job of the librarian becomes harder. The conundrum of doing more with less challenges even the most seasoned professionals whose institutions face service...
The Transformed Library
E-books, Expertise, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This wide-ranging survey takes stock of our institutions' strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, analyzing how libraries and the very concept of librarianship have been comprehensively transformed over the past few decades. A respected veteran of libraries who has witnessed first-hand...
Digital Libraries
Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library!
Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios is a balanced overview of public services, collection development, administration, and systems support, for digital libraries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Get practical solutions to the problems faced when implementing an electronic reserve service!
Academic libraries that provide electronic reserve services offer convenient access to information to their students and faculty while gaining numerous other advantages, such as reducing both loss...
Managing eBook Metadata in Academic Libraries
Taming the Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff. However, at the same time, the reality of acquiring ebooks, making them discoverable, and managing...
The Importance of Being Earnest
Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Over one hundred presentations from the thirty-fourth Charleston Library Conference (held November 5-8, 2014) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included patron-driven acquisitions versus librarian-driven acquisitions; marketing library resources to faculty...
The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries
Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Carol Smallwood's The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 1: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity explores how Google's suite of tools, from Google Docs (now Google Drive), Google Scholar, Hangout, Forms, and others made freely available to the Internet Community can...
The Handheld Library: Mobile Technology and the Librarian
Mobile Technology and the Librarian
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Handheld Library: Mobile Technology and the Librarian provides the information and guidance librarians need to adapt themselves and their facilities to the mobile revolution—the fastest, most diffuse worldwide technological innovation in human history.
The book provides an up-to-date...