Library category: 2034 books
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library
Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Technological advances and innovative perspectives constantly evolve the notion of what makes up a digital library. Archives and the Digital Library provides an insightful snapshot of the current state of archiving in the digital realm. Respected experts in library and information science present...
The Patron-Driven Library
A Practical Guide for Managing Collections and Services in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections...
by Jim Cole, Wayne Jones, Scott Millard
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Everything you need to know about serials librarianship-in one handy volume!
For library science students and library professionals, Introduction to Serials Work for Library Technicians is a practical, how-to-do-it text that shows you how to perform the behind-the-scenes tasks your job requires....
by Lesley S. J. Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Autism is now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, and the number of children identified as autistic continues to grow. Introducing what autism spectrum disorders are, and identifying the great need to build and manage programs for different youth with these disorders,...
by Laurel Tarulli
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
This book is a guide to the library catalogue that all public library professionals will find enlightening and useful. Its technical services perspective provides a different point of view as compared to traditional public library literature, which is often written by frontline professionals. For...
Cutting-Edge Research in Developing the Library of the Future
New Paths for Building Future Services
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In this third volume of the series, Cutting-Edge Research in the 21st-Century Academic Library explores examples of exciting new library services and workflows for the library profession to model and adapt for their own communities and patrons. Included are studies that combine data mining and business...
Running the Digital Branch
Guidelines for Operating the Library Website
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Maintaining a library website is as important as its initial development. In this issue of Library Technology Reports King draws from his team’s four-year experience running the acclaimed digital branch of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library (TSCPL). From website tweaks to staffing issues, King...
Social Justice and Library Work
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization....
Library Consortia
Practical Guide for Library Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Libraries are burdened with increased demand for resources and services and inflating expectations against shrinking or stagnant budgets. An individual library cannot cope with the situation. Hence, libraries form alliances for cooperation and sharing. Emerging changes in the publishing industry are...
Working with Library Collections
An Introduction for Support Staff
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Working with Collections: An Introduction for Support Staff deals with the technical service aspect of library work- the processes that put a book on the shelf or online. It provides an introduction to publishers, vendors, preparing items for use, and caring for items in the collections and is both...
Cataloging Library Resources
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
While there are many cataloging texts, very few are written specifically for library support staff. This is the one and only book purposefully aligned with the new American Library Association – Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) competency standards for Cataloging and Classification.
Written...
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The 1970 and 1994 editions of The Black Librarian in America by E.J. Josey singled out racism as an important issue to be addressed within the library profession. Although much has changed since then, this latest collection of 48 essays by Black librarians and library supporters again identifies racism...
by Gross, Mediavilla
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Planning and assessment are both crucial elements of a public library that functions efficiently and flexibly. So why are they often treated as separate processes? This concise book combines planning and evaluation in a holistic approach, helping public library managers and staff put library resources...