Library category: 2034 books
Quality and the Academic Library
Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Quality and the Academic Library: Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision provides an in-depth review and analysis of quality management and service quality in academic libraries. All aspects of quality are considered in the book, including quality assessment, quality review, and quality...
by Susan P. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Need ideas for library displays? Here is an effective tool for designing and creating unique visual statements for library spaces. It offers practical advice on utilizing everyday materials to create lively but economical presentations on all sorts of topics including authors, world cultures, traditions,...
A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom
A Supplement to the Intellectual Freedom Manual, Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an...
by Mirela Roncevic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
E-book vendors continue to experiment: adjustments to business models, consolidation of content, and mergers with competitors mean constant change. What’s good for innovation can equal confusion when it comes to choosing an e-book platform for your library. Making a sound purchasing decision requires...
Libraries and Society
Role, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic tensions, rapid technology development, global...
Collaboration and the Academic Library
Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International exploresthe considerable change that has affected universities and academic libraries in recent years. Given this complex and important context, it is clear that the academic library increasingly...
Virtual Slavica
Digital Libraries, Digital Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Get an inside view of producing digital information projects
Digital technology has provided great opportunities as well as colossal challenges for information professionals at Slavic libraries, collections, and archives. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives presents leading...
Mobile Library Services
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Just as Andrew Carnegie’s support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple’s launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services. Libraries, like every other kind of organization, must now make their services—not just their catalogs—available...
Integrating the Web into Everyday Library Services
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
With the world becoming increasingly more dependent upon the Internet, libraries offer an essential service by providing access to this worldwide network. To help their patrons, modern librarians must have a thorough understanding of this technology. Integrating the Web into Everyday Library Services:...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Librarians must now work at a different level from that required 20 years ago, but the training available is not always appropriate or accessible to all. The authors of this volume have responded to this significant and continuing change within the profession by offering a much-needed guide to best...
Improved Access to Information
Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Connect patrons with the information they seek with these promising electronic tools!
Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information focuses on how you can improve access to information using electronic reference resources. This book features nine of America’s...
by Amy Hart
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The new cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA), will have far-reaching impacts on your library in terms of how it approaches resource description and access. RDA has been in use at the U.S. Library of Congress since early 2013 and is being widely adopted in the international library...
The End of Wisdom?
The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The End of Wisdom? The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age assembles opinion pieces, forecasts, strategy options, and case studies from leading worldwide politicians, academics, educators, authors, publishers, captains of industry, senior public sector workers, library directors, IT gurus and other...
by Elizabeth Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Explore a wealth of ideas, insights, and approaches that can be used or adapted by any medical library!
Curricular changes in the health professions, coupled with a growing acceptance of the Internet as a tool for daily living, have contributed to a climate of change and opportunity for health...