Library category: 2034 books
Magic Search
Getting the Best Results from Your Catalog and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Subdivide and conquer! Magic Search: Getting the Best Results from Your Catalog and Beyond showcases how to increase the power of Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) subdivisions to produce astonishing results from your searches. Rebecca S. Kornegay and Heidi E. Buchanan, experienced reference...
by Nicole Engard
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Open source refers to an application whose source code is made available for use or modification as users see fit. This means libraries gain more flexibility and freedom than with software purchased with license restrictions. Both the open source community and the library world live by the same rules...
Statistics for Library and Information Services
A Primer for Using Open Source R Software for Accessibility and Visualization
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Statistics for Library and Information Services, written for non-statisticians, provides logical, user-friendly, and step-by-step instructions to make statistics more accessible for students and professionals in the field of Information Science. It emphasizes concepts of statistical theory and data...
by Michael Lascarides
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
While technology has changed what we do and how we do it, the library’s mission to provide users with the information they need has not changed. This concise guide will help you choose and implement the techniques and best practices used by today's forward-thinking libraries to create the best possible...
ClimateQUAL
Advancing Organizational Health, Leadership, and Diversity in the Service of Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book describes the application of The ClimateQUAL® survey protocol (originally Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment–OCDA©) to over 55 libraries with thousands of individual respondents in the US, Canada and UK. The ClimateQUAL toolkit provides the ultimate management tool for effective...
by Linda S Katz, Sally J Kenney, Helen Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities is a one-of-a-kind guide on the procedures, approaches, and principles needed to make sound decisions in acquiring materials in various areas of the humanities. It gives you an inside look at managerial concerns in documentary delivery, changing...
The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional
Reassessing and Redefining the Role
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional employs a model that allows for individual and managerial reconceptualization of the librarian's role, also helping to mitigate obstacles to professional development both internal and external to the library.
Using traditional and personal narrative,...
Developing Dynamic Intersections between Collection Development and Information Literacy Instruction
Developing Dynamic Intersections between Collection Development and Information Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Developing Dynamic Intersections between Collection Development and Information Literacy Instruction identifies the intersections between collection development and information literacy instruction and provides a practical guide for improving communication and collaboration between these two areas...
New Approaches to E-Reserve
Linking, Sharing and Streaming
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Aimed at academic library practitioners, this book describes how e-reserve services can evolve and adapt to the changing virtual learning environment of higher education. New approaches discussed include: the integration of subscribed, free, and copyrighted resources within course management systems;...
by Joyce Kasman Valenza
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Social media allows you to scale up a core librarian practice—connecting your community to information and learning--across geographic boundaries, 24/7. Addressing “curation” as the term is used colloquially, this issue of Library Technology Reports draws from 17 in-depth interviews to show how...
Marketing Information
A Strategic Guide for Business and Finance Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Help your patrons create effective marketing research plans with this sourcebook!
Marketing Information: A Strategic Guide for Business and Finance Libraries identifies and describes secondary published sources of information for typical marketing questions and research projects. Experts in...
Serving Grandfamilies in Libraries
A Handbook and Programming Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Gough, Feehan, and Lyons have taken everything learned from their research on developing GrandFamily Resource Collections and leading grandfamily programming in several states and put it in this easy to use guide.
They share the successes and failures of existing programs so other librarians can hit...
Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries
Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Library Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries: Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity contains three sections, each comprised of several topical chapters on a particular subject. Part One explains why supply chain management is vital to libraries....
Free Government e-Resources for Youth: Inform, Inspire, and Activate
Inform, Inspire, and Activate
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Government documents offer a wealth of useful information that is often ignored or misinterpreted—even by librarians. And while improved search engines have improved access to online documents in recent years, patrons—especially young people—typically need help navigating and understanding the...