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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
As physical collections go digital, the organizational procedures, budgets, and usage patterns of libraries must evolve to meet this change by identifying the various issues that are essential in understanding the management of e-resources. Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries...
A Practical Guide for Informationists
Supporting Research and Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
A Practical Guide for Informationists: Supporting Research and Clinical Practice guides new informationists to a successful career, giving them a pathway to this savvier, more technically advanced, domain-focused role in modern day information centers and libraries. The book's broad scope serves as...
Becoming a Reflective Librarian and Teacher
Strategies for Mindful Academic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Too much of the time our attempts at achieving a work/life balance instead amount to a rigid compartmentalization of the different parts of our lives. But the very qualities that make us human, including our thoughts, feelings, and experiences, are the keys to making us better librarians and teachers....
Job Stress and the Librarian
Coping Strategies from the Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Practicing academic, public, school and special librarians and LIS faculty in the United States offer practical how-to essays on managing stress as working librarians. Creative methods of diffusing stress are emphasized, adaptive to various types of libraries and job descriptions. The book is divided...
by Aaron Schmidt, Amanda Etches
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
User experience (UX) characterizes how a person feels about using a product, system or service. UX design incorporates the practical aspects of utility, ease of use and efficiency to make your web design and functionality decisions with patrons in mind. This results in a better design, a more intuitive...
Usability Testing
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable...
Buying and Selling Information
A Guide for Information Professionals and Salespeople to Build Mutual Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Both sides of the negotiating table are represented in this practical and much-needed guide by Michael L. Gruenberg, a veteran of the electronic information field. With over 30 years selling information to libraries of all types and sizes, Gruenbergs time-tested tips, techniques, and strategies come...
Libraries Got Game
Aligned Learning through Modern Board Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The high-profile topic of gaming in libraries gets thorough consideration from two educator-librarians, who explain exactly how designer board games—which are worlds apart from games produced strictly for the educational market—can become curricular staples for students of all ages. Drawing on...
Recovery, Reframing, and Renewal
Surviving an Information Science Career Crisis in a Time of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
This book examines the difficulties confronting information professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career options. It is divided between a case study (based on the author’s own experiences) of career dislocation and...
Inquiry and the Common Core: Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning
Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K–12 schools.
• Features a foreword by Allison Zmuda,...
Makerspaces
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
A “makerspace” is an area in a library where users can use tools and equipment to design, build, and create all sorts of different things. It may be a dedicated room or a multipurpose space in which a collection of raw materials and resources can be utilized as desired. Projects range from prototyping...
by Nicole C. Engard, Rachel Singer Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
This new edition of The Accidental Systems Librarian prepares readers to manage the latest library technologies: mobile devices, open source software, social networks, WiFi, ebooks, and much more. Nicole C. Engard's advice on using research, communication, organizational, and bibliographic skills to...
Institutionalising fragility
Entrepreneurship in cultural organisations
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The sustainability of cultural organisations and their positioning in contemporary society are increasingly relevant topics among practitioners and scholars interested in the cultural field. Foundations, research centers, but also libraries and museums are under pressure to seek a balance between...
The Thesaurus
Review, Renaissance, and Revision
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Use this single source to uncover the origin and development of the thesaurus!
The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision examines the historical development of the thesaurus and the standards employed for thesaurus construction. This book provides both the history of thesauri and tutorials...