Library category: 2034 books
Metadata
A Cataloger's Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Find out what makes metadata an exciting addition to resource description
Metadata: A Cataloger’s Primer provides catalog librarians and students with a comprehensive instructional resource on the ongoing convergence of cataloging and metadata. Equally valuable in the classroom and as a professional...
by Nancy Williamson, Clare Beghtol
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Learn step-by-step how to develop knowledge-based products for international use!
Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval examines current efforts to deal with the increasing globalization of information and knowledge. International authors walk you...
Management
Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Management: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections explores the kinds of challenges that managers of archival programs face today and how those challenges can be met to achieve optimal results while working within existing resources. The book features thirteen case studies that...
Are Libraries Obsolete?
An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed. But the afterclap of our digital wonders has left libraries reeling as they are no longer the chief contender in information delivery. The author gives both sides—the web aficionados, some of them unhinged, and the...
Protecting Patron Privacy
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Although privacy is one of the core tenets of librarianship, technology changes have made it increasingly difficult for libraries to ensure the privacy of their patrons in the 21st century library.
This authoritative LITA Guide offers readers guidance on a wide range of topics, including
• Foundations...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Produced by The University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science, this volume of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI)is the polestar publication for cultural heritage scholars, professionals, and students. Featuring original works selected by the distinguished...
IMPACT Learning
Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education describes how academic libraries can enable the success of higher education students by creating or partnering with teaching and learning initiatives that support meaningful learning through engagement with information. Since...
Facelifts for Special Libraries
A Practical Guide to Revitalizing Diverse Physical and Digital Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Libraries/information centres are continuously evolving to keep up with rapid changes in information gathering, processing, and distribution. Corporate and non-profit special libraries face special challenges in revitalizing their physical space and providing efficient access to digital content. This...
Children's Services
Partnerships for Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Co-author of the popular titles Booktalking Bonanza and The Early Literacy Kit, Betsy Diamant-Cohen brings together 18 examples of successful outreach partnerships that children's librarians and administrators can adapt to their own situations. Contributors from the U.S and Canada explain how they...
Privacy in America
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
In this collection of essays that represent original and interdisciplinary work, respected scholars address a number of privacy issues. These include how governmental and private sectors develop and deploy technologies that can pose serious compromises to the privacy of individuals and groups; how...
Data Clean-Up and Management
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using readily-available applications. The authors highlight the importance and methods of data analysis and presentation,...
Information Professionals' Career Confidential
Straight Talk and Savvy Tips
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Based in part on a selection of the author's past blog postings, Information Professionals' Career Confidential is a convenient, browsable, and illuminating pocket compendium of insights on topics relevant for information and knowledge professionals at any stage of their careers.
This book...
Informed Systems
Organizational Design for Learning in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
By fostering principles of systems thinking and informed learning though an inclusive, participatory design process that advances information exchange, reflective dialogue, and knowledge creation, the Informed Systems Approach promotes conceptual change in workplace organizations. Informed Systems...
Information Services and Digital Literacy
In Search of the Boundaries of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Despite new technologies, people do not always find information with ease. Do people still need help in finding the information they need, and if so, why? What can be made easier with new tools and techniques?
Information Services and Digital Literacy is about the role of information services...