Library category: 2034 books
Young Adult Resources Today
Connecting Teens with Books, Music, Games, Movies, and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Young Adult Resources Today: Connecting Teens with Books, Music, Games, Movies, and More is the first comprehensive young adult library services textbook specifically written for today’s multidimensional information landscape.
The authors integrate a research-focused information behavior...
Moving Archives
The Experiences of Eleven Archivists
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Moving an archive, historical society, or rare book library may occur only once in the career of a professional curator, archivist or librarian. Not only is each situation unique, but collections are irreplaceable and priceless. Moving Archives is a timely source of useful information by eleven archivists...
The Scope of Information Ethics
Challenges in Education, Technology, Communications, Medicine and Other Domains
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
The field of information ethics (IE)—a subdivision of ethics—was developed during the 1980s, originating and maturing in library science and slowly working its way into other disciplines and practical applications. Some years later, a secondary field emerged, emphasizing theoretical and philosophical...
Collection Management
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
The rapidly increasing reliance on digital rather than print-based resources has not diminished the importance of library collection management, but it has required significant modification in the thinking and the practice of collection managers, who today usually have to consider their clients' need...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This e-book contains the 2013 Revision of RDA: Resource Description and Access, and includes the July 2013 Update. This e-book offers links within the RDA text and the capability of running rudimentary searches of RDA, but please note that this e-book does not have the full range of content or functionality...
Description
Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Description: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections explores how archives of different sizes and types can enhance the accessibility of their holdings. The book uses eleven case studies to demonstrate innovative ideas that could be transferred into many other settings.
Case...
Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy
Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Library marketing and advertising in schools are now very widespread practices. Since libraries and schools have been strongly linked to economic performance, adopting marketing and advertising techniques into them is often seen as a natural extension of that linkage. But should that be the case?...
by William O. Scheeren
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Stay current, meet educational standards, and keep your students coming back again and again by incorporating the latest technologies into your school library.
• Includes a web companion that posts updates and keeps readers abreast of new products and changes in the field
• Offers...
by William Foster
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The advent of globally networked information is a historic change. Educational, commercial and industrial institutions depend on its effective exploitation for their success, but cultural and human factors are the biggest obstacles. This book looks at the roots of these problems and how they may be...
by Yunshan Ye
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
As China has evolved into an economic superpower, interest in its culture and current place in the world has skyrocketed; China Studies are now taught in almost every college or university in the U.S., as well as in many junior high and high schools. Covering modern China, not just Chinese culture...
Ariel
Internet Transmission Software for Document Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Supplement traditional interlibrary loan programs with this speedy document delivery system! Since its introduction in 1991, the Ariel system has transformed the interlibrary loan of documents. Compared to standard interlibrary loan, Ariel is often simpler, faster, and cheaper, and it allows many...
Literacy behind Bars
Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community stakeholders who work with incarcerated youth and adults. The book includes examples of authentic literacy practices...
The Committed Reader
Reading for Utility, Pleasure, and Fulfillment in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling. Pleasurable reading is conceptualized as an important kind of casual leisure, experienced primarily as relaxation, active entertainment, and sexual stimulation (racy, pornographic stories)....
by Justine Cotton, David Sharron
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Aimed at professional librarians and archivists, this book explores connecting students and faculty with the archival and digital collections of the university’s library and archives. Academic research has been forever changed by the digitization of books, journals, and archival collections. As...