Library category: 2034 books
Floating Collections: A Collection Development Model for Long-Term Success
A Collection Development Model for Long-Term Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Despite its increasing popularity, there are few published works about floating and floating collections. Virtually no one has addressed critical long-term issues like core collections, material selection, and weeding after floating has taken place. Floating Collections: A Collection Development Model...
by Margareta Nelke, Charlotte Håkansson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Information professionals should be able to take a proactive role as a strategic partner in their organization's competitive intelligence. Their role needs to focus on the "outside-in" approach, based on their organization's strategic needs and objectives. Competitive Intelligence for Information...
A Practical Writing Guide for Academic Librarians
Keeping It Short and Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Mastering the skills necessary for clear, effective writing can make writing tasks flow more easily. This book helps academic librarians who are new to the profession or new to a supervisory or management position, as well as those who want to be more productive and make the their writing for work...
by Mary Schlembach, William Mischo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
“Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” --Arthur C. Clarke
This well-researched book makes sense of the new advances in electronic services and resources available to science and technology libraries. It will familiarize you with the latest collection development, reference...
Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice
Teaching Approaches and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice: Teaching Approaches and Case Studies considers the specific information literacy needs of communities of practice. As such, the book fills a gap in the literature, which has treated information literacy extensively, but has not applied...
Beyond Mentoring
A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals looks at mentorship, mentorship programs, what works, what doesn’t, and different techniques, such as group and peer mentoring. The book considers many aspects of mentoring, various programs, and their successes and failures,...
by Breanne A. Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The LITA Guide to No- or Low-Cost Technology Tools for Libraries provides a practical guide on how to find and use technology tools for a variety of purposes in libraries and, more broadly, in education. Each topic showcases two technology tools in detail and discusses additional tools and provides...
Which Side Are You On?
Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider’s account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and...
Providing Reference Services
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Providing Reference Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians was written with the working librarian in mind; it focuses on specific methods and information to help foster effective, exceptional results. Topics covered include:
Reference services: basic information and background
Reference resources...
Going Beyond Loaning Books to Loaning Technologies
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Providing library users with actual pieces of technological equipment that they can borrow is a continuously expanding service at many libraries, especially as faculty and teachers require multimodal projects. For some libraries, loanable technology may include calculators, gaming devices, headphones,...
Embedding Librarianship in Learning Management Systems
A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Information literacy instruction is best when it is integrated into actual research, and in higher education that means embedding librarianship into the learning management system (LMS). This new How-To-Do-It Manual is geared towards academic librarians already working with classes in an LMS as well...
The Indispensable Academic Librarian
Teaching and Collaborating for Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Traditionally, academic librarians have delivered “beck and call” service to educators both in and out of the classroom. However, far from being merely auxiliary to the learning cycle, academic librarians are educators in their own right. If the primary challenge before them is to change how they’re...
by Waseem Afzal
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book is a significant step towards developing a body of management knowledge pertinent to the context of Library Information Science (LIS) and provides a succinct but deep account of management and information organizations. Management of Information Organizations presents a broad view of the...
Designing Information Literacy Instruction
The Teaching Tripod Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Designing Information Literacy Instruction: The Teaching Tripod Approach provides a working knowledge of how instructional design (ID) applies to information literacy instruction (ILI). Its "how to do it" approach is directed at instruction librarians in all library settings and deals with...