Library Information Services category: 2034 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
It is absolutely essential that today’s law librarians are digitally literate in addition to possessing an understanding and awareness of recent advancements and trends in information technology as they pertain to the library field. Law Libraries in the Digital Age offers a one-stop, comprehensive...
Making a Collection Count
A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection’s life cycle. Relationships between collections and other...
The Quality Infrastructure
Measuring, Analyzing, and Improving Library Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
A library’s infrastructure of programs and personnel is its most valuable asset, providing the foundation for everything it does and aspires to do, which is why assessment is so vitally important. In this collection of case studies, Murphy and her team of contributors describe how quality assessment...
Implementing an Inclusive Staffing Model for Today's Reference Services
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Reference service remains a core function of modern libraries. However, how and where we provide assistance has evolved with changing technologies and the shifting habits and preferences of our users. One way libraries can provide the on-demand, in-person assistance while managing and developing new...
Library and Information Science
A Guide to Key Literature and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This unique annotated bibliography is a complete, up-to-date guide to sources of information on library science, covering recent books, monographs, periodicals and websites, and selected works of historical importance. In addition to compiling an invaluable list of sources, Bemis digs deeper, examining...
by Claire B. Gunnels, Susan E. Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model. Three founding faculty librarians of a joint-use college/public library discuss the factors that...
How to STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
During the past few years, groups like the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Center for Education have been placing great emphasis on the significance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. In brief, the US is seen as falling behind the rest of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Expand your knowledge of problems and possibilities with e-material acquisitions around the world to aid in making your own decisions
The demand for electronic material in academic libraries is growing and shows no sign of abating. Collection Development Issues in the Online Environment addresses...
Do You Web 2.0?
Public Libraries and Social Networking
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Web 2.0 technology is a hot topic at the moment, and public librarians in particular are beginning to feel the pressure to apply these tools. Indeed, Web 2.0 has the potential to transform library services, but only if the policy and strategy for those services are ready to be transformed. The author...
The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources
Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Keep up-to-date with the latest in innovative electronic information services!
The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues focuses on the effects and challenges of providing electronic resources for libraries. The authors are librarians and other...
by Rita Pellen, William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives-at regional, statewide, and international levels!
This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll...
by Priscilla K. Shontz, Robert R. Newlen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in the library and information science profession. Although the first years are often overwhelming, they can be the key to creating a successful career as...
Collaboration and the Academic Library
Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Collaboration and the Academic Library: Internal and External, Local and Regional, National and International exploresthe considerable change that has affected universities and academic libraries in recent years. Given this complex and important context, it is clear that the academic library increasingly...
Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Historically, the major Library and Information Science (LIS) research-producing centers of the world have largely been the universities and information institutions of North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. This is changing with the growth of Asian economies, universities, and information industries....