Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Envisioning Our Preferred Future
New Services, Jobs, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces,...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This useful book helps reference librarians understand the information seeking needs and behaviors of the diverse groups of people in the communities they serve. With the increasing diversity of the American population, librarians striving to plan and deliver excellent reference services must enhance...
The Patron-Driven Library
A Practical Guide for Managing Collections and Services in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections...
Rethinking Technical Services
New Frameworks, New Skill Sets, New Tools, New Roles
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Volume 6 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on academic library technical services operations, and ways that they have been transformed and reimagined for working in today’s higher education environment. The literature on the place and role of technical services,...
Consumer Health Information Services and Programs
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Consumer Health Information Programs and Services: Best Practices presents examples of successful and long-standing library programs and services that provide health information to consumers—the general public, patients, and families or patients – who seek information about health and diseases....
Information Practice in Science and Technology
Evolving Challenges and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Examine the vital issues facing sci-tech libraries in today's economic and technological climate!
This book addresses current challenges and changes in science and technology libraries-and shows how librarians are handling them in difficult financial times. It examines issues related to closing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Get practical solutions to the problems faced when implementing an electronic reserve service!
Academic libraries that provide electronic reserve services offer convenient access to information to their students and faculty while gaining numerous other advantages, such as reducing both loss...
Evaluating the Twenty-First Century Library
The Association of Research Libraries New Measures Initiative, 1997-2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Explore the ARL’s initiatives for identifying, formulating, and testing new criteria for evaluating academic libraries in the digital age!
The proliferation of electronic information resources in the past decade has changed the ways in which research libraries evaluate their service and holdings....
Distance Learning
Information Access and Services for Virtual Users
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The demand for and technology needed to create effective distance learning programs are increasing at a breakneck pace. Is your institution keeping up?
As educators, information professionals are faced with the challenge of providing Web-based library instructional materials in a time of ever-changing...
The Changing Face of Government Information
Providing Access in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Learn what innovative changes lie in the future of government information
The Changing Face of Government Information comprehensively examines the way government documents’ librarians acquire, provide access, and provide reference services in the new electronic environment. Noted experts...
by Zhixian George Yi
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
With the rapid development of information and communication technology and increasingly intense competition with other organizations, information organizations face a pressing need to market their unique services and resources and reach their user bases in the digital age. Marketing Services and Resources...
Digital versus Non-Digital Reference
Ask a Librarian Online and Offline
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Compare and contrast library reference models and more consumer-oriented models!
Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask A Librarian Online and Offline analyzes the quality of commercial Ask A Librarian (AskA) and tutorial services and how they compare to traditional library services. Edited...
Technical Services Management, 1965-1990
A Quarter Century of Change and a Look to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Gain an in-depth understanding of changes in technical services that have taken place over a quarter century and look at future trends and changes that may occur. Technical Services Management surveys and analyzes technical services in libraries from 1965 to 1990, a formative period and one of great...
Libraries in the Twenty-First Century
Charting Directions in Information Services
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Libraries in the Twenty-First Century brings together library educators and practitioners to provide a scholarly yet accessible overview of library and information management and the challenges that the twenty-first century offers the information profession. The papers in this collection illustrate...