Library Information Services category: 2034 books
by Lara Seven Phillips, Katherine G. Holvoet
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This book explains how and why to get an international library job, what to expect when you arrive in your host country, and how to overcome challenges in your new home.
• Supplies potential expat librarians invaluable information about what to expect from libraries abroad, identifying differences,...
Intellectual Freedom Manual
Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Since it was established in 1967, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has championed the rights of library users to seek and receive information on all subjects from all points of view without restriction and without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by others. The...
by Graham Walton
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This timely book addresses physical space in university libraries in the digital age. It considers the history of the use of space, integrates case studies from around the world with theoretical perspectives, explores recent developments including new build and refurbishment. With users at the forefront,...
Assessing Information Needs
Tools, Techniques and Concepts for the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Provides a systematic method of identifying, evaluating and comparing information needs, as well as a framework to enable information services to gather information from users to aid information system design, and monitor the effectiveness of an information service. Examines the role of the Internet...
Catalog It! A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials, 3rd Edition
A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Whether you're a practicing cataloger looking for a short text to update you on the application of RDA to cataloging records or a school librarian who needs a quick resource to answer cataloging questions, this guide is for you.
• Thoroughly updates a best-selling, essential guide to cataloging
•...
by Jason A. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Meet the growing demand for real-time mobile information by learning application design and development just for libraries. Learn how to develop an iPhone or Android application for your library, how to mobilize your library’s catalog, and how to create a mobile website which can be viewed on smartphones....
The Early Information Society
Information Management in Britain before the Computer
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Whether termed the 'network society', the 'knowledge society' or the 'information society', it is widely accepted that a new age has dawned, unveiled by powerful computer and communication technologies. Yet for millennia humans have been recording knowledge and culture, engaging in the dissemination...
Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)
A Library Technology Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
If your job involves working with digital content, your need to make sense of interoperable digital information by managing resources with care and quality metadata and by connecting users to resources—and resources to resources—is greater than ever. In this issue of Library Technology Reports,...
Self-Publishing and Collection Development
Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth...
Research Data Management
Practical Strategies for Information Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
It has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximize the return on investment of public funds. To meet this challenge, colleges and...
Creating Inclusive Library Environments
A Planning Guide for Serving Patrons with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Librarians are continually faced with challenges of how to best meet the needs of patrons with disabilities, whether those patrons have physical or intellectual disabilities, differing learning styles, or even temporary problems which impact their access and may change over time. And because planning...
by Chad Haefele, Ellyssa Kroski
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
WordPress is not only the most popular blogging software in the world, but it is also a powerful content management system that runs more than 23 percent of all websites. The current version alone has been downloaded almost 20 million times, and the WordPress community has built more than 38,000 plugins...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Technological advances and the rise of collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches have changed the practice of research. The 21st century researcher not only faces the challenge of managing increasingly complex datasets, but also new data sharing requirements from funders and journals. Success in...
Exploring Context in Information Behavior
Seeker, Situation, Surroundings, and Shared Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in understanding, to the search for information from one or more sources to fill that gap, to the use of that information to complete a task at hand or to satisfy a curiosity, as well as other...