Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Free Government e-Resources for Youth: Inform, Inspire, and Activate
Inform, Inspire, and Activate
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Government documents offer a wealth of useful information that is often ignored or misinterpreted—even by librarians. And while improved search engines have improved access to online documents in recent years, patrons—especially young people—typically need help navigating and understanding the...
by Viveca Nyström, Linnéa Sjögren
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
An Evaluation of the Benefits and Value of Libraries provides guidance on how to evaluate libraries and contains many useful examples of methods that can be used throughout this process. There is substantial focus on the importance of goals and objectives, along with advice on strategies that can...
Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Services
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians is a one-stop source for librarians seeking toevaluating, purchasing, and implementing a web-scale discovery service. The book breaks down each phase of the project into decision points and action plans which will help move...
Legal Reference for Librarians
How and Where to Find the Answers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In recent years the number of Americans who have decided to handle their own legal affairs without the help of a lawyer has skyrocketed. Ranging from people writing their own wills or drafting a contract to those trying to represent themselves in court, they’re going to public and academic libraries...
by Julie Todaro
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Despite the volumes of information they contain, few libraries, whose population at any given moment is as unpredictable as the weather, know how to prepare for, endure, and survive a disaster, whether natural or man-made, and even fewer put their know-how to paper. Emergency Preparedness for Libraries...
Intellectual Freedom for Teens
A Practical Guide for Young Adult & School Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Year after year a majority of the titles on ALA’s Banned Books list, which compiles titles threatened with censorship, are either YA books or adult books that are frequently read by teens. It’s important for YA librarians to understand the types of challenges occurring in libraries around the nation...
by Amanda Spink
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization. New information standards and digital library...
Information and Innovation
A Natural Combination for Health Sciences Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
As academic health sciences centers look toward innovative product development as their new income source with the decline of clinical income and research dollars, health sciences librarians and libraries can partner with these revenue-generating innovators to offer invaluable services, evidence,...
Concepts and Advances in Information Knowledge Management
Studies from Developing and Emerging Economies
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Effective information and knowledge resource management is a driver of competiveness. Many developing countries have put mechanisms in place that seek to match knowledge-based economies, where information has become the fuel for responsiveness, innovation, and competition. Concepts and Advances in...
Public Libraries and their National Policies
International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries. It examines the various models for providing public library services around the world and discusses differences in such areas as funding sources, standards, regulations...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” —Stephen Greenblatt
“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page…Magnificent.” —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book...
by Matthew Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun
On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book includes a variety of articles which look critically and judiciously at Google and its products, with a focus on Google Scholar and Google Book Search. It also examines their usefulness in a public service context. Its ultimate aim is to assess the use of Google as a major information resource....
by Linda Frederiksen, Margaret Bean, Heidi Nance
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Written from a global perspective, this book reviews sharing of library resources on a global scale. With expanded discovery tools and massive digitization projects, the rich and extensive holdings of the world’s libraries are more visible now than at any time in the past. Advanced communication...