Library Information Services category: 2034 books
The Librarian as Information Consultant
Transforming Reference for the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Library users’ evolving information needs and their choice of search methods have changed reference work profoundly. Today’s reference librarian must work in a whole new way—not only service-focused and businesslike, but even entrepreneurial. Murphy innovatively rethinks the philosophy behind...
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library
Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital...
by Rita Pellen, William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Catch up with the many innovations now affecting sci/tech libraries!
The twenty-four chapters in Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries discuss the creation of digital collections, e-repositories, personalized Web environments, and discipline-specific Web sites for students and researchers....
Library 3.0
Intelligent Libraries and Apomediation
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The emerging generation of research and academic library users expect the delivery of user-centered information services. ‘Apomediation’ refers to the supporting role librarians can give users by stepping in when users need help. Library 3.0 explores the ongoing debates on the “point oh phenomenon...
Real-Life Marketing and Promotion Strategies in College Libraries
Connecting With Campus and Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Practical advice on how to promote your library and how to better understand and serve library users
Real-Life Marketing and Promotion Strategies in College Libraries is a how-to guide to marketing and promotional activities that will raise your library’s visibility in the face of increased...
Infographics
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Designed for librarians who work with all age levels from youngsters to seniors at all educational, reading and language backgrounds, who must fulfill responsibilities that run the gamut from instructing patrons on information literacy skills to using electronic tools to marketing the library to locating...
Foundations of Library and Information Science
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Much has happened since the last edition of this benchmark text was published. Today's LIS professionals are experiencing both excitement and trepidation as sweeping societal, technological, political, and economic changes affect our users and institutions and transform our discipline. We are increasingly...
Computers for Librarians
An Introduction to the Electronic Library
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Computers for Librarians is aimed primarily at students of library and information management and at those library and information service professionals who feel the need for a book that will give them a broad overview of the emerging electronic library. It takes a top-down approach, starting with...
Rethinking Library Technical Services
Redefining Our Profession for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field?
In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers and editor of Library Resources and Technical...
by Marylaine Block
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Here is a highly readable guide to strategies and projects that have helped more than 100 public libraries gain community support and funding during challenging times. Marylaine Block integrates survey responses from innovative library directors with her research, analysis, and extended interviews to...
by Lesley S. J. Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Autism is now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, and the number of children identified as autistic continues to grow. Introducing what autism spectrum disorders are, and identifying the great need to build and manage programs for different youth with these disorders,...
Library Services for Multicultural Patrons
Strategies to Encourage Library Use
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library types—school, public and academic. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons is by and for all libraries that are...
Libraries Within Their Institutions
Creative Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discover how your library-and its patrons-can benefit from internal partnerships, collaborations, and interactions
Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations examines the ways librarians work within their own universities, municipalities, or government units to form partnerships...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The library has always been an essential part of the collegiate experience, providing students with access to knowledge and literature. However, as virtual services and online learning become more prominent within collegiate environments, the ways students conduct research and access resources has been...