Library Information Services category: 2034 books
by Jason A. Clark, Ellyssa Kroski
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Today's library patrons are browsing the Web on a variety of devices including tablets, e-readers, mobile phones, and desktops. Responsive web design employs techniques that will enable your library's website to automatically adapt to whatever screen size it's being viewed on. Learn how to utilize...
An Overview of the Changing Role of the Systems Librarian
Systemic Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This book presents a series of case studies from systems librarians all over the world. It documents how the profession has changed in recent years with the introduction of new web technologies services such as hosted databases that are supported by vendors rather than in-house, as well as shifts...
Data Management for Libraries
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan, academic librarians have been inundated with related requests from faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices. Data management is a new service area...
New Roles for Research Librarians
Meeting the Expectations for Research Support
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
New Roles for Research Librarians: Meeting the Expectations for Research Support presents strategies librarians can use to adapt to the new conditions and growing expectations that are emerging from students and researchers. Even if they have never completed a PhD, or even been engaged in independent...
by Francisca Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Weeding is often difficult—who can easily decide to discard books and other materials that someone may someday want to borrow? But weeding is essential to keeping your collection healthy and relevant. Perfect for all types of libraries and for both paraprofessionals and librarians unfamiliar with...
Teaching Information Fluency
How to Teach Students to Be Efficient, Ethical, and Critical Information Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Teaching Information Fluency describes the skills and dispositions of information fluency adept searchers. Readers will receive in-depth information on what it takes to locate, evaluate, and ethically use digital information.
The book realistically examines the abilities of Internet searchers...
Genealogy and the Librarian
Perspectives on Research, Instruction, Outreach and Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Covering trends, issues and case studies, this collection presents 34 new essays by library professionals actively engaged in helping patrons with genealogy research across the United States. Topics include strategies for finding military and court records, mapping family migration and settlement,...
by Nevenka Zdravkovska
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Are academic branch libraries going to be extinct in the near future? In these difficult economic times, when collections are digitized rapidly, is there still a need for a separate unit within proximity to the department, school, or college with a subject-based or subject-specific collection? Academic...
Cataloging and Classification
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's classic Cataloging and Classification covers the analysis and representation of methods used in describing, organizing, and providing access to resources made available in or through libraries. Since the last edition published in 2007, there have been...
Information Science as an Interscience
Rethinking Science, Method and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Science is first and foremost an intellectual activity, an activity of thought. Therefore, how do we, as information scientists, respond intellectually to what is happening in the world of information and knowledge development, given the context of new sociocultural and knowledge landscapes? Information...
Small Libraries, Big Impact: How to Better Serve Your Community in the Digital Age
How to Better Serve Your Community in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This valuable book shows how to get your community behind your library by making it an essential part of community life and demonstrating its benefit to all members of the community.
• Helps smaller public libraries re-establish their relevance and value to their communities
• Broadens...
Technology Disaster Response and Recovery Planning
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Most library disaster plans focus on response and recovery from collection and facilities disasters, such as fire and floods. But because technology is becoming ever more integral to libraries’ role in their communities, any interruption in service and resources is a serious matter. A disaster’s...
by Karen Bordonaro
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This book offers a fresh perspective on understanding university library work with international users in North America. It investigates what librarians, international students, and international scholars perceive the role of the university library to be in internationalization in higher education....
Designing Effective Library Tutorials
A Guide for Accommodating Multiple Learning Styles
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Learning styles are highly relevant for students in the online environment. Designing Effective Library Tutorials provides examples of, and steps for, how to create tutorials that match learning styles, based on usability studies of students from various cultural groups and styles of learning. The...