Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Game It Up!
Using Gamification to Incentivize Your Library
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Using game theory and mechanics in non-game settings to promote engagement and learning is a new trend in both business and education sectors. Savvy marketers are gamifying their efforts by offering customers loyalty badges, check-in incentives, and achievement rewards and clever employers are leveraging...
Research Methods for Students, Academics and Professionals
Information Management and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Research is such an important subject for information professionals that there will always be a need for effective guides to it. Research skills are a prerequisite for those who want to work successfully in information environments, an essential set of tools which enable information workers to become...
by Leslie B. Preddy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
An essential resource for intermediate, middle, and high school librarians that guides the planning, learning, and implementation of a school library makerspace.
• Explains how to transform school libraries—always considered a destination for thinking and learning—to also be the place...
Search-Based Applications
At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generating enormous volumes of electronic data along the...
by Kathryn Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Going green is now a national issue, and patrons expect their library to respond in the same way many corporations have. Libraries are going green with logos on their Web sites, programs for the public, and a host of other initiatives. This is the first book to focus strictly on the library’s role...
Information Literacy Landscapes
Information Literacy in Education, Workplace and Everyday Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Drawing upon the author’s on going research into information literacy, Information Literacy Landscapes explores the nature of the phenomenon from a socio-cultural perspective, which offers a more holistic approach to understanding information literacy as a catalyst for learning. This perspective...
Ways of Experiencing Information Literacy
Making the Case for a Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book has two aims: firstly to present an investigation into information literacy by looking at how people engage with information to accomplish tasks or solve problems in personal, academic and professional contexts (also known as the relational approach). This view of information literacy illustrates...
by Svetla Baykoucheva
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the approaches and tools developed to manage scientific information and data....
Front-Line Librarianship
Life on the Job for Today’s Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates. The book's author presents an unrivalled portrait of front-line librarianship that is based upon...
Not in My Library!
"Berman's Bag" Columns from The Unabashed Librarian, 2000-2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Foreword by Mitch Freedman, a reprinted Counterpoise interview and 45 of Sanford Berman’s U*L columns dealing with book-burning, genocide, government secrecy and repression, cataloging, indexing, classism, self-censorship and free speech for library staff (et cetera!). Index by Chris Dodge.
Radical Information Literacy
Reclaiming the Political Heart of the IL Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
What would a synthetic theory of Digital, Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) look like? Radical Information Literacy presents, for the first time, a theory of DMIL that synthesises the diversity of perspectives and positions on DMIL, both in the classroom and the workplace, and within the informal...
Children's Literature Gems
Choosing and Using Them in Your Library Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Master the huge array of quality children’s books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children’s librarian Elizabeth Bird. With her strong passion for children’s books and the profession, Bird will help you Build and manage your children’s collection Strike a balance...
Libraries, Literacy, and African American Youth: Research and Practice
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
According to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP), only 18 percent of African American fourth graders and 17 percent of African American eighth graders performed at or above proficiency in reading in 2013. This book draws on research from various academic fields to explore the issues...
Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the Twenty-First Century
An Ever-Changing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) set forth Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline. Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a real-world, practical...