Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Shelflisting Music
Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification: M
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Library music materials require a more complex shelflisting approach than books in order to account for extremely prolific composers, works with generic titles, opus numbers, and thematic index numbers. Shelflisting Music provides clear, straightforward instructions and flowcharts to guide the cataloger...
Introducing RDA
A Guide to the Basics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new cataloguing standard that will replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). The 2010 release of RDA is not the release of a revised standard; it represents a shift in the understanding of the cataloguing process. Author Chris Oliver, Cataloguing...
by Janneka Guise
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstrates the lack of reported succession planning activities in Canadian academic libraries. Site visits...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The results of decades of research shows that children and adolescents encounter challenges and obstacles in searching for information and retrieving relevant results, and have difficulty interpreting results within various information environments. However, a recent paradigm shift points to the changed...
Reading Groups, Libraries and Social Inclusion
Experiences of Blind and Partially Sighted People
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion agenda, have expanded to include a wide range of groups within society, including people with visual impairments (VIPs)....
by Rob Reid
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Best-selling children’s author Reid knows a thing or two about getting kids’ attention and holding it. His advice? Cut out the blah-blah-blah and make ‘em laugh! In his new book, aimed squarely at the preschool/elementary school crowd, he highlights dozens of programming and title suggestions that...
Practising Information Literacy
Bringing Theories of Learning, Practice and Information Literacy Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community...
The Common Core in Grades 4-6
Top Nonfiction Titles from School Library Journal and The Horn Book Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The Classroom Go-To Guide for the Common Core is the first in a series of comprehensive tools to tap into the vast flow of recently published books for children and teens, offering recommendations of exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency meets authority, brought to you by the editors...
The Phenomenon of Information
A Conceptual Approach to Information Flow
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
We are surrounded by information. Even the most routine situations in which we find ourselves conceal a hidden information flow. Every step we take, a host of signals meet us, providing information about what is happening in other parts of reality. The cherry tree in bloom reveals that spring has...
Gender Issues and the Library
Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
With the legalization of same-sex marriage and the explosion of LGBTQ news coverage in recent years, gender studies is a subject of intense interest in popular media and a part of the curriculum at many colleges. Libraries realize the importance of supporting the field yet many have difficulty finding...
Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security
Key Terms and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Building on Goldman’s Words of Intelligence and Maret’s On Their Own Terms this is a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in intelligence, security, and information policy. This comprehensive resource defines key terms of the theoretical, conceptual, and organizational aspects...
by Ofer Bergman, Steve Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently.
Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts...
Open Access
What You Need to Know Now
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Academic libraries routinely struggle to afford access to expensive journals, and patrons may not be able to obtain every scholarly paper they need. Is Open Access (OA) the answer? In this ALA Editions Special Report, Crawford helps readers understand what OA is (and isn’t), as he concisely * Analyzes...
Finding and Using U.S. Government Information
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
The United States Federal Government produces a massive trove of valuable information – but these resources are often difficult to locate and utilize, requiring the addition of another layer of cognizance and expertise to the librarian’s traditional skill set. Finding and Using**U.S. Government...