Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Creative Library Marketing and Publicity
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Creative Library Marketing and Publicity: Best Practices shares the success of libraries of various sizes and types—small to large public, academic, and school libraries, systems, and organizations. Each best-practice scenario describes a library’s successful experience with marketing, branding,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
For this new handbook BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) has brought together an unparalleled team of respected experts to provide authoritative and up-to-date best practice guidance on the key legal information issues for every type of service, focusing particularly on the balance...
by Paul Ticher
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The 1998 Data Protection Act provides a framework for the way in which organisations should collect and process personal information. It has far-reaching implications for library and information managers who hold personal data on computer or on paper, or who may be called on to advise their colleagues....
Library Automation: Core Concepts and Practical Systems Analysis, 3rd Edition
Core Concepts and Practical Systems Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Recent advances in technology such as cloud computing, recent industry standards such as RFID, bibliographic standards like RDA and BIBFRAME, the increased adoption of open source integrated library systems (ILS), and continued shift in users' expectations have increased the complexity of the decision...
Providing Reference Services
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Providing Reference Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians was written with the working librarian in mind; it focuses on specific methods and information to help foster effective, exceptional results. Topics covered include:
Reference services: basic information and background
Reference resources...
Encoding Across Frontiers
Proceedings of the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAD and EAC), Pa
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discover the history, development, and use of EAD, EAC, and EAG
Encoding Across Frontiers is a careful selection of the finest presentations from the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAD and EAC) held in Paris, France in October 2004. International experts explore...
Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment
Challenges for Librarians and Researchers in the Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Explore the issues that are changing user/librarian interactions in today’s evolving electronic libraries
This book examines the rapid advances in technology and scientific discovery that have changed the way sci/tech library users seek information-changes which have also necessitated increasingly...
Cloud-Based Services for Your Library
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Based on his first-hand experiences migrating the IT infrastructure of Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Mitchell's book bridges the gap between organizational and technical issues in decision making for cloud computing in libraries. The guidance he provides will help librarians select...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Librarian Jim Hahn has carefully culled the over 500,000 available apps down to the 100 that are the absolute best for day-in, day-out library services. The guide covers apps for Apple and Android devices, including tablets. Each entry in this long-needed guide contains:
• a basic summary...
by Michael E. Casey, Laura C. Savastinuk
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
In Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service, two of the first and most original thinkers on Library 2.0 introduce the essential concepts and offer ways to improve service to better meet the changing needs of 21st century library users. Describing a service model of constant and purposeful...
Selecting and Implementing an Integrated Library System
The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Selecting and Implementing an Integrated Library System: The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make focuses on the intersection of technology and management in the library information world. As information professionals, many librarians will be involved in automation projects and the management...
Digital Libraries
Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library!
Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios is a balanced overview of public services, collection development, administration, and systems support, for digital libraries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Librarianship is both an art and a science. Librarians study the science of information and how to work with clients to help them find solutions to their information needs. They also learn quickly that there is an art to working with people, to finding the answers to tough questions using the resources...
by Bryon D. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Design and deliver traditional reference services in new and innovative ways
Librarians work in an environment of constant change created by new technology, budget restraints, inflationary costs, and rising user expectations. New Directions in Reference examines how they can use new and innovative...