Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Accidental Information Discovery
Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age provides readers with an interesting discussion on the ways serendipity—defined as the accidental discovery of valued information—plays an important role in creative problem-solving.
This insightful resource brings...
Mergers and Alliances
The Operational View and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Volume 37 of Advances in Librarianship presents detailed examples of local and regional mergers and collaborations and serves as a companion to Volume 36 which presented a comprehensive broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, and the methods used to ensure effective and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Featuring contributions by active librarians from around the country, this guide offers a goldmine of quality books for children, spotlighting more than 500 titles published within the last four years. Ranging from books for newborns through readers to age 14, the selected books encompass a wide variety...
The New Information Literacy Instruction
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The new ACRL information literacy concepts brings renewed interest in information literacy instruction and skills for librarians. The New Information Literacy Instruction: Best Practices offers guidance in planning for and implementing information literacy instruction programs in a wide range of instructional...
by Patrick M. Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once generated, has to be communicated, preserved, and accessible. Books in their varying formats—from clay tablets to scrolls and manuscripts...
Teaching and Learning in Virtual Environments: Archives, Museums, and Libraries
Archives, Museums, and Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Useful to school librarians, teachers, and faculty, this book explains the range of possibilities for creating immersive learning experiences through the use of virtual worlds, virtual simulations, virtual collections, exhibits by libraries and museums, and archives.
• Explains how using...
Floating Collections: A Collection Development Model for Long-Term Success
A Collection Development Model for Long-Term Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Despite its increasing popularity, there are few published works about floating and floating collections. Virtually no one has addressed critical long-term issues like core collections, material selection, and weeding after floating has taken place. Floating Collections: A Collection Development Model...
A Practical Writing Guide for Academic Librarians
Keeping It Short and Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Mastering the skills necessary for clear, effective writing can make writing tasks flow more easily. This book helps academic librarians who are new to the profession or new to a supervisory or management position, as well as those who want to be more productive and make the their writing for work...
Digital Detectives
Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to...
Easy Technology Programs for Libraries
15 Quick and Popular Programs Your Patrons Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Are you a librarian struggling to stay engaged in a digital age? Facing budget concerns to keep existing programs running? Don’t have the staff or budget for specialized services? Wonder how to move beyond teaching your patrons HOW to use a computer?
This book gives you 15, step-by-step programs,...
Digital Dieting
From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem...
Searching the Grey Literature
A Handbook for Searching Reports, Working Papers, and Other Unpublished Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Searching the Grey Literature is for librarians interested in learning more about grey literature. If you have ever been asked for a grey literature search but didn’t know where to start, this book will help you craft your search successfully. If you are an expert searcher but find that your library...
The C-SPAN Archives
An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and preserves all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, and research uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, from all House and Senate sessions in the US Congress, to hearings, presidential speeches, conventions, and campaign events, totaling over...
Information Experience
Approaches to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
""The German word for experience - Erlebnis - the experience of the life, to live through something - underpins this book: making visible scholarly opportunities for richer and deeper contextualizations and examinations of the lived-world experiences of people in everyday contexts as they...