Library Information Services category: 2034 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the short-term staff, and library personnel in general.
• Demonstrates how to get the most out of short-term...
Libraries Partnering with Self-Publishing: A Winning Combination
A Winning Combination
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
In this useful guidebook, you'll learn how to transform your library into a self-publishing center with pointers, advice, and strategies for creating, producing, and printing books—both digitally and on paper. The book outlines your partnering role with patrons in the creation of published materials,...
Leading the Common Core Initiative: A Guide for K–5 School Librarians
A Guide for K–5 School Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Defining both the Common Core Standards and the school librarian's role in their implementation, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans and other tools for grades K–5 and identifies opportunities for collaborative teaching.
• Defines the Common Core State Standards in English and mathematics
•...
by Sylvia M. Vardell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
The third edition of Children's Literature in Action provides an activity-oriented survey of children's literature for undergraduate and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees that will lead to careers working with children in schools and public libraries. Author Sylvia M. Vardell draws on...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Research remains a core purpose of every library. This book provides a text for LIS students and a practical handbook to librarians and other educators who need to conduct research in their libraries. In Research Methods for Librarians and Educators, contributors reinforce the essential nature of...
Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries
Building Community through Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
In Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration, Peggy Keeran and Carrie Forbes bring together a variety of ways academic libraries are engaging with their communities through outreach, with creativity and the spirit of collaboration as major themes throughout....
by Connie Hamner Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book demonstrates how government information can be used to engage students through inquiry and project-based activities, thereby providing opportunities for creative investigation and discovery.
• Supplies curated lists of free theme-based government sources
• Provides examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Libraries have recently begun doing more to support entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities. Makerspaces and business incubators have become featured attractions in public and academic libraries and provide a unique way to reach out to a user group that can bolster a community in...
Social Justice and Activism in Libraries
Essays on Diversity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library’s role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated. Librarians must serve as community leaders with a mission to educate and inform, ready to model the principles they support. The...
by Andrew McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Examines the essential elements of planning a move, and offers practical guidance to ensure minimum disruption to service.Topics covered include: planning; resources, equipment and furniture, staff, security, safety and insurance. Examines the opportunities for service review and development.
Teen Fandom and Geek Programming
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Fandom and geek programming has exploded in libraries in recent years. From anime-themed library lock-in events, cosplay contests, and video game tournaments, to an annual Harry Potter Yule Ball, libraries have embraced their inner geek and are hosting a wide variety of fandom programs. For those...
Classification Made Simple
An Introduction to Knowledge Organisation and Information Retrieval
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This established textbook introduces the essentials of classification as used for information processing. The third edition takes account of developments that have taken place since the second edition was published in 2002. Classification Made Simple provides a useful gateway to more advanced works...
A Broadening Conversation
Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
As the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) celebrates the important milestone of its 60th anniversary this year, the editors have brought together in a single-volume anthology some of the best contributions to this field. Essays and papers from the past sixty years are grouped into six...
Valutare la ricerca nelle scienze umane e sociali
Potenzialità e limiti della Library catalog analysis
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Il volume affronta le problematiche relative alla valutazione delle monografie scientifiche prodotte nell’ambito delle Scienze umane e sociali, e in particolare si concentra sulla Library catalog analysis, che prevede la verifica della presenza delle monografie nelle biblioteche come indicatore...