Academic & Specialist Libraries

Learning Beyond the Classroom explores activities that can help develop students information literacy knowledge, stimulate them academically and cr...

The Library of Trinity College Dublin dates back to the establishment of the College in 1592 and is the largest library in Ireland. Its extensive c...

Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It ...

In 1934 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott began work on designs for a substantial new library building opposite the Old Bodleian Library site in Broad Street...

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all age...

The Emerging Information Professional explores trends and demystifies emerging technologies that affect and shape the practice of the Librarian/inf...

This inspiring book will enable academic librarians to develop excellent research and instructional services and create a library culture that enco...

This practical guide offers innovative tips and reliable best practice to enable new and experienced library and information professionals to evalu...

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale Universitys Beinecke Library, one of the worlds great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this ...

Implementing web scale discovery systems such as Summon, EBSCO EDS and Primo Discovery require huge shifts in the way we operate as information pro...

Information has become one of the most crucial commodities in todays world. From multinational corporations to single individuals, we all make crit...

The new essays on today''s academic librarians examine above all their functions and responsibilities-since these have greatly changed just in rece...

Research Impact Measurement is a pressing issue for academic and research libraries. Aimed at library and information professionals working in rese...

Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the librarys catalogue? How many mile...

Academic and public libraries are much different today than they were even 15 years ago. And with even bigger changes on the horizon, what lies in ...

Riches of the Rylands explores and celebrates the outstanding Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library. These collections of rar...