Academic & Specialist Libraries

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...

Whether the library assessment is driven by external pressure or by an organizationally inspired desire to improve, library managers are expected t...

Focusing on academic libraries and librarians who are extending the boundaries of e-learning, this collection of essays presents new ways of usi...

Interdisciplinarity in Academic Libraries addresses an emerging yet largely unexamined strategic priority for academic and research libraries: inte...

Hendrik Fagel the Younger (17651838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forc...

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each...

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