Library & Information Sciences

Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisit...

Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisit...

Since 1998 when FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) was first published by IFLA, the effort to develop and apply FRBR has been...

Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and pro...

How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? Fr...

Since this handbook was first published in 1994, interest in the book as a material object, and in the ways in which books have been owned, read an...

Has the art of accompaniment been lost in Western culture? Could non-judgemental accompaniment be the answer to rising levels of isolation and lone...

In 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the re...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

This book highlights the role of libraries and archives in preserving the memory of official-language minority communities (OLMCs) and their contri...

This book highlights the role of libraries and archives in preserving the memory of official-language minority communities (OLMCs) and their contri...

Academic library hiring can be a bureaucratic and exclusionary process. Inclusive hiring practices can help libraries recenter the people in the pr...

Turkey offers an interesting case study, both when it comes to the practice and the regulation of digitalization, as it combines a Western economic...

This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins...

Spatial literacythe ability to visualize, understand, and use the properties of space to communicate, reason, and problem-solveis relevant to publi...

Discover 50 of the world's most magnificent hidden libraries - each with a unique and uplifting story to tell - featuring a foreword by librarian, ...