Library & Information Sciences

Learn how gay men use Internet technologies to connect with others sharing their erotic desires and to forge affirming communities online! Getting ...

Specialized collections for tweens, or middle schoolers, are relatively new and becoming increasingly popular. This Practical Guide gives librarian...

In Radical Reads, Joni Richards Bodart identified 101 young adult books that featured gritty, complex plots, focused on multidimensional characters...

This book draws on both traditional and emerging fields of study to consider consider what a grounded definition of quantitative and qualitative re...

Adventure, fantasy, mystery/suspense—teens love genre fiction—and genre nonfiction! By focusing on the genres teens love, you'll find a great way t...

Whether you are teaching a single lesson, designing self-guided resources, or developing an entire information literacy course, Instructional Desig...

Videogames, Libraries, and the Feedback Loop: Learning Beyond the Stacks offers fresh perspectives of youth videogaming in public libraries. Abrams...

Libraries are exploring new roles and new partnerships on college campuses in order to improve students’ experiences and enable learning outside th...

Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South.As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States,...

Introduces and defines the documentation and decision making processes in collection development, explores organizational models for collection dev...

Cuneiform to Computer provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular...

This book, first published in 1986, contains a collection of remarkable essays analysing such topics as the nature of reading, the power of books, ...

Volunteers are one of the most overlooked and underused resources available to nonprofits and other organizations. This guide will help find willin...

Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them addresses the most common library management issues, examining mista...

The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented. The story of the public ...

Senior citizens (frequently referred to by the more inclusive term “older adults”) are one of the largest and fastest growing demographics in the w...

"[I]deal for readers seeking a more comprehensive look at information dissemination technology, its context, and its impact on the way in which we ...

The library programs featured in this unique collection are those that have been suggested, created, and led by youth with the help and guidance of...

For as long as there has been a press, fake news has played a role in the disruption of how factual information is shared among people. Misinformat...

To meet the demands of archivists increasingly tasked with the responsibility for hybrid collections, this indispensable guide covers contemporary ...

Critically acclaimed since its inception, "Advances in Librarianship" continues to be the essential reference source for developments in the field ...

The New Art Museum Library addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians ...