Library & Information Sciences

National Archives store materials relating to the history of a nation, usually operated by the government of that nation. This is the first ever ...

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of posit...

Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Bannin...

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

Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for medi...

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography,...

The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program unveils the almost forgotten phil...

This book, first published in 1999, suggests proven, effective strategies to deal with a librarian's most pressing problems. One case study shows h...

This book, first published in 1939, deals with the elements of classification and cataloguing from the school library point of view. The Dewey, Che...

Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natura...

Published in 1992, like the first, this second edition is not intended as introductory textbook command-driven, Boolean searching. It is targeted a...

The services provided by the twenty-first century medical library are evolving, from circulating print materials, interlibrary loan, and traditiona...

This book, first published in 2002, examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional collection d...

The Sears List of Subject Headings, an outstanding name amongst subject headings lists, is used all over the world in small and medium sized librar...

This book, first published in 1999, analyses the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like...

Published in 1992, like the first, this second edition is not intended as introductory textbook command-driven, Boolean searching. It is targeted a...

This edited book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into information literacy instru...

Supporting tomorrow’s doctors involves preparing them for the technologies that will be available to them. 3D printing is one such technology that ...

This book, first published in 1939, looks at the collecting, conserving and use of the materials of local history, collected in local libraries. It...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...