Library & Information Sciences

This book discovers how libraries evolved in the digital age with Libraries in Transformation: Navigating to AI-powered Libraries. This insightful ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

We are witnessing rapid development in computational technologies and its applications in industry, leading to the 5th industrial revolution. Indus...

The book is concerned with contemporary methodologies used for automatic text summarization. It proposes interesting approaches to solve well-known...

Linked Data for Digital Humanities provides insights into how digital technologies can enrich and diversify humanities scholarship and make it pion...

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the rol...

Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. While often considered separately, the relati...

This volume provides the basis for contemporary privacy and social media research and informs global as well as local initiatives to address issues...

Learn and perfect the skills needed to conduct satisfying reference interviews in the modern technological environment with this easy-to-use guide....

Celebrating the James A. Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award the authors examine issues of race, inclusion, diver...

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and I...

Academic, public, school, and special libraries are all institutions of human rights and social justice, with an increasingly apparent commitment t...

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that ...

How do we deal with challenging life events? Working across hundreds of research studies, Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting uncover...

An important component of library administration and organization in the modern age is managing projects. Once the realm of technology and busines...

This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institut...

Increasingly, more is being asked from library leaders and those who aspire to join their ranks. As the use of libraries changes, leaders need to i...

Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein and Matarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experience ...

Education for all can be more effectively provided through the services, programmes and activities of the school library tailored to the needs of t...

Today's research scholars face the problem of how to effectively navigate the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) while maintaini...

This book addresses the challenges associated with information provided in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the attendant opportunities tha...

Reflecting the new modelling for serials introduced by IFLAs Library Reference Model in the most recent revisions to RDA, this up-to-date resource ...

This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, c...

Praxiswissen (Professional Practice) is a series that offers professionals in libraries, archives, and related organizations comprehensive answers ...

A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Boo...

This book covers the basics of semantic web technologies and indexing languages, and describes their contribution to improve methods of formal know...

How do speakers of English as an additional language manage their talk and interaction in chat rooms? Christopher J.Jenks thoroughly analyses the i...

Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural...

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and recepti...

Marketing the 21st century library and information organization to its new age customers using Web 2.0 tools is a hot topic. These proceedings focu...

Band 5/2 der Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert behandelt vornehmlich Verlage der DDR. Er schließt damit an den ersten...

Library makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook edited by technology exp...

Helps readers understand what careers are available for graduates with a masters degree in library and information sciences.Written in a conversati...

Lessons, resources, and annotated answer keys for instructors at all levels in teaching copyright law. The teaching of copyright and related conce...

Patient engagement should be envisaged as a key priority today to innovate healthcare services delivery and to make it more effective and sustainab...

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, ps...

Helps readers understand what careers are available for graduates with a masters degree in library and information sciences. Written in a conversa...

This volume focuses on the Information and Communication (ICT) revolution and its impact on economic growth. Even though the emergence of the knowl...

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