Library & Information Services

The complete data set from ACRL's comprehensive statistics-gathering project encompassing all academic libraries: one which includes institutions i...

In an environment where increasing amounts of information (and fake news) flood the internet on websites and social media, the information professi...

Updated with the 2018 award and honor books, this perennial favorite gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's li...

As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and ...

Offering the promise of sharing scholarship, open-access journals have become widespread in recent years; but so have misunderstandings about such ...

Government information is an integral part of library work. Sifting through the massive amount of government data available to find the answers and...

Avant-garde thinkers, leading library practitioners, and well-known scholars share revelations and recommendations regarding innovative initiatives...

The shift in scholarly communication has called for new ways to measure scholarly impact. Altmetrics has recently garnered significant attention wi...

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...

Public libraries are keystone public institutions for any thriving community, and as such can be leaders in making cities better places to work, pl...

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...