Library & Information Services

Drawing on her expertise as a leading consultant on human resource issues in the library, Paula Singer addresses the often fraught issue of plannin...

This inspiring book will enable academic librarians to develop excellent research and instructional services and create a library culture that enco...

This practical guide offers innovative tips and reliable best practice to enable new and experienced library and information professionals to evalu...

Children's and young adult librarians are crucial links to effective learning for students. This straightforward handbook is filled with nuts-and-b...

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale Universitys Beinecke Library, one of the worlds great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this ...

This book reviews marketing library and information services with a new perspective, and is written against the backdrop of the changing approaches...

In an age of internet resource guides, which suffer from the malaise of being outdated before they are published, this much-needed publication addr...

Implementing web scale discovery systems such as Summon, EBSCO EDS and Primo Discovery require huge shifts in the way we operate as information pro...

Most commentaries to date on library use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter have focused on a handful of well-funded public libraries ...

'Every day is a perfect day to read this Shari Low Eleanor Sharpley has been living a lie...Needing to escape her London life quickly, Eleanor thro...

A celebration of children, families, and reading held annually since 1996, Children''s Day/Book Day, known as Dia, emphasizes the importance of lit...

With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries com...

In their definitive new Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, editors Weible and Janke clearly explain the complexities of getting materials for pa...

Community Engagement: Principles, Strategies and Practices is a collection of chapters written by engaged scholars. The authors of the chapters wor...

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

This collection, based on interviews with 14 librarians and other library staff working in Scotland in the twentieth century, tells the stories of ...

A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our lib...

In resource poor, cost saving times, this book provides practical advice on new methods and technologies involved in systematic searching and explo...

In resource poor, cost saving times, this book provides practical advice on new methods and technologies involved in systematic searching and explo...

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...