Oppenheim, a retired professor and consultant on legal issues in library and information science, explains the legal principles related to using Web 2.0 or cloud computing applications for information
Digital libraries have grown quickly as electronic access to information has become more widespread. But while evaluations and feedback from users is considered essential in many environments, the aut
Ninety-three authors share forty-seven papers providing a host of examples of the effective involvement of undergraduates with primary sources found in archives and special collections. The papers are
Being a great teacher is part and parcel of being a great librarian. In this book, the author, a veteran instruction services librarian lays out the fundamentals of the discipline in easily accessible
Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of study that investigateshow people interact with information; its subfield human information behavior (HIB) is aflourishing, active discipline
This book demonstrates that public librarians can promote learning by combining the elements of Information Literacy Instruction (ILI) with traditional practices of public libraries. It not only provi
Author Wichman (Milford-Miami Township Branch, Clermont County Public Library) presents step-by-step plans for 32 passive programming ideas targeted to children, teens, and adults, using common materi
Take your research skills beyond googling--for school and for life. Armed with this lively guidebook, students will be ready to face the often daunting prospect of conducting serious research in th
"Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, information within documents, and metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the W
Information services are economic and organizational activities for informing people. Because informing is changing rapidly under the influence of internet-technologies, this book presents in Chapter
Dawson, an academic support librarian in information services at the London School of Economics and Political Science Library, UK, helps academic library staff locate answers to the most common querie
Tribal libraries, archives, and museums are unique settings that balance tribal protocols and infuse their services with expressions of tribal lifeways, from their footprints on the land to their arch
Langhorne and other teacher-librarians from the Iowa City Community School District, supply school librarians with a guide to teaching twenty-first century literacies so students have skills as reader
Librarians, publishers, and others concerned with reference information, explore ways to harmonize reference services at libraries with the resources now available and with the approaches and techniqu
This work presents the results of research conducted in 2007-2009 by researchers and practitioners in library science and information systems in 25 developing countries, who were led by a team from th
Knoer, (U. of Kentucky, Lexington) offers a practical well-organized guide to helping library patrons get the information they need. She covers the in person reference interview as well as those condu
The organization of this text/resource for reference librarians and students follows the syllabus of a typical LIS course, covering key concepts, resources, search techniques, and managerial tasks of
The latest edition of the Big6 Workshop Handbook contains the information that is current and essential to understanding and implementing this premier information literacy model.
Noting that reference librarians are competing with other sources of information in today's society, Murphy (research and reference, Ohio State U. Libraries) helps them transform their function into l
