This benchmark text serves as the perfect guide for beginners and a quick reference tool for seasoned professionals. For the new fifth edition, expert instructor and librarian Johnson is joined by technical services expert Weber. Th...More info...
Librarians who work with readers will find this well-loved guide to be a treasure trove of information. With descriptive annotations of thousands of genre titles mapped by genre and subgenre, this is the readers advisors go-to reference....More info...
Focusing on the acquisitions of c. 850 manuscripts and printed books by the celebrated English book-collector Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) in Switzerland, this research explores the workings of the market specialising in rare books there in the f...More info...
Focusing on education and library research, this book aims to be a practical guide on how to create PhD theses effectively, incorporating scholarly publications written during candidature....More info...
Focusing on education and library research, this book aims to be a practical guide on how to create PhD theses effectively, incorporating scholarly publications written during candidature....More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765156247)
Library support staff who work with collections assist with the processes that put library materials on the shelf or online; this work requires knowledge and understanding of publishers, vendors, preparing items for use, and caring for items in th...More info...
In this one book, youll find everything a library support staff member needs to know to meet ALAs competencies for support staff working with library collections. Library support staff who work with collections assist with the processes...More info...
This book takes a look at the future of technical services post-pandemic and at the brink of technological disruptions through a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility lens.Libraries have undergone a tremendous change tha...More info...
This book takes a look at the future of technical services post-pandemic and at the brink of technological disruptions through a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility lens.Libraries have undergone a tremendous transforma...More info...
This book offers a concentrated approach to information science, piecing together each aspect to provide an overall analysis of the discipline. By answering the key question of what information science is as opposed to data science or library sci...More info...
A core text for those teaching library and information science as well as practising librarians or those working in information and communication fields, Information Science is an authoritative and subject-defining publication. What...More info...
Rooted in posing the key question how do the activities of the information literacy community fulfil the characteristics of a discipline? this handbook provides a new approach to framing information literacy as a soft applied discipline. This b...More info...
This comprehensive and subject-defining handbook draws together the work of an international group of researchers and educators to collectively recognize information literacy (IL) as a maturing soft applied discipline. This comprehe...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, ISBN-13: 9798892553308)
Because school librarians assume so many roles—leader, advocate, instructional partner, teacher, information specialist, and program administrator—their responsibilities vary widely. It’s impossible to be an expert in everything related to the job, e...More info...
Series: Current Topics in Library and Information Practice
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Saur, ISBN-13: 9783111174617)
This book addresses the challenges associated with information provided in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the attendant opportunities that arise for libraries and other information services. Robotic technology and artificial i...More info...
This book explores how transparent, interpretable AI technologies can support sustainable progress across industries and societies. It brings together theoretical foundations and practical applications of explainable AI (XAI) aligned with the UN’s...More info...
This important guide will help LIS instructors, educators, librarians, students, and scholars better understand Asian American children’s and young adult literature in a historical, geographical, and political context. This important gu...More info...
Behavioral Insights in Cybersecurity: A Guide to Digital Human Factors by Dr. Dustin S. Sachs is a timely and essential resource for cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and organizational strategists seeking to understand the powerful rol...More info...
Behavioral Insights in Cybersecurity: A Guide to Digital Human Factors by Dr. Dustin S. Sachs is a timely and essential resource for cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and organizational strategists seeking to understand the powerful rol...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, ISBN-13: 9798892553292)
In this book, authors motivate and inspire with anecdotes and strategies to develop student volunteers from learners to leaders, managing their school library and supporting their learning community-- Provided by publisher. Creating a libra...More info...
Continuing Change, Constant Engagement considers the current environment, impact, and future directions of academic libraries in the Caribbean. Continuing Change, Constant Engagement considers the current environme...More info...
Originally published in 1960, the early history of news-gathering, of advertisement blocks and displayed advertising, of women’s magazine, are among the varied aspects of the London printing trade discussed in this book. Separate chapters are devo...More info...
The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large not to mention library customers and society as a whole. This textbook and comprehensive res...More info...
(Pub. Date: 03-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, ISBN-13: 9798892553056)
This book explores the exciting and transformative role of AI in school libraries, offering practical strategies, insights, and tools for school librarians to integrate AI into their daily instructional and working practices-- Provided by publisher...More info...
This ground-breaking new legal librarianship book serves as an invaluable resource for practicing law librarians who want to be at the forefront of information technology and law libraries.Law librarianship is a constantly evolvin...More info...
This ground-breaking new legal librarianship book serves as an invaluable resource for practicing law librarians who want to be at the forefront of information technology and law libraries.Law librarianship is a constantly evolvin...More info...
Deepens librarians and school principals understanding of each others domains and how they can collaborate for the benefit of their students and communities-- Provided by publisher. Describes how school librarians and principals ca...More info...
A practical guide for new school librarians entering the field as well as an introduction to basic library science skills for non-professionals who manage school libraries-- Helps paraprofessionals and new school librarians begin thei...More info...
Drawing on the popularity of fairy-tale literature and its retellings, this guide provides insightful annotations to all the major picture books and novels for children and teens-- Drawing on the popularity of fairy-tale literature an...More info...
Drawing on the popularity of fairy-tale literature and its retellings, this guide provides insightful annotations to all the major picture books and novels for children and teens....More info...
Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures examines the infrastructural qualities of museum work that influence the ability of cultural institutions to support participatory and socially inclusive missions.Drawing on data gathered...More info...
Focusing on U.S. academic libraries, Rewiring the Academic Library begins by providing a concise history of the traditional role and function of academic libraries from their earliest times up to the dawn of Digital Age and the spread of digital tech...More info...
The information most essential for life in the modern world falls under the rubric of scholarly communication: the vast and ever-growing body of words and data produced by scholarly researchers, the majority of whom work in academia. Schola...More info...
This book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing and implementing evaluation projects targeting a variety of DEI goals in academic library collections.Offering both flexibility and detailed guidance, Assessing A...More info...
Offering future school librarians, teachers, and working librarians an alternative to lengthier textbooks on childrens literature, this engaging book introduces readers to the most important genres and current conversations in the field while leavi...More info...
Offering future school librarians, teachers, and working librarians an alternative to lengthier textbooks on childrens literature, this engaging book introduces readers to the most important genres and current conversations in the field while leavin...More info...
The second edition of an award-winning text on government information for information professionals and those researching all branches of the US government. The second edition of an award-winning text on government information for infor...More info...
This book explores and critiques the concept of participation in applied theatre both theoretically and practically, through case studies drawn from a diverse range of places including Kenya, Brazil and Canada. One of the concepts central to applied...More info...
The second edition of an award-winning text on government information for information professionals and those researching all branches of the US government-- The second edition of an award-winning text on government information for informat...More info...
- Everything librarians, archivists, and museum professionals need to learn about marketing and social media today. Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a much-needed guide to marketing f...More info...
(Pub. Date: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765152867)
- Everything librarians, archivists, and museum professionals need to learn about marketing and social media today. Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a much-needed guide to marketing f...More info...
This book provides a comprehensive reference for anyone looking to enter or working in digital content in the cultural sector. There is very little professional training for digital content. Internet advice abounds, but changes rapidly, and i...More info...
Digital Content in Museums provides a comprehensive grounding in the skills, best practices and tools needed for digital content editors and managers to succeed in the museums, galleries, libraries and heritage sector.Focusing on how...More info...
(Pub. Date: 12-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, ISBN-13: 9798892553254)
This book is intended to be a practical handbook for new instruction librarians and those who are training or managing them-- Provided by publisher. Written by a team of library instructors whose “experience and expertise in this field is e...More info...
This book is aimed at library and information professionals who are interested in broadening their knowledge of cataloging. Combining theory and practical knowledge, this guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of catalog...More info...
Combining theory and practical knowledge, this guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem. Aimed at library a...More info...
A manifesto for the importance of books and a guide to expanding your reading horizons by the much-loved writer, critic, poet and translator who has read it all...More info...
(Pub. Date: 11-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, ISBN-13: 9798892552806)
From this incisive guidebook, readers at any level of experience, from LIS students to seasoned professionals, will learn the fundamentals of marshaling data in ethical ways for library advocacy, social justice, and inclusivity. In today’s po...More info...
Following the historical analysis that focused on the actors and the institutions of book culture in the first volume, volume two discuss writing strategies in the global licensing realm, as well as revealing the form, character, and structure of...More info...
Angelo Moreno, Kelly McElroy, Meredith Kahn, Emily Drabinski
Series: Critical Cultural Information Studies
(Pub. Date: 08-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, ISBN-13: 9798892555227)
Interest in unions and the real, day-to-day benefits they secure for employees is on the rise—including among library workers, who are beginning to realize that on their own they have little leverage. But with a union they have the power of numbers,...More info...
The book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics in order to construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality. It re-examines key issues such as referential information, the metaphysics of form...More info...
