Learn and perfect the skills needed to conduct satisfying reference interviews in the modern technological environment with this easy-to-use guide.In todays technology-driven world, reference librarians must serve users who come into the building as...Loe edasi...
In this book, experts in the field describe best practices based on their experiences in corporate libraries worldwide.With information driving todays global economy, corporate librarians must become even more proactive in their daily assignments. B...Loe edasi...
Authored by cataloging librarians, educators, and information system experts, this book of essays addresses ideas and methods for tackling the modern challenges of cataloging and metadata practices.Library specialists in the cataloging and metadata p...Loe edasi...
This book helps directors of small college libraries to plan, staff, and organize their facilities and make the right decisions to effectively contribute to their colleges mission.The purpose of this book is to provide the director of a small colleg...Loe edasi...
Connection. Competition. Collaboration. These three words define management of college libraries, today and in the future. They also describe the contents of this book, which focus on planning for the multiple directions that college library managers...Loe edasi...
These authors examine the unique social roles of libraries and museums, review historical precedents as well as library-museum partnerships funded in recent years through IMLS grants, and forge an exciting vision of a new library-museum hybrid. The j...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive look at issues that shape the nature of Human Resources in academic libraries. Libraries in varying academic environments have undergone tremendous change during the last two decades of the 20th century as they have...Loe edasi...
Strong archival programs are rare, in part because the archival field has not given sustained attention to program leadership and management issues over the years. As a consequence, many programs are underfunded and undersupported and lack sufficient...Loe edasi...
The public library director needs information that helps in understanding what is involved in planning for a public library building project. This applies whether the subject is a free standing independent building, a branch library, a joint-use faci...Loe edasi...
Health sciences librarianship today demands a balance among computer files, human ingenuity, and print sources. The many information sources presently available enable health sciences librarians to do a better job, but that job has also become corres...Loe edasi...
The National Information Infrastructure will bring information to the doorstep of every household. Librarianship must respond to this development through the National Electronic Library. Librarianship as a profession must set the information agenda i...Loe edasi...
Developmental disabilities are the most numerous of disabilities, and they are exceptionally complex. This professional reference overviews developmental disabilities, discusses the information needs of people with developmental disabilities, and pro...Loe edasi...
This professional reference provides solid advice to academic and public librarians for managing performing arts collections. The volume is divided into sections on the history of performing arts librarianship, dance collections, film studies collect...Loe edasi...
In a library, circulation is the process of lending books to borrowers and accurately reshelving them after they have been returned so that they will be retrievable by the next user. This basic cycle has many elaborations and sub-cycles attached to i...Loe edasi...
Solutions to the unique problems of academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas are provided in this professional handbook. Issues faced by the administrators of these libraries can differ markedly from those encountered by their counterparts...Loe edasi...
