This handbook aims to be an integral text for students of library and information science and a ready-reference for information professional practitioners. The chapters provide a construct through which any information professional may learn abut the major challenges facing them in the early part of the 21st century.
Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein andMatarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experiencein public, academic, government, and special library settings, includingexperienced independent information professionals, to address the criticalissues facing Information Management (IM) today.
This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in whichinformation professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to helpdemonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areasof employment and career development, ripe for applying the InformationServices skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with commonthemes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to theIM landscape. Used as a ready-reference, the IM practitioner will find boththeoretical and pragmatic approaches to inform their decision making ontraditional as well as new challenges.
For information and IM professionals, librarians, and students, thismust-have handbook provides invaluable insights from the leading names in thefield, enabling you to make the best decision no matter what challenges youface.
Library and information professionals present an integral text for masters of library science students and a reference for information professional practitioners, but warn that it does not encompass all modern information theories, procedures, and practices. Whether read sequentially or in topical combinations around common themes, they say, the chapters provide a construct through which both students and practitioners may learn about the major challenges facing them in the early part of the 21st century, and find some guidance in how to tackle them. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
