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As political polarization has continued to grow within and beyond the United States in past decades, the challenges of engaging in open and constructive dialogue have become increasingly apparent. The effects of this tension are evident in numerous...

Academic Library Job Descriptions: CLIPP #46 contains a thorough literature review and bibliography, analysis and discussion of survey results, and sample job descriptions for a variety of positions including assistant director of library services,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838918128Author Amanda L. GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Association of College & Research LibrariesPublisher Association of College &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522587569Author Collence Takaingenhamo ChisitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint IGI GlobalPublisher IGI Global

Become the ultimate Game Master and deliver tabletop role-playing games with confidence!For librarians, teachers, school staff and parents who want to run a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) but don't know where to begin, this practical guide includes...

Provides librarians and teachers with innovative ideas for producing a marketing plan, newsletters, social media marketing, library programming, and more to position the library as an essential resource.Is your school library struggling to gain...

How Thomas Jefferson's vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it - and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction examines how the...

How Thomas Jefferson's vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it - and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction examines how the...

Learn how libraries can develop and use collections, space, resources, and programs to expand racial literacy in their communities.Libraries are no longer simply providers of basic literacy - they're evolving to meet community needs for an expanding list...

Describes how school librarians and principals can collaborate for the benefit of their students and communities.School library professionals around the world understand that the leadership of the school principal impacts the success of the school...

High-speed connectivity, massive growth in social media, the ubiquity of mobile devices, and the emergence of artificial intelligence have led to information confusion, chaos and complexity. The ability for everyone to create, find, evaluate, use and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787151031Author Jimmy ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd.Publisher Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd.Weight(grams)...

This collection of tales represents and preserves the oral heritage of Arctic and Subarctic ethnic groups, so that their stories are no longer in danger of becoming lost to future generations. Far North Tales: Stories from the Peoples of the Arctic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892555760Author Kim BecnelFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint ALA EditionsPublisher ALA EditionsWeight(grams) 454g

With new awareness about the implications of sharing personal data, there is increasing emphasis on privacy issues. Both in wider society and on campus, those who provide personal information and those who collect it are asking tough questions about...

Private Philanthropic Trends in Academic Libraries is written with the senior library administrator and the development officers of academic institutions in mind. Chapters provide a historical perspective of the funding trends of the private...

Do librarians 'rock the boat'? Do they challenge those around them to win influence and advantage? Why is it that librarians are little found on the 'influence' grid of personality assessment tests? The Machiavellian Librarian offers real life examples...

Academic Quality and Integrity in the New Higher Education Digital Environment: A Global Perspective provides discussions on the work of three editors who have significant experience in the quality assurance of teaching and learning and have been...

Workplace culture refers to conditions that collectively influence the work atmosphere. These can include policies, norms, and unwritten standards for behavior. This book focuses on various aspects of workplace culture in academic libraries from the...

An exploration of information literacy and ICT skills education from the point of view of social and political theory. The author incorporates theories to argue why the idea of information literacy is so important in the 21st century, and also to develop...

Academic and professional publishing represents a diverse communications industry rooted in the scholarly ecosystem, peer review, and added value products and services. Publishers in this field play a critical and trusted role, registering, certifying,...

Intangible value leads to new insights and ideas, and higher levels of creativity and innovative thinking. Personal knowledge capital focuses on the knowledge worker, knowledge creation, and third generation knowledge management. A focus on the 'inner...

Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection's life cycle...

This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students, faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on campus, and in the local community. This book illustrates...

Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990's Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of information growth continues unabated. This wealth of information provides resources for adapting to the problems...

The digital libraries emerging from "information societies" no longer concern only digital technodocumentary devices that are patrimonial, cultural or scientific. Social networks and high-audience merchant sites share the same technologies, heterogeneous...

The term 'customer service' is not new to the academic library community. Academic libraries exist to serve the needs of their community, and hence customer service is essential. However, the term can be applied in a variety of ways, from a thin veneer...

In the knowledge economy, professionals have to make decisions about non-tangible, non-monetary, and largely invisible resources. Information professionals need to understand the potential uses, contributions, value, structure, and creation of broadly...

Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development. Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success,...

Supporting Research Writing explores the range of services designed to facilitate academic writing and publication in English by non-native English-speaking (NNES) authors. It analyses the realities of offering services such as education, translation,...

This book examines the problems, pitfalls and opportunities of different models of assessing research quality, drawing on studies from around the world. Aimed at academics, education officials and public servants, key features include an overview of the...

The primary purpose of Pursuing Information Literacy is to inspire individual thinking and application. The book reviews important information literacy and its social significance and the application of information literacy in a number of different...

Aimed at professionals and trainee professionals within the library and information service (LIS) fields, this book reminds the reader of the frequently ignored communication-gulf between the professional and the layman, and in particular the lack of...

Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia...

Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections examines the rise of the "LAM," an acronym that stands for libraries, archives and museums. In doing so, this book profiles leading experts-librarians, archivists and museum curators-who specialise in East...

The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research. The Librarian's Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud is a practical guide to using cloud services from a librarian's point of view. As well as discussing how to use various...

Measuring Academic Research outlines how to undertake a bibliometric study, a topic of vital importance in academic research today. Scientometrics studies assess scientific productivity and can be applied to all disciplines. Many analyses have been...

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their scientific output. Understanding these concepts will help them during their...

Graphs are about connections, and are an important part of our connected and data-driven world. A Librarian's Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web is geared toward library and information science professionals, including librarians, software...

Aimed at academics, academic managers and administrators, professionals in scientometrics, information scientists and science policy makers at all levels. This book reviews the principles, methods and indicators of scientometric evaluation of information...