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Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information society. This international collection brings together practitioner and research...

Libraries all over the world have to deal with fast growing numbers of digital materials that need to be safeguarded. Publications in digital form, online or on CD, digitised images, and born-digital objects need to be preserved and kept accessible...

No detailed description available for "Guide to the Pergamon Museum".Book InformationISBN 9783112399330Author Mary McMahon HonanFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 183g

No detailed description available for "World Directory of Map Collections".Book InformationISBN 9783598203749Author John A. WolterFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint De Gruyter SaurPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 10g

E-Government is a hot topic. The integration of Information and Communication Technologies into public service delivery worldwide offers a number of promising opportunities. This text refers in particular to the benefits derived from ubiquitous access to...

The marketing of library services is an essential agenda item for almost all kinds of libraries all over the world. In this volume 47 experts from 20 countries address the issue through 40 articles. The bundling of dozens of contributions from a truly...

This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to...

Hybrid and Networked Dynamical Systems treats a class of systems that is ubiquitous in everyday life. From energy grids to fleets of robots or vehicles to social networks to biological networks, the same scenario arises: dynamical units interact locally...

This work provides access to a wealth of information. Reference librarians, students, zoologists, conservationists, and amateur naturalists can use it to locate such sources as a field guide to the birds of Bali, a checklist of the mammals of Africa, an...

The Big6 (TM) Research Notebook is designed to help you and your students successfully complete research and report assignments, while learning topics of interest using the Big6 (TM) approach. Using this tool, the teacher librarian can guide students...

This book provides a comprehensive update on the status of information literacy activities around the world, particularly from countries where no related literature in English has been published. In these collected papers, ranging from the practical to...

In the closing decades of the twentieth century, academic libraries responded to rapid changes in their environment by acquiring and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative new services and collaborative partnerships,...

Meet 100 Hispanics from around the world and throughout history who have lived amazing lives. This guide covers well known celebrities, such as actress Rita Moreno, activist Cesar Chavez, and musician Pablo Casals as well as more obscure individuals,...

This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions.In a globalized world,...

These papers focus on the topic of leadership in the library and information professions, providing an overview of institutes, programs and activities occurring around the world. Some are described in detail, outlining learning objectives, structure,...

The only book currently available that comprehensively integrates research and evaluation for evidence-based library and information science practice.Numerous books cover research and evaluation in general, but not within the context of library and...

A comprehensive guide to working with teen parents and their children that provides practical program ideas for successful school and public library program development, implementation, and evaluation.Teen parents and their children represent an...

Data Analytics and Statistics provides students with a comprehensive survey of the field, equipping them with the knowledge they need to understand and apply statistics across a broad spectrum of disciplines. Featuring a highly practical approach, the...

Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K-12 schools.With...

What do you do when you are offered any number of gifts including but not limited to artifacts, letters, historical documents, collections of pictures, postcards, arrowheads? This book helps you reject such offers (keeping the prospective donor happy) or...

This compilation reveals how followers help an organization get better and how effective followers-leading from the middle-are essential to the best kind of leadership. In "Leading from the Middle," and Other Contrarian Essays on Library Leadership,...

Controversial social problems currently facing Americans are addressed in these 12 astute bibliographic essays that synthesize the literature on the issues and outline strategies for locating additional information. A few of the issues covered are media...

Is the paperless society really possible? What is the future of paper in the Digital Age?Based on extensive statistics and six separate surveys, Paper to Digital explores the evolution and changing characteristics of documents in the Information Age...

Essential for collection development specialists in small and medium-sized libraries, RRB will help users quickly identify the best, most affordable, and most appropriate new reference materials in any field.Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of...

Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. Many universities and colleges, however, now have a new or renewed emphasis on outreach beyond the campus, seeking to...

This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best...

Get books moving off the library shelves and into the hands of children with this integrated package for thematic instruction. Sixteen chapters, based on such lively themes as Risky Reading (adventure stories), Horrendous Fun (monster stories), and Book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787151017Author Megan DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd.Publisher Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd.Weight(grams)...

The second edition of an award-winning text on government information for information professionals and those researching all branches of the US government.A comprehensive textbook for library school courses on US government information, the second...

The second edition of an award-winning text on government information for information professionals and those researching all branches of the US government.A comprehensive textbook for library school courses on US government information, the second...

Conservation research in libraries is a rapidly growing field. This book places analysis within its context in conservation and provides examples of how this expensive resource can be used. Through a series of case studies, it describes major analytical...

No detailed description available for "International directory of archives / Annuaire international des archives".Book InformationISBN 9783598212383Author International Council on ArchivesFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint De Gruyter SaurPublisher De...

Government Secrecy presents the best that has been thought and written on the subject, including history and philosophy, theory and practice, justification and critique. Through readings, which range from Georg Simmel on secrecy and Max Weber on...

The first edition of this handbook appeared in 1996 and dealt with academic libraries. It gained wide acceptance and was translated into five other languages.After ten years the new edition widens the perspective to public libraries and adds indicators...

The United Nations Millennium declarations of 2002 set eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The papers presented in this publication endeavour to address how libraries and information professionals in East, Central and...

Explains effective marketing strategies and identifies the tools needed to boost the visibility and increase the use of your library in the community.Marketing a library's programs or services takes more than sending out a flyer or posting an...

This annotated bibliography describes a variety of print and electronic reference sources published in the past two decades about Northern Africa, including the Maghreb, the Sahel Region, and the Horn of Africa. The book is organized in three sections...

This invaluable guide enables librarians as well as patrons and teachers to identify the best books for high school readers out of the thousands published each year.Now in its third edition, this essential resource supplies information on more than...

Catch the wave of enthusiasm that accompanies holiday celebrations, and use it to promote reading and literature throughout the year. Focusing on books for elementary readers published within the past five years, Blass introduces you to 200 of the best...

No detailed description available for "Newspapers in Central and Eastern Europe / Zeitungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa".Book InformationISBN 9783598218415Author Hartmut WalravensFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint De Gruyter SaurPublisher De...