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A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity fosters a platform for information scientists to engage in reflection and contemplation regarding the profound questions of our era. By drawing insights from...

Telling the story of a library through assessment has always been an essential aspect of library administration and management, but doing this work effectively can be challenging. Academic libraries are increasingly being asked to demonstrate impact and...

Critical Voices in Library and Information Work presents 25 profiles of notable, transformational library and information science (LIS) workers in the United States, Canada, and the UK, all of whom are involved in progressive library and information work...

Multispecies Information Science offers a comprehensive overview of this subfield, shifting the focus beyond humans to explore the rich and complex realms of information and knowledge shared with animals, plants, microbes, technologies, and landscapes...

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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 transformation that has been...

This book explores the multifaceted role cognitive load has on one's learning journey, while introducing actionable approaches and resources to help bolster success.Multiple deadlines, competing responsibilities, an endless barrage of information, and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2025, which took place in Yokohama, Japan, during October 10-12, 2025. The 22 full papers, 3 short papers and 5 posters included in...

This book explores the multifaceted role cognitive load has on one's learning journey, while introducing actionable approaches and resources to help bolster success.Multiple deadlines, competing responsibilities, an endless barrage of information, and...

Museums are responsible for sharing and preserving cultural records in an accessible way with and for the communities around them. In the United States, over 100 million people speak languages other than English, yet most museums prioritize solely...

Alive and aloud with women’s own voices, this is the UK’s first comprehensive celebration of library-led feminism: capturing the underrated yet radical work taking place across our female-centric sector to catalyse gender justice through social,...

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Alive and aloud with women’s own voices, this is the UK’s first comprehensive celebration of library-led feminism: capturing the underrated yet radical work taking place across our female-centric sector to catalyse gender justice through social,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, LATINCRYPT 2025, held in Medellin, Colombia, in October 2025. The 17 full papers included in this book were...

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If you want to manage your research data better but don't know where to begin, this short workbook will help you get started! The Data Management Workbook helps researchers design useful data-management plans through a step-by-step series of...

Learn how to create a library culture that not only empowers and supports its staff but provides compassionate and innovative services, helping customers and communities thrive.Everyone wants a supportive workplace where they are valued, trusted, and...

Learn how to create a library culture that not only empowers and supports its staff but provides compassionate and innovative services, helping customers and communities thrive.Everyone wants a supportive workplace where they are valued, trusted, and...

Step into a world where school libraries are genuinely transformative environments, promoting active learning, literacy, and connection.In this hands-on guide, author Hannah Little passionately advocates for recognizing school library spaces as catalysts...

This is an edited collection of sustainability efforts in academic libraries, partnering with various types of institutions and organizations, including libraries from higher education that are public or private, research universities, degree-awarding or...

This practical guide, written from different perspectives and applying to all library types, explains how to create healthy library workplaces.While library work is often imbued with a strong sense of purpose and mission, it's still work-messy,...

This book explores how marketing strategies - used in businesses and organizations - can be applied to promote libraries by placing users at the heart of every decision. It positions the library within a rich and diverse cultural ecosystem that includes...

Social Justice in Library and Information Science addresses an urgent need for more credible, accurate, authoritative, authentic, and current experiences about library and information science (LIS) research, practices, policies, and services in the...

This detailed overview on artificial intelligence in libraries is a history, a guide for librarians, and a resource for students and researchers.Artificial intelligence is an extremely important but little-understood topic, including in libraries. This...

Provides an approach to information literacy centered around faculty development to support academic librarians in building more scalable, sustainable, and impactful information literacy programs.Academic librarians devote significant effort to teaching...

Our cultural heritage institutions live today in a world that persistently blends the alternating currents of the known and "touchable" world with an immediate and intimate digital unfolding with shapes and intentions beyond what we can know.These...

This book offers library and archive professionals a comprehensive guide to optimizing processes, with a focus on improving efficiency, speed, effectiveness, and reliability.Professionals in libraries and archives often are asked to take on decades old...

This second edition of The Digital Humanities Coursebook provides critical frameworks for the application of digital humanities tools and platforms, which have become an integral part of work across a wide range of disciplines. This fully updated edition...

How life can emerge in a lifeless environment is one of the major open scientific challenges. This book pays particular attention to self-organization phenomena that might have led to the appearance of the first protocells, i.e. cell-like structures,...

What is the difference between a code and a cipher? How did Caesar send secret messages? How do you beat frequency analysis? What is a side channel attack? How does RSA end-to-end encryption actually work? In this fascinating little book, packed with...

Following the historical analysis that focused on the actors and the institutions of book culture in the first volume, volume two discusses writing strategies in the global licensing realm, as well as revealing the form, character, and structure of...

This study examines how literature and its interlingual circulation changed under the conditions of international legal agreements. Until the 19th century, translation into other languages was dominated by the so-called target culture and took place...

The two-volume set LNCS 15577 + 15578 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during April 8-10, 2025. The 25 full papers presented in the proceedings were...

The two-volume set LNCS 15577 + 15578 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during April 8-10, 2025. The 25 full papers presented in the proceedings were...

The Human Relationship with Information uses a philosophical lens to explore questions about the fundamental place of information in a fulfilling human life.Drawing on the author's experience as an instruction librarian and from research by others...

Michael Moss on Archives brings together selected outputs from an internationally renowned archival scholar, who explored the theory and practice of archives and records management.Comprising a selection of 11 of Moss’ most significant archival writings,...

Digital Libraries Across Continents illustrates how digital librarianship practitioners and scholars digitize, exhibit, and preserve their cultural heritage, and how these practices may be influenced by the policy, economic, and sociocultural...

Artificial Intelligence for Academic Libraries provides a clear and dependable guide to the history, theory, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in academic libraries, addressing the needs of librarians, staff,...

AI and Authorship in Scholarly Communication explores the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it pertains to scholarly research and writing.Explaining what AI is and how it can be used by scholars, the book also focuses on aspects with the potential...

How do people become informed about risk and why is this important? This book draws upon three case studies to interrogate risk's informational thread, including how people map and orient themselves to risk information as well as how these activities...