(Hardback)

This text offers academic administrators and librarians a better understanding of the issues facing the library during this time of change and the role of the library in the evolving campus of the future. Chapters reflect a range of perspectives and experience.

(Hardback)

Academic Library Metamorphosis and Regeneration continues the discussions around change and transformation that are taking place in the library profession today. This book explores the changes that led us to where we are today, reviews academic libraries that have transformed, and offers suggestions for those who will go through the process.

(Paperback)

Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores, this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement.

(Paperback)

This book provides practical strategies and step-by-step plans for developing advocacy initiatives for school libraries.

School libraries provide an essential service to the community, but without proper funding few libraries stand a chance to maintain the resources they offeror to survive at all.

(Hardback)

International Journal of Reviews in Library and Information Science

This collection of essays, written by library professionals who took an active role in the various rights movements, the war on poverty, and the campaign to end the Vietnam war, is the first serious exanination of the subject.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of public library history prior to World War I, touching on such topics as the growth of the public library from the genteel, early nineteenth-century social libraries of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states and the founding of the American Library Association in 1876.

(Hardback)

This text features 14 case studies that illustrate the importance records play for accountability in society. Focused around four themes - explanation, secrecy, memory and trust - the book demonstrates how records compel, shape, distort and recover social interactions across space and time.

(Hardback)

This book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing and implementing evaluation projects targeting a variety of DEI goals in academic library collections.

(Paperback)

Based on a tested model for community analysis, this book offers a guide to the management of client-centered transformative information services that can be applied in any type of library or information agency.

(Paperback)

Explore the life of Alice Millard, the antiquarian book seller who was at the forefront of the History of the Book discipline, and a tastemaker of her time.

(Hardback)

Explore the life of Alice Millard, the antiquarian book seller who was at the forefront of the History of the Book discipline, and a tastemaker of her time.

(Hardback, 3rd edition)

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.

(Paperback)

In this book, experts in the field describe best practices based on their experiences in corporate libraries worldwide.

With information driving today's global economy, corporate librarians must become even more proactive in their daily assignments.

(Hardback)

Intended to support the national initiative to strengthen learning in areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, this book helps librarians who work with youth in school and public libraries to build better collections and more effectively use these collections through readers' advisory and programming.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Authored by an experienced librarian, digital resource manager, and professor in the field of library science, this book explores the wide-reaching impact of second-generation web technologies on library organization and services-and how library staff must respond.

(Paperback)

This unique book covers the who, what, when, where, why, and, most important, the HOW of creating a career center or jobseeker program in a public library.

Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library provides a practical, down-to-earth guide for library staff who wish to better meet one of their patrons' most pressing needs.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Fifteen units focus on authors who speak about their ethnic heritage through their books and those who write or illustrate multicultural materials. Activities that reinforce the multicultural theme and bibliographies of related books and films are also featured.

(Hardback)

The only comprehensive treatment of American library architecture, this work details the evolution of the modern public library from 1850 to the present.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Sixteen chapters, based on such lively themes as Risky Reading (adventure stories), Horrendous Fun (monster stories), and Book, Line, and Sinker (ocean world) contain introductions to the themes, introductory activities, booktalks, annotated bibliographies, and reproducible activity pages that extend learning across the curriculum.

(Paperback)

This book provides a wealth of read-aloud titles and related activities that provide busy teachers with the tools to help students in grades K-12 become successful writers.