Library & information sciences books

This 1999 book studies and compares the famous sixteenth-century libraries of Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.

Discusses the technology and processes in digital preservation of cultural heritage. This title covers topics in five major areas: Digitization of cultural heritage; Digital management in the cultural heritage preservation;...

By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.

Librarians negotiate every day with vendors, funding agencies, administrators, employees, co-workers, and patrons-yet the art of negotiation receives little attention in library education and training. This practical guide by...

Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries demonstrates that public librarians can promote learning by combining the elements of Information Literacy Instruction (ILI) with traditional practices of public libraries. This approach...

Remote Access Technologies for Library Collections: Tools for Library Users and Managers is crucial to understanding these changes and the new expectations that library users have in the 21st century. Identifying, implementing and...

This biography of Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), Italian patriot and librarian of the British Museum, was published in 1880.

This biography of Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), Italian patriot and librarian of the British Museum, was published in 1880.

Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects-books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more-in the...

Famous writers on libraries real or imagined, past and future; why libraries matter and to whom.

This book describes the transformation of university and college libraries into teaching libraries which offer space and services for academic learning and promote information literacy in particular. It discusses changes in young...

Book sale veterans Ditzler and Dumas point out specific ways to run a sale to ensure maximum financial benefit while building community support.