"Explores the paradigm of "area studies" - a way of supporting regionally-focused collecting, processing, and liaison work - in the academic library, through an explicitly anti-colonial lens"
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"This is a comprehensive overview that has been revised and updated to offer coverage of topics like teaching faculty roles and the status of the academic librarian, curriculum, collections, data management, digitization, and metadata, as well as scholarly communication"--
"This is a comprehensive overview that has been revised and updated to offer coverage of topics like teaching faculty roles and the status of the academic librarian, curriculum, collections, data management, digitization, and metadata, as well as scholarly communication."
"Information literacy involves a combination of reading, writing, and critical thinking. Librarians in an academic library, while not directly responsible for teaching those skills, are involved in making such literacy part of the students' learning process. Broussard approaches…
"This edited book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into information literacy instruction in higher education as well as how to teach the new Framework to pre-service librarians as part of their professional prepara…
The digital environment has created exciting new opportunities and possibilities for scholars to work and distribute their work. But these new opportunities also create issues that did not arise in the analog world. This book attempts to demystify intellectual property and copyr…
The digital environment has created exciting new opportunities and possibilities for scholars to work and distribute their work. But these new opportunities also create issues that did not arise in the analog world. This book attempts to demystify intellectual property and copyr…
The 21st Century Academic Library: Global Patterns of Organization and Discourse discusses the organization of academic libraries, drawing on detailed research and data. The organization of the library follows the path of a print book or journal: acquisitions, cataloguing, circu…
"This book aims to stand at the forefront of this emerging discipline, with a special focus on the role of libraries and library-staff, and a collection of chapters on crucial issues surrounding the digital humanities"--