Library & Information Science (LIS)

Spanning both concept and practice, this resource offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. With a structure that makes it applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students, this manual introduces foundational assessment methodologies then provides concrete guidance on how to contextualize those methodologies within a holistic collections assessment program.

A comprehensive resource that will teach you how to understand the needs of public, academic, and special library users in virtual and face-to-face communication settings. This book tackles the fundamentals of the reference interview and the ins and outs of the readers' advisory interview. It thoroughly addresses policy and training procedures, as well as the unique challenges faced by library workers.

This practical guide introduces a broad spectrum of databases and explains how to teach them. It also explains underlying information structures and demonstrates how to search most effectively. This book takes a real-world approach, covering topics from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases.

This book explores the ways in which academic libraries are working to address the historic legacies of colonialism, in the context of decolonising the curriculum and the university. It acknowledges and explores the tensions and complexities around the use of the term decolonisation and how it relates to other social justice aims and approaches. The book is international in scope, and considers the contextual nature of decolonisation, with discussion of the impacts of settler colonialism, and post-colonial contexts.