Kategoria BISAC: Reference >> Bibliographies & Indexes

Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives: Inputs, Outputs, and Outcomes helps academic librarians go well beyond the basic guideposts of inputs and outputs to explore a wide range of metrics for measuring their effectiveness and improving performance. Based on their groundbreaking article, "Outcomes Assessment: Not Synonymous with Inputs and Outputs," Robert Dugan and Peter Hernon, along with coauthor Danuta Nitecki, give libraries the tools they need to see beyond their own walls and interpret both outcome and impact metrics from the perspective of the parent...

"More Than MySpace: Teens, Librarians, and Social Networking" offers librarians not fully familiar with the broad scope of web-based social networking a way into this thriving, rapidly evolving realm and to the lives of the teenagers who so enthusiastically inhabit it.

In "More Than MySpace," seven expert contributors examine the appeal of the social networking phenomena to youth, as well as its growing role in the classroom. The book then puts the spotlight on public libraries that have embraced social networking successfully, describing the approaches and methods that have helped...

Looking for a book on conservation for your storytime read-aloud? A title on recycling projects for your 5th graders? What about information sources on pollution to add to your collection? This guide can help you with challenges like these--and many others. It organizes and describes some 450 current fiction and nonfiction titles about the environment, with some alternative media (DVDs and musical CDs) included, as well.

"Green Reads: Best Environmental Resources for Youth, K-12" is divided into five chapters, each dedicated to a broad environmental subject. Annotations are arranged...

Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in "An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology." Here, Liberman's landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language. "A Bibliography of English Etymology" is a broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word's etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin's primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than...

Young adult librarians face a wide of array of issues when planning spaces for teen patrons. At the same time, the "digital divide" has shrunk for many Americans in the past decade, and libraries are expected to keep up by providing more open access to mobile technologies, digital books, and online information--certainly a formidable challenge.

" Make Room for Teens : Reflections on Developing Teen Spaces in Libraries" serves as a thought-provoking tool for librarians who seeking guidance in creating, maintaining, and updating young adult spaces in their libraries. The essays contained...

Based on surveys and firsthand research across the archivist's profession, "Special Collections 2.0: New Technologies for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archival Collections" offers essential advice and practical ideas for creating, collecting, and preserving born-digital materials for optimal long-term access using the best of what the new Web has to offer.

"Special Collections 2.0" surveys the web's new options for interconnectivity and interactivity tool by tool, exploring the benefits and shortcomings of applying each to the special collection and archives profession. It combines...