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Writing As Intermediary - Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures

For the cultural history of the Islamic World, writing has long been recognized as a highly important form of art, as calligraphy has tra...

The Age of Sapiocracy - On the Radical Ethics of Data-Driven Civilization

Discover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, th...

Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) - A Conceptual Model

The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code r...

Academic Libraries and Collaborative Research Services

Here's what you need to know to establish your library's place in the new collaborative research arena by adapting existing library servi...

Innovations in the Designing and Marketing of Information Services

Compounded with the emergence of information technology, information services have become more complex. In order to break the bottleneck ...

Bridging Research and Library Practice - Global Perspectives on Education and Training

Bridging the gap between research and practice communities is more pertinent than ever because of the need for evidence in developing and...

The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890-1939

An introduction to the economics of the rare book and manuscript trade in the half-century before the second world war.

Self Help for Your Nerves

RDA Made Simple - A Practical Guide to the New Cataloging Rules

Looking for a comprehensive, all-in-one guide to RDA that keeps it simple and provides exactly what you need to know? This book covers pl...

Messkatalog 2024 - Neue Bücher, die auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse ausgestellt sind

»Messkatalog 2024« greift die 1564 begonnene Tradition der Messkataloge auf um eine besondere Buchmesse zu feiern: Ein Besuch in Frankfur...

Transliteracy across the globe - Implementing information, digital, media and visual literacies in the library

This new English language series, published jointly with IFLA, will serve as a vehicle for peer-reviewed professional and scholarly commu...

The Good Archivist

Six Steps to a Long-Range Preservation Plan - A Guide for Cultural Heritage Collections

This nuts-and-bolts approach prioritizes needs based on urgency and feasibility to ensure that the best use is made of valuable resources...

Writing Computer and Information History - Approaches, Connections, and Reflections

This is not a book about the history of computing or the history of information. Instead, it is a meta-historical book about the research...

The Librarian's Atlas - The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

"In The Librarian's Atlas, Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries to challenge debates about the practice and politics of...

Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction

Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction, Second Edition will instruct library support staff to become proficient catalogers. This r...

Foundations of Library Services and Programming for Children

This book provides required foundational practices, both theoretical and practical. It gives students and working librarians the nuts- an...

Breaking Glass Ceilings - Clara Stanton Jones and the Detroit Public Library

This book tells the story of Clara Stanton Jones, the first woman to direct a major public library system in the United States and the fi...

Averting the Digital Dark Age - How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory

How the internet's memory infrastructure developed--averting a "digital dark age"--and introduced a golden age of historical memory. In e...

The Library Friends, Foundations, and Trusts Handbook

The Library Friends and Foundations Handbook is a must-have resource for members of Friends groups, Foundations, library staff members, a...

Simple Book Repair Techniques

This book will walk library staff through how to take care of their collections from the simplest repairs through to more complex ones to...

Handbook of Black Librarianship

Almost twenty-five years after the second edition of this classic title was published, this third edition covers black librarianship today.

'All My Books in Foreign Tongues' - The Oriental Bequest of Joseph Scaliger and the University Library of Leiden

This publication provides a complete overview of the printed books in oriental languages in Scaliger private library. How and why did Sca...