Product Description: The only book currently available that comprehensively integrates research and evaluation for evidence-based library and information science practice.

Product Description: The boomers are coming-prepare your library now! Brimming with strategies, ideas, checklists, anecdotes and practical advice, this guide offers you both a positive vision and a practical plan for serving seniors in your library. It covers all facets of library service-from policies, collection development, and reference services to technology and programs-helping you design, implement, promote, and evaluate service plans to aging populations and successfully meet their information, learning, and leisure reading (and listening and viewing) needs...read more

Product Description: Latinos comprise the fastest-growing population in the U.S., and that means more Latino readers at the library. In addition, works written by Latinos, whether written in or translated into English, have become a vibrant and growing body of literature that is of great interest to all readers as well as literary scholars...read more

Contains more than seven hundred titles categorized by genre, a brief history of the evolution of African-American literature, reader's advisory guidelines, and other works which are central to the compelling African-American experience.

Product Description: A tribute to the library profession, this festschrift explores the various service roles of professional librarians. Presented in three parts, A Service Profession discusses the roles in support of scholarly communication, examines library and information science organizations, and suggests strategies for developing leadership within the profession...read more