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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences
Since the spread of COVID-19, conferences have been cancelled,
schools have closed, and libraries around the world are facing
difficult decisions on which services to offer and how, ranging
from minimal restrictions to full closures. Depending on the
country, state, or city, a government may have a different
approach, sometimes ordering the closure of all institutions,
others indicating that it's business as usual, and others simply
leaving decisions up to library directors. All libraries worldwide
have been affected, from university libraries to public library
systems and national libraries. Throughout these closures,
libraries continue to provide services to their communities, which
has led to an emerging area of research on library services, new
emerging technologies, and the advancements made to libraries
during this global health crisis. The Handbook of Research on
Library Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic consists of chapters that
contain essential library services and emerging research and
technology that evolved and/or has continued during the COVID-19
pandemic, as well as the challenges and opportunities that have
been undertaken as a result. The chapters provide in-depth
research, surveys, and information on areas such as remote working,
machine learning, data management, and the role of information
during COVID-19. This book is a valuable reference tool for
practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and
students who are interested in the current state of libraries
during a pandemic and the future outlook.
This book focuses on inquiry-based teaching, one of the five vital
aspects of the instructional work of school librarians identified
in the second edition of the IFLA School Library Guidelines (2015).
Effective implementation of inquiry-based teaching and learning
requires a consistent instructional approach, based on a model of
inquiry that is built upon foundations of research and best
practice. The book explains the importance and significance of
inquiry as a process of learning; outlines the research
underpinning this process of learning; describes ways in which
models of inquiry have been developed; provides recommendations for
implementing the use of such models; and demonstrates how the other
core instructional activities of school librarians, such as
literacy and reading promotion, media and information literacy
instruction, technology integration and professional development of
teachers, can be integrated into inquiry. Inquiry-based learning is
part of "learning to be a learner," a lifelong pursuit involving
finding and using information. Inquiry develops the skills and
understandings that learners need in new information environments,
whether that be as students in post-secondary institutions, as
producers and creators in workplaces, or as citizens in
communities. Through inquiry-based teaching, school librarians help
students to build the essential skills and understandings needed
for dealing with complex learning challenges, including analysis,
critical thinking, and problem solving. In this book, special
attention is given to the development of students' metacognitive
abilities, which are essential to their becoming life-long and
life-wide learners.
The library has always been an essential part of the collegiate
experience, providing students with access to knowledge and
literature. However, as virtual services and online learning become
more prominent within collegiate environments, the ways students
conduct research and access resources has been altered. Innovative
Solutions for Building Community in Academic Libraries examines new
methods librarians use to engage both on-campus and online users in
library services, taking into account the significant impacts of
online learning on students' interaction with library resources.
Focusing on various outreach practices, techniques of literacy
instruction, and the utilization of library spaces, this
research-supported book is a pivotal reference source for distance
educators, program planners, academics, and library professionals
interested in new ways to attract users to library services.
Library services are dependent on technology tools in order to
host, distribute, and control content. Today, many libraries are
creating, testing, and supporting their own tools to better suit
their particular communities. Developing In-House Digital Tools in
Library Spaces is a pivotal reference source with the latest
empirical research on organizational issues, examples of library
automation, case studies of developing library products, and
assessment of the impact and usefulness of in-house technologies.
Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as linked data,
mobile applications, web analytics, this book is ideally designed
for academicians, researchers, students, and librarians seeking
current research on technological products and their development in
library use.
This book provides practical information about web archives, offers
inspiring examples for web archivists, raises new challenges, and
shares recent research results about access methods to explore
information from the past preserved by web archives. The book is
structured in six parts. Part 1 advocates for the importance of web
archives to preserve our collective memory in the digital era,
demonstrates the problem of web ephemera and shows how web
archiving activities have been trying to address this challenge.
Part 2 then focuses on different strategies for selecting web
content to be preserved and on the media types that different web
archives host. It provides an overview of efforts to address the
preservation of web content as well as smaller-scale but
high-quality collections of social media or audiovisual content.
Next, Part 3 presents examples of initiatives to improve access to
archived web information and provides an overview of access
mechanisms for web archives designed to be used by humans or
automatically accessed by machines. Part 4 presents research use
cases for web archives. It also discusses how to engage more
researchers in exploiting web archives and provides inspiring
research studies performed using the exploration of web archives.
Subsequently, Part 5 demonstrates that web archives should become
crucial infrastructures for modern connected societies. It makes
the case for developing web archives as research infrastructures
and presents several inspiring examples of added-value services
built on web archives. Lastly, Part 6 reflects on the evolution of
the web and the sustainability of web archiving activities. It
debates the requirements and challenges for web archives if they
are to assume the responsibility of being societal infrastructures
that enable the preservation of memory. This book targets academics
and advanced professionals in a broad range of research areas such
as digital humanities, social sciences, history, media studies and
information or computer science. It also aims to fill the need for
a scholarly overview to support lecturers who would like to
introduce web archiving into their courses by offering an initial
reference for students.
The effective use of technology offers numerous benefits in
protecting cultural heritage. With the proper implementation of
these tools, the management and conservation of artifacts and
knowledge are better attained. The Handbook of Research on Emerging
Technologies for Digital Preservation and Information Modeling is
an authoritative resource for the latest research on the
application of current innovations in the fields of architecture
and archaeology to promote the conservation of cultural heritage.
Highlighting a range of real-world applications and digital tools,
this book is ideally designed for upper-level students,
professionals, researchers, and academics interested in the
preservation of cultures.
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