Current issues in libraries, information science and related fields

This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It represents a look at the periphery of the field surveyed in previous volumes and presents chapters grouped i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodsworth, Anne
Other Authors: Penniman, William David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2015
Series:Advances in librarianship
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Librarians in a litigious age and the attack on academic freedom / Mary Kandiuk, Harriet Sonne de Torrens
  • Educating ethical leaders for the information society : adopting babies from business / Maureen L. Mackenzie
  • The role of librarians in a knowledge society : valuing our intellectual capital assets / Denise A.D. Bedford, Jennifer K. Donley, Nancy Lensenmayer
  • Open peer review : fast forward for a new science / Samir Hachani
  • Effects of terminology on health queries : an analysis by user's health literacy and topic familiarity / Carla Teixeria Lopes, Cristina Riberio
  • Academic social networking : a case study on users' information behavior / Anamika Megwalu
  • The scholars' commons : redefining services and spaces for graduate student success / Michael Perini, Beth Roszkowski
  • The social library in the virtual branch : serving adults and teens in social spaces / Abigail Philips, Lorri Mon