[PDF] Guide To The Use Of Libraries eBook

Author : Claire B. Gunnels
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0838911382

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The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model.

Author : John J. Burke
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838914268

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Informed by a large-scale survey of librarians across the spectrum of institution types, this guide will be a true technology companion to novices and seasoned LIS professionals alike.

Author : Jean Key Gates
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Clearly written library reference defines classification, types of reference, and subject fields sources.

Author : Nicole E. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 9781783301447

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This book will give you an understanding of how images fit into your critical practice and how you can advance student learning with your own visual literacy. The importance of images and visual media in today's culture is changing what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Digital technologies have made it possible for almost anyone to create and share visual media. Yet the pervasiveness of images and visual media does not necessarily mean that individuals are able to critically view, use, and produce visual content. This book provides you with the tools, strategies, and confidence to apply visual literacy in a library context. You will learn ways to develop students' visual literacy and how to use visual materials to make your own teaching more engaging. Ideal for the busy librarian who needs ideas, activities, and teaching strategies that are ready to implement, this book shows how to challenge students to delve into finding images, using images in the research process, interpreting and analysing images, creating visual communications, and using visual content ethically provides ready-to-use learning activities for engaging critically with visual materials offers tools and techniques for increasing one's own visual literacy confidence gives strategies for integrating, engaging with and advocating for visual literacy in libraries. With this book's guidance, you can help students master visual literacy, a key competency in today's media-saturated world, while also enlivening your teaching with visual materials. Visual Literacy for Libraries will be essential reading for librarians, information professionals and managers in all sectors, students of library and information science, school and higher education teachers and researchers.