Government Information Essentials

Caro, Susanne (ed.) Government Information Essentials. ALA Editions, 2018. ISBN:978-0-8389-1597-4

Description
This contributed volume gathers the expertise of experienced government information librarians from across the country. It provides real-world insight into the work, collections, and interests of this library discipline.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Government Documents and the People Who Use Them
Susanne Caro

Part I    Advice for the New Document Professional

Chapter 1    Networking and Training: Essential Tools for Collaboration and Learning
Hayley Johnson

Chapter 2    Experience of a New Government Documents Librarian
Andrew Lopez and Lori Looney

Chapter 3    Middle Management: Strategies for Success
Jill Vassilakos-Long

Part II    Collection Management

Chapter 4    Visualizing Space: Your Depository Library as Place
Aimée C. Quinn

Chapter 5    Space Planning: Weeding, Moving, and Providing Access to Government Information
Julia Stewart

Chapter 6    Streamlining Collections: Disasters, Consolidation, and the Digital Landscape
Vickie Mix

Chapter 7    Growth and Maintenance of Digital Collections
Susanne Caro

Part III    Working with Collections

Chapter 8    The Hunt for the Elusive: Finding and Using the History in Government Documents
Paula L. Webb and Leasha E. Martin

Chapter 9    Federal Maps and the Depository Library
Valery King

Chapter 10    Help! I’m New Here and I Speak Spanish: Government Information for Spanish Speakers
Jane Canfield

Part IV    Teaching and Training

Chapter 11    Teaching with Library Guides: Using Collections with Government Information
Latanya N. Jenkins

Chapter 12    Creating More Powerful Library Guides
David Dillard

Chapter 13    Documents to the Students
Susanne Caro

Chapter 14    Navigating Government Information: Working with Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy
Antoinette W. Satterfield

Part V    Advocacy and Events

Chapter 15    Advocating for Transparency and Access to Information
Shari Laster

Chapter 16:     A Cupcake, an Eagle, and a War: Promoting Government Documents
Lisa Pritchard

Chapter 17    Exhibits and Community Outreach
Susanne Caro

Appendix A: General Resources
Appendix B: Sample Project Plan
Appendix C: Sources for Space Planning—Best Practices
Appendix D: Map Resources
Appendix E: Spanish-Language Resources
Appendix F: Library Guide Resources

Library Technology and Digital Resources: An Introduction for Support Staff

Library Technology and Digital Resources: An Introduction for Support Staff by Marie Keen Shaw. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 978-1-4422-5644-6.

Publisher's Description

In the last decade library collections have rapidly evolved from a predominance of print books and journals to an ever growing mix of digital and print resources. Library patrons are predominately served by support staff that is expected to know how to help patrons select and use digital resources. Yet most library support staff (LSS) has not had training to become proficient in finding, using, and instructing others in the abundance of the digital resources of websites, databases, e-texts, digital libraries and their related technologies.

Library Technology and Digital Resources: An Introduction for Support Staff is both a text for professors who teach in library support staff programs and an introductory reference manual for support staff who work in libraries. This book will guide the LSS to be able to:

• Distinguish key features and enhancements found among vendors and providers of digital libraries, digital collections, databases, and e-texts;
• Plan, budget, fund and write grants for digital resources;
• Understand the complexity and options of licensing and usage agreements for digital resources;
• Know copyright permissions and acceptable use guidelines for digital resources.
• Understand the basic technologies that support library digital resources including network structures, software applications, and protocols;
• Distinguish between directories and search engines as they relate to digital resources as well as be able to employ advance search skills effectively;
• Explore the resources of global, national, and state digital libraries and their collections;
• Use government databases and other digitized systems and information sources;
• Find exemplary digital resources though other agencies such as museums, university collections and other sources that librarians can share with patrons.
• Create local digital resources of primary and historical materials and artifacts with metadata and cataloging for searchable access.
• Interpret meaning from library digital resources using visual literacy skills.
• Promote library digital resources through a variety of means including social media and online options.

More Information

See the publisher's website for Table of Contents, author information, and reviews.

Curating Research Data

Johnston, Lisa R. (ed.) Curating Research Data. Volume 1-2. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-8918-0

Description
In two volumes—Practical Strategies for Your Digital Repository and A Handbook of Current Practice—Curating Research Data presents those tasked with long-term stewardship of digital research data a blueprint for how to curate those data for eventual reuse. Volume One explores the concepts of research data and the types and drivers for establishing digital data repositories. Volume Two guides you across the data lifecycle through the practical strategies and techniques for curating research data in a digital repository setting. Data curators, archivists, research data management specialists, subject librarians, institutional repository managers, and digital library staff will benefit from these current and practical approaches to data curation.

Table of Contents
Volume 1 - Practical Strategies for Your Digital Repository

Part I. Setting the Stage for Data Curation. Policies, Culture, and Collaboration

Chapter 1. Research and the Changing Nature of Data Repositories
Karen S. Baker and Ruth E. Duerr

Chapter 2. Institutional, Funder, and Journal Data Policies
Kristin Briney, Abigail Goben, and Lisa Zilinski

Chapter 3. Collaborative Research Data Curation Services: A View from Canada
Eugene Barsky, Larry Laliberté, Amber Leahey, and Leanne Trimble

Chapter 4. Practices Do Not Make Perfect: Disciplinary Data Sharing and Reuse Practices and Their Implications for Repository Data Curation
Ixchel M. Faniel and Elizabeth Yakel

Chapter 5. Overlooked and Overrated Data Sharing: Why Some Scientists Are Confused and/or Dismissive
Heidi J. Imker

Part II. Data Curation Services in Action

Chapter 6. Research Data Services Maturity in Academic Libraries
Inna Kouper, Kathleen Fear, Mayu Ishida, Christine Kollen, and Sarah C. Williams

Chapter 7. Extending Data Curation Service Models for Academic Library and Institutional Repositories
Jon Wheeler

Chapter 8. Beyond Cost Recovery: Revenue Models and Practices for Data Repositories in Academia
Karl Nilsen

Chapter 9. Current Outreach and Marketing Practices for Research Data Repositories
Katherine J. Gerwig

Part III. Preparing Data for the Future. Ethical and Appropriate Reuse of Data

Chapter 10. Open Exit: Reaching the End of the Data Life Cycle
Andrea Ogier, Natsuko Nicholls, and Ryan Speer

Chapter 11. The Current State of Meta-Repositories for Data
Cynthia R. Hudson Vitale

Chapter 12. Curation of Scientific Data at Risk of Loss: Data Rescue and Dissemination
Robert R. Downs and Robert S. Chen

Volume 2 - A Handbook of Current Practice
Preliminary Step 0: Establish Your Data Curation Service

Step 1.0: Receive the Data
1.1 Recruit Data for Your Curation Service
1.2 Negotiate Deposit
1.3 Transfer Rights (Deposit Agreements)
1.4 Facilitate Data Transfer
1.5 Obtain Available Metadata and Documentation
1.6 Receive Notification of Data Arrival

Step 2.0: Appraisal and Selection Techniques that Mitigate Risks Inherent to Data
2.1 Appraisal
2.2 Risk Factors for Data Repositories
2.3 Inventory
2.4 Selection
2.5 Assign

Step 3.0: Processing and Treatment Actions for Data
3.1 Secure the Files
3.2 Create a Log of Actions Taken
3.3 Inspect the File Names and Structure
3.4 Open the Data Files
3.5 Attempt to Understand and Use the Data
3.6 Work with Author to Enhance the Submission
3.7 Consider the File Formats
3.8 File Arrangement and Description

Step 4.0: Ingest and Store Data in Your Repository
4.1 Ingest the Files
4.2 Store the Assets Securely
4.3 Develop Trust in Your Digital Repository

Step 5.0: Descriptive Metadata
5.1 Create and Apply Appropriate Metadata
5.2 Consider Disciplinary Metadata Standards for Data

Step 6.0: Access
6.1 Determine Appropriate Levels of Access
6.2 Apply the Terms of Use and Any Relevant Licenses
6.3 Contextualize the Data
6.4 Increase Exposure and Discovery
6.5 Apply Any Necessary Access Controls
6.6 Ensure Persistent Access and Encourage Appropriate Citation
6.7 Release Data for Access and Notify Author

Step 7.0: Preservation of Data for the Long Term
7.1 Preservation Planning for Long-Term Reuse
7.2 Monitor Preservation Needs and Take Action

Step 8.0: Reuse
8.1 Monitor Data Reuse
8.2 Collect Feedback about Data Reuse and Quality Issues
8.3 Provide Ongoing Support as Long as Necessary
8.4 Cease Data Curation

Brief Concluding Remarks and a Call to Action
Bibliography
Biographies

Getting Started with Digital Collections: Scaling to Fit Your Organization

Monson, Jane E. Getting Started with Digital Collections: Scaling to Fit Your Organization. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1543-1

Description
Providing an entry point for librarians, archivists, and curators who are new to digitization, Monson’s guide shows how even smaller institutions can successfully endeavor to make their content digitally accessible. Clearing aside the jargon and acronyms to hone in on the practicals, this book will help readers get a digitization program off the ground!

Table of Contents
Part I    Managing Projects

• Chapter 1    Digitization at Smaller Institutions
• Chapter 2    The Solo Digital Librarian
• Chapter 3    Working across Departments
• Chapter 4    Working across Institutions

Part II    Basic Skills

• Chapter 5    Image Conversion
• Chapter 6    Metadata
• Chapter 7    Digital Collection Management Systems
• Chapter 8    Copyright and Digital Collections
• Chapter 9    Preserving Your Digital Assets

Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging Practices in Academic Libraries

Mackenzie, Alison and Lindsey Martin (eds.) Developing Digital Scholarship: Emerging Practices in Academic Libraries. Neal-Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1555-4

Description
These essays are written by librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with researchers, scholars, colleagues, and students. Spanning a wide range of contrasting perspectives, contexts, insights, and case studies, this edited collection explores the relationships between digital scholarship, contemporary academic libraries, and professional practice.

Table of Contents

THEME 1: A REVIEW OF THE LANDSCAPE

1. The university library and digital scholarship: a review of the literature – Lindsey Martin

2. Digital scholarship: scanning library services and spaces - Alison Mackenzie

THEME 2: THE AGILE LIBRARIAN

3. Librarian as partner: in and out of the library - Roz Howard and Megan Fitzgibbons

4. Novice to Expert: developing digitally capable librarians - Dr Charles Inskip

5. Lean in the Library: building capacity by realigning staff and resources - Jennifer Bremner

THEME 3: DIGITAL SPACES AND SERVICES

6. Digital Scholarship Centres: converging space and expertise - Tracy Bergstrom

7. Building scalable and sustainable services for researchers - David Clay

THEME 4: COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

8. Social networking with the scholarly community: a literature review - Suzanne Parfitt

9. Developing Digital Scholars: from the Ivory Tower to the Twittersphere - Alison Hicks

10. Reflections on digital scholarship: so many reasons to be cheerful - Alison Mackenzie and Lindsey Martin

Managing Digital Cultural Objects

Foster, Allen and Pauline Rafferty (eds.) Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, Discovery and Retrieval. Neal-Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1343-7

Description
This collection of essays explores the issues involved in the retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music, and moving image.Case studies of digitization projects drawn from practitioners within libraries and information organizations showcase both technical and more strategic issues relating to cultural heritage projects, digital asset management and sustainability.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Pauline Rafferty and Allen Foster

Part 1: Analysis and retrieval of digital cultural object management

1. Analyzing digital cultural objects: putting it in context - Pauline Rafferty
2. Metadata models and digital cultural objects - Sarah Higgins 
3. Digital traces of user-generated content - Katrin Weller
 

Part 2: Digitization projects in libraries, archives and museums: case-studies

 

4. Visual digital humanities: National Library of Wales - H. M. Dee,  L. M. Hughes, G. L. Roderick and A. D. Brown
5. Managing and Preserving Digital Collections at the British Library - Maureen Pennock and Michael Day
6. Preserving digital audio material - Will Prentice

 

Part 3: Social networking and digital cultural objects

 

7. Photos: Flickr, Facebook and other social networking sites - Corinne Jorgensen 
8. Searching and creating affinities in web music collections - Nicola Orio  
9. Film retrieval on the Web - Katherine La Barre

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Exploring Discovery

Exploring Discovery: The front door to your library's licensed and digitized content edited by Kenneth J. Varnum. American Library Association, 2016. 978-0-838-9-1414-4.

We’re in a new age of Discovery. Not of the physical world but rather one that serves up appropriate resources for your library’s researchers, thanks to advancements in handling metadata, natural language processing, and keyword searching. For you, Discovery might be shorthand for single-index products such as Serials’ Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery, and OCLC’s WorldCat Discovery. Yet even those tools require adjustments to meet your institution’s specific needs. With first-hand profiles of 19 library projects, Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, from the broad sweep of vendors’ products to the fine points of specialized holdings. Topics include:

• migrating from a traditional ILS to a library services platform;
• creating a task list for usability testing of discovery;
• managing internal development requirements within the constraints of a small or mid-sized library;
• applying agile software methodology to a Blacklight implementation;
• real-world examples of usability testing, including a small liberal arts college’s implementation of VuFind;
• meeting the challenge of three different metadata formats;
• practices in the Primo community for integrating open access content into the front end;
• serving mobile users with an app and responsive Web design;
• analyzing the use of facets in search;
• using a single discovery tool across a library, museum, and archive; and
• implementing discovery with geospatial datasets.

Easy to dip into as needed, this comprehensive examination of discovery services will prove invaluable to IT, web development, electronic resource management, and technical services staff.

Visit the publisher's web page for the table of contents and more.

Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives

Purcell, Aaron D. Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives: Developing, Managing, and Sustaining Unique Digital Collection. Neal Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1450-2

Description
Using both theory and examples of best practices, Purcell offers strategies for approaching digital collections as an ongoing library service. Learn how to go from project to program, or how to start a digital program from scratch, even with limited resources.


Table of Contents  

Part I    The Theory and Reality of Digital Libraries

Chapter 1    Growth of Digital Libraries

• Brief History of Digital Libraries
• Perspectives from Related Professions
• Challenges of Technology
• Original and Unique Digital Content
• Key Points
• Notes

Chapter 2    Context of Today’s Libraries and Digital Libraries

• Changing Roles for Libraries
• Fewer Resources, Greater Expectations
• Library Spaces
• Assessing the Changes
• Scholarly Communication and Open Access
• Management, Storage, and Curation of Data
• Digital Collections
• Key Points
• Notes

Chapter 3    Digitization and Digital Libraries

• Stages of Digitization
• Why Digitize
• What to Digitize
• Whom to Include
• When and Where to Digitize
• How to Digitize
• Key Points
• Notes

Part II    Building Digital Library Programs: A Step-by-Step Process

Chapter 4    Vision and Mission Building

• The Mission Statement
• Vision Building
• Sustaining and Adapting the Vision
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 5    Identifying Resources and Partnerships

• Who You Are
• Whom You Know and Want to Know
• What You Have and What You Need
• Grants and External Funding Opportunities
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 6    Evaluating, Selecting, and Building Digital Collections

• Evaluating Digital Collections
• The Power of Primary Sources
• Types of Unique Collections for Selection
• Selection of Materials
• Copyright and Other Rights
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 7    Technical Standards

• Technical Workflows and Documentation
• The Value of Metadata
• Technical Elements of Digitization
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 8    Management of Digital Projects

• Librarians as Managers
• Managing Budgets
• Outsourcing and Vendors
• Planning the Work
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 9    Outreach and Instruction

• The Principle and Reality of Access
• Reaching Audiences
• Educational Components
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 10    Promotion, Assessment, and Sustainability

• Generating Interest
• Assessing Effectiveness
• Enhancing and Sustaining the Effort
• Key Points
• Questions
• Notes

Chapter 11    Planning Digital Library Programs

• Transition from Project to Program
• Strategies for Building Digital Library Programs
• Notes

Part III    Digital Library Planning Exercises

Exercise 1    Vision Building
Exercise 2    Resource List
Exercise 3    Collections List
Exercise 4    Technical Strengths
Exercise 5    Plan of Work
Exercise 6    Education Plan
Exercise 7    Marketing Plan
Exercise 8    Project Plan

Digital Curation, Second Edition

Oliver, Gillian and Ross Harvey. Digital Curation. Second Edition. Neal-Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1385-7

Description
A great resource for librarians, archivists, or records managers, this revamped and expanded edition is filled with up-to-date best practices. Topics covered include:

• key requirements for digital curation, from description and representation to planning and collaboration;
• the value and utility of metadata;
• considering the needs of producers and consumers when creating an appraisal and selection policy for digital objects;
• the paradigm shift by institutions towards cloud computing and its impact on costs, storage, and other key aspects of digital curation;
• the quality and security of data;
• new and emerging data curation resources, including innovative digital repository software and digital forensics tools;
• mechanisms for sharing and reusing data, with expanded sections on open access, open data, and open standards initiatives; and
• processes to ensure that data are preserved and remain usable over time.

Table of Contents

Part I: Digital Curation: Scope and Incentives

1    Introduction
2    The Changing Landscape
3    Conceptual Models
4    Defining Data

Part II: Key Requirements for Digital Curation

5    Curation and Curators
6    Description and Representation Information
7    Preservation Planning and Policy
8    Sharing Knowledge and Collaborating

Part III: The Digital Curation Lifecycle in Action
9    Designing Data
10    Creating Data
11    Deciding What Data to Keep
12    Ingesting Data
13    Preserving Data
14    Storing Data
15    Using and Reusing Data

Digitizing Your Collection: Public Library Success Stories

Carol, Susanne (and others). Digitizing Your Collection: Public Library Success Stories. ALA Editions, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1383-3

Description
This book will help libraries engage patrons on a whole new level with digital collections. The authors share lessons and tips for success, showing the way to getting your collection online with succinct and practical guidance that can be adapted to any size institution.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Digitize?
Chapter 1: What to Consider before Digitizing
Chapter 2: Digitizing Copyrighted Materials
Chapter 3: Overcoming Staffing Limitations
Chapter 4: Getting Your Community Involved
Chapter 5: Funding Opportunities
Chapter 6: Marketing Your Collection
Chapter 7: Digital Preservation

Resources
About the Author and Contributors
Index

Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials

Piepenburg, Scott. Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials Libraries Unlimited, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4408-37807

Description
Part of the  Innovative Librarian's Guide series, this guide walks you through the process of planning and implementing digitization projects for the common formats libraries have collected over the last 30 or 40 years. It guides first-time users in setting up a facility to convert analog tapes and records into a digital form, explaining how to clean up those sources to produce a high-quality output for end-users. The same theories and skills are applied to the visual domain so you can convert VHS, Beta, U-Matic, and laserdiscs into archival visual formats. Basic information on computer hardware and software is discussed, including the equipment needed to digitize various formats. Techniques for capturing, editing, storing, and making digitized files available to patrons are also covered.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Hardware

Chapter 3: Digitizing Images
Chapter 4: Digitizing Slides
Chapter 5: Digitizing Sound Recordings
Chapter 6: Digitizing Video Recordings
Chapter 7: Finishing Up  

Index 

Glossary

BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google

Palfrey, John. BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google. Basic Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-465-04299-9

Description
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, are at risk. In order to survive our rapidly modernizing world and dwindling government funding, libraries must make the transition to a digital future as soon as possible—by digitizing print material and ensuring that born-digital material is publicly available online.

Table of Contents
Crisis: A perfect storm --
Customers: How we use libraries --
Spaces: The connection between the virtual and the physical --
Platforms: What cloud computing means for libraries --
Hacking libraries: How to build the future --
Networks: The human network of librarians --
Preservation: Collaboration, not competition, to preserve culture --
Education: Libraries and connected learners --
Law: Why copyright and privacy matter so much --
Conclusion: What's at stake.

Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

 

Bell, Suzanne. Librarian's Guide to Online Searching: Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction. 4th ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-61069-998-3

Publisher's Description

This groundbreaking textbook and guide for library school students and librarians will help you—regardless of experience level or environment—learn the ins and outs of working with online databases, the best tactics for effective research online, and the methods for conveying these search skills to others.

Experienced librarian and instructor Suzanne S. Bell presents methods for effectively searching across disciplines and interfaces in this updated guide, the first edition of which was a pioneer in the field of online research and methodology. Extensively revised and updated throughout with additional features, fresh content, and the latest in web-based resources, the book focuses on two broad themes: effective searching of library databases and mentoring your library patrons to do the same.

Each chapter includes discussions, concrete examples, exercises, and points to consider on such topics as the design of online databases, strategies for indexing, and tips for teaching users both online and in person. Arranged by content, the guide showcases the most popular databases in areas ranging from science to statistical data to the humanities, providing you with helpful search examples along the way. The updated content—some based on reader feedback—includes virtual interviews, dealing with public speaking anxiety, and coverage of a variety of new databases available for research.
 

Features

• Features discussions of databases by discipline, including social science, science, medicine, and humanities, covering both bibliographic and numerical databases
• Provides readers with a toolkit of fundamental search skills to increase research effectiveness
•  Presents advice and techniques for both virtual and in-person teaching
• Offers a companion website with additional information and exercises
• Includes new "Additional Resources" sections for each database chapter, providing exposure to more database names and vendors, as well as a new section on discovery services

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Library Databases
Chapter 2: Database Structure for Everyone: Records, Fields, and Indexes
Chapter 3: The Searcher’s Toolkit: Part 1
Chapter 4: The Searcher’s Toolkit: Part 2
Chapter 5: Social Science Databases
Chapter 6: Databases for Science and Medicine
Chapter 7: Bibliographic Databases
Chapter 8: Humanities Databases
Chapter 9: Numerical Databases
Chapter 10: Focus on People
Chapter 11: Choosing the Right Resource for the Question
Chapter 12: Evaluating Databases
Chapter 13: Teaching Other People About Databases
Chapter 14: Database Teaching Opportunities

 

Best STEM Resources

Hopwood, J. (2015). Best STEM Resources for NextGen Scientists. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 978-1-61069-721-7

Publisher's Description

Intended to support the national initiative to strengthen learning in areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, this book helps librarians who work with youth in school and public libraries to build better collections and more effectively use these collections through readers' advisory and programming.

A versatile and multi-faceted guide, Best STEM Resources for NextGen Scientists: The Essential Selection and User's Guide serves as a readers' advisory and collection development resource for youth services and school librarians seeking to bring STEM-related titles into their collections and introduce teachers and young readers to them. This book not only guides readers to hundreds of the best STEM-related titles—fiction and non-fiction printed materials as well as apps, DVDs, websites, and games—it also includes related activities or programming ideas to help promote the use of the collection to patrons or students in storytime, afterschool programs, or passive library programs.

After a detailed discussion of the importance of STEM and the opportunities librarians have for involvement, the book lists and describes best STEM resources for young learners. Resources are organized according to the reading audiences for which they are intended, from toddlers through teens, and the book includes annotated lists of both fiction and nonfiction STEM titles as well as graphic novels, digital products, and online resources. In addition, the author offers a selection of professional readings for librarians and media specialists who wish to further expand their knowledge.

Features

• Introduces more than 500 STEM resource suggestions for toddlers to young adults
• Highlights more than 25 detailed library program or activity suggestions to be paired with STEM book titles
• Provides resource suggestions for professional development 
• Contains bonus sections on STEM-related graphic novels, apps, and other media

Cultural Heritage Information: Access and Management

Ruthven, Ian and G.G. Chowdhury (eds.) Cultural Heritage Information: Access and Management. Neal-Schuman, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1347-5

Description

This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics associated with the management of digital collections for digital humanities and culture programs. Essays look at policies and infrastructures, consider the interaction, access and objects, and provide numerous examples of concrete system implementations. Please note that most essays and authors have a United Kingdom perspective.

Table of Contents

1. Cultural heritage information management issues and challenges

G. G. Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven

2. Cultural heritage information: politics and policies 

Rachel Bruce and Stuart Dempster

3. Cultural heritage information: artifacts and technologies 

Melissa Terras

4. Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture, indexing and access 

Lighton Phiri and Hussein Sileman

5. Cultural heritage information users 

Claire Warwick

6. Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions) 

Chris Alen Sula

7. A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems

Julianne Stiller and Vivien Petras

8. Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries 

Ali Shiri

9. Users and usability studies of Europeana 

Sudatta Chowdhury and Milena Dobreva

10. Managing cultural heritage information: the PATHS project 

Paul Clough

11. Trends in cultural heritage information management research 

G. G. Chowdhury and Ian Ruthven

The Collection's at the Core

Mardis, M. A. (2014). The Collection's at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 978-1-61069-504-6

Publisher's Description
Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and careers in these fields; STEM helps ensure that future generations include inventive and critical thinkers. Digital resources offer a current, exciting direction to involve school librarians with their STEM teachers. With its specific focus on open digital multimedia learning resources, this book will enable school librarians to take advantage of this opportunity and evaluate, build, and maintain their STEM collections.

The book comprises three sections: an overview of policy initiatives; a thorough exploration of STEM education policy, digital materials, and collection considerations; and detailed explanations of strategies for collection development and promotion. You'll learn how to perform a collection analysis to determine the age and extent of your STEM collections and make priorities for enriching them with appropriate digital multimedia resources as well as how to classify resources using Dewey and Sears and with regard to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Features

• Authored by a former school administrator and school librarian with 15 years' experience working on K–12 STEM initiatives

• Enables school librarians to understand the nature and importance of STEM as well as the value of including high-quality, free STEM digital multimedia in library collections

• Presents effective strategies for promoting collections to ultimate beneficiaries including learners, educators, parents, community members, and, importantly, other school librarians

• Gives school librarians specific criteria and sources with which to build STEM collections that meet national standards for science, health, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as to select resources that cross curriculum areas

Table of Contents 
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: STEM Is Important to Librarians
Chapter 3: The Common Standards Movement Is Important for School Librarians
Chapter 4: Curation Part 1: Selecting and Describing STEM Digital Resources
Chapter 5: Curation Part 2: Managing and Promoting Your STEM OER Collection
Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusions: An Open Letter to School Librarians and Science Educators
Appendix A: Starting Points for Locating Vetted K-12 STEM OER
Appendix B: K-12 STEM OER Collections with Downloadable Records Available through NSDL
Appendix C: K-12 STEM OER Video Collections
Index

Digitization and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Leggett, Elizabeth R. Digitization and Digital Archiving: A Practical Guide for Librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-9207-1

Description
Part of the Practical Guides for Librarians series, this book is a comprehensive guide to the process of digital storage and archiving. Assuming only basic computer knowledge, this guide walks the reader through everything he or she needs to know to start or maintain a digital archiving project. It answers basic questions such as:

• What should be stored?
• Where and how should it be stored?
• How exactly is information stored in a computer?
• Does it really make a difference if one uses a jpg or a tiff file? 

 
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Use Digital Preservation?
Chapter 2. How Do Computers Store Information?
Chapter 3. Storing Images
Chapter 4. Storing Text
Chapter 5. Storing Audio and Video
Chapter 6. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray
Chapter 7. Magnetic Tape
Chapter 8. Hard Drives
Chapter 9. Flash Memory
Chapter 10. Cloud Computing
Chapter 11. Equipment for Digitizing and Editing Archival Materials
Chapter 12. Metadata and Accessing Information
Chapter 13. Copyright Law
Chapter 14. Problems With Digital Preservation
Chapter 15. Putting It All Together

Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Hirtle, Peter B., Emily Hudson, Andrew T. Kenyon. Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums.  Ithica, NY: Cornell University Library, 2009.

The development of new digital technologies has led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfill their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Many institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. It is imperative, therefore, that staff in libraries, archives, and museums have a good understanding of fundamental copyright principles and how institutional procedures can be affected by the law. Copyright and Cultural Institutions was written to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law. It discusses the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of "risk assessment" when conducting any digitization project. Two cases studies (on digitizing oral histories and student work) are also included.

Using Massive Digital Libraries

Weiss, Andrew. Using Massive Digital Libraries: A LITA Guide. ALA TechSource, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1235-5

Description
Weiss takes an in-depth look at what he calls "massive digital libraries" like Google Books, HathiTrust, or Internet Archive and how they might fit into a library context. He explores their strengths and weaknesses as digital information tools, helping librarians understand how they function and what we can expect in the future.

Table of Contents

Part 1 - Background

1 A Brief History of Digital Libraries-or, How Did We Get Here?

2 Massive Digital Libraries-or, Where Are We?

3 Major Party Players and Their Characteristics-or, Who's at the Party?

4 Impact on Librarianship-or, How Do I Deal with This?

Part 2 - The Philosophical Issues

5 The Copyright Conundrum-or, How Is This Allowed?

6 Collection Development-or, How Did I Get This?

7 Collection Diversity-or, Why Is This Missing?

8 Access-or, Why Can't I Get This?

Part 3 - Practical Applications

9 Using MDLs in Libraries-or, To What End?

10 Four MDL Studies

Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Corrado, Edward M. and Heather Lea Moulaison. Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-8712-1

Description
As the publisher's description suggests, this book is about "things (not technology; not how-to; not theory) I wish I knew before I got started" with digital preservation. The information in this book is presented in a readable format, focusing on management issues and best practices.It addresses all aspects of curating and preserving digital content for long term access, including management, technology, and content issues. 

Table of Contents
A detailed table of contents is available on the publisher's web site.