Finding and Using U.S. Government Information A Practical Guide for Librarians

Latham, Bethany.  Finding and Using U.S. Government Information A Practical Guide for Librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-5381-0715-7

Description
This work covers both tangible and digital information produced by the US Federal Government in order to offer an overview of the subject and provide a subject-based ready-reference for the types of government information sources that can answer many questions commonly encountered by reference librarians.

Table of Contents 

Part I: Background and Context
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Types of Government Information
Chapter 3: Approaches to the Research Process

Part II: How to Find and Use Government Information
Chapter 4: General Resources, Search Engines, and Tools
Chapter 5: Business, Economics, and Labor
Chapter 6: Census and Housing
Chapter 7: Education
Chapter 8: Environment
Chapter 9: Geographical Information Systems, Maps, and Other Cartographic Materials
Chapter 10: Health, Medical, and Consumer Information
Chapter 11: Intellectual Property
Chapter 12: Legislation, Law, Jurisprudence, and Criminal Justice
Chapter 13: Scientific, Technical, and Statistical Information

Part III: Collection Management and Professional Development
Chapter 14: Tips for Government Information Collection Development
Chapter 15: Professional Development and Continuing Education

Law Librarianship in the Digital Age

Kroski, Ellyssa (ed.) Law Librarianship in the Digital Age. Scarecrow Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-8806-7

Description
This book covers developments that face today’s modern law libraries, including e-Books, mobile device management, Web scale discovery, cloud computing, social software, and more. These critical issues and concepts are approached from the perspective of tech-savvy library leaders who each discuss how forward-thinking libraries are tackling such traditional library practices as reference, collection development, technical services, and administration in this new “digital age.”

Each chapter explores the key concepts and issues that are currently being discussed at major law library conferences and events today and looks ahead to what’s on the horizon for law libraries in the future.

Table of Contents
Part I. Major Introductory Concepts
1 Law Librarianship 2.0 - Jennifer Wertkin
2. Embedded Librarianship - Thomas J. Striepe and Mary Talley
3. Copyright in the Digital Age - Kyle K. Courtney
4. Open Access to Legal Scholarship - Cheryl Kelly Fischer and Vicki Steiner
5. User Services Analysis for Decision Making - Kim Clarke
6. Law Library Management - Camille Broussard, Ralph Monaco, and Gitelle Seer

Part II. Technologies
7. Digitization - Michelle M. Wu
8. E-books in Law Libraries - Ellyssa Kroski
9. Tablets and Mobile Device Management - William R. Mills
10. The Law Library Website - Andrew Plumb-Larrick
11. Web-Scale Discovery and Federated Search - Valeri Craigle
12. The Cloud - Roger Vicarius Skalbeck
13. Social Software - Marcia L. Dority Baker

Part III. Reference Services
14. Reference Services in a Law Library - Carol A. Watson
15. Introduction to Legal Research - Rhea Ballard-Thrower
16. Online Information Sources - Sarah K. C. Mauldin
17. Major Legal Databases and How to Search Them - Theodora Belniak

Part IV. Instruction
18. Library Instruction in the Information Age - Emily Janoski-Haehlen
19. Educational Technologies - Kim Clarke and Nadine R. Hoffman

Part V. Technical Services
20. Technical Services 2.0 - Edward T. Hart
21. Collection Development - Molly (Mary) E. Brownfield
22. Electronic Resources Management and User Authentication - Catherine M. Monte

Part VI. Knowledge Management
23. Knowledge Management - Steven A. Lastres and Don MacLeod
24. The Law Library Intranet - Emily R. Florio and Michael J. Robak

Part VII. Marketing
25. Digital Age Marketing - Carol Ottolenghi
26. Competitive Intelligence - Jennifer Alexander and M. T. Hennessey

Part VIII. Professional Development and the Future
27. Professional Development - Holly M. Riccio
28. The Future of Law Librarianship - Scott D. Bailey and Julie Graves Krishnaswami

Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata

Hider, Philip.  Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata.  Chicago: ALA, 2012.   025.3 Hider   isbn 978-0-8389-1201-0

This book serves as a primer on information and knowledge organization, with particular reference to digital environments. It introduces the conventions and standards of contemporary document description, and the principles and trends of professional practice. Employing the unifying mechanism of the semantic web and the resource description framework, Hider integrates the various traditions and practices of information and knowledge organization. Uniquely, he covers both the domain-specific traditions and practices and the practices of the “metadata movement” through a single lens—that of resource description in the broadest, semantic web sense. This approach more readily accommodates coverage of the new RDA: Resource Description and Access standard, which aims to move library cataloging into the center of the semantic web. This book brings both the standard and its model and concepts into focus, covering such key topics as:

•  Information resource attributes
•  Metadata for information retrieval
•  Metadata sources and quality
•  Economics and management of metadata
•  Knowledge organization systems
•  The semantic web
•  Books and e-books, and websites and audiovisual resources
•  Business and government documents
•  Learning resources

The field of information/knowledge organizationThis comprehensive introduction to information resource description is essential reading for LIS students taking information organization courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialize in metadata, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.

Digital and Media Literarcy: Connecting Culture and Classroom

Hobbs, Renee. Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4129-8158-3

From the Publisher:
Maximize the power of media for teaching 21^st-century skills

Today’s students tweet, text, and navigate apps up to 12 hours each day, but they may not know how to effectively analyze a TV show or website. Award-winning author Renee Hobbs demonstrates how to incorporate media literacy into the secondary classroom, providing the tools teachers need to:

• Effectively foster students' critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills
• Integrate media literacy into every subject
• Select meaningful media texts for use in the classroom
• Recognize the "teachable moment" in dialogue about popular culture

Included are vignettes of Grade 6-12 teachers who are connecting their English, history, chemistry, and health classrooms to media culture. A companion website offers video clips and discussion questions related to the sample lesson plans in each chapter. Digital andMedia Literacy offers a wealth of ideas that you can implement immediately to prepare students for college and the workforce.

Digital Librarian’s Legal Handbook

Gathegi, John N. The Digital Librarian’s Legal Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2012. 346.730482 Gathe ISBN 978-1555706494

Here are authoritative answers to the critical legal questions that make digital collection development and management so challenging and complex for librarians, educators, technology leaders, information science educators and anyone involved with digitized content. This new work examines the intersection of digital library technology, and digital content, and the law. From an opening discussion of general intellectual property issues to the application of copyright law to digital collections, the Handbook covers all the key topics in the field of intellectual property including several new issues, such as the problems of non-permanence, the complexity of multimedia content, issues surrounding open and closed access, evaluating data providers, proprietary search engines, derivative works, annotations and metadata, privacy, and more. Practitioners will also appreciate the book's practical checklists and compliance tools.

Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship

The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, June 2010. 027.7 Idea. ISBN 978-1-932326-35-2

The Idea of Order explores the transition from an analog to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation, and reconstitution, and the implications of this transition for managing research collections. The volume comprises three reports. The first, "Can a New Research Library be All-Digital?" by Lisa Spiro and Geneva Henry, explores the degree to which a new research library can eschew print. The second, "On the Cost of Keeping a Book," by Paul Courant and Matthew "Buzzy" Nielsen, argues that from the perspective of long-term storage, digital surrogates offer a considerable cost savings over print-based libraries. The final report, "Ghostlier Demarcations," examines how well large text databases being created by Google Books and other mass-digitization efforts meet the needs of scholars, and the larger implications of these projects for research, teaching, and publishing.

Negotiating Licenses for Digital Resources

Durrant, Fiona. Negotiating Licenses for Digital Resources. London: Facet, 2006. 346.4207 Durra. ISBN 1856045862

With the increasing availability of digital resources, it is vital for those involved in purchasing them to get to grips with the complexities of contracts, costs and the relationships that exist between subscriber and publisher. "Negotiating Licences for Digital Resources" is a practical guide on how to get the best deal for online subscriptions. The processes outlined in this book can be applied to a wide range of electronic products, ranging from e-journals to multi-modular databases. There are practical tips and guidance on what to focus on during the course of the negotiation and, most importantly, what preparation is needed to ensure that you gather the necessary amount of information to achieve the best outcome. The text guides you logically through the stages of negotiation, from initial awareness of your organization's needs to making the contract more understandable, and offers advice on the skills and techniques of negotiation, whether in written or face-to-face scenarios. This book can act as a reference tool for experienced negotiators, or as a primer for those who have never before been involved in the process. It is essential reading for information professionals, knowledge managers, online resource buyers and procurement officers across all sectors, and will also be of interest to publishers, e-journal agents and vendors of online resources.

Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, Second Edition

Kovacs, Diane K. The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, Second Edition New York: Neal-Schuman, 2009. 025.284 KOVAC 2nd ed. ISBN 978-1555706647

First published in 2004, this second edition provides updated and enhanced information on “how to build, expand, improve, and maintain an e-library collection.” Chapters cover general collection guidelines and licensing basics; especially useful are individual sections citing specific Web sites for e-collection sources in ready reference, business, medicine, biology, engineering, physical and earth sciences, and the social sciences and humanities. Kovacs, who co-compiled a few editions of the invaluable print Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists, among other works, is a very diligent researcher, and her latest title again offers librarians much useful information.

Palfrey, John, and Urs Gasser. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York: Basic Books, 2008. Print. ISBN: 978-0-465-00515-4

In this book, the authors draw conclusions based on original research directed at digital natives, or the generation of young adults who has never known a world without the Internet, texting, social networks, and other digital applications. Their understanding of our world will shape everyone's future. This book has been reviewed favorably by Library Journal, Publishers' Weekly, School Library Journal and more. Visit the related website for more information and to learn about the Digital Natives project. -- Jen

Licensing Digital Content: a Practical Guide for Librarians

Harris, Lesley Ellen. Licensing Digital Content: a Practical Guide for Librarians. 2nd ed. Chicago, ALA, 2009. 346.73048 Harri 2nd ed. ISBN 978-0-8389-0992-8

Harris, ex-senior copyright officer in Canada and author of Digital Property: Currency of the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill Professional, 1998), has taken a complex subject and written, in lay readers' terms, guidelines for the licensing of digital content. She includes chapters on items such as the step-by-step process of the licensing experience, tips on different clauses for the agreement, and negotiation. There is also a good question-and-answer section. The author is very knowledgeable about the subject and feels strongly that licensing is something librarians can do for themselves without hiring an attorney. If there are any negative aspects of the volume, it's the price, which seems a bit steep for a book that runs 137 pages. While global issues are supposed to be covered, the author's primary interest is U.S. and Canadian copyright law. Harris also includes an appendix of sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. those libraries that license digital materials.

Digital Consumers

Digital Consumers: reshaping the information profession, edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands. London : Facet, 2009.

The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice. Professional skills are increasingly being performed without the necessary context, rationale and understanding. Information now forms a consumer commodity with many diverse information producers engaged in the market. It is generally the lack of recognition of this fact amongst the information professions that explains the difficulties they find themselves in.

There is a need for a new belief system that will help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players, nor, indeed, the suppliers of first choice. The purpose of this thought-provoking book is to provide that overarching vision, built on hard evidence rather than PowerPoint Ôpuff'.

The authors of the acclaimed CIBER Google Generation study, and an international, cross-sectoral team of contributors has assembled together for this purpose. Key strategic areas covered include:

• the digital consumer: an introduction and philosophy
• the digital information marketplace and its economics: the end of exclusivity
• the e-shopper: the growth of the informed purchaser
• the library in the digital age
• the psychology of the digital information consumer
• the information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer: case study - the virtual scholar
• the Google generation: myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviour
• trends in digital information consumption and the future
• where do we go from here?

No information professional or student can afford not to read this far-reaching and important book.