Product Description: This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in library and information organizations, the conference addresses managing between and across generations, mentoring and coaching, attracting people to the profession and developing a new generation of leaders, re-skilling and transferability of skills, succession planning and passing on knowledge...read more

Product Description: New in paperback! In this fundamental revision of Susan Akers' classic, the authors give the rules for using Dewey Decimal Classification tables clearly and briefly. They do not suggest all the ways of cataloging a small library, treat LC classification or subject headings (or other systems), or explain the use of computers in cataloging, but they do discuss the continuing impact of automation on even the smallest library's catalogs...read more

Product Description: In the computer age how do libraries balance the conflicting needs of protection and access? This was the focus of the 32nd annual symposium (the 13th to be published by McFarland) of the graduate alumni and faculty of the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies...read more

Product Description: The 31st annual symposium of the graduate alumni and faculty of the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (the 12th to be published by McFarland) addressed the impact of technology on the economics of producing, storing and disseminating information...read more

Discusses government information policies, examines the conflicts between privacy and freedom of information, and analyzes the librarian's role in the information policy debate

An introduction to the field of adolescent literature for parents and professionals suggests books and compiles information on young adult reading interests, the state of the art, trends, and controversies