Library science

Libraries play an important role in getting information into the hands of the population. Today, librarians must use the basic concepts and principles related to the selection, evaluation, organization, and preservation of physical and digital information items. These information items have grown to include not only books, but many kinds of printed material, and vast electronic resources. Librarians must understand all aspects of the management of these collections, including their selection,…

staffing the Suffolk County House of Corrections library. He tells the reader about positive and negative effects of inmates spending time in the library, the debate on a library being accessible, and his personal experiences with the inmates. Steinberg finishes the article saying, "...and find ways to cultivate it more deliberately, to direct it over the prison walls and back into the lives of our neighborhoods." This quote shows just how often libraries are overlooked. In this essay I will be…

of University Experience Portfolio Exercise Library Assignment The Library is key to your academic success at Missouri Western State University. While in college, you will be asked to find articles and books for assignments in many of your classes. This exercise is designed to familiarize you with the process of locating a book in the MWSU library using TOWERS, the library’s catalog. You will also learn to locate scholarly articles in a library database/search engine. Searching for an…

When writing a paper for any class a writer would take in their life they will encounter having to do research. Finding information for a topic is not as simple as searching a topic and finding the easiest available. There is a level of complexity to finding appropriate and reliable sources that will be accepted by any professor. Primary sources, although are sometimes harder to find, are a great place to get information because of the simple fact that they are guaranteed to be reliable and…

Academic writings are fundamental to expanding and solidifying knowledge and understanding. Axiomatic to the objective nature of the writing is the existence of persuasive source material acting to support the argument put forth. For this purpose, critical evaluation of sources should be meticulously undertaken so as to ensure a strong and competent argument has been assembled. The sources themselves can take on many different forms depending on the discipline being examined and written in,…

at a rapid rate to keep up with the times or risk extinction. It started slowly in the nineteen eighties and nineties with the eradication of card catalogs and the implementation of the the computer database as a means of finding items within the library. It has been snowballing ever since with the advent of the internet and information accessibility.…

cliché I honestly have to say that this book found me, rather than me finding it. I was having difficult time picking the right book. As I’m sure many of you are aware, a title on a list isn’t really much to go off of. One day I found myself in the library after school reading Catch-22. The book is probably good in its own right, but I might have been crushed under the weight of its 453 pages. Then, Mrs. Maynard the librarian taps me on the shoulder and hands me a copy of One flew over the…

of the US. v. American Library Association occurred in a time when the internet was becoming a widespread, yet widely unadulterated medium. In 2000, Congress introduced the Child Internet Protection act (CIPA), which required public libraries that received funding from the federal government to install a software on their computers that blocked obscene websites. The purpose of this paper is to defend the Supreme Court’s decision to allow CIPA’s software in public libraries by, demonstrating why…

Howard Rheingold’s book, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution is a commentary concerning the emerging effects wireless technology and mobile devices might have on society. This is not a new topic for Rheingold, he has written other works about trends in computing, communications, and culture, including the book, Virtual Community, a term he also coined. In Smart Mobs, Rheingold explores the groups of friends, colleagues, and/or strangers, who come together in what he calls smart mobs.…

Collection Policy Collection development responsibilities have been delegated to the Collection Services Manager in collaboration with the Library Director. Together among a highly skilled staff of catalogers and access and content specialist, Blue Ash’s Collection continues to grow at a healthy rate. Blue Ash stands apart in the library system in part for its strong graphic novel collection for both juvenile and young adults. The young adult graphic novel is a collection with 500 graphic…