Books in the Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science series

Gloalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in the period following World War Two. Providing an examination of the ideas and aspirations surrounding information and the library.

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture ¿ both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices ¿ literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art ¿with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.

Offers a practical philosophy of engagement that can be used to meet the challenges facing librarians, including staffing shortages, depleted or eliminated training budgets, longer hours, greater workloads, and rapidly-changing technology, hindering the ability - and willingness - of employees to continue job education in library sciences.

Details both challenges and proven solutions in establishing, maintaining, and servicing digital scholarship in the humanities. This book offer a balanced view of the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to digitization, reporting both progress and problems.

Helps librarians and information professionals to design, implement, and manage solutions to provide online access to e-journals and e-resources. This book contains topics including reconfiguring acquisition models, electronic resource management (ERM) systems, skill sets necessary for e-resource management, and efficiency enhancement.

Looks at how e-journals have changed the library landscape and offers librarians strategies to better manage them. This work provides a broad overview of the practical and theoretical issues associated with the management of electronic journals, and contains case studies of problems faced and solutions found in individual libraries.

Melding concepts drawn from Library and Information Studies, this title presents a multi-level theory of 'Information Worlds' to investigate the ways in which information creates the social worlds of people.

Museum informatics provides an overview, suitable for current and future museum professionals, educators, and students, of the sociotechnical interactions that take place between people, information, and technology in museums.

This book presents an insider¿s perspective on information in a wide range of disciplines, from quantum physics to library science. It reflects the diversity of understanding of information within these disciplines, but also brings clarity and coherence to the different perspectives through promoting information as a unifying concept.

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture ¿ both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices ¿ literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art ¿with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.

The term `systems theory¿ is used to characterize a set of disparate yet related approaches to fields as varied as information theory, cybernetics, biology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. What unites each of these traditions of systems theory is a shared focus on general features of systems and their fundamental importance for diverse areas of life. Yet there are considerable differences among these traditions, and each tradition has developed its own methodologies, journals, and forms of anaylsis. This book explores this terrain and provides an overview of and guide to the traditions of systems theory in their considerable variety. It draws attention to the traditions of systems theory in their historical development, especially as related to the humanities and social sciences, and shows how from these traditions various contemporary developments have ensued.

Museum informatics provides an overview, suitable for current and future museum professionals, educators, and students, of the sociotechnical interactions that take place between people, information, and technology in museums.