Foundations of Library and Information Science

Foundations of Library and Information ScienceIn the fifth edition of this classic textbook, Richard E. Rubin and new co author Rachel G. Rubin provide a foundational text for LIS students and professionals while taking into account the numerous societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting library and information institutions, their users and the discipline as a whole.

promoting aspiration and achievement among the children and young people they work with

combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science

This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors

It examines the limited extent to which economic and social groups have been able to benefit from the fall of the communist order and to withstand the increasing authoritarianism of Putin's presidency

the first full-length study of British civilians’ behaviour in air raids during the Second World War

Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars of democracy have begun to crumble

Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology

Dahlia Schweitzer explores the film on a variety of levels

The advantage of radio frequency identification (RFID) over other technologies used in libraries is usually seen to be its ability to combine the functions of the barcode and the security tag

covering the Crusades

It argues that there is a thematic unity--the pursuit of pleasure--underlying his work

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland