Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries
Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries

Author: Paul Kelsey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0789024314

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Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to promote awareness of the library by meeting the information needs of underserved or uninformed patrons. This book contains the experiences of academic and special librarians who describe a wide array of successful outreach programs that are in place throughout the country. This valuable tool introduces professional librarians and library science students and faculty to current and highly innovative models of outreach services implemented in a variety of academic and special library settings.

Global Library and Information Science
Global Library and Information Science

Author: Ismail Abdullahi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009-05-05

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 3598441347

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This book presents international librarianship and library science through insightful and well written chapters contributed by experts and scholars from six regions of the world. The role of public, academic, special, school libraries, as well as library and information science education are presented from the early development to the present time. Its lively, readable approach will help the reader to understand librarianship in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America. Edited by Ismail Abdullahi, Professor of Global Library and Information Science, this book is a must-read by library science students and teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in Global Librarianship.