"Records and Information Management was the first book to provide a lifecycle view of records management that includes both paper and electronic records and information and addresses the impact of Web 2.0 and records management technologies. The increasingly complex regulatory and legal environment, along with the growing volume and changing nature of records and information created through emerging technologies, continues to bring RIM to the attention...

Whether a reader s passions fall in library science, genealogy, history, writing, or research, he or she will find something of interest in this extensive career guide. There are many, many career options under the broad scope of the fields of writing and research, and many of them don t require higher education. This guide breaks down these options, offering a long list of online and off-line resources for the determined career seeker and several...

"This work skeptically explores the notion that the Internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries, and makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements"--Provided by publisher.

"Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on...