Most Read This Week In Library Science

Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Library Science"

Cher connard
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Role Play
The Last Sane Woman
The Library: A Fragile History
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Wickedest
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory

What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.
Michael Gorman, Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century

Marilyn Johnson
A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future. ...more
Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

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