Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.

Table of Contents:
Academic Librarianship Academic Libraries Accessibility Accreditation of Library and Information Studies Programs in the U.S. and Canada African-Americans and U.S. Libraries: History American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) American Association of Museums (AAM) American Association of School Librarians (AASL) American Library Association (ALA) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR) Approval Plans Arab Federation for Libraries and Information (AFLI) Archival Appraisal and Acquisition Archival Arrangement and Theory Archival Documentation Archival Finding Aids Archival Management and Administration Archival Reference and Access Archives Archives and Libraries of Canada Archivists and Collections ARMA International, Inc. Armenia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Art Galleries Art Librarianship Art Looting and Trafficking Art Museums Artificial Intelligence Artificial Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing Arts Literatures and Their Users Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Association for Information Systems (AIS) Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Australia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Authentication and Authorization Automated Acquisitions Automatic Abstracting and Summarization Back-of-the-Book Indexing Bibliographic Utilities Bibliographical Society [London] Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Bibliography Bibliometric Overview of Information Science Bibliometric Research: History [ELIS Classic] Binding [ELIS Classic] Bioinformatics Biological Information and Its Users Biomedical Informatics Blind and Physically Disabled: Library Services Bliss Bibliographic Classification First Edition [ELIS Classic] Bliss Bibliographic Classification Second Edition Boolean Algebras [ELIS Classic] Brazil, Part 1: Museums British Library, The Business Informatics Business Information and Its Users Business Literature: History [ELIS Classic] Canada: Libraries and Archives Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Canadian Library Association (CLA) Careers and Education in Archives and Records Management Careers and Education in Information Systems Careers and Education in Library and Information Science Careers and Education in Records and Information Management Cataloging Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) Catalogs and Cataloging: History [ELIS Classic] CENDI Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Charleston Conference Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Chemoinformatics Children and Information Technology Children's Literature Children's Services in Libraries China: Libraries, Archives and Museums Circulation Services Citation Analysis Citation Indexes and the Web of Science Citer Motivations [ELIS Classic] Classification Theory Clinical Decision-Support Systems Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Collaborative Information Retrieval Collaborative Systems and Groupware Collection Development in Public Libraries Collection Development in the ARL Library Collection Management Systems College Libraries Communication and Communication Studies Communication Policy: United States Complexity and Self-Organization Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Conservation and Preservation of Library and Archival Materials Conservation and Preservation of Museum Objects Controlled Vocabularies for Art, Architecture, and Material Culture Copyright and Fair Use in Higher Education Copyright and Trademark Law in the United States Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Corporate Archives Corporate Art Collections Corporate Information Centers Corporate Records Management Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Credibility and Cognitive Authority of Information Croatia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Cultural Memory Curating Archaeological Artifacts Curating Natural History Collections Custody and Chain of Custody Data and Data Quality Data Transmission Protocols Deaf and Hearing Impaired: Communication in Service Contexts [ELIS Classic] Decision Sciences Decision Support Systems Demand-Driven Acquisitions Denmark: Libraries, Archives and Museums Descriptive Cataloging Principles Design Science in the Information Sciences Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Digital Archiving Digital Asset Management Digital Content Licensing Digital Divide Digital Divide and Inclusion Digital Humanities Digital Humanities and Academic Libraries Digital Images Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 Digital Preservation Diplomatics Disaster Planning and Recovery for Cultural Institutions Distance Learning and Virtual Libraries Document Information Systems Document Theory Document Type Definition (DTD) Domain Analysis in Information Science Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI): A Personal History Economics Literature: History [ELIS Classic] EDUCAUSE Electronic Records Preservation Electronic Resource Management in Libraries Electronic Resources & Libraries - ER&L Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Engineering Literatures and Their Users [ELIS Classic] Epistemology Ethical Aspects of Library and Information Science Ethical Issues in Information Systems Ethiopia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Everyday Life Information Seeking Evidence-Based Practice Exhibition Design Facet Analysis [ELIS Classic] Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) Federal Electronic Information in the United States Film and Broadcast Archives Film Archiving: History Folksonomies France: Archives, Museums and Libraries Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Fuzzy Set Theory Games and Gaming Genealogical Literature and Its Users Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geographical Literature: History [ELIS Classic] Germany: Libraries, Archives and Museums Global Open Knowledgebase Google Book Search Library Project Government Documents Collection and Management Government Records Management/Recordkeeping Greece: Part I Libraries Greece: Part II Archives Greece: Part III Museums Health Science Professional Literatures and Their Users Health Sciences Librarianship Historical and Archaeological Sites: Development and Preservation Historical Societies Historical Sources and Their Users History of Paper History of Public Libraries [ELIS Classic] History of Records and Information Management History of Three Basic Printing Processes Hospital Libraries Human-Computer Interaction Research in Information Retrieval Humanities Literatures and Their Users Hungary: Libraries, Archives and Museums Hypertext and Hypercard: Early Development [ELIS Classic] Illumination [ELIS Classic] Impact Assessment of Cultural Institutions Incunabula [ELIS Classic] Indexing: History and Theory India: Libraries, Archives and Museums Indigenous Librarianship Information Information Architecture Information Arts Information Behavior Information Behavior Models Information Commons Information Crises and Crisis Information Information Explosion Information Literacy Information Literacy Instruction Information Management Information Needs Information Needs and Behaviors of Diasporic Populations Information Needs and Behaviors of Populations in Less Developed Regions Information Obsolescence Information Overload Information Policy: European Union Information Policy: United States Information Practice Information Retrieval Experimentation [ELIS Classic] Information Retrieval Protocols: Z39.50 and Search & Retrieve via URL Information Retrieval Support Systems Information Retrieval Systems Information Scattering Information Science Information Search Process (ISP) Models Information Searching and Search Models Information Society Information Storage Technologies Information Systems Information Systems Failure Information Technology Adoption Information Technology Literacy Information Technology Project Implementation in Developing Countries [ELIS Classic] Information Theory Information Use for Decision Making Information Visualization Informetric Laws Informetrics Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Institutional Repositories Integrated Library Systems (ILS) Intellectual Freedom and the American Library Association (ALA): Historical Overview [ELIS Classic] Intelligence and Security Informatics Interactive Multimedia in Museums International and Comparative Librarianship International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) International Communication Association (ICA) International Council of Museums (ICOM) International Council on Archives (ICA) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) International Records Management Standards ISO 15489 and 23081 International Records Management Trust (IRMT) International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) International Standards for Archival Description Internet and Public Library Use Internet Archive Internet Filtering Software and Its Effects Internet Genres Internet Search Tools: History to 2000 InterPARES iSchools Israel: Libraries, Archives and Museums Japan: Libraries, Archives and Museums JSTOR Kazakhstan: Libraries, Archives and Museums Kenya: Libraries, Museums and Archives Knowledge Knowledge Creation and Use in Organizations Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams Knowledge Management Knowledge Management: Early Development Knowledge Organization System Standards Knowledge Sharing Mechanisms Knowledge: Tacit and Explicit Latent Semantic Indexing Latinos and U.S. Libraries: History Law Firm Librarianship Law Librarianship Law Literature and Its Users Learning and Information Seeking Leisure and Hobby Information and Its Users Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Information Needs Libraries Library and Information Science Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Library Anxiety Library Architecture and Design Library Architecture: History Library Automation: History Library Consortia in Europe Library Fund-Raising and Development Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) Library Management Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Library of Congress: 21st Century Library Portals and Gateways Library Technical Services Linguistics and the Information Sciences Lithuania: Libraries and Librarianship Louvre Maker Spaces in Libraries Managing an Information Business Marketing Library and Information Services Meta Markup Languages: SGML and XML Modeling Documents in Their Context Moldova: Archives, Museums and Libraries Multilingual Information Access Museum Accreditation Program Museum Architecture and Gallery Design Museum Collecting and Collections Museum Computer Network (MCN) Museum Informatics Museum Registration and Documentation Museums Museums and Community Museums as Place Museums: History Music Information Retrieval Name Authority Control National Archives National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) National Libraries Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Non-Governmental Organizations and Information Older Adult's Information Needs and Behavior One-Person Libraries Online Catalog Subject Searching Ontologies and Their Definition Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model Oral History in Libraries and Archives Organization Theories Organizational Culture Organizational Learning Organizational Memory Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA) Papyrology People with Disabilities Personal Information Management (PIM) Peru: Libraries and Library Science Physical Sciences and Mathematics Literatures and Their Users Poland: Libraries and Archives Politics of Representation in Museums Popular Literature Genres Primary Records: Future Prospects [ELIS Classic] Print On Demand Provenance of Archival Materials Provenance of Museum Objects Provenance of Rare Books Rare Book Collections Reading and Reading Acquisition Reading Disorders Reading Interests Records Continuum Model Reference and Informational Genres Reference Services Regional Library Networks: United States Relevance in Theory Relevance Judgments and Measurements Saudi Arabia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Scholarly and Trade Publishing [ELIS Classic] School Librarianship School Libraries Science and Engineering Librarianship Science and Technology Studies Search Engines Semiotics Senegal: Libraries, Archives and Museums Sense-Making Serbia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Shared Libraries Site Museums and Monuments Slovakia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Smithsonian Institution Social Epistemology Social Influences on Classification Social Science Professional Literatures and Their Users Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Society of American Archivists (SAA) Sociology of Reading Sociology of the Information Disciplines Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) South Korea: Archives and Libraries Spain: Libraries, Archives and Museums Special Collections and Manuscripts Special Libraries Association (SLA) Specialty Museums State Archives State Libraries and State Library Agencies Storytelling Student's Information Needs and Behavior Subject Cataloging Principles and Systems Switzerland: Libraries, Archives and Museums Tanzania: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Information Systems Task-Based Information Searching: Research Methods Technical Writing Test Collections Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) THEFT, VANDALISM AND SECURITY IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES Topic Maps Tunisia: Libraries, Archives and Museums Ukraine: Libraries UNESCO: Communication and Information Sector Unicode Standard Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) Project Unions in Public and Academic Libraries United Kingdom: Part I Libraries and Librarianship United Kingdom: Part II Museums and Museology United Kingdom: Part III Archives and Archival Science United States: Part I Archives and Archival Science United States: Part II Museums United States: Part III Libraries and Librarianship in the 21st Century Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) University Archives User-oriented and cognitive models of information retrieval Venezuela Libraries and Librarianship Vietnam: Libraries, Archives and Museums Visitor Studies VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (VRA), THE Visual Resources Management in Cultural Institutions Visual Resources Management in Cultural Institutions Volunteer Services in Cultural Institutions Wayfinding and Signage World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) World Wide Web (WWW) Youth Information Needs and Behavior Zoological Park and Aquarium Libraries and Archives

About the Author :
John McDonald is the Director of Product Management for Analytics and Assessment at EBSCO Information Services. Active professionally, he has published a number of articles on collection development and information usage behaviors, with a focus on statistical analysis of data. He has served on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards, as well as on the Executive Committee of Project COUNTER and the Board of Directors for the SCELC Consortium. He previously held positions with the University of Southern California as Associate Dean for Collections, at the Claremont Colleges as Chief Information Officer and interim Library Director and previously as a librarian at the California Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has degrees in History and Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Michael Levine-Clark is the Dean of the University of Denver Libraries. Prior to taking this position, he was the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, also at the University of Denver. He is the recipient of the 2015 Harrasowitz Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award for his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition. With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, he founded the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, and continues to serve as co-editor. He is also co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 4th ed, and serves on editorial boards of several journals. An active member of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), he has served most recently as chair of the Collection Management Section. As co-chair of the NISO Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Working Group, he was one of the lead authors of the recommended practices document. He serves on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards and a range of committees within library professional organizations. He writes and speaks regularly on implications of discovery service implementation and strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries, the development of demand-driven acquisition models, and methods for assessing collections usage.