Ocean State Libraries

"Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life is a much-needed guide for those struggling with how to manage and preserve their digital items. Starting with a values assessment, this book helps readers identify what items are important to them so they can effectively prioritize their time and effort. Covering multimedia, correspondence, legacy planning, password protection, photos, nondigital documents, financial...

This step-by-step guide provides encouragement, support and direction for librarians who may be new to research and evaluation, or lacking in confidence or expertise. With a focus on practice based research, evaluation, and small projects it guides the reader through the research process from starting to think about the research question, through to the completion of the research and dissemination of the results. It is designed to encourage quality...

Profiles careers in the library and information sciences, discussing the nature of the work, educational and training requirements, employment opportunities, salary figures, and sources of additional information.

This short, practical book introduces students to the important components of the information-seeking process. Unlike guides that describe the research process but do not explain its logic, this book focuses entirely on basic concepts, strategies, tools, and tactics for research--in both electronic and print formats. --from publisher description.