Librarianship

Librarianship is the domain of the professional librarian. It merges the disciplines of Library Science, Information Science, Information Management, and Knowledge Management.

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
La Bibliomule de Cordoue
Dear Librarian
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
A Library
The Library Bus
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction, 6th Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series)
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory
209 Big Programming Ideas for Small Budgets
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
The Library Book
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness: An Empathy-Driven Approach to Solving Problems, Preventing Conflict, and Serving Everyone
Foundations of Library and Information Science
The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide
What They Don't Teach You in Library School
Library and Information Center Management
Library: An Unquiet History
The Black Belt Librarian: Real-World Safety & Security
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
The New Librarianship Field Guide (Mit Press)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Library Book by Susan OrleanThe Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn LaskyThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterMy Librarian Is a Camel by Margriet RuursImprobable Libraries by Alex       Johnson
International Librarianship
85 books — 3 voters

Rise of the Videogame Zinesters by Anna AnthropyThe Stuff Games Are Made of by Pippin  Barr20 Essential Games to Study by Joshua BycerFun Inc. by Tom ChatfieldLiterary Gaming by Astrid Ensslin
LudoLit Books to Feature
24 books — 1 voter
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the... by Joshua HammerEncyclopedia of Archival Science by Luciana DurantiThe Library Book by Susan OrleanThe Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-LeeThe Card Catalog by Library of Congress
Librarianship
110 books — 8 voters


We are the heart of our communities, and that only works because of what the people who run libraries give of themselves. They do it knowing that there will be hard days and disappointment, budget fights, and individuals whom they may not be able to reach. The best librarians make that emotional investment because they believe in the institution and the community they serve.
Michael Stephens, Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and Balance

Genevieve Cogman
The perfect Librarian is calm, cool, collected, intelligent, multilingual, a crack shot, a martial artist, an Olympic-level runner (at both the sprint and marathon), a good swimmer, an expert thief, and a genius con artist. They can steal a dozen books from a top-security strongbox in the morning, discuss literature all afternoon, have dinner with the cream of society in the evening, and then stay up until midnight dancing, before stealing some more interesting tomes at three a.m. That's what a ...more
Genevieve Cogman, The Masked City

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