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.

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Slave Play
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Role Play
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory
Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks
The Last Sane Woman
Broken People
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
The Wickedest
Foundations of Library and Information Science
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
Library: An Unquiet History
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
Library and Information Center Management
Developing Library and Information Center Collections
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
The Library Book
Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

Arthur Miller
The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Arthur Miller

Safiya Umoja Noble
...artificial intelligence will become a major human rights issue in the twenty-first century.
Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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