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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Brat
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
The Library: A Fragile History
The Last Sane Woman
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Slave Play
The Wickedest
Role Play
Broken People
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
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
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

Josh Hanagarne
I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live. ...more
Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

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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