The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 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
