Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google.

This authoritative book guides both library graduate school students and seasoned librarians from academic, health sciences, and public libraries, to develop, maintain, nurture, and advertise consumer health collections. It covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library.

This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.

Offering proven strategies alongside recommended action points in each chapter, this resource guides managers and administrators through developing and maintaining a more engaged and diverse workplace.

The Small Library Manager's Handbook is for librarians working in all types of small libraries. It covers the everyday nuts-and-bolts operations that all librarians must perform. This handbook, written by experts who are small librarians themselves, will help all small librarians to do multiple jobs at the same time.

Useful, useable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble. This primer identifies 19 crucial touch points such as the library website, email, furniture, parking, events, and newsletters. The authors explain why each is important to your library's members and offer guidance on how to make improvements.

How much do you really know about the user experience of your library spaces and services? Do you observe and record your users' behaviour? Do you gather as much qualitative data as quantitative? Are you engaged in user research beyond traditional surveys?

Functioning as a thorough introduction to Zotero - from setting up to saving, organising, and citing items, and ending with more advanced topics - as well as a guide to teaching Zotero, including case studies of researchers throughout the book, this is both a guide to the tool and a handbook for understanding how different groups use it.