Influence of funding on advances in librarianship

• Other Authors: Nitecki, Danuta A., Abels, Eileen G.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2008.
• Series: Advances in librarianship, v. 31
• Subjects: Library science.; Information science.

Throughout this volume, the influence of research funding on advances in libraries and librarianship is addressed from two perspectives: funding agents and specific initiatives. A collection of chapters concentrate on a number of questions: Do the agendas of those agencies and foundations that fund...

Table of Contents:

• Federal support for library and information science research / Trudi Bellardo Hahn
• Alternative funding for public libraries : trends, sources, and the heated arguments that surround it / Denise E. Agosto
• From foundation to federal funding : the impact of grants on education for library and information science / Linda C. Smith
• The development and impact of digital library funding in the United States / Jeffrey Pomerantz, Songphan Choemprayong, Lori Eakin
• A review of research related to management of corporate libraries / James M. Matarazzo, Toby Pearlstein.