Library category: 2034 books
iPads® in the Library: Using Tablet Technology to Enhance Programs for All Ages
Using Tablet Technology to Enhance Programs for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Looking for a programming guide for computer tablet use in the library setting? This book provides detailed plans and instructions with specific literacy goals for child, teen, and adult audiences—exactly what librarians seeking to integrate iPad and other tablet use into their programs need.
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Libraries Within Their Institutions
Creative Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discover how your library-and its patrons-can benefit from internal partnerships, collaborations, and interactions
Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations examines the ways librarians work within their own universities, municipalities, or government units to form partnerships...
Customer Service in Libraries
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries’ best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused...
by Monty L. McAdoo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Being a great teacher is part and parcel of being a great librarian. In this book, veteran instruction services librarian McAdoo lays out the fundamentals of the discipline in easily accessible language. Succinctly covering the topic from top to bottom, he Offers an overview of the historical context...
Know the Past, Find the Future
The New York Public Library at 100
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
From Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jones—more than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite public library.
Marking the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue...
Technological Innovation
Perceptions and Definitions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Everyone agrees that innovation is a worthy aim, but what does innovation actually entail? And what does it mean for a library organization? For this issue of Library Technology Reports, Jason Vaughan reviewed professional literature, both scholarly and mainstream, and surveyed library directors to learn...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This all-in-one resource for researching library and school grants is back in a new edition, and more useful than ever, offering refreshed content and even more guidance on locating grant funding sources. Using this guide, librarians, fundraisers, and researchers will find quick, convenient access to...
The Heart of Librarianship
Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Adaptation to change that’s based on thoughtful planning and grounded in the mission of libraries: it’s a model that respected LIS thinker and educator Michael Stephens terms “hyperlinked librarianship.” And the result, for librarians in leadership positions as well as those working on the front...
by Priscilla K. Shontz, Robert R. Newlen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science is designed to help new librarians begin to manage a successful and satisfying career in the library and information science profession. Although the first years are often overwhelming, they can be the key to creating a successful career as...
Library Volunteers Welcome!
Strategies for Attracting, Retaining and Making the Most of Willing Helpers
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Volunteers are crucial to the daily operation of any library. Finding and retaining the right people, motivating them and matching their skills with projects is challenging. This collection of 30 new essays brings together the experiences of numerous individuals across the U.S., providing ideas, projects...
Using Google Earth in Libraries
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world. The uses of Google Earth in academia, in libraries, and across disciplines are endless and each year more innovate research projects...
Creating a New Library
Recipes for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Creating a New Library: Recipes for Transformation offers ways to make your library group space into one conducive to transformational learning. The book is structured as a cookbook with an introduction to the idea, then directions on its execution.
Next, the book gives tips on how to adapt...
Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Historically, the major Library and Information Science (LIS) research-producing centers of the world have largely been the universities and information institutions of North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. This is changing with the growth of Asian economies, universities, and information industries....
Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries
A Decision Maker's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decision Maker's Guide includes innovative ways libraries are engaging students, including the practice of setting aside high-tech spaces for creativity. Five models of library creative spaces are explored in this book, including digital media...