Library category: 2034 books
Renew Yourself
A Six-Step Plan for More Meaningful Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Unplanned careers affect everything and everyone. They can lead to frustration, negativity, and apathy at a time when we need to be focused, energized and motivated. Though your library career might have started “accidentally,” you can overcome organizational restructuring, changing job titles, and...
Career Transitions for Librarians
Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Career Transitions for Librarians: How to Get a Job in Another Type of Library explores the multifaceted roles of the librarian profession from personal narratives of professional librarians who have successfully worked and transitioned from one type of library to another.
What kinds of skill...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Providing perspectives of practitioners who are early- and mid-career librarians as well as highly seasoned professionals, this book offers invaluable advice regarding leadership that will help academic librarians of all experience levels to surmount the confounding issues they face and to overcome...
Effective School Librarianship
Successful Professional Practices from Librarians around the World: (2-volume set)
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
These volumes provide a series of informative interviews with school/teacher librarians practicing in different parts of the world. The 2-volume set showcases the resilience, creativity, and best practices from successful school librarians from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South...
Project Management for Libraries
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Library work often involves coordinating projects with many tasks and many stakeholders where cost and time limitations can be seen as opportunities. Effective project management is worth learning! This book provides library staffers at every level—whether in public, academic, school or special...
Library Youth Outreach
26 Ways to Connect with Children, Young Adults and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
With tightened library budgets the norm, librarians run the risk of cutting back so much that they isolate themselves from their patrons and their communities. This doesn’t have to happen. The outreach methods detailed in this book range from simple actions to detailed processes. Each of the 26...
Guide to Reference
Essential General Reference and Library Science Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Ideal for public, school, and academic libraries looking to freshen up their reference collection, as well as for LIS students and instructors conducting research, this resource collects the cream of the crop sources of general reference and library science information. Encompassing internet resources,...
Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery and Customer Satisfaction
Strategies for Redesigning Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book contains the results of the first and only multi-institution study of interlibrary loan and document delivery customer satisfaction among academic library patrons. By examining customer perceptions and ILL/DD activities, Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery and Customer Satisfaction: Strategies...
by Christina T. Russo, Cathy Swan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and constant communication—attributes of their lives outside of education—via the integration of cutting-edge technologies and "new media" in the library...
by Rachel Applegate
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Library professionals—regardless of whether they operate in a school, public, or academic library setting—need to have effective evaluation skills in order to be accountable to stakeholders and to effect informed improvement. Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians provides information...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This new compilation from editor and maker Kroski spotlights a multitude of creative projects that you can tailor for your own library. Librarians and makers from across the country present projects as fun as an upcycled fashion show, as practical as Bluetooth speakers, and as mischievous as a catapult....
by Jason A. Clark, Ellyssa Kroski
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Today's library patrons are browsing the Web on a variety of devices including tablets, e-readers, mobile phones, and desktops. Responsive web design employs techniques that will enable your library's website to automatically adapt to whatever screen size it's being viewed on. Learn how to utilize...
Data Management for Libraries
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan, academic librarians have been inundated with related requests from faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices. Data management is a new service area...
Maximizing the One-Shot
Connecting Library Instruction with the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Designed for librarians who offer library instruction within the constraints of the hour-long one-shot, this book proposes a method for redesigning one-shot instruction that is both realistic and integrated into the larger curriculum.
Working with faculty teams from academic departments, the...