Library category: 2034 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
An MLIS can provide the skill set needed to get a library job, but building a library career means knowing how to maximize your potential every step of the way. Benefiting those fresh out of library school as well as experienced professionals, career librarians from every corner of the profession offer...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Strategies and tools to help you plan, build, and maintain your library collection!
Selecting Materials for Library Collections takes you step-by-step through the process of planning, building, and maintaining a quality library collection. This up-to-date guide addresses the interests and concerns...
Library Service Design
A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services.
Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with directions for how...
by Glen E. Holt, Leslie Edmonds Holt
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
For all libraries, money is critical to decision-making about technology, staffing, and collections. As a result, informed budgeting is critically important for any library to succeed. This book explains library finance in a practical, engaging way, using examples of real situations in different types...
Practical and Effective Management of Libraries
Integrating Case Studies, General Management Theory and Self-Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Aimed at library science students and librarians with newly assigned administrative duties the book is about improving one’s thinking and decision making in a role as a library manager. Most librarians get very little exposure to management issues prior to finding themselves in a management role....
Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library
Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Libraries of all types have undergone significant developments in the last few decades. The rate of change in the academic library, a presence for decades now, has been increasing in the first decade of this century. It is no exaggeration to claim that it is undergoing a top to bottom redefinition....
Medical Library Downsizing
Administrative, Professional, and Personal Strategies for Coping with Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Learn how to stay ahead of the game when budgets and staff are cut
Medical Library Downsizing: Administrative, Professional, and Personal Strategies for Coping with Change explores corporate downsizing and other company-wide events as they relate to medical librarians in their organization....
by Andria C. Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The aptly titled The Library Collaboration and Flexible Scheduling Toolkit: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started takes readers step by step through the process of considering collaboration as a method to deliver library services. Authored by an experienced elementary librarian and author for...
Planning Optimal Library Spaces
Principles, Processes, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Planning Optimal Library Spaces: Principles, Process, and Practices demystifies library space planning, inspires creative thinking, and offers immediate how-to steps to rectify seemingly hopeless situations. It describes an approach to library space planning that introduces and combines a phased implementation...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Discover innovative outreach services you can implement for your library!
Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to promote awareness of the library by meeting the information needs of underserved or uninformed patrons....
Public Library Administration Transformed
Developing the Organization and Empowering Users
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Public libraries have historically faced challenges as viable units in local government. As society struggles with issues related to the scope and effectiveness of government, librarians must ask, “How and why will communities support public libraries in the 21st century?” Public Library Administration...
Helping the Difficult Library Patron
New Approaches to Examining and Resolving a Long-Standing and Ongoing Problem
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This insightful book shows you how to deal with an issue as old as the library profession: interacting with problem patrons. It looks at this fact of life that affects almost every facet of library work and provides practical solutions--some developed within the field and some borrowed from other...
by Nicole A. Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large—not to mention library customers and society as a whole. This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations...
The Comparative Guide to WordPress in Libraries
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
More than just an easy-to-use blogging platform, WordPress is in fact a flexible, open source content management system. Without spending a dime or writing a line of code, it’s possible to build the library website of your dreams. But it’s important to understand the basic principles of WordPress...