Library category: 2034 books
Overcoming Information Poverty
Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework. The book proposes a model for understanding...
Marketing for Special and Academic Libraries
A Planning and Best Practices Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Here’s an easy-to-follow, practical, easily-implementable, 21st-Century marketing book for academic and special libraries. Written by two practicing librarians who are passionate about communicating with users, the book provides both the inspiration and drive to market your library and practical...
The Mindful Librarian
Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases,...
by Karen Bordonaro
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
International Librarianship at Home and Abroad examines both the concept and reality of international librarianship. The intent of this book is not to glorify international librarianship, but to instead explore different ways that international librarianship might be understood and practiced. The...
Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries
Librarians and Educators in Second Life and Other Multi-User Virtual Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Eighty percent of Internet users are expected to engage in some form of virtual world activity by 2011 (Gartner Research Group), and librarians and educators are already there. This fascinating book—the brainchild of two pioneering virtual world librarians—is designed to help libraries and schools...
by Jody K. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This reference provides school library professors with strategies and tips for creating future school leaders out of current LIS students. Drawing upon her extensive experience as a school librarian, author Jody K. Howard heralds the library professional's role as information specialist, instructional...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Completely revised with even more contributions added by practicing school librarians, this book further examines the responsibility to lead in many areas and identifies the real-world, day-to-day application of established theory and best practices.
• Emphasizes the essential role of school...
Renewing our Libraries
Case Studies in Re-planning and Refurbishment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
With the wish to heighten their profile, modernize their environment and increase use, libraries in the UK have refurbished and, where necessary and possible, extended their existing buildings. Although much has been achieved in this regard across the UK, more continues and needs to be accomplished....
by Duncan McKay, Duncan Mckay
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This title is a concise guide to financial planning, with definitions of financial terms and the key processes involved, which also provides tips on how to present your budget most effectively to secure funding. As pressures of business increasingly affect all information functions, it has become...
by Marshall Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Cloud computing helps libraries shift away from owning and operating local servers to Web-based services. This book equips you with the information and practical advice needed to evaluate the many opportunities to take advantage of cloud computing. It features applications that empower you to use technology...
Agriculture to Zoology
Information Literacy in the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Agriculture to Zoology: Information Literacy in the Life Sciences sets the stage for purposefully integrating information literacy activities within the subject-specific content of the life sciences. The book is written for librarians and other professionals who teach information literacy skills,...
Serving LGBTQ Teens
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
There are few places an LGBTQ teen can turn for help – searching the internet at home leaves a potentially discoverable trail, teachers may condemn youth who seek their help, and certainly, in many cases, a teen’s parents are not an option. While there have been advancements in acceptance of the...
by Amanda Bielskas, Kathleen M. Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Users want real-time answers to their reference questions wherever and whenever they are. Increasingly, that means SMS and IM services. Providing those is easier than you might think! This manual offers information on the technological aspects of providing such a service, as well as how to create a training...
Career Q&A
A Librarians Real-Life, Practical Guide to Managing a Successful Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Librarianship is an exciting and rewarding career choice that offers variety, diversity, flexibility, and room to grow. In Career Q&A, Susanne Markgren and Tiffany Eatman Allen examine events, transitions, struggles, and advances that encompass and define a librarian's career, answering a range of important...