Library category: 2034 books
Library 101: A Handbook for the School Librarian, 2nd Edition
A Handbook for the School Librarian
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This professional primer provides the blueprint to help you create a school library program, covering all aspects of library management such as budgeting, eBook use, purchasing, and teacher collaboration. Advice and strategies from experts in the field will help you master collection development,...
Library Board Strategic Guide
Going to the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
View the author's companion website for more information and extra materials
Whether they have full governance powers or are just there in an advisory capacity, trustees on library boards need to understand the complex issues that affect a library's ability to provide its community with materials...
Document Delivery Services
Contrasting Views
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Design and maintain document delivery services that are ideal for academic patrons!
In Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you’ll visit four university library systems to discover the considerations and challenges each library faced in bringing document delivery to its clientele....
Transforming Libraries, Building Communities
The Community-Centered Library
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information. Written by practicing public librarians and an academic librarian with an interest in public libraries, the book focuses on how public libraries can become more community centered and, by doing so, how they can transform...
Envisioning Our Preferred Future
New Services, Jobs, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces,...
Rethinking Library Linking: Breathing New Life into OpenURL
A Library Technology Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
OpenURL was devised to solve the “appropriate copy problem.” As online content proliferated, it became possible for libraries to obtain the same content from multiple locales: directly from publishers and subscription agents; indirectly through licensing citation databases that contain full text;...
Building a Better Chinese Collection for the Library of Congress
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In this collection of essays written by the former head of the Library of Congress Chinese Collection, Chi Wang chronicles the modest beginnings of the Chinese Collection at the Library of Congress and his crusade to transform it into the largest collection and Chinese cultural presence outside Asia.
For...
Gaming Programs for All Ages at the Library
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Join librarian and lifelong gamer Tom Bruno on his quest to bring gaming to his library community, from bringing back classic board games such as Fireball Island to offering free play in the latest virtual reality games using the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive!
Gaming Programs for All Ages at...
by Peter Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The many recent changes in higher and further education mean that it is more important than ever to analyse the needs of academic library users, and both promote and provide the service they require. This constructive book, pervaded throughout by the impact of IT on the learning environment, surveys...
The Weeding Handbook
A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
“No! We can’t rid of that!” Vnuk, author of the popular “Weeding Tips” column on Booklist Online, is here to show you that yes, you can. A library is an ever-changing organism; when done the right way, weeding helps a library thrive by focusing its resources on those parts of the collection...
Building the Digital Branch: Guidelines for Transforming Your Library Website
A Library Technology Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In the past fifteen years, the World Wide Web has become such a major part of the library world that most libraries now have some presence on the Web. This issue of Library Technology Reports explores the idea of the digital branch—a library website that is a vital, functional resource for patrons...
Library Automation and OPAC 2.0
Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The advent of computers in libraries made library automation a hot topic in the 1980s and 1990s, but this focus has dropped off over time, leaving much library automation research outdated. Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape brings library automation...
The Artist's Library
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
“This quirky and imaginative book celebrates individuals’ potential for creativity and libraries as vital and vibrant community resources.” —Kirkus Reviews
Information is free to everyone who steps into a library. So is creativity.
The Artist’s Library embraces the idea that...
by Brenda S. Copeland, Patricia A. Messner
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
School Library Storytime: Just the Basics is the perfect resource for library aides, paraprofessionals, or other library staff who conduct storytime in a school library media center. It provides all of the essential information, materials, and step-by-step guidance needed to facilitate these all-important...