Library category: 2034 books
Understanding Community Librarianship
The Public Library in Post-Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In the information society, is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of ’community’ librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models...
by David Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Beasley's Guide to Library Research offers straightforward help in navigating the complex labyrinth of library research. Suitable for novice and experienced researcher alike, this revised classic is an invaluable tool for locating and using materials from research libraries anywhere in the world.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The digital age has transformed the structure and management of libraries around the world. With an increased focus on technology and its use in library management, library professionals seek the best practices and management systems to implement in specialized library settings. Special Library Administration,...
RFID for Libraries
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Many modern technologies give the impression that they somehow work by magic, particularly when they operate automatically and their mechanisms are invisible. A technology called RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), which is relatively new, has exactly this characteristic. Librarians everywhere...
by American Library Association
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
As in the second edition of Building Blocks for Planning Functional Library Space, this volume outlines the measures of space needed for the use of equipment and furniture within a library setting. It provides drawings of typical library furniture and equipment along with diagrams of the space required...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization will look at different challenges library administrators encounter, review emerging trends and bring critical analysis to this area. The last volume edited by Delmus E. Williams, Janine Golden and Jennifer Sweeney brings together a range...
The Economics of Access Versus Ownership
The Costs and Benefits of Access to Scholarly Articles via Interlibrary Loan and Journal Subscriptio
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The Economics of Access Versus Ownership offers library professionals a model economic analysis of providing access to journal articles through interlibrary loan as compared to library subscriptions to the journals. This model enables library directors to do an economic analysis of interlibrary loan...
Start a Revolution
Stop Acting Like a Library
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
“But this is how we’ve always done it!” Objections to taking a fresh tack are about as common as budget shortfalls, and the two are more closely related than you might think. At the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas, Bizzle and his colleagues defied common practices by using...
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Philosophy, Practice, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The first comprehensive theoretical treatise on Library of Congress subject headings, this important book provides an analysis of the Library of Congress subject heading system and its application. Library of Congress Subject Headings aims to help improve the clarity of the system, increase consistency...
Evaluating the Twenty-First Century Library
The Association of Research Libraries New Measures Initiative, 1997-2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Explore the ARL’s initiatives for identifying, formulating, and testing new criteria for evaluating academic libraries in the digital age!
The proliferation of electronic information resources in the past decade has changed the ways in which research libraries evaluate their service and holdings....
Yes! on Demand: How to Create Winning, Customized Library Service
How to Create Winning, Customized Library Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
When it comes to delivering the quality, personalized service your patrons expect, the staff is the most important resource in the library. It only follows then, that by empowering staff, breaking and fixing rules, cultivating creativity, and focusing on results, your library can meet and exceed patron...
by Carol Smallwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
There’s no shortage of library management books out there—but how many of them actually tackle the little details of day-to-day management, the hard-to-categorize things that slip through the cracks of a larger handbook? Library Management Tips that Work does exactly that, addressing dozens of...
Becoming a Lean Library
Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development.
Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success, Becoming a Lean Library provides library leadership...
by Peter Hernon, Robert E. Dugan, Joseph R. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Everyone agrees that evaluation of library services is essential, but without a background in research it can be a challenge to apply abstract concepts such as strategic planning, evidence-based decision making, and accountability to real-world situations. Finally library managers have a workbook to...