Library Information Services category: 2034 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The proliferation of e-journals and their impact on library collections is tremendous. E-Journals Access and Management takes a comprehensive look at how e-journals have changed the library landscape and offers librarians strategies to better manage them. This useful resource provides a broad overview...
Customer Service in Libraries
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries’ best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused...
Listen Up!
Podcasting for Schools and Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Here is a timely—and time-saving—guide for teachers, librarians, and school media specialists who need to get quickly up-to-speed on podcasting. Educational technology specialist Linda Braun explains what podcasting is and why it is such a useful tool for schools and libraries. She covers both content...
by Minnow, Tomas A. Lipinski
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Library makerspaces are truly transformative, inviting library users to create, innovate, and collaborate. But like any cutting-edge initiative, makerspaces also bring up a host of new and unique legal questions. In this first-of-its-kind e-book, three legal experts deliver detailed and reliable answers...
by Gary L. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Transform any public library into a truly sustainable organization—not just environmentally sustainable, but economically and socially sustainable as well—by following the directions and practices described in this book.
• Offers theory and practical advice on implementing a sustainability...
Know the Past, Find the Future
The New York Public Library at 100
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
From Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jones—more than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite public library.
Marking the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue...
Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes
Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current standing of public libraries in public policy...
Literary Research and the American Modernist Era
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Characterized by its move away from Romanticism and toward mundane, every day subjects, as well as incorporating such ideas as metanarrative, stream of consciousness, and disjointed timelines, the American Modernist Era was at its heyday during the years 1914-1949. It produced such great authors as...
New on the Job
A School Librarian's Guide to Success, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
As if transitioning from library school or a different type of library job into the role of a school librarian wasn’t challenging enough, just factor in today’s straitened funding environment for the position itself. Librarians new on the job need expert advice on what to expect and how thrive, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Rethinking Collection Development and Management adds a new and important perspective to the literature on collection development and management for 21st-century library professionals. The work reveals how dramatically collection development is changing, and has already changed; supplies practical...
Technological Innovation
Perceptions and Definitions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Everyone agrees that innovation is a worthy aim, but what does innovation actually entail? And what does it mean for a library organization? For this issue of Library Technology Reports, Jason Vaughan reviewed professional literature, both scholarly and mainstream, and surveyed library directors to learn...
by Alicia E. Vandenbroek
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Focusing on ways social bookmarking can impact academic and public libraries and increase collaborations with both patrons and faculty, Bookmarking: Beyond the Basics introduces a variety of social bookmarking websites with helpful tutorials and activities for a wide range of users. It addresses social...
Library Volunteers Welcome!
Strategies for Attracting, Retaining and Making the Most of Willing Helpers
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Volunteers are crucial to the daily operation of any library. Finding and retaining the right people, motivating them and matching their skills with projects is challenging. This collection of 30 new essays brings together the experiences of numerous individuals across the U.S., providing ideas, projects...
The Fortuitous Teacher
A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Fortuitous Teacher: A Guide to Successful One-Shot Library Instruction discusses how librarians have become accidental teachers in the academic university setting. It covers how (if at all) librarians are prepared by MILS programs to teach, compares typical characteristics of teachers versus librarians,...