This guide shows library and community leaders who need to build a local library “vote yes” committee and win an election for library funding how to run ballot measures and tax referendums. Using
Establishing an awards program for self-published authors offers libraries new ways to bolster their relevance and expand upon their roles as curators and "keepers of story." This gu
Librarians must know how to provide essential programs and services that make a difference for the people they serve if libraries are going to survive.Meeting Community Needs: A Practical Guide for Li
Librarians must know how to provide essential programs and services that make a difference for the people they serve if libraries are going to survive.Meeting Community Needs: A Practical Guide for Li
Discover how you can utilize game design techniques to involve patrons and motivate staff in your library. This practical primer will walk you through how to incorporate game thinking into bibliograph
Discover how you can utilize game design techniques to involve patrons and motivate staff in your library. This practical primer will walk you through how to incorporate game thinking into bibliograph
This book examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and communitie
"Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guida
"This book highlights the importance of international librarianship in governmental and non-governmental institutions, organizations, and groups in order to promote, develop, and maintain librarianshi
This resource for public and school librarians describes library programs in literature and the visual, performing, and mixed arts. Some of the programs profiled include projects with children in the
Librarians have to stay ahead of the game by educating themselves about information technology and making calls on equipment and services that seem to make sense at the time, but may be disregarded la
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
Covering the genres popular with today's teens—fiction and nonfiction, including poetry and graphic novels—this resource provides 110 great book choices for young adult reading, interactive booktalks,
Pateman and Williment synthesize their respective library experience to present a practical roadmap for library staff to integrate and sustain community-led development in their libraries. Their data
For librarians, library administrators, and urban and regional planners, Dudley, a librarian and city planner who teaches and researches at the Institute of Urban Studies and in environmental studies
Noting that libraries have been subject to increasing budget cuts since the 2008 economic crisis, Comito, an outreach librarian, et al., who are all associated with an urban library advocacy organizat
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approache
In this volume, Buschman provides a history of marketing and advertising and their entanglements with democracy, education, and libraries. He then engages Democratic Theory and the framework it provid
Potter, an academic liaison librarian at the U. of York, UK, presents a guide to elements of marketing and branding for librarians in all sectors, including archives and special collections and academ