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 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
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
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
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
The essays in this book are about cultural institutions as places for the renewal of lives and the construction of ideas. Carr (Rutgers U. and the U. of North Carolina) advocates for a strong role for