Flowers presents a companion to Young Adults Deserve the Best Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth (2010), published by the Young Adult library Services Assn. (YALSA), a division of the American
Through 13 chapters, academic library directors from the US and Canada outline different parts of their work: navigating institutional culture, communicating expectations within the library, colla
Caro presents library professionals with a collection of success stories in the effort to digitize library collections in a variety of nationwide contexts. The author covers what librarians should con
Library Security is a book for library staff who are concerned with creating a safe, functioning, peaceful place for themselves to work in and for patrons to visit. It teaches creative patron communic
This text is a guide to help academic library administrators create a well-run and successful academic library. It is intended for library administrators at any level of experience in a community coll
Without exploring the library catalogue, a user will not know which books are to be found in the library, or where they can be found. But in the last 25 years, the nature of the library catalogue has
Pearlmutter (library and information studies and management and collection development, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) and Nelson, who provides workshops on aspects of public library administration, offer a
Quality volunteers can make a world of difference in today's library, and this hands-on guide gives you everything you need to maximize your library's services and build a bridge between your library
Landau, a library director, marketer, and manager, provides a guide for grant seekers on the fundamentals of winning library grants. He argues that librarians and library trustees can win grants witho
Librarians, library directors, and trustees will find practical ideas, sample forms, and worksheets for developing a library customer service plan. The book invites librarians to think about customer
Moore, a former librarian who now works as an independent library consultant, trainer, and facilitator, offers a resource for library trustees, administrators, consultants, trainers, and students that
This guide to interactive library programming gives detailed plans and scripts for hosting library events and activities structured as 'mysteries.' The book contains scripts for mysteries, most hosted
Sannwald, an educator and library administrator and construction consultant, provides the fifth edition of his guide to library building design. New to this edition are: a chapter on sustainable desig
Consultant Woodward, (who is also a former library director for a county system) notes that more scholarly content is now available online than any brick and mortar library could hold. She urges acade
As an architect who has designed numerous libraries and who is a veteran library trustee in Illinois, McCarthy offers practical advice on library building projects. The guide includes process checklis
Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel gives library collection analysts the tools to select the data most relevant to analysis of their collections. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by scr
Two school library and media construction specialists with extensive combined experience have updated their guide to building a new school library media center to account for decreasing funding, incre
Dickinson (school library media education, Old Dominion University) coaches school library media specialists through National Board Certification exam specifics. After a history and overview of the ce
Offers both an approach to staff evaluation and actual performance standards for a variety of professional and paraprofessional library positions that can be used in any type of library. Chapter 1 exp
Covering virtually every aspect of its subject, Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections is a soup-to-nuts guide perfect for students and beginning librarians, yet fu
Librarians, professors, and those working in nonprofit institutions, businesses, and government agencies in the US offer 24 chapters on how to interpret and apply library values in the context of e
From the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), this book details the new AASL school library standards and the AASL Standards Integrated Framework for learners, school librarians, and s
Kowalsky and Woodruff provide a road map for libraries to review their accessibility and be proactive in creating inclusive library environments. A minimum goal for libraries would be meeting the
Buchanan and McDonough present readers with the second edition of their comprehensive guide to one-shot library instruction and providing guidance for students in the sharpening of their critical
This fourth edition of the beginning library science textbook and reference has been reorganized, rewritten, and extensively updated, with new discussion mostly about the latest information technology
Author William W. Sannwald presents readers with the sixth edition of his comprehensive guide to library building design considerations. This updated version of Sannwald’s guide will help you with pla
The purpose of Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists is to help subject librarians understand the possibilities of digital humanities and navigate the
Bizzle and Flora present students, academics, and librarians working in a variety of contexts with a comprehensive guide to reinventing and radically marketing library services based on the author’s e
Library consortia are collaborative associations of libraries. This book explains their reasons for being, activities and services, governance, management and some current issues. For example, a curre
Through an examination of networked resources, network organization, the research process, resource discovery, library systems, data and metadata, publishing and communication, and profiles of individ
Evangeliste, a former librarian who runs a marketing and design company that works with nonprofit companies, and Furlong, an access and technical services library director, outline a process for letti
"Every decision you make affects how people experience your library. Aaron Schmidt and Amanda Etches count some 19 touchpoints--website, email, furniture, parking lot, events, newsletters, to name a f
In this guide, the authors demonstrate how to plan and teach a one-shot library instruction session that shows college students how to find, evaluate, and use information. Focusing on the student expe
Focusing on the use of web metrics by library and information professionals to measure and demonstrate value, this guide describes which metrics are available (with an emphasis on those that are free)
This resource lists grant sources for libraries in the US, including private, philanthropic, and corporate foundations, and corporate direct givers, government agencies, and library and nonprofit orga
It has always been important for libraries to serve their communities with good programming. But as technology and bookstores pull customers away from traditional library services, programs have becom
How can academic libraries prove their worth? How can a library control its destiny with collections that are no longer owned or physically housed? This work for advanced students and librarians consi
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
In the first update since 1983 of this glossary from the American Library Association (ALA), over 600 definitions are updated along with the addition of almost 1,400 new terms. Most of these relate to
Munde (library science, East Carolina U.) offers a guide to human resources for library staff. She includes guidelines for both working with and supervising others. A lengthy third chapter covers emp
