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Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical

by M Sandra Wood, Elizabeth Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014

Get the tools to meet the challenge of building or renovating a library! The challenge of renovating or constructing a library requires organizational skill, resourcefulness, creativity, and willingness to compromise. Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals,...

Library Marketing Basics

by Mark Aaron Polger
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019

Here is an accessible, step-by-step, easy to understand, and hands-on resource for any librarian who is interested in learning basic marketing tips to raise the profile of their library. While other books on library marketing are dense and assume that the library has a full-time marketing staff person,...

Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Library

Principles and Issues for Administrators

by Mark Winston
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014

Discover ways to raise staff awareness regarding diversity! Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity In the Library: Principals and Issues for Administrators is an academic guide to diversity issues such as affirmative action, career development of minorities in the library science profession,...

The Academic Library Director

Reflections on a Position in Transition

by Frank Dandraia
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition addresses the changing nature of work and the new demands being placed on academic library directors. The authors’broad range of professional experience offers you unique insight on a management position that is truly in transition....

Leadership and Management Principles in Libraries in Developing Countries

by Wei Wei, Sue O'Neill Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

Learn leadership skills from achievements at special libraries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central America! Leadership and Management Principles in Libraries in Developing Countries is a compilation of success stories epitomizing management and leadership strategies from developing...

Assessing Library Space for Learning

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

With the surge in electronic access to the library’s resources, there has been an ongoing discussion about the need for a physical library building. On a college or university campus, the library is a destination for its users. Students, faculty and staff go to the library for various reasons. Their...

The Practical Library Manager

by Ruth C Carter, Bruce E Massis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Examine the nuts and bolts of successful management in today’s rapidly evolving libraries! This book is an essential primer for new library managers and directors. In addition to providing an overview of the practical aspects of management, it is a vital reference tool for managing your library...

Leadership in Academic Libraries

Proceedings of the W. Porter Kellam Conference, The University of Georgia, May 7, 1991

by William G Potter
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Here is a fascinating first-hand perspective of the dramatic changes that have occurred in academic library administration over the past five decades. In Leadership in Academic Libraries, distinguished directors of academic and research libraries pay tribute to W. Porter Kellam, Director Emeritus...

The Teaching Library

Approaches to Assessing Information Literacy Instruction

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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

Get the information needed to advocate for the significance of your library! How do you make the case that your library is a valuable instruction center? The Teaching Library helps librarians assess data on information literacy instruction programs so that they can better support the teaching...

Education for Library Cataloging

International Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

Examine cataloging and classification training programs around the world Education for Library Cataloging: International Perspectives examines the global development of educational programs for cataloging and classification in the library and information field. Library school faculty and professional...

Better Library Design

Ideas from Library Journal

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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015

Few librarians build more than one library in their careers and renovating or building a whole new library is a very expensive investment. Thus, new or refurbished structures need to be fresh and up to date. While some librarians have the means to visit exemplary buildings as they develop their own...

The Practical Library Trainer

by Ruth C Carter, Bruce E Massis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

Develop a library staff training program that really works! To stay on top of the lightning-fast changes in the library field and provide your patrons with the best service possible, you need to establish and sustain an effective program for training your staff. The Practical Library Trainer...

Libraries and Librarianship

Sixty Years of Challenge and Change, 1945 - 2005

by George Bobinski
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007

In George Bobinski's sixty-year career as a library professional (1945 – 2005), libraries underwent massive changes and epochal advancements. In this important work, Bobinski summarizes the major trends and events that have transformed the library world and the profession of librarianship into what...

Mobile Social Marketing in Libraries

by Samantha C. Helmick, Ellyssa Kroski
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015

Snapchat, a new photo and video sharing mobile app logs over 400 million messages every day. Instagram, a similar mobile app boasts over 130 million users. And the 6-second video-making app Vine has skyrocketed to 40 million users within its first year. Discover how you can leverage the popularity...