Library category: 2034 books
Management of Library and Archival Security
From the Outside Looking In
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Providing a substantive approach to the issue, Management of Library and Archival Security: From the Outside Looking In gives librarians and collection directors practical and helpful suggestions for developing policies and procedures to minimize theft. In addition, this text prepares you to deal...
Library Consortia
Models for Collaboration and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
No library stands alone. A long-standing tenet of the discipline, library cooperation predates the founding of ALA. Although these are times of crisis and uncertainty for library consortia (by one count, more than 65 consortia have closed since 2008), the collaboration that consortia offer helps libraries...
Supervision and Management
An Introduction for Support Staff
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Many library support staff (LSS) who do not have management training will assume supervisory roles in library services during their careers. This book is written to help LSS understand, support, and apply the basic principles of library supervision and management in their work on the topics of regulations...
Electronic Journal Management Systems
Experiences from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Discover how to manage your library’s electronic journals-with tips from those who’ve already met the challenge!
The explosive growth of electronic journals presents unique challenges for libraries. Electronic Journal Management Systems: Experiences from the Field comprehensively examines...
The MLS Project
An Assessment after Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In 1951, the American Library Association (ALA) Council approved new standards for accrediting library education programs. These standards shifted accreditation from the bachelor's degree to the master's degree, making the master's degree in library science the professional credential for entry into...
Infographics
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Designed for librarians who work with all age levels from youngsters to seniors at all educational, reading and language backgrounds, who must fulfill responsibilities that run the gamut from instructing patrons on information literacy skills to using electronic tools to marketing the library to locating...
Staff-Less Libraries
Innovative Staff Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Staff-Less Libraries: Innovative Staff Design considers the challenges of this approach, its pros and cons, identifies international experiences, and discusses best practices. It presents a step-by-step approach to implementing a staffless library and/or services, and seeks to inspire professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A view of the mutual dependence between libraries and vendors
As technology advances, libraries are forced to reach beyond their own resources to find effective ways to maintain accuracy and superior service levels. Vendors provide databases and integrated library systems that perform those...
Children's Services Today
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Here, one of America’s foremost experts in public library services to children cover the basics of library services for children. Jeanette Larson highlights best practices and "toolkits" that provide tools and resources to quickly implement programs and services. She includes model programs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
At a time when budget cuts threaten the role of the school librarian, dynamic learning experiences can resurrect the usefulness of the library and the role of its staff. The seventh edition of this popular book helps librarians develop engaging school library programs for greater student involvement.Comprised...
Library 2020
Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves. (No doubt seminars were organized by the Alexandria Librarians Association on the future of the scroll and what to do about the rising barbarian tide.) At no time in our memory, though,...
The Prison Library Primer
A Program for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
In this century the central and quintessential correctional facility program ought to be the library. While the U.S. prison industry has embraced a massive reentry movement emphasizing literacy and job readiness for former felons, prison libraries have been ignored as potential sources for reintegration....
by Anthony M. Sammarco for the Osterville Village Library
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Since its beginnings in 1882, the Osterville Village Library has long fulfilled its founding promise to be "a free library and reading room at Osterville in the Town of Barnstable in this Commonwealth" and to support "the promotion of study and reading." William Lloyd Garrison Jr. and a group of civic-minded...
by Amy S. Pattee
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults features policies that deal expressly with materials that respect the intellectual freedom of young library patrons. It emphasizes the importance of everything from needs assessment to collection development, encouraging librarians to consider...