Library Information Services category: 2034 books
by Michael Widener
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
“Rare books and archives come alive when consulted by readers and researchers.” --from the Introduction
In the administrative and budgetary environment of law librarianship, outstanding reference service is crucial to the survival and growth of special collections. Public Services Issues...
Stellar Customer Service: Training Library Staff to Exceed Expectations
Training Library Staff to Exceed Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Customer service is one of the most critical staff development training areas in the library world. Every member of a library's staff who interacts with the public needs the specialized skills and tools to work with a diverse clientele. This book addresses the need for staff training for various kinds...
by Anne Grant, Diana Finkle
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The ethos of every library is to serve and to instruct.
Library professionals teach every day in the sense that they show patrons where to find books or how to use computers. Increasingly, however, library users just don’t have the time to attend face-to-face workshops in advance of needs...
Communication and Teamwork
An Introduction for Support Staff
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Support staff in all types of libraries must work together in a variety of situations. This is both a textbook and on-the-job manual covering the skills and behaviors necessary for effective teamwork and communication. Trained library support staff should know the basic concepts of interpersonal relations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
There are many challenges to Web site management: collecting and collating information, developing a design style, managing updates, and ensuring a consistently interesting, topical and informative site are just some of them. Whether working as a team or individually, Web site managers must frequently...
by Marge Cox
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Makerspaces are a powerful way to expand a school library's influence as an educational partner in the school community. However, many elementary school librarians and educators are hesitant to consider adding a makerspace to their programming due to concerns about costs. This book focuses on effective...
by Carla Campbell Lehn
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This guide will show you how to reinvigorate your library's volunteer program using your community as a resource.
• Helps readers to better understand the motivations of today's volunteers and design meaningful volunteer opportunities
• Explains how to more successfully select potential...
Patience and Fortitude
Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
**A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people’s interests—by the reporter who broke the story
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In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost...
The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South
Or, Leaving Behind the Plow
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented. The story of the public library movement in America is also well documented. However, the story of the African American struggle for access to public libraries in the South is...
Reading Publics
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s...
The Library
A Catalogue of Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." —The Washington Post
Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve....
Making Sense of Business Reference
A Guide for Librarians and Research Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In times of recession, the library is more critical than ever for those who want to start a business and need to do research, and academic and public libraries are at the heart of a growing need to research business questions. An “accidental business reference librarian by trade,” Ross explains how...
by Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
When a public library invests in building relationships with business owners, professionals, and job seekers in the community, it is investing in the livelihood, well-being, and future of all of its citizens. By demonstrating how the library is a valuable resource for these patrons, the embedded business...
Recovery, Reframing, and Renewal
Surviving an Information Science Career Crisis in a Time of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
This book examines the difficulties confronting information professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career options. It is divided between a case study (based on the author’s own experiences) of career dislocation and...