Libraries Unlimited imprint: 284 books
Recharge Your Library Programs with Pop Culture and Technology:: Connect with Today's Teens
Connect with Today's Teens
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Today's school libraries need to evolve and meet the needs of 21st-century students—the instruction, programming, and library services must be relevant to today's learners. Additionally, the interactions between educators and the students are what make the critical difference in the students' learning,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
As the number of service learning courses and their requirements increase, it is essential for academic librarians to partner with faculty and administration to include lifelong research skills components. This crucial book provides insights and case studies that will help you do just that.
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by Stacey Hayman, Cherie P. Pandora
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The current economic crisis has had a drastic impact on both public and school libraries. As budgets shrink, resources become scarcer, and the job of the librarian becomes harder. The conundrum of doing more with less challenges even the most seasoned professionals whose institutions face service...
The Handheld Library: Mobile Technology and the Librarian
Mobile Technology and the Librarian
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Handheld Library: Mobile Technology and the Librarian provides the information and guidance librarians need to adapt themselves and their facilities to the mobile revolution—the fastest, most diffuse worldwide technological innovation in human history.
The book provides an up-to-date...
Library Automation: Core Concepts and Practical Systems Analysis, 3rd Edition
Core Concepts and Practical Systems Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Recent advances in technology such as cloud computing, recent industry standards such as RFID, bibliographic standards like RDA and BIBFRAME, the increased adoption of open source integrated library systems (ILS), and continued shift in users' expectations have increased the complexity of the decision...
Metadata Standards and Web Services in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Active Learning Resource
Metadata Standards and Web Services in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Active Learning Resource
An Active Learning Resource
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Metadata in library information environments is evolving rapidly. This book provides readers with a set of tools for designing, developing, and implementing metadata-rich information systems while also examining the challenges and opportunities in this field.
• Takes a cross-disciplinary...
by Robert H. Burger
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Many library managers learn financial management on the job, within the framework of a specific organization. The "sink or swim" method of skill acquisition can be effective, but it is inefficient, stressful, and typically leaves one lacking in foundational concepts and principles. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
As school districts across the United States increasingly question the need for trained librarians, this collection of research-based evidence helps make the case for a state-licensed librarian in every school.
• Utilizes evidence-based findings to explain why school libraries—and trained...
Small Libraries, Big Impact: How to Better Serve Your Community in the Digital Age
How to Better Serve Your Community in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This valuable book shows how to get your community behind your library by making it an essential part of community life and demonstrating its benefit to all members of the community.
• Helps smaller public libraries re-establish their relevance and value to their communities
• Broadens...
Marketing Moxie for Librarians: Fresh Ideas, Proven Techniques, and Innovative Approaches
Fresh Ideas, Proven Techniques, and Innovative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Robust, resilient, and flexible marketing is an absolute necessity for today's libraries. Fortunately, marketing can be fun. Through this savvy guide, you'll discover a wealth of fresh, actionable ideas and approaches that can be combined with tried-and-true marketing techniques to serve any library....
Organizing Information in School LIbraries: Basic Principles and New Rules
Basic Principles and New Rules
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
A valuable resource for instructors in LIS programs who teach courses in cataloguing with an emphasis on school libraries, this textbook explains the nuts and bolts of classification and cataloging as well as the functionality of integrated library systems and how these systems critically serve the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This comprehensive book covers the philosophy behind RFPs to prime readers to understand how to most effectively write them and provides instruction on navigating the submission process as it applies to multiple types of libraries.
• Teaches readers how to acquire an appropriate product from...
by Stacy Ann Wittmann, Julianne T. Stam
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A comprehensive guide for all sizes of libraries, this book guides you through the entire process of effectively redesigning your library's website—from evaluating your current site and understanding user needs, to creating a budget, through to launching and maintaining your updated site.
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Maker Literacy: A New Approach to Literacy Programming for Libraries
A New Approach to Literacy Programming for Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book takes the creativity and inventiveness of the maker movement and applies that energy in a new way to help children learn across all subject areas as well as broaden their world view.
• Addresses the avid interests of youth in technology
• Provides librarians with a practical...