American Library Association: 163 books
The Library Innovation Toolkit
Ideas, Strategies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Progress for the sake of progress is all too often a drain on precious time and resources. The communities and users that libraries serve are always changing; true innovation helps libraries adapt to meet their needs and aspirations both now and in the future. This stimulating collection offers numerous...
by Mary Grace Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Though today’s consumers have unprecedented access to health information, its quality and veracity varies widely. Public libraries can play an important role in supporting library users in their health information seeking efforts. In this book Flaherty shows how to guide library users to high quality...
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...
Foundations of Library and Information Science
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Much has happened since the last edition of this benchmark text was published. Today's LIS professionals are experiencing both excitement and trepidation as sweeping societal, technological, political, and economic changes affect our users and institutions and transform our discipline. We are increasingly...
by Bryce Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The daily administration of an academic library often leaves you needing quick advice on the topic at hand. Nelson, an experienced administrator writing from first-hand knowledge, delivers such advice in 30 topical chapters. Each chapter begins with an “Assertion,” a one-sentence summary allowing...
The Quality Infrastructure
Measuring, Analyzing, and Improving Library Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
A library’s infrastructure of programs and personnel is its most valuable asset, providing the foundation for everything it does and aspires to do, which is why assessment is so vitally important. In this collection of case studies, Murphy and her team of contributors describe how quality assessment...
Library and Information Science
A Guide to Key Literature and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This unique annotated bibliography is a complete, up-to-date guide to sources of information on library science, covering recent books, monographs, periodicals and websites, and selected works of historical importance. In addition to compiling an invaluable list of sources, Bemis digs deeper, examining...
by Velásquez
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
There are plenty of resources about teen services that focus on YA readers’ advisory and programming ideas. But the basics of day-to-day service to teens in the library setting, a discipline requiring specific skills, is all too often glossed over in professional literature. As a result many LIS grads...
Libraries and the Affordable Care Act
Helping the Community Understand Health-care Options
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Ever since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, public library staff throughout the country have been working hard to provide access to information about the law while educating their communities about how implementation affects them. But defining the expectations and limitations of libraries’...
New on the Job
A School Librarian's Guide to Success, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
As if transitioning from library school or a different type of library job into the role of a school librarian wasn’t challenging enough, just factor in today’s straitened funding environment for the position itself. Librarians new on the job need expert advice on what to expect and how thrive, and...
Ebooks and the School Library Program
A Practical Guide for the School Librarian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Whether you have an interest in starting an ebook collection for your school library program or are working on enhancing an ebook collection you’ve already established, this handbook is for you. The world of ebooks is both vast and intricate. Exploring the many articles concerning ebook publication,...
by Minnow, Tomas A. Lipinski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
When your public library invites the community to its spaces—a meeting room, an auditorium, bulletin board, or exhibit case—you take on the responsibility to uphold First Amendment rights of free expression. That includes the members of your frontline staff, who are busy fielding calls and responding...
Our Enduring Values Revisited
Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In the almost 15 years since Our Enduring Values was published, there has been a sea change in the way much of the world thinks about and uses libraries. Young librarians and seasoned LIS professionals alike are experiencing increasing pressure to adjust to new economic, societal, and technological demands...
Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives
Developing, Managing, and Sustaining Unique Digital Collections
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Planning and managing a self-contained digitization project is one thing, but how do you transition to a digital library program? Or better yet, how do you start a program from scratch? In this book Purcell, a well-respected expert in both archives and digital libraries, combines theory and best practices...