Bøger udgivet af American Library Association

When you're a solo librarian or only have a few volunteers to rely on (with a tiny budget to match) you've got to make the most of everything. With creativity, flexibility, and heart, you can be the anchor your community needs, offering programming that engages people of all ages and backgrounds.

Does your online instruction program sometimes feel like a constant scramble to keep pace with requests and deadlines? Modular design is the answer. Approaching projects, whether large and small, with an eye towards future uses will put you on the path to accomplishing broader, organisational goals.

If you're pondering what it takes to get your makerspace into the curriculum, this volume's relatable, first-hand accounts from librarians, makerspace staff, and faculty partners will give you the confidence to make the leap. Contributors describe pilots and assessment for a variety of demographics, course subjects, and makerspace equipment.

The Institutional Repository (IR) has become standard to the academic library in the past decade. However, IR operations are anything but standard. This resource gathers expertise to offer a comprehensive guide on contemporary institutional repository management.

Library liaisons often have primary jobs that do not involve collection development, but their familiarity with collection practices makes all the difference in faculty relations. And time pressures mean that on-boarding needs to be as streamlined as possible. This concise, field-tested training manual will put your liaison on solid footing.

Though originating in the fields of health and social services, trauma-Informed care is a framework that holds great promise for application to library work. Empathetic service, positive patron encounters, and a more trusting workplace are a few of the benefits. In this important book Tolley puts these ideas into the library context.

In the realm of electronic resources everything runs smoothly - until suddenly, without warning, it doesn't. This hands-on guide from two expert ERM librarians walks you through the essentials of troubleshooting. It outlines a methodical process that will help you identify the source of a problem and take steps to reach a resolution.

Offering real-life examples of what it means to be a 24/7 library, this collection from the Public Library Association and ALA Editions shares how several libraries transitioned to virtual and socially-distanced services. No matter your library's current situation, you'll be inspired to adapt their ideas to suit the needs of your own organisation.

Presents innovative, engaging, and fun ideas to target the AASL National School Library Standards and content-area standards. The book contains everything needed to set up learning centres in a school library. The ideas are flexible and can fit different grade levels. Suggestions for collaboration with classroom educators are also included.

Tailor your institution's approach to transfer students using this collection's ideas for orientations, library instruction, partnerships with like-minded campus groups, and other initiatives. These case studies present a rich picture of academic library services to transfer students that will empower you to achieve transfer student success.

The creative programs shared in this book vividly demonstrate the ways in which library programming can make communities stronger and more resilient by creating lifelong learners, fostering conversation, and forging connections.

Encourages readers to look an uncertain library future square in the eye. The author shares stories from her transformational years at Georgia Tech Libraries which present both inspiration and practical advice on how to stand up for values while changing the ways we act upon them.

With passion, patience, and fortitude, libraries can stride confidently into the future. In this book, noted speakers and consultants Bignoli and Stara speak directly to library directors, managers, administrators, and technology staff, offering concrete guidance on setting or resetting strategic priorities.

Amidst uncertain times rife with challenges and potential catastrophes, prudently managing risk will bolster your library's resilience in the face of adversity. This succinct manual for trustees and administrators offers straightforward guidance for designing and implementing a library risk management program.

Digitizing your collection is not only a great way to increase access to your materials, it also engages patrons on a whole new level and helps communicate your library's value. But with staff time and resources already spread thin, it can be a challenge to plan and undertake a digitization initiative. The good news is that public libraries across the country have done just that. Here, the authors share lessons and tips for success, showing the way to getting your collection online. With succinct and practical guidance that can be adapted to any size institution, this book explains why public libraries should take digitization seriously, listing key points that can be used to get stakeholders on board; points out what you should consider before undertaking a digitization project; discusses copyright and other access-related issues; shows how public libraries are handling funding and finding collaborative partners; shares ways that libraries have used digitization projects for community outreach and to promote collections; and offers advice on marketing and media. Many libraries across the country have found ways to create wonderful digital collections, and this book shows you how you can too.

Empowering people with the knowledge to make sound financial decisions is an important way to make a difference in your community, and many libraries are doing just that. Drawing from the expertise of business librarians and ALA's Public Programs Office, this book is a guide for offering financial literacy initiatives at your own library.

In this primer for those new to the profession, Snow demonstrates how youth librarians can approach outreach systematically and mindfully to ensure success. Readers will learn how to apply a full complement of professional skills, creativity, analysis, and resourcefulness to the conception, delivery, and evaluation of teen outreach.

Provides evidence-based practice guidelines for librarians and educators. To optimize results, the projects in this book blend early literacy benefits, fundamental reading skills, and other foundational concepts with culture- or community-specific sensitivity and leveraging.

Ineffective classroom management can hamper or completely negate your efforts at creating a strong library program. This powerful resource from Hilda K. Weisburg shows you how to prevent, deal with, and overcome discipline problems you may face when communicating with and teaching K-12 students.

Effectively marketing libraries by persuasively communicating their relevance is key to ensuring their future. Speaking directly to those in senior leadership positions, Anderson lays out the structural and organisational changes needed to help libraries answer the relevance question and maximize their marketing and communications efforts.

When it's time to start planning for a renovation or construction project, you don't need a book that covers everything from A to Z. Instead you need a concentrated set of tools and techniques that will guide you to find the best solutions for your specific project. That's exactly what library building expert Schlipf provides in this book.

Academic libraries need approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion that position these priorities as ongoing institutional and professional goals. This book's model programs will help academic libraries do exactly that, sharing a variety of initiatives that possess clear goals, demonstrable outcomes, and reproducible strategies.

Assessment can be a daunting undertaking. And though every institution is unique, as this manual demonstrates, there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts.

Concisely explains what RDA is, its basic features, and the main factors in its development; describes RDA's relationship to the international standards and models that continue to influence its evolution; provides an overview of the latest developments; and illustrates how information is organized in the post 3R Toolkit.

Learn how to use The E's of Libraries (R) (Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Engagement) to quickly demonstrate why your library is essential and worthy of funding, using messaging that is organised, persuasive, and memorable.

This collection of inspiring first-hand stories from across libraryland spotlights the countless ways in which library staff are making a difference for their communities. A sharing of the hearts, minds, and spirits of library staff, the book presents uplifting personal narratives.

Provides targeted guidance on how libraries can effectively engage with the public to address a range of issues for the betterment of the community. The book is designed to be equally useful as a teaching text for LIS students and a go-to handbook for current programming, adult services, and outreach library staff.

Despite being core library users, millennials and other younger generations are often underrepresented on library boards and library advocacy groups. But you can change that, with the help of this planner's hands-on worksheets, brainstorming activities, checklists, and expert advice.

Offers ready-to-go, library-tested activities that meld cutting-edge STEAM education principles with some of the best books available for youth today. This is a model that can be used in a variety of library or museum settings and can also be adapted for outreach.