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Managing Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Author : Pat Woodrum
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866569453
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Managing Public Libraries in the 21st Century written by Pat Woodrum and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for the challenges that are certain to be facing the public library system in the coming years. Managing Public Libraries in the 21st Century predicts the types of management, planning, collections, building, funding and governing structures, and services that will be needed in the 21st century. The contributors address some of the most pressing questions with which the profession must be prepared to deal, including: What management skills will be required to administer the public library in the coming years? How can educators best prepare their students for public library administration? How will library funds be distributed in the future? The answers to these and many other important questions are highlighted in this informative new book. Public librarians, as well as library school faculty and students will find this volume to be fascinating and indispensable.

Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Author : Carol Smallwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442243570
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century written by Carol Smallwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century isan anthology on small public libraries as centers of communities serving populations under 25,000 that make up most of the public library systems in the United States. A wide selection of topics was sought from contributors with varied backgrounds reflecting the diversity of small public libraries. The thirty-two chapters are arranged: Staff; Programming; Management; Technology; Networking; Fundraising; User Services and provide tools to lead a local public library with relevant and successful services. This volume shares a common sense approach to providing a small (in staff size or budget) but mighty (in impact and outcome) public library service. The contributors demonstrate that by turning the service delivery team outward to the community with enthusiasm and positive energy, it is possible to achieve significant results. Many chapters summarize best practices that can serve as checklists for the novice library director or as a review for the more seasoned manager working through new responsibilities. Chapters are tactical, focusing on specific issues for managers such as performance evaluations, effective programming, or e-reader services. Time management is crucial in a small or rural public library as well as the challenges associated with managing Friends and volunteers. While most public libraries do not have the resources to satisfy customer expectations for instant gratification, ultra-convenience and state-of-the-art technologies, The authors of this book details strategies and methods for providing top-notch customer service while moving beyond customer service to the creation of meaningful customer relationships. This volume makes an important contribution to the literature by reminding us that public libraries transform communities of every size. In fact, never before has the role of the public library been a more critical thread in the fabric of community life.

Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Author : Ann E. Prentice
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1591588545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Public Libraries in the 21st Century written by Ann E. Prentice and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an up-to-date picture of what the public library is, what the public librarian needs to know, and how to apply that knowledge. Overarching issues that touch every element of administration, such as technology and leadership, will be fully integrated into the text.

Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Author : Dr Anne Goulding
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409485579
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Public Libraries in the 21st Century written by Dr Anne Goulding and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Libraries in the 21st Century presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of recent policy initiatives directly targeted at public libraries along with broader developments in the public sector environment within which they operate. Key features include: • An exploration of the context within which public libraries are operating and analysis of their role in local and national life; • Examples of best practice in service delivery; • Evaluation of the challenges and opportunities confronting public library managers; • Wide ranging coverage, including information from published and unpublished sources, supplemented by interviews with key stakeholders in the public library sector. The book provides a unique and thorough guide to the contemporary discourses surrounding issues of identity, social purpose, value and strategy facing the public library service.

Managing Public Libraries in the 21st Century

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (839 download)

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Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Author : Ann E. Prentice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1591588553
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Public Libraries in the 21st Century written by Ann E. Prentice and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps readers explore how public librarians have reinvented the ways they bring people and information together to meet 21st-century challenges. Public Libraries in the 21st Century provides an up-to-date picture of what the public library is today, what the public librarian needs to know, and how to apply that knowledge. The book offers a thought-provoking exploration of the social, political, economic, cultural, and technological influences that determine the role of the public library in our society. It also looks at ways in which that role continues to change to meet new challenges, while always keeping true to the mission of bringing people and information together. Beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, the library reinvented and repositioned itself to be a force for people and their interaction with information. To illuminate that process, the book outlines the history and purpose of the public library. Issues of leadership, planning, decision making, organizing, and staffing are discussed, as is the impact of technology on how the library is managed and how it serves the community.

Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections

Author : Vicki L. Gregory
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838917127
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections written by Vicki L. Gregory and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with discussion questions, activities, suggested additional references, selected readings, and many other features that speak directly to students and library professionals, Gregory’s Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections is a comprehensive handbook that also shares myriad insightful ideas and approaches valuable to experienced practitioners. This new second edition brings an already stellar text fully up to date, presenting top-to-bottom coverage of the impact of new technologies and developments on the discipline, including discussion of e-books, open access, globalization, self-publishing, and other trends; needs assessment, policies, and selection sources and processes; budgeting and fiscal management; collection assessment and evaluation; weeding, with special attention paid to electronic materials; collaborative collection development and resource sharing; marketing and outreach; self-censorship as a component of intellectual freedom, professional ethics, and other legal issues; diversity and ADA issues; preservation; and the future of the field. Additional features include updated vendor lists, samples of a needs assessment report, a collection development policy, an approval plan, and an electronic materials license.

Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Author : Anne Goulding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317073592
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Public Libraries in the 21st Century written by Anne Goulding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Libraries in the 21st Century presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of recent policy initiatives directly targeted at public libraries along with broader developments in the public sector environment within which they operate. Key features include: ¢ An exploration of the context within which public libraries are operating and analysis of their role in local and national life; ¢ Examples of best practice in service delivery; ¢ Evaluation of the challenges and opportunities confronting public library managers; ¢ Wide ranging coverage, including information from published and unpublished sources, supplemented by interviews with key stakeholders in the public library sector. The book provides a unique and thorough guide to the contemporary discourses surrounding issues of identity, social purpose, value and strategy facing the public library service.

Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library

Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442245778
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library written by Bradford Lee Eden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries of all types have undergone significant developments in the last few decades. The rate of change in the academic library, a presence for decades now, has been increasing in the first decade of this century. It is no exaggeration to claim that it is undergoing a top to bottom redefinition. Cataloging and reference remain central to its new role, and the circulation of books is still high though declining. Among the changes is the architecture of the library: when new libraries replace old or where renovation is occurring; the role of technology at every stage and in every library application; the management of serials – selection, shelving and budgeting; and in a gradual but irrevocable move to digital forms, altered allocation of resources including larger portions of the budget diverted to preservation, not only of aging books, a theme in the latter part of the last century, but of digital files – cultural, historical, personal. In brief, the academic library is dramatically different today than it was only ten years ago. And with it, the profession of the academic librarian is also undergoing significant changes. Managing digital resources in all its forms, from telecommunications to storage and access devices, is central to its new roles. Creating, curating and preserving digital information is also key to the new librarianship. And what about services to its clients? Here also we see dramatic change, particularly but not exclusively with guiding library users in the effective use of networked knowledge. Information literacy is a key term and skill in using the new tools of digital literacy: reading and writing, searching and extracting; and the new technologies that drive social networking – the Iphone, Ipad, and Ipod and its many imitators. We can’t expect the redefined academic library to assume its final shape any time soon, if ever, but the transformation is well underway. This series: Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library, will explore this topic from a number of different perspectives. Volume 1, Visionary Leadership and Futures, will begin the discussion by examining some of the new roles and directions academic libraries are taking.

Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections

Author : Vicki L. Gregory
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838917607
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Public Libraries and Their Communities

Author : Kay Ann Cassell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781538112687
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (126 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Libraries and Their Communities by : Kay Ann Cassell

Download or read book Public Libraries and Their Communities written by Kay Ann Cassell and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first public library text to look at the administration of the public library as essentially different from that of other library types. It also emphasizes the crucial nature of advocacy, promotion, and marketing and demonstrates how each public library can identify and meet the needs of its own particular community.

Public Library Administration Transformed

Author : Karen Starr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153810640X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Public Library Administration Transformed written by Karen Starr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As society struggles with issues related to the scope and effectiveness of government, librarians must ask, “How and why will communities support public libraries in the future?” This book covers public library administration in a comprehensive and detailed manner.

Expectations of Librarians in the 21st Century

Author : Karl Bridges
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 0313322945
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Expectations of Librarians in the 21st Century written by Karl Bridges and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 53 essays that provide personal insights into the personal and educational qualities professional librarians hope to find in the newest entrants to the field.

The Library in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Peter Brophy
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856046060
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Library in the Twenty-first Century written by Peter Brophy and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social, cultural and technological developments are revolutionizing library services. The way ahead for the profession is now generally seen as a practical blend of traditional and electronic materials with integrated support services which fit seamlessly into users' normal ways of working. This is leading to a fundamental rethinking of the role of the library in society. Drawing on the author's recent research, this timely second edition of The Library in the Twenty-first Century offers a clear new model of how traditional and electronic sources can co-exist in the library of the future, building on the previous work by focusing on the library as a vehicle for encouraging creativity as well as a provider of information resources. It is now commonplace that libraries have a major role to play as expert intermediaries, helping users to gain access to the tools needed for effective acquisition and use of information, within the broader context of the networked information world. But it is beginning to be recognized that they still have a profounder role within their communities, and this book emphasizes that beyond the intermediary role is the vital requirement to promote understanding and engagement. Written by one of our most experienced librarians and drawing on a range of international research and development experience, this authoritative work offers the following topics: libraries in the modern world the view from the sectors cross-sectoral models the profession's view digital libraries what is a good library? linking users to resources beyond the intermediary the library user the information universe. Readership: This incisive text, supported by an extensive glossary and bibliography, proposes a practical agenda of issues for the information profession to tackle, and is essential reading for both established library practitioners and LIS students, as well as for library managers and administrators across all sectors.

The 21st-Century Elementary School Library Program

Author : Carl A. Harvey II
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440842450
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The 21st-Century Elementary School Library Program written by Carl A. Harvey II and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact yet remarkably comprehensive, this book covers all the major aspects of school library services, from administration to instruction focused from the elementary school librarian perspective—now updated and expanded to include the latest developments in makerspaces, the Common Core, social networking, and eBooks. How do you accomplish a technology transformation at a time when budgets are extremely limited? What is the proper location for web-based social networking in the school library? What are the best practices for working together with students, parents, and educators? The 21st-Century Elementary School Library Program: Managing for Results is an invaluable resource for answers to these and many more questions, as it brings together in one volume the advice and insights you need to bring your library into the new century. This invaluable guide provides tips and techniques, forms and templates, and advice on everything from staffing and budgeting to collaborating with teachers and other libraries, to Web 2.0 and other new computer tools for building collections and devising special programs. Whether you are just getting started or are a library veteran seeking effective program renewal, this book belongs on your shelf.

Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century

Author : William L. Whitesides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century written by William L. Whitesides and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on the challenges public libraries may face in the 21st century covers such strategic and technological issues as fund-raising, pursuit of a community-based mission, and the combination of new and old media. Lists of additional readings and questions for discussion are included.

Government Information Management in the 21st Century

Author : Peggy Garvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131712541X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Government Information Management in the 21st Century written by Peggy Garvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government Information Management in the 21st Century provides librarians, information professionals, and government information policy leaders with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current issues in government information management with a global perspective. The widespread use of the Internet to provide government information and services has altered the landscape dramatically for those who organize, store, and provide access to government content. Technical challenges include digital preservation, authentication, security, and accessibility for a diverse user base. Management challenges include changes to costs, workflow, staff skills and resources, and user expectations. Public policies based on distributed paper collections must also change to address issues that are inherent to digital, networked, public content; such issues include the maintenance of personal privacy, re-use of government information, and the digital divide. The authors in this timely book are practitioners, scholars, and government officials. Together they provide an informed look at how managing government information is being tested at a time of rapid change. Part I addresses key issues for public, academic, and government libraries in organizing and providing access to government information. Part II features chapters on the diverse information issues facing governments, such as managing Freedom of Information requirements, opening government data to the public, and deploying new online technologies.