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Measuring Your Library's Value

Author : Donald S. Elliott
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 9780838909232
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Your Library's Value written by Donald S. Elliott and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With tax-funded organizations under microscopic scrutiny, library directors need to make a strong public case for the value their library provides. Measuring Your Library's Value, designed to serve large to medium-sized public libraries, gives librarians the tools to conduct a defensible and credible Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). Based on research funded by IMLS and PLA, this hands-on reference covers the economic basics with librarian-friendly terms and examples, preparing library leaders to collaborate with economist-consultants. Library directors and trustees will learn how to credibly measure the dollars and cents value your community receives from library services and access proven examples for communicating what different community stakeholders need to hear.

Marketing Your Library

Author : Carol Smallwood
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489952
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Marketing Your Library by : Carol Smallwood

Download or read book Marketing Your Library written by Carol Smallwood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise, how-to case studies from practicing public, school, academic, and special librarians provide proven strategies to improve brand management, campaign organization, community outreach, media interaction, social media, and event planning and implementation. Intended for the novice and the old hand, individuals and large staffs, this valuable guide provides librarians with the effective marketing tools necessary to help their libraries thrive in these challenging times.

Creating Your Library Brand

Author : Elisabeth Doucett
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909620
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Creating Your Library Brand by : Elisabeth Doucett

Download or read book Creating Your Library Brand written by Elisabeth Doucett and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Branding is one part of the marketing process that focuses on developing a laser-clear message and the means to communicate that message to the intended audience. But as a library, where does branding fit?

Marketing Your Library's Electronic Resources

Author : Marie R. Kennedy
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 083891599X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Marketing Your Library's Electronic Resources written by Marie R. Kennedy and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When front line librarians improve awareness of under-utilized resources, thereby increasing demand for more of the same, it can also encourage increased funding for the library. This book's flexible, step-by-step layout makes it an ideal resource for a wide range of learning styles, institutional environments, and levels of marketing experience.

Power Up Your Library

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313079951
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Power Up Your Library by : Bloomsbury Publishing

Download or read book Power Up Your Library written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library. Putting the many facets of the media specialist's professional life into the context of a flexibly scheduled, collaboratively planned teaching program, the book offers simple strategies for effecting positive change. It covers such topics as the librarian's role as teacher, programming, assessment, collection development, facilities, technology, the library budget, support staff, and public relations. Written for the school library media specialist who has or plans to have a library that conforms to today's vision of an effective school library media program, this book places the library media center at the heart of the school's educational program and shows how to position the library as the catalyst for school reform.

Proving Your Library's Value

Author : Alan Fishel
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838948006
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Proving Your Library's Value written by Alan Fishel and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know the value of your library, but elected officials, donors, community leaders, funders, and other important stakeholders may not. How can you make the library a priority for these groups, who may have preconceived notions about what the library does, as you compete with other important community organizations for funding? In this book from United for Libraries, you’ll learn how to use The E’s of Libraries® (Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Engagement, and Empowerment) to quickly demonstrate why your library is essential and worthy of funding, using messaging that is organized, persuasive, and memorable. With the help of worksheets, charts, and prompts, you will learn how to use language designed to win over stakeholders, funders, and partners; craft custom messaging in several formats that is easily accessible and memorable, including elevator speeches, budget presentations, and annual appeals; and create presentations and other materials tailored to any audience based on the sample documents included. This book's innovative framework can be used by any size or type of library, and by any library advocate, including Friends groups, library staff, trustees, and foundations.

Who Runs Your Library?

Author : Alabama Library Association. Trustees and Friends Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Who Runs Your Library? written by Alabama Library Association. Trustees and Friends Division and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conducting Original Research for Your Library

Author : Caitlin Gerrity
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440880220
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Conducting Original Research for Your Library by : Caitlin Gerrity

Download or read book Conducting Original Research for Your Library written by Caitlin Gerrity and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise manual for professionals in the field, this book helps librarians master the skills to conduct, interpret, and analyze their own original research. Many working librarians discover that original research would help them advocate for their libraries, but some graduate programs teach only limited research skills. Designed for all librarians, this book is a practical guide to engaging with the research process, from identifying a problem to sharing findings with others. Authors Caitlin Gerrity and Scott Lanning have packed this introductory guide and reference book with short, to-the-point information that librarians will refer to often at all stages of a research project. From research ethics to statistical significance and everything in between, this primer is the point-of-need resource for librarians in public, academic, and school libraries who wish to use original research to support the profession.

Redesign Your Library Website

Author : Stacy Ann Wittmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440838577
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Redesign Your Library Website written by Stacy Ann Wittmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. For today's increasingly web-savvy patrons, your library's website is a critical aspect of your services and user experience. If it's time for a website makeover for your library, this book will take you through the process step-by-step, sharing lessons learned and pointing out pitfalls to avoid. The end result? You'll delight your patrons with easy-to-find information, wow your director with an easy-to-use content management system (CMS), and impress your board with a website that clearly communicates your library's value. Written by two veterans of the process who have presented workshops on this topic, this book covers the entire process of library website redesign: from evaluating your current website, to making the decision of whether to hire a web developer or do it in-house, to usability testing. It also addresses budgeting, making content and design decisions, the launching process, marketing, and upkeep of your new site.

Your Library Is the Answer

Author : Christina T. Russo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598849344
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Your Library Is the Answer written by Christina T. Russo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians. This book offers the 21st-century tools and know-how necessary for educators to appeal to and challenge students to learn—and to want to learn. What are the best ways to motivate students to become engaged and develop a passion for learning? Can appealing to their desire for socialization and constant communication—attributes of their lives outside of education—via the integration of cutting-edge technologies and "new media" in the library or classroom serve to ignite creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking? This book shows how you can make use of non-traditional tools such as popular social networks, collaborative technologies, and cloud computing to teach information and communications technologies integrated with the school curriculum to improve student learning—and demonstrates how these same technologies can help you measure skills and mastery learning. The book provides an easy-to-follow blueprint for using collaborative techniques, innovation, and teaching for creativity to achieve the new learning paradigm of self-directed learning, such as flipping the classroom or library. Readers of this book will find concrete, step-by-step examples of proven lesson plans, collaborative models, and time-saving strategies for the successful integration of American Association of School Librarians (AASL) standards. The authors—both award-winning teachers—explain the quantitatively and qualitatively measurable educational value of using these technologies for core curricular and information and communications technologies instruction, showing that they both enhance student learning outcomes and provide data for measuring their impact on learning.

Incubating Creativity at Your Library

Author : Laura Damon-Moore
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838919022
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Incubating Creativity at Your Library written by Laura Damon-Moore and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By building on existing elements at your library and filling in the gaps with community-driven additions, your library can be a space that cultivates creativity in both its users and staff.

Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library

Author : Jack Phoenix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440868867
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library by : Jack Phoenix

Download or read book Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library written by Jack Phoenix and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique guide offers fresh insights on how graphic novels and comics differ from traditional books and require different treatment in the library—from purchasing, shelving, and cataloging to readers' advisory services, programs, and curriculum. Challenging librarians to rethink some of their traditional practices, Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library provides creative and proven solutions for libraries of all types that want to get comics into the hands of fans and promote readership. The author describes how libraries would benefit from an in-house classification system and organization that accounts for both publishers and series. In addition, acquiring comics can often be tricky due to renumbering of series, reboots, shifting creative teams, and more—this book shows you how to work around those obstacles. Shelving and displays that reflect comic readers' browsing habits, creative programs that boost circulation of comics and graphic novels, and how comics can play a vital role in educational institutions are also covered.

Digital Inclusion, Teens, and Your Library

Author : Lesley S. J. Farmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031305889X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Digital Inclusion, Teens, and Your Library by : Lesley S. J. Farmer

Download or read book Digital Inclusion, Teens, and Your Library written by Lesley S. J. Farmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital divide is a disturbing reality, and teens in our society increasingly fall into distinct categories of technology haves and have-nots, whether or not computers are available to them in the schools. This trend undermines the futures of our youth and jeopardizes the vitality of our society. Today's librarians are in a unique position to help bridge the gap. This guide helps librarians to identify tech-nots—technologically disadvantaged teens—in a community or school and to reach out and build information literacy in underserved teen populations. Farmer goes beyond recommending computers for every teen, and demonstrates how to overcome teen misperceptions and disinterest in computers. After examining the problem and the populations most affected, the author discusses how to build awareness and motivation, train staff, create space and time, build the collection, develop partnerships with other agencies and organizations, offer services, and overcome barriers with specific populations. Citing benchmark programs and services from around the country, Farmer offers a wealth of exciting new ways for libraries to connect with at-risk teens today. Grades 6-12.

Oral History in Your Library

Author : Cyns Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440857253
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Oral History in Your Library written by Cyns Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true value and exciting possibilities of oral history in the library: learn new and compelling ways to engage your patrons by sharing personal and community history with them. Have you thought about creating a collection to capture the experiences of your community? Perhaps you already have an oral history collection, but it's gathering dust. In either case, this book can help. After outlining what it means to effectively create oral history content, the author discusses how to establish public access to your collection, how to promote the content to your community, and how to use oral history in your library programs. Collaborating with other organizations, working with volunteers, and funding initiatives are a few of the other topics covered. Brimming with ideas and practical advice, the guide is meant to inspire and empower, taking the hassle out of oral history and replacing it with embracing oral history's power and the tools to bring it into your library. If you have an oral history collection, this book will help you to maximize its potential. If you don't have one, this book will show you how your library could benefit from one, what it can help your library to accomplish, and how to get started. If you're seeking a path to community engagement, start here.

Imagine Your Library's Future

Author : Steve O’Connor
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780630468
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Your Library's Future written by Steve O’Connor and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this information age it is widely recognised that, in order to maintain relevance and to gain a competitive edge, libraries and other organisations in the business of information must continuously assess their roles, collections, services and perhaps most importantly, their business practices. Scenarios are a way of predicting and describing a future three to five years away while strongly engaging one’s community in choosing the future which is preferable. The horizon in which assessments about future roles change is growing shorter and shorter. While it is almost clichéd to state that change is the only constant, differing scenarios of what libraries might be allow all of us to contemplate futures we might otherwise not allow. Drawing on extensive experience in libraries in different parts of the globe, the authors provide a rich analysis of planning, managing and implementing change in information organisations through scenario planning. Through extensive practical applications, both actual and theoretical, the authors provide a strong background understanding and direct the reader through a planning process that is both readily applicable and innovative for all information organisations, irrespective of their size or client base. Extensive exploration of what it means to ‘shape our futures’ rather than having our future shaped for us Valuable techniques for understanding futures and creating different scenarios Practical applications are illustrated through examples and real life experience

Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library

Author : Bernice Kao
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610691539
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library by : Bernice Kao

Download or read book Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library written by Bernice Kao and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book covers the who, what, when, where, why, and, most important, the HOW of creating a career center or jobseeker program in a public library. Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library provides a practical, down-to-earth guide for library staff who wish to better meet one of their patrons' most pressing needs. The book covers everything from program planning for classes, workshops, and special events to career advising, resources and facilities, recruiting personnel, funding, outreach and promotion, and program evaluation. The authors share a plethora of tips and tricks that can be customized to enable even small public libraries to offer job-search help. Real-life examples and case studies from across the United States show the blueprint in action. Even those who already have a job center in their library will learn about forming resourceful partnerships, gain new ideas for funding sources, and discover innovative services they can provide easily and affordably.

Managing Your Library Construction Project

Author : Richard C. McCarthy
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909310
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Managing Your Library Construction Project written by Richard C. McCarthy and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From deciding on new construction, analyzing the site, to working with architects, evaluating the process and assessing the building's effectiveness, Managing Your Library's Construction Project is an inspirational and comprehensive must-have reference.