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Presenting financial management principles and best practices applicable to both public and academic libraries, this comprehensive text elucidates a broad array of issues crucial for those entering a managerial position. Both thorough and...

The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum's landmark study, originally published in German in...

A complete overview of digital preservation theory and practice for cultural institutions and professions.

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Of the second edition, ARBA declared, "Harris's book has become the standard for libraries and has yet to have an equal published that is either as useful or as clear." Covering the basics of digital licensing for librarians, the new third edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838948453Author Ryan L. SittlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Association of College & Research LibrariesPublisher Association of College &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838915066Author Kathleen de La Pena McCookFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint American Library AssociationPublisher American Library...

Today's students create and are confronted with many kinds of data in multiple formats. Data literacy enables students and researchers to access, interpret, critically assess, manage, handle, and ethically use data.The Data Literacy Cookbook includes a...

Academic libraries and museums foster many outstanding collaborations supporting teaching, learning, and research within their respective institutions. These collaborations, like other progressive activities, require significant invisible labor,...

Many library project plans, from small projects to institution-wide strategic planning committees, follow a linear trajectory: create the plan, do the plan, then review the outcome. While this can be effective, it also sometimes leads to disregarding new...

Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians collects the experiences and approaches of librarians who teach reading. In two volumes, librarians share their role in teaching reading-using pedagogical theories and techniques in new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838915646Author Joe J. MarquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint American Library AssociationPublisher American Library Association

Fully a third of all library supervisors are "managing in the middle:" reporting to top-level managers while managing teams of peers or paraprofessional staff in some capacity. This practical handbook is here to assist middle managers navigate their way...

Distilling hard fought wisdom gleaned from hundreds of successful library construction projects they've supervised or coordinated, the authors present this definitive resource on library architecture. With a special emphasis on avoiding common problems...

Assessment examines how library services and resources impact and are perceived by users, and guides strategic planning discussions and development of future acquisitions and services. Assessment is fundamental to positioning your library within your...

Rapid change calls for informed leadership. The goal of Donham's text has always been to help school library professionals make a difference in the educational experience and academic attainment of students in their schools. With the addition of new...

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Sharing organizational knowledge supports onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and the day-to-day smooth functioning of the workplace. So why are the procedures, policies, and best practices for your organization often so hard to find? Although the term...

The vast array of social media options present a challenge to today's busy librarians: it's tough to keep current, let alone formulate a plan for using these tools effectively. Solomon, a librarian with extensive experience in web development, design,...

Whether set in ancient Egypt, Feudal Japan, the Victorian Age, or Civil War-era America, historical fiction places readers squarely at the centre of fascinating times and places, making it one of the most popular genres in contemporary publishing. The...

Written by RA expert Jessica Moyer with contributions from leading RA luminaries, ""Research-Based Readers' Advisory"" approaches research from two vantage points: the Research Review provides an expert overview of new research, and the Librarian's View,...

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We live our entire lives in an information society, but too frequently feel like we are rushing to catch up with the latest technological changes. Despite the overwhelming influence of information networks and their potential as tools for social change,...

Engage your Latino users with proven, effective bilingual early childhood programming - even if you're not a Spanish speaker! Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, award-winning creator of the widely-successful Mother Goose on the Loose[registered] (MGOL) early...

Want to get the word out about your library in the most cost-effective way possible? You can achieve this with the effective word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) strategies laid out in this book. Two creative marketers, Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace, bring...

Bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and their practical applications with this rigorous introduction to the mathematics underpinning data science. It covers essential topics in linear algebra, calculus and optimization, and probability and...

With staff time at a premium, and library budgets that leave little room for overages, undertaking a successful library building or renovation project requires precision planning, effective communication, and focused coordination. Using a checklist...

With book banning increasing around America, this book breaks down how and why contemporary reading practices can lead to censorship.Requests for the redaction, removal, relocation, and restriction of books-also known as challenges-have markedly...

This book is for librarians, trustees, local government officials, architects, and interior designers who are designing or planning to build, renovate, or reconfigure library spaces. Most librarians embark upon a library building project with little...

With book banning increasing around America, this book breaks down how and why contemporary reading practices can lead to censorship.Requests for the redaction, removal, relocation, and restriction of books-also known as challenges-have markedly...

The only things librarians encounter more often than acronyms are strings of jargon and arcane technical phrases-and there are so many floating around that even just reading an article in a professional journal can bewilder experienced librarians, to say...

Can we create library environments that inspire people to be more creative, collaborative, reflective, or engaged? That is the driving question of this imaginative book. Brian Mathews (Virginia Tech Libraries) weaves elements together from architecture,...

Executive Director of United for Libraries and former Executive Director of Friends of Libraries U.S.A., Reed has decades of experience liaising between Friends groups and the libraries that they support, serve, and (sometimes) exasperate. Her new book...

Equitable access to information for all, including underserved populations, is a core value of librarianship. The growing awareness of where this inequality persists has led many professionals to take steps to advance social justice within their...

This book aims to help librarians develop grant proposals and juggle the differing demands of multiple collaborators both internally and externally. Grants have long been a tool that allow libraries to increase their reach and offer access to more...

This book explores the primary methods, presented as a set of thirteen patterns, used to insert mistruth in historical narratives. These patterns culminate in the broadest of patterns, versioning and propaganda, which are used to show that mistruth is...

This book aims to help librarians develop grant proposals and juggle the differing demands of multiple collaborators both internally and externally. Grants have long been a tool that allow libraries to increase their reach and offer access to more...

The ideas in this book are all about helping your library building become a more exciting, interesting, experiential space where people are engaged and want to spend time. More time spent in the library increases the library's value and relevance to its...

Most academic libraries could not operate without a host of part-time student workers. But employing students is different from filling a professional position with an experienced worker; often their library employment will be their first job experience...

Government documents, both physical and electronic, constitute a rich and varied resource that calls for special attention. And because government information is useful and pervasive in nearly every kind of library, more and more librarians of all types...