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Project Management for Libraries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Project Management for Libraries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-02
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Library work often involves coordinating projects with many tasks and many stakeholders where cost and time limitations can be seen as opportunities. Effective project management is worth learning! This book provides library staffers at every level--whether in public, academic, school or special libraries--with the basic tools of project management so that they can gain confidence and an expectation of success. The first section, Preparing for Project Management, covers the terminology, the philosophy, the resource management and the return on investment of project management. The second section, Planning and Implementing Project Management, introduces the basics of the methodology designed by the Project Management Institute. The third section, Library Resources, discusses practical techniques for specific types of library projects, gives an introduction to agile management, and features success stories in library project management. The book includes many examples of project management.

The Challenges to Library Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

The Challenges to Library Learning

The Challenges to Library Learning: Solutions for Librarians offers practical strategies for librarians dealing with challenges including depleted training budgets, overworked staff, and rapidly-changing technology, that hinder the ability--and willingness--of employees to continue job education in library sciences.

The Practical Library Trainer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

The Practical Library Trainer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Develop a library staff training program that really works! To stay on top of the lightning-fast changes in the library field and provide your patrons with the best service possible, you need to establish and sustain an effective program for training your staff. The Practical Library Trainer examines the concept of the library as a learning place for patrons and staff, offering a comprehensive view of training from an administrator’s perspective. Bruce E. Massis, author of The Practical Library Manager (Haworth), addresses the essential issues of how to develop a strong program of continuous instruction, including customer service, reporting, recruitment, and retention of staff. The book f...

The Practical Library Manager
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Practical Library Manager

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Examine the nuts and bolts of successful management in today’s rapidly evolving libraries! This book is an essential primer for new library managers and directors. In addition to providing an overview of the practical aspects of management, it is a vital reference tool for managing your library and its staff. The Practical Library Manager’s informative text and comprehensive bibliographies of print and electronic resources can guide you to solutions to the issues that every fledgling library manager must deal with upon appointment. While there are many publications on library management, The Practical Library Manager is one of very few to focus on the practical issues of staffing and the...

Interlibrary Loan of Alternative Format Materials
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Interlibrary Loan of Alternative Format Materials

With the help of this indispensable resource, librarians can now easily find reading material in alternative formats for patrons who require them in non-native languages. Interlibrary Loan of Alternative Format Materials is a core resource for librarians that explains how and where to interlend braille, audio, and large print materials in a variety of languages. This sourcebook contains detailed descriptions of libraries around the world that are willing to interlend materials according to a world-wide survey conducted by the International Federation of Library Associations’Section of Libraries for the Blind. In addition to providing a list of 29 libraries that interlend alternative materi...

Cooperative Efforts of Libraries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Cooperative Efforts of Libraries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regional, statewide, and international levels! This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and ...

The Challenges to Library Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

The Challenges to Library Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-11-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Challenges to Library Learning: Solutions for Librarians is an insightful volume that offers a practical philosophy of engagement that can be used to meet the growing challenges facing librarians, including staffing shortages, depleted or eliminated training budgets, longer hours, greater workloads, and rapidly-changing technology, hindering the ability—and willingness—of employees to continue job education in library sciences. With three decades of experience as a library administrator, author Bruce E. Massis details an effective plan for inspiring initiative in the learner to pursue a goal-oriented and individualized approach to learning – helping the library to become more effic...

The International Guide to Publishers and Distributors of Large Print
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 57

The International Guide to Publishers and Distributors of Large Print

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This guide provides a listing and description of publishers and distributors of large print books (in 12 point type or larger) available in 15 countries. The listings are arranged alphabetically by country and an abstract for each country includes specific information. Designed to be used by librarians and reference persons in their respective countries, the costs of titles are presented in native currencies. The countries included in the guide are: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greenland, Holland, Italy, Japan, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. In certain instances there are no large print producers in a particular cou...

The Practical Library Manager
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

The Practical Library Manager

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Examine the nuts and bolts of successful management in today’s rapidly evolving libraries! This book is an essential primer for new library managers and directors. In addition to providing an overview of the practical aspects of management, it is a vital reference tool for managing your library and its staff. The Practical Library Manager’s informative text and comprehensive bibliographies of print and electronic resources can guide you to solutions to the issues that every fledgling library manager must deal with upon appointment. While there are many publications on library management, The Practical Library Manager is one of very few to focus on the practical issues of staffing and the...

Models of Cooperation in U.S., Latin American and Caribbean Libraries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Models of Cooperation in U.S., Latin American and Caribbean Libraries

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.