Crash Course In Collection Development

Author : Wayne Disher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Collection Development written by Wayne Disher and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to collection development, which utilizes the connection between a library and community, and discusses the career responsibilities, and includes assessing and evaluating, managing library budgets, selecting materials, reviewing various sources, and fielding complaints.

Author : Wayne Disher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Collection Development written by Wayne Disher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable resource provides tools for collection management in public libraries, featuring essential strategies for inventory assessment, market analysis, budgeting, marketing, and customer service. This book is a must-have for those just entering the field or professionals in need of a refresher in effective library operations. This professional volume covers all aspects of collection development and management in the public library, from gathering statistics to design a collection that meets community needs, to selecting materials, managing vendor relations, understanding the publishing industry, and handling complaints. Author Wayne Disher provides public librarians—especially those without the benefit of academic training—access to the tools to make them successful, and their collections beneficial to the public they serve. The second edition features two new chapters on digital curation and cooperative collection development. Additional updates include helpful information on infographics, more budgeting formulas, and a section on core collections, as well as content covering eBooks, electronic storage, and digital rights management. Chapters discuss subjects such as marketing the collection to patrons, book repair, and handling censorship issues when collections are challenged.

Author : Francisca Goldsmith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440836892
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Weeding Library Collections written by Francisca Goldsmith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weeding is a perennial challenge for librarians. This book will help you rise to the task by offering you basic instructions, including information on new formats and digital collections. Weeding is often difficult—who can easily decide to discard books and other materials that someone may someday want to borrow? But weeding is essential to keeping your collection healthy and relevant. Perfect for all types of libraries and for both paraprofessionals and librarians unfamiliar with modern weeding methods, this practical guide offers clear guidance that can help you cope with the sometimes-paralytic fear and distaste that can accompany a must-do task. Each of the book's chapters treats a specific concern—for example, weeding electronic collections. Practical matters related to collection maintenance through material and online resource weeding are addressed, as are policy and procedure documentation and communication planning and best practices. You'll read about weeding ethics, using vendor-provided weeding tools, and floating collections. The book also shares advice on training volunteers as weeding assistants and on communicating with library stakeholders about collection maintenance. By showing you how to make weeding a normal part of your library's routine, this book will help you provide your community with a healthier, better circulating, and more valuable collection.

Author : Ann Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313094527
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Library Gift Programs written by Ann Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you are offered any number of gifts including but not limited to artifacts, letters, historical documents, collections of pictures, postcards, arrowheads? This book helps you reject such offers (keeping the prospective donor happy) or add and maintain these in your collection so that they are useful and used. Since archival materials are not considered as the usual circulation materials, how and when to loan them is another question answered. You may also be able to get volunteers to help you at every step along the way when you are acquiring and restoring gifts. Many librarians are recipients of a variety of gifts from members of the community. How to accept or reject these donations is a continuing problem for persons who work in public libraries and will be even more of a question when the librarian has little formal training in archival or preservation work.

Author : Vicki L. Gregory
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838917127
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( 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.

Author : Wayne Disher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610698142
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Collection Development written by Wayne Disher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable resource provides tools for collection management in public libraries, featuring essential strategies for inventory assessment, market analysis, budgeting, marketing, and customer service. This book is a must-have for those just entering the field or professionals in need of a refresher in effective library operations. This professional volume covers all aspects of collection development and management in the public library, from gathering statistics to design a collection that meets community needs, to selecting materials, managing vendor relations, understanding the publishing industry, and handling complaints. Author Wayne Disher provides public librarians—especially those without the benefit of academic training—access to the tools to make them successful, and their collections beneficial to the public they serve. The second edition features two new chapters on digital curation and cooperative collection development. Additional updates include helpful information on infographics, more budgeting formulas, and a section on core collections, as well as content covering eBooks, electronic storage, and digital rights management. Chapters discuss subjects such as marketing the collection to patrons, book repair, and handling censorship issues when collections are challenged.

Author : Allison G. Kaplan
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1591584019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Cataloging for Non-Catalogers written by Allison G. Kaplan and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to cataloging for small libraries, covering classification, physical description, Library of Congress and Sears subject headings, and MARC format, with practice problems, a glossary, and a list of Internet resources.

Author : Francisca Goldsmith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Contemporary Reference written by Francisca Goldsmith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, detailed, and thoughtful examination of reference services in the context of evolving community information needs and habits, a changing technological landscape, and new search strategies. Professional practices in the field of library reference services have changed dramatically in the past decade in response to shrinking print reference collections and evolving technology, search strategies, and user needs and interests. This new guide explains all the basics of reference services, covering resource types and awareness of their appropriate uses, collection development and maintenance techniques that support reference service work, the latest online searching techniques, and best practices for service interactions through various platforms, including email, chat, text, phone, and face to face. Additionally, it addresses reference service ethics; communication and conducting reference interviews; important policies related to reference service development, provision, and maintenance; alternative reference service delivery points now in use; and professional service provider networking. Both experienced reference librarians and those new to reference service will benefit from in-depth coverage of recent changes in online reference resources and print-based resources, guidelines for authoritative evaluation of web-based resources, explanations of online catalog searching skills, and tips for reference web page construction. The book also contains an expanded section on making digitized collections accessible and relevant; information on the growing need of members of the general population for help with various federal government access programs ranging from Veterans Affairs and Social Security to health care access, income tax regulation fulfillment, and immigrant documentation; and explanations of copyright in the digital sphere of resource use and transfer.

Author : Cynthia Orr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Readers' Advisory written by Cynthia Orr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the key services librarians provide is helping readers find books they'll enjoy. This "crash course" will furnish you with the basic, practical information you need to excel at readers' advisory (RA) for adults and teens. The question "can you recommend a good book?" can be one of the most daunting you face, notwithstanding the fact that recommender tools are ubiquitous. Often, uncertainty arises because, although librarians are called on to perform such services daily, readers' advisory is a skill set in which most have no formal training. This guide will remedy that. It is built around understanding books, reading, and readers and will quickly show you how to identify reading preferences and advise patrons effectively. You'll learn about multiple RA approaches, such as genre, appeal features, and reading interests and about essential tools that can help with RA. Plus, you'll discover tips to help you keep up with this ever-changing field. There is no other professional book that covers the full spectrum of skills needed to perform the RA service that is in such great demand in libraries of all kinds. Helping readers find what they want is a sure way to serve patrons and build your library's brand. You will come away from this easy-to-understand crash course with the solid background you need to do both.

Author : Betsy Diamant-Cohen
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1598846884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crash Course in Library Services to Preschool Children written by Betsy Diamant-Cohen and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "covers all aspects of library service for preschoolers, including programming, collection management, policies and procedures, child development, dealing with caregivers, community partnerships and events, computer use, storytelling, creating a child-friendly children's room, and working with special populations. This text is especially suited for new librarians or librarians in isolated communities"--Page 4 of cover.