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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. Taking inspiration and examples from companies and non-profits outside the library world, this book is full of engaging ideas.

Like other workplaces, libraries can sometimes be stressful. Following up their acclaimed examination of the dysfunctional library, here the authors present a book of proactive solutions and guidance culled from their own research, including interviews with library administrators and staff.

While the profession has generated many books on information literacy, none to date have validated exactly why it is so difficult to teach. In her new book, Reale posits that examining and reflecting on the reality of those factors is what will enable practitioners to meet the challenge of their important mandate.

The goal of exposing cultural institutions' records to the web is as important as ever-but for the non-technically minded, linked data can feel like a confusing morass of abstraction, jargon, and acronyms. Get conversant in linked data with this basic introduction from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services.

Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively covers needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; choosing a platform; acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; digital preservation; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; sharing data and metadata; understanding information-access issues, including digital rights management; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data. This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception.

Discusses how the day-to-day work of librarians, their communications with the public, and their roles and responsibilities in the community can help increase the willingness of public and local elected officials to support funding libraries through taxes; and guides readers through the practical side of running a funding campaign.

Examines the newest version of the Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, including the four domains of metaliterate learning, as well as the relationship between metaliteracy and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.

But negative behaviors such as incivility, toxicity, deviant behavior, workplace politics, and team and leadership dysfunction not only make the library a stressful workplace, they also run counter to the core values of librarianship.

Discusses how resilience can align with library values of equity and access, and why libraries and information professionals may be ideal partners or providers in helping individuals and the communities which they serve adopt resilient practices.

Demonstrates to improve your data collection, clean your data, and combine different data sources. Teaching you how to identify and analyse areas that fit your library's priorities, this book covers case studies of library projects with digital analytics; ways to use email campaign data; how to measure click-through rates; using COUNTER compliant data; and techniques for using Google Tag Manager.

The six threshold concepts outlined in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education are not simply a revision of ACRL's previous Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. They are instead an altogether new way of looking at information literacy. In this important new book, bestselling author and expert instructional librarian Burkhardt decodes the Framework, putting its conceptual approach into straightforward language while offering more than 50 classroom-ready Framework-based exercises. Guiding instructors towards helping students cross each threshold, this book discusses the history of the development of the Framework document and briefly deconstructs the six threshold concepts; thoroughly addresses each threshold concept, scaffolding from the beginner level to the intermediate level; includes exercises that can be used in the one-shot timeframe as well as others designed for longer class sessions and semester-long courses; offers best practices in creating learning outcomes, assessments, rubrics, and teaching tricks and tips; and looks at how learning, memory, and transfer of learning applies to the teaching of information literacy. Offering a solid starting point for understanding and teaching the six threshold concepts in the Framework, Burkhardt's guidance will help instructors create their own local information literacy programs.

Taking an authoritative principles/rules based approach, this book comprehensively addresses the structure of ethics, ethical reasoning, the ethical core of RIM, important ethical concerns, and the relationship between RIM ethics and information governance.

For more than 20 years, Michael Cart's column for Booklist has delighted YA literature enthusiasts and bibliophiles in general. Spotlighting Cart's unique perspective as both devoted book reviewer and self-proclaimed book addict, this ""carte blanche"" compilation offers readers the chance to trace the blossoming of YA lit into a bona fide phenomenon that continues to grow in popularity.

Unplanned careers affect everything and everyone. Building on the simple and fun approach that have made her previous books bestsellers, Hakala-Ausperk offers up a workbook-style program for revisiting personal values, understanding your options, identifying skill gaps, and creating plans for growth.

Planning construction of a new library facility or renovation of an existing one can be a daunting task. This book guides librarians and other members of a building design team through the stages of the design process. It contains materials that include: a chapter on sustainable design, including issues of site selection, and air quality.

Two experienced library managers explain how to create a productive work place, as they weave practical advice and expert commentary into an easy-to-use resource. Drawing both from common sense and from the experience and insights of the pros, they address an increasingly turbulent library environment.

This work aims to help you to see your library and the staff that run it in a new, more strategic way. It outlines a results-oriented game plan for achieving performance excellence from all staff members, from top to bottom, through a coaching style of management.

Zvirin, an editor on the staff of ""Booklist"", sets out to gather the finest of the recent ""self-help"" genre in a guide for teachers, librarians, and parents in search of material to help teenagers cope with their increasingly complicated lives.

Covering the basics of digital licensing for librarians, this guide covers the basics of digital licensing for librarians. It shows what it takes to negotiate and interpret solid licensing agreements, whether you're buying or selling rights.

Offers advice about what it takes to make things from meetings to evaluations run smoothly and addresses the critical questions that board members needs to understand: What does it mean to be on a library board of trustees? How does advocacy work and why is it important? And who makes library policy?

Designing a compensation system that motivates current employees and attracts new ones is the goal of library managers everywhere. This text has step-by-step strategies for developing a compensation plan tailored for libraries of every kind.

Susan Smith is a proponent of using technology to take library educational services to the next level. Following her approach, the reader should be equipped to: evaluate, test, and refine programmes on an ongoing basis; and determine what makes an effective Web-based instruction programme.

This draws on cutting-edge case law in 18 discrete areas of copyright, including specialized and controversial music and sound recording issues. Information professionals will find the tools they need to take control of their rights and responsibilities as copyright owners and users in this succinct, easy-to-use guide.

Introduces a series of concepts that will empower readers at any level to become better designers and presenters, as well as building their confidence and satisfaction as library educators. Laying the foundation for effective teaching, the author outlines

From psychological suspense and historical fiction to "gentle reads" and romance, this guide explores the many worlds of fiction. Covering 15 genres, each chapter includes a definition of the genre, its characteristics and appeal elements, and its key authors and subgenres.

From hosting authors to planning and coordinating book activities such as book signings and book clubs, libraries are perfect venues for readers to interact directly with authors and their books. And mounting literary programming can be easier than you might think. In this guide Booklist's Brad Hooper inspires, encourages, and advises librarians in providing a wide range of programming that targets their communities of book lovers. Incorporating interviews from librarians in the field who share insider tips, this resource includes step-by-step guidance adaptable to any type of audience, from children and teens to millennials and older adults; shows how to plan author readings, coordinate book signings, and put together and moderate an author panel; offers marketing and outreach pointers, including interviewing authors for local radio, library podcasts, or webinars; lays out the nuts-and-bolts of organizing and hosting book clubs, with suggestions for facilitating book group discussions; presents ideas for creating displays of "e;staff favorites"e; and other ways to get staff involved and engaged; and explores programs for community-wide book events, such as "e;One Book, One City."e;Using this guide, libraries can connect book lovers eager to learn about recent and noteworthy books to authors and fellow book lovers.

When a public library invests in building relationships with business owners, professionals, and job seekers in the community, it is investing in the livelihood, well-being, and future of all of its citizens. By demonstrating how the library is a valuable resource for these patrons, the embedded business librarian can be an equal partner in the business community and have an equal voice. As a business liaison librarian, Alvarez has taught nearly 150 job seekers, completed over 100 one-on-one appointments with business owners and professionals, and co-produced numerous videos and podcasts with entrepreneurs. Here she distills her experiences into a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to developing sustainable library-business relationships. Speaking to beginners as well as those who may already have a background in business reference or outreach, this book introduces the concept of embedded business librarianship, emphasizing how it extends beyond outreach to include integration with the business community; discusses how the embedded business librarian not only cultivates awareness of the library's resources and expertise, but is also a valued contributor to the business community's conversation; recommends research sources and strategies for learning the needs, goals, and partnership opportunities of the local business community; outlines a five-step process for reaching out to organizations, businesses, and professionals to cement long-lasting ties; details the important differences between business owners, professionals, and job seekers, offering guidance on the best ways to approach and engage them as well as techniques for forming sustainable partnerships with each group; shows how to create a co-working space, illustrated using real life examples from libraries that have created their own business spaces for networking and collaboration; and talks about the importance of continuing education for the embedded business librarian, highlighting books, blogs, podcasts, news sources, online training, librarian support groups, and other avenues for expanding one's expertise. Loaded with recommended practices for increasing engagement and developing courses and programs for business owners, professionals, and job seekers in the community, this book points the way towards making the library an integral part of the business community in ways that are realistic and sustainable.