Archives: Principles and Practices

Millar, Laura A. Archives: Principles and Practices. Second Edition. Neal-Schuman, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1606-3

Description
This book outlines fundamental archival principles and practices, introduces core concepts, and explains best practices to ensure that documentary materials are cared for as effectively as possible. This revised edition contains expanded discussion of the impact of digital technologies on archival materials and archival practice and an examination of the changing role of the archivist in the digital age.

Table of Contents 

PART I: Principles  

1. What are archives?  
2. An overview of archival theories and concepts  
3. The nature of archives  
4. The uses of archives  
5. Types of archival institution  
6. Archival service as a public trust  
7. Balancing access and privacy 

PART 2: Practices      

8. Establishing the archival institution  
9. Appraising and acquiring archives  
10. Preserving archives  
11. Arranging and describing archives  
12. Making archives available  
13. Providing online access and reference 

Conclusion   
To learn more  
Journal literature  
National and state institutions  
Professional associations  
Additional reading

The Silence of the Archive

Thomas, David, Simon Fowler, Valerie Johnson. The Silence of the Archive. Neal-Schuman, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1640-7

Description 
This books seeks to answer the question: Why do archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find? The book examines the causes, responses, and implications both for researchers and for the archive itself.

Table of Contents

PART I: REASONS FOR THE SILENCES

1. Enforced silences

2. Inappropriate selection

3. Inappropriate expectations

PART II: RESPONSES TO THE SILENCES

4. Dealing with the silence

5. Fictionalizing and worse

PART III: WHAT CAN BE DONE?

6. Possible solutions

7. The meaning of the silences

Implementing and Assessing Use-Driven Acquisitions

Implementing and Assessing Use-Driven Acquisitions: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Steven Carrico, Michelle Leonard, and Erin Gallagher. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 978-1-4422-6276-8. 

Publisher's Description

This enlightening new book in the Practical Guides for Librarians series presents the practicalities of developing, implementing, and evaluating use-driven acquisition (UDA) in academic and special libraries, from the multi-dimensional perspectives of collections, acquisitions, and e-resources. Now that UDA is a proven method of collection management being utilized by an array of libraries around the globe, the need for a straightforward, uncomplicated guidebook is more essential than ever.

This book is both a reference source and a guide for current and future librarians. In addition to chapters highlighting e-book, print, and article-level UDA plans, the book will also include considerations for budgeting, interlibrary loan, consortia UDA, ongoing management and assessment strategies, and stimulating future trends. Of special interest are project management cycles detailing each phase and steps of implementing UDA plans, and relevant case studies involving librarians and vendors who have established UDA plans in libraries of various types and sizes.

This book provides a practical methodology for setting up use-driven acquisitions plans to acquire access to print and e-books for users in academic and special libraries. Every chapter covers important collection development and budgeting objectives of the library, and proposes methods to assess cost and usage of the content received to determine effectiveness and potential modifications to UDA plans.

Practical features that can be used in day-to-day operations include:

• Project management lifecycle with phases and steps for successful implementation 
• Sample reports and executive summaries for administrators 
• Marketing and branding strategies 
• Step-by-step checklists 
• Assessment tools and examples 
• Multiple case studies of various types of libraries, including budgets and current UDA policies 
• Evaluative survey questions 
• Interview transcripts 
• Glossary of terms and acronym explanations

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Creating and Sharing Online Library Instruction

Creating and Sharing Online Library Instruction: A How-To-Do-It Manual For Librarians by Joelle Pitts, Sara K. Kearns, and Heather Collins. Neal-Schuman, 2017. 978-0-8389-1562-2.

Publisher's Description

Designed to be reused and shared, learning objects are digital content and assessments centered on student learning outcomes. The promise of sharing online instruction across libraries, campuses, or a consortium holds time-saving appeal. An easy to follow tutorial for creating online library instruction with learning objects, this manual is written by three librarians with the New Literacies Alliance (NLA). Winner of the 2016 ACRL IS Innovation Award, NLA is an interinstitutional information literacy consortium that addresses the “new” literacies required for academic success and lifelong learning. This book

• walks readers through creating and sharing outcome-based lessons that allow students to master skills at their own pace;
• demonstrates how to use assessment to ensure that students learn foundational research and critical thinking skills rather than simply how to use a database or discovery platform;
• sketches in the background and mission of NLA, sharing examples of successful collaboration across institutions;
• includes an assortment of NLA’s workflows, design processes, and style guides; and
• offers project planning and implementation tools, including checklists, steps, and critical questions to consider.

Written for groups or individuals who want to collaborate to build learning objects, this book will also be useful to anyone with a desire to learn more about resource sharing, instructional design, and library instruction.

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Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction

Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction by Marie Keen Shaw. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 978-1-4422-7486-0.

Publisher's Description

While there are many cataloging texts, very few are written specifically for library support staff. This is the one and only book purposefully aligned with the new American Library Association – Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) competency standards for Cataloging and Classification.

Written in clear language by someone who teaches cataloging in a library support staff program and featuring practical examples, Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction will help library support staff become effective catalogers. Other books on this topic are written for professional librarians rather than support staff. And although 85% of library support staff do not hold professional degrees, many are expected to do the complex and technical work of catalogers. This book provides many examples that support staff can use to learn how to catalog all types of library print, media, and digital materials using the most up-to-date Library of Congress standards.

Using this handbook as a guide, readers will be able to perform the ALA-LSSC cataloging and classification competencies and the new RDA, FRBR, and BIBFRAME standards listed below:

• Apply and manage the appropriate processes, computer technology, and equipment for cataloging and classification. 
• Apply principles of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) when creating cataloging records. 
• Apply principles of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) and utilize the BIBFRAME model to create cataloging records. 
• Use the basic cataloging and classification tools, both print and online, including bibliographic utilities and format standards. 
• Understand the value of authority control and its basic principles, and can identify and apply appropriate access points for personal names, corporate bodies, series, and subjects. 
• Explain the value and advantages of cooperative or collaborative cataloging practices to enhance services. 
• Know the basics of standard metadata formats and cataloging rules to select, review, and edit catalog records, and to generate metadata in various formats. 
• And more!

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Tactical Urbanism for Librarians: Quick, Low-Cost Ways to Make Big Changes

Munro, Karen. Tactical Urbanism for Librarians: Quick, Low-Cost Ways to Make Big Changes. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1558-5

Description
Heard of LibraryBox, Shelflogic, or EveryLibrary? These are examples of librarians practicing tactical urbanism ... a global grassroots movement to improve cities by and for the people who live in them. In this quick start guide, Munro offers examples from cities and libraries that show where tactical urbanism is happening now and making a difference.

Table of Contents 
Chapter One    An Introduction to Tactical Urbanism

Chapter Two    Tactical Urbanism Case Studies

Sidebar: Some Useful Urbanism Concepts

Chapter Three    A Realistic Tactical Approach

Sidebar: How about Tactical Business Practices?

Chapter Four    Library Case Studies

Chapter Five    Library Meets City

Chapter Six    Coming Back to Earth

Chapter Seven    A Library Leader’s Guide to Building a Tactical Library

Chapter Eight    Twelve Steps to Becoming a Tactical Library Interventionist

Sidebar: Tactical Follow-Ups: Where to Find More

Chapter Nine    Summing Up

Collection All Around: Sharing Our Cities, Towns, and Natural Places

Davis, Jeffrey T. The Collection All Around: Sharing Our Cities, Towns, and Natural Place. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1505-9

Description
Public libraries’ mission, skills, and position in their communities make them ideal facilitators of public access to local resources. In other words, the collection is all around, and libraries can help citizens discover historical, cultural, and natural riches that they might otherwise overlook. Providing smart planning and implementation advice, this guide shows public libraries how to make the most of these outreach opportunities.

Table of Contents 
Introduction    Libraries Take on the World
Chapter One    It Starts with Membership
Chapter Two    City Pass Agents Share the Wealth
Chapter Three    Guides Make It Clear
Chapter Four    Placemakers Bring It Home
Chapter Five    Rangers Tend the Trails
Conclusion    All Together Now

Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning

Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning, edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton. ACRL, 2017. 978-0-8389-8879-4.

Publisher's Description

Mobile technology has become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of today’s students and faculty. The maturing of this technology has led to our becoming more and more comfortable in a world where digital information flows seamlessly from screen to screen as we move about our daily lives. This evolution presents both risks and opportunities for academic librarians, operating in a field that is both uniquely tied to a static sense of “place” in the public imagination and at the same time passionately devoted to the freedom, spread, and accessibility of information for the public at large.

In seventeen chapters ranging from A Mobile-First Library Site Redesign to Mobile Technology Support for Field Research to Virtual Reality Library Environments, Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries explores how librarians around the world are working to adapt their spaces, collections, teaching, and services to the new possibilities presented by mobile technology. This is a detailed and thorough examination of technology that’s emerging now and how to incorporate it into your library to help the students and researchers of both today and tomorrow.

Leveraging the potential of smartphones, tablets, and even wearable technologies allows academic librarians to further expand their reach to students and faculty beyond the library’s walls. Furthermore, by understanding how mobile technology changes the behavior of our users, we can gain new insights into their needs and make improvements to our traditional services and spaces to better contribute to faculty research and student learning.

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