Library Programs and Services for New Adults

Hunt, Kyla. Library Programs and Services for New Adults. Libraries Unlimited, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4408-5417-0

Description
Readers will come away with an in-depth understanding of the mindset and needs of patrons who are 18 to 29 years old and be able to cater to their preferences as they pertain to physical space, programming, technology, and marketing.

Table of Contents 

1. What is a new adult?
2. Expelled from teen services, where do new adults go?
3. What the new adult wants from the library
4. The physical space and the new adult
5. Collection considerations : what comes after YA?
6. The importance of technology and art
7. Reaching out : marketing considerations
8. Scanning your website with the new adult in mind
9. Job seekers : job-focused programming for new adults
10. Money, money, money : financial guidance and resources for the new adult
11. Unique and genuine : attracting new adults with fun programming
12. Connections : new adults, relationships, and the library.

Understanding How Students Develop: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Understanding How Students Develop: A Practical Guide for Librarians, by Hannah Gascho Rempel, Kelly McElroy and Laurie M. Bridges. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 978-1-4422-7921-6.

Publisher's Description
Understanding How Students Develop is a one-stop source of practical advice for both librarians who are just beginning to work with students from elementary school through college, as well as helpful tips for seasoned library user services professionals, including school, reference, instruction, and outreach librarians.

The book supplies a detailed roadmap for applying key development theories to daily interactions with students.

Subjects covered include:

• Integrating development theories into practice
• Intellectual development theories
• Identity development theory
• Involvement theory
• Assessing the impact of using development theories

Throughout the book sidebars highlight practical applications, important quotations from key texts, and case studies for consideration. After reading this book, librarians who work with a wide range of users will have a practical approach for incorporating development theories into their daily practice, making them more responsive to the varying needs of their users, and more understanding of what elements of their user services programs can be better tailored to meet students at a range of developmental stages.

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Video Marketing for Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Video Marketing for Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians, by Heather A. Dalal, Robin O'Hanlon and Karen L. Yacobucci. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 978-1-4422-6949-1.

Publisher's Description
Today’s libraries need to market their resources and services more than ever. Thanks to the proliferation of digital information, patrons can easily find information from other sources without recognizing the usefulness and relevance of their library. Libraries have been producing their own promotional videos with success, strengthening their relationships with their users and gaining new audiences.

You can increase awareness of your library’s resources & services by producing your own videos. Video Marketing for Libraries provides step-by-step instructions on how to produce videos designed to market your library and strategies to assess their impact.

This book will guide you through:

• gaining internal support
• crafting a clear message
• building the library’s audience
• writing storyboards and scripts
• casting and rehearsing actors
• filming and recording voiceover, editing, publishing, promoting,
• using online tools & animation software
• and assessing the efforts

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Providing Reference Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Providing Reference Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians, by John Gottfried and Katherine Pennavaria. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 978-1-4422-7911-7.

Publisher's Description
Providing Reference Services: A Practical Guide for Librarians was written with the working librarian in mind; it focuses on specific methods and information to help foster effective, exceptional results.

Topics covered include:

• reference services (basic information and background)
• reference resources and tutorials
• organizing and providing services
• staffing and performance management
• forming helpful partnerships (internal and external)
• the future of reference

Readers will come away with a solid foundation in reference services and will have the knowledge to update or restructure an existing reference program or to create a program from the ground up. Individual chapters and subsections provide constructive tips and advice for specific reference issues. Taken as a whole, this book provides a valuable, inclusive source of information for all major aspects of reference service.

Providing Reference Services is an appropriate resource for nearly all librarians in public-service positions, especially those with reference responsibilities, whether they are working reference librarians at any level of experience, reference supervisors, or administrators with oversight of reference services. The content is relevant to academic, public, school, and special libraries -- any library or organization that offers reference or research assistance.

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The No-nonsense Guide to Project Management

The No-nonsense Guide to Project Management, by Barbara Allan. Facet Publishing, 2017. 978-1-78330-203-1.

Publisher's Description
This book provides a ‘no-nonsense’ guide to project management which will enable library and information professionals to lead or take part in a wide range of projects from large-scale multi-organization complex projects through to relatively simple local ones.

Barbara Allan has fully revised and updated her classic 2004 title, Project Management, to incorporate considerable developments during the past decade, including: the development and wide-scale acceptance of formal project management methodologies; the use of social media to communicate and disseminate information about projects and the large shift in the types of project library and information workers may be involved in.

The text is supported by practical case studies drawn from a wide range of LIS organizations at local, regional, national and international levels. These examples provide an insight into good practice for the practitioner, from an individual working in a voluntary organization on an extremely limited budget, to someone involved in an international project.

Content covered includes:

• an introduction to project management, project workers and the library and information profession
• different approaches to project management, the project cycle, the people side of projects and management of change
• discussion of project methodologies, project management software, open source software, collaborative working software and use of social media
• project initiation, communication, analysis and project briefs
• developing project infra-structure, scheduling, working out the finances and carrying out a detailed risk analysis
• working in partnerships, in diverse and virtual teams, and managing change.

If you are an LIS professional involved in project work of any kind, whether on a managerial, practical, academic or research level, this is an invaluable resource for you.

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The Small and Rural Academic Library: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Limitations

The Small and Rural Academic Library: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Limitations, edited by Kaetrena Davis Kendrick and Deborah Tritt. ACRL, 2016. 978-0-8389-8900-5.

Publisher's Description
Small and rural academic libraries struggle with a unique set of technological and institutional barriers—tight budgets, stagnant salaries, small staff, and limited access to current technologies can prevent these active academic librarians from fully participating in professional development. Feelings of isolation, concerns about institutional support, and worries about the perception of the LIS profession within the community can also be issues.

Through the use of case studies, research, and practical interviews, The Small or Rural Academic Library: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Limitations explores how academic librarians in such environments can keep pace with, create, and improve modern library practices and services, network with colleagues, and access continuing education and professional development opportunities. Additionally, this book acts as a resource on matters of human resources and management concerns that are unique to LIS professionals and paraprofessionals who serve at small campuses and in rural communities.

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Government Information Essentials

Caro, Susanne (ed.) Government Information Essentials. ALA Editions, 2018. ISBN:978-0-8389-1597-4

Description
This contributed volume gathers the expertise of experienced government information librarians from across the country. It provides real-world insight into the work, collections, and interests of this library discipline.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Government Documents and the People Who Use Them
Susanne Caro

Part I    Advice for the New Document Professional

Chapter 1    Networking and Training: Essential Tools for Collaboration and Learning
Hayley Johnson

Chapter 2    Experience of a New Government Documents Librarian
Andrew Lopez and Lori Looney

Chapter 3    Middle Management: Strategies for Success
Jill Vassilakos-Long

Part II    Collection Management

Chapter 4    Visualizing Space: Your Depository Library as Place
Aimée C. Quinn

Chapter 5    Space Planning: Weeding, Moving, and Providing Access to Government Information
Julia Stewart

Chapter 6    Streamlining Collections: Disasters, Consolidation, and the Digital Landscape
Vickie Mix

Chapter 7    Growth and Maintenance of Digital Collections
Susanne Caro

Part III    Working with Collections

Chapter 8    The Hunt for the Elusive: Finding and Using the History in Government Documents
Paula L. Webb and Leasha E. Martin

Chapter 9    Federal Maps and the Depository Library
Valery King

Chapter 10    Help! I’m New Here and I Speak Spanish: Government Information for Spanish Speakers
Jane Canfield

Part IV    Teaching and Training

Chapter 11    Teaching with Library Guides: Using Collections with Government Information
Latanya N. Jenkins

Chapter 12    Creating More Powerful Library Guides
David Dillard

Chapter 13    Documents to the Students
Susanne Caro

Chapter 14    Navigating Government Information: Working with Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy
Antoinette W. Satterfield

Part V    Advocacy and Events

Chapter 15    Advocating for Transparency and Access to Information
Shari Laster

Chapter 16:     A Cupcake, an Eagle, and a War: Promoting Government Documents
Lisa Pritchard

Chapter 17    Exhibits and Community Outreach
Susanne Caro

Appendix A: General Resources
Appendix B: Sample Project Plan
Appendix C: Sources for Space Planning—Best Practices
Appendix D: Map Resources
Appendix E: Spanish-Language Resources
Appendix F: Library Guide Resources

Librarians With Spines

Cura, Y. S., & Macias, M. (Eds.). (2016). Librarians With Spines: Information Agitators In An Age of Stagnation. Los Angeles, CA: CreateSpace. ISBN: 9780984539888.

Summary

Librarians with Spines is an anthology of 9 essays written by 11 radical librarians pushing the boundaries of social justice community service, library and information science, equitable bibliographic taxonomy, and ubiquitous information literacy. Co-edited by Max Macias and Yago Cura, illustrated and designed by Autumn Anglin, and published by HINCHAS Press, this array of minority and queer voices in librarianship and intelligent political art seeks to affirm the importance of innovative, courageous librarians facilitating effective programming and initiatives. Completely funded by a successful GoFundMe campaign and beholden to no organization, committee, nor clique, authors include Jason Alston, Anthony Bishop, Candise Branum, Cathy Camper, A'misa Chiu, Loida Garcia-Febo, kYmberly Keeton, Diane Lopez, Kael Moffat, Mary Rayme, and Aquita Winslow. Topics range from Critlib management to the importance of ethnic caucuses, from zine librarianship to prison librarianship to Hip Hip Information Literacy.

Library Assessment Cookbook

Dobbs, A. W. (Ed.). (2017). The Library Assessment Cookbook. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. ISBN: 9780838988664.

Publisher's Description

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 organization and effectively demonstrating how it furthers your institution’s goals. And it can be more of an art than a science, using the qualitative and quantitative data available to you to show your library’s alignment with the needs and mission of your organization. 

The Library Assessment Cookbook features 80 practical, easy-to-implement recipes divided into nine sections: 

• Data Preparation for Assessments
• Traditional and Online Collections Assessments
• Instruction Programs Assessments
• Outreach and Programming Assessment
• Assessments Assessment
• Strategic Planning Assessment
• Service Points and Services Assessment
• Equipment, Building, and Space Assessment
• Website and Web Services Assessment

This Cookbook will help librarians of all levels of experience measure and demonstrate their institutional value.

Table of Contents.

Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment

Diaz, Chris (ed.) Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1587-5 

Description
This ALCTS monograph gathers case studies that pull together creative approaches and best practices for print textbook reserve programs.


Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One    “Basically Everything I Need, I Know the Library Has It”: A Case Study of SUNY Canton’s Textbook Program
by Rachel A. Koenig and Cori Wilhelm
Chapter Two    Access and Affordability: The Textbook Conundrum
by Peggy Seiden and Amy McColl

Chapter Three    The Good and the Bad: Implementing a Textbook Reserve Program
by Renee Le Beau-Ford and Joanna Ewing

Chapter Four    A Student-Funded Textbook Reserve Program
by Joanna Duy, Kirsten Huhn, and Dubravka Kapa

Chapter Five    Building a STEM Collection of Undergraduate Textbooks
by Pattie Piotrowski and Christine McClure

Chapter Six    Evolution of a Textbook Circulation Program: Outcomes of Demand-Driven versus Strategic Selection Policies
by Posie Aargaard and Jan H. Kemp

Chapter Seven    Can Hard-Copy Textbooks on Library Reserve Help Address the Textbook Dilemma?
by Feng-Ru Sheu, Kay Downey, and Tom Klingler

Chapter Eight    Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Students’ Desire for Textbooks and the Library Budget
by Rhonda Glazier and Carla Myers

Chapter Nine    General Education: Ten Years of Textbooks at the Ohio State University Libraries
by Aaron Olivera

Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library

Phillips, Faye. Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1566-0

Description
Developing and maintaining a local history archives are a great way for libraries to connect with their community. This concise guidebook presents best practices for the acquisition, access, and care of local history materials in public libraries.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1    Defining, Creating, and Developing a Local History Archive
The History of Local History
Scope and Formats of Materials
Mission Statements
Managing

• Policies and Procedures
• Planning
• Staffing
• Scenarios

Chapter 2    Collection Development Policies for a Local History Archive

• Priorities and Limitations of the Local History Archive
• Users/Patrons
• Programs
• Gift Policy
• Deaccessioning Policy
• Resource Sharing/Cooperative Policy
• Policy Implementation and Review

Chapter 3    Acquiring and Making Local History Collections Accessible
Processing Step 1: Appraisal

• Appraisal Theory
• Organizational and Institutional Records
• Personal Papers
• To Accept or Not to Accept
• Recap: Conducting an Appraisal, How to Do It

Processing Step 2: Legal Transfer

• Deed of Gift
• Organizational Agreement
• Records Transmittal Form
• Monetary Appraisals for Donors
• Donor Requested Restrictions
• Abandoned or Orphaned Collections    
• Recap: Legal Transfer, How to Do It

Processing Step 3: Accessioning

• Deaccessioning
• Processing Plan
• What’s in a Name?
• Recap: Accessioning, How to Do It

Processing Step 4: Arrangement

• Levels of Arrangement and Description
• Recap: Arrangement, How to Do It

Processing Step 5: Description

• Finding Aids
• Digitization
• Unknown Provenance
• Recap: Description, How to Do It

Processing Step 6: Access

• Access Policy
• Utilizing the Online Public Access Catalog
• Web Finding Aids
• Copyright
• Outreach
• Reference Services
• Recap: Access, How to Do It

Chapter 4    Care of a Local History Archive
Preservation

• Digitization as Access and Preservation

Security
Disaster Awareness, Prevention, and Recovery

• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index

Academic Library Value: The Impact Starter Kit

Oakleaf, Megan. Academic Library Value: The Impact Starter Kit. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1592-9

Description
Most academic libraries need to measure their value and how they deliver on institutional goals. This book includes 52 activities designed to help you learn to identify your stakeholders, listen to them, take new approaches to addressing value, and ultimately position your library as an increasingly valued asset.

Table of Contents 

FIRST THINGS FIRST
Activity #1: Institutional Focus Areas

LISTENING TO STAKEHOLDERS

Activity #2: Stakeholders as the Heart of the Institution
Activity #3: Stakeholder Role Play
Activity #4: Stakeholder Questions
Activity #5: Stakeholder Card Sort
Activity #6: Stakeholder Help Study
Activity #7: Stakeholder Views of Library Servicescapes
Activity #8: Institutional Communications Audit
Activity #9: Institutional Program Review & Accreditation Audit
Activity #10: Institutional Learning Outcomes Audit
Activity #11: Higher Education Assessment Initiatives Audit

PLANNING FOR ACTION

Activity #12: Library Data Audit
Activity #13: Time Audit
Activity #14: Self Audit
Activity #15: Job Task Audit
Activity #16: Job Description Audit
Activity #17: Committee Audit
Activity #18: Management Audit
Activity #19: Skill Audit
Activity #20: Professional Development Plan
Activity #21: Planning for Organizational Change
Activity #22: Planning Timeline for Change
Activity #23: Assessment Questions for Prospective Library Hires
Activity #24: To Assess or Not to Assess?
Activity #25: Assessment Fears, Challenges, & Barriers

FOCUSING ON IMPACT

Activity #26: Library Impact Map
Activity #27: Present and Future Library Impact
Activity #28: Passive-to-Active Impact
Activity #29: Impact Vision Creation
Activity #30: Impact on Student Learning Outcomes
Activity #31: Impact on Student Retention
Activity #32: Impact on Faculty Productivity
Activity #33: Impact on Institutional Efficiency
Activity #34: Impact on Institutional Prestige & Brand
Activity #35: Thinking Impact Through
Activity #36: Keeping Impact Simple

GETTING TO WORK

Activity #37: Planning for Assessment
Activity #38: Gathering Library Impact Literature
Activity #39: Engaging the Assessment Cycle
Activity #40: Preparing a Continuous Assessment Timeline
Activity #41: Involving the Entire Library Organization
Activity #42: Approaching Institutional Research Collaborations
Activity #43: Approaching Human Subjects Research
Activity #44: Selecting Assessment Tools
Activity #45: Choosing Assessment or Research
Activity #46: Planning Partnerships
Activity #47: Considering Assessment Management Systems

COMMUNICATING & DECISION-MAKING

Activity #48: Reporting Results
Activity #49: Managing the Message
Activity #50: Transforming Library Fact Sheets
Activity #51: Closing the Loop
Activity #52: Articulating the Institutional Value of the Library