Building the Governance Partnership: The Chief Executive’s Guide to Getting the Best From the Board. 2nd ed.

Williams, Sherill K. and Kathleen A. McGinnis.  Building the Governance Partnership: The Chief Executive’s Guide to Getting the Best From the Board. 2^nd ed.  Washington, D.C.: BoardSource, 2011.  658.422 Willi   ISBN 978-1586861247

 

In a constructive partnership with the board, the chief executive works hard to provide leadership that engages the board in exceptional governance - work that requires a lot of time and energy.

Building the Governance Partnership: The Chief Executive's Guide to Getting the Best from the Board, Second Edition, offers practical tips and perspectives to help you manage this considerable investment of time and build a partnership with the board that is based on support, trust, honesty, forthrightness, respect, and understanding. Within its pages, you'll learn how to work for, work with, and work the board. And while it is time-consuming work, the rewards - the success of both you and your organization - are worth the effort.

The Accidental Law Librarian

Aycock, Anthony. The Accidental Law Librarian. Information Today, Inc., 2013.

In reality, all librarians get legal questions, so many of us find ourselves navigating the complicated world of legal information. This book should help: it provides great tips and hints for those challenging reference questions and working with legal publishers and databases. Those contemplating law librarianship can also benefit from chapters addressing the structure and culture of law libraries.

Transforming Young Adult Services (book)

Bernier, A. (2013). Transforming Young Adult Services. Chicago, IL: Neal-Schuman.

In this vigorous call to action that encourages LIS students, researchers, and practitioners to question some of the underlying assumptions of their discipline, Bernier initiates an open discussion about how YA professionals perceive young adults. Exploring the question of what an LIS-specific vision of young adults should be, this book offers a wide array of provocative positions with implications for libraries in literacy initiatives, YA space, intergenerational interactions, and civic life. Research-based articles and essays from leading scholars and practitioners examine young adults in historical and conceptual contexts, such as the ways in which social theory is rapidly changing the essence of YA librarianship. The variety of perspectives and analyses offered will launch a vigorous new debate on how libraries and those in the field think of and serve young adults. 

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Books Challenged or Banned 2012-2013 (supplement)

Doyle, R.P. (2013). Books Challenged or Banned 2012-2013. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

The annual supplement to the Banned Books Resource Guide contains information on recent bans, challenges, and successes in libraries and schools nationwide. Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

For more information about Banned Books Week, please visit the Banned Books website.
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Communicating Professionally: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, 3rd ed.

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick and Kirsti Nilsen.  Communicating Professionally: A How-To-Do-It, 3^rd ed.  Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013.  020.14 Ross  ISBN 978-1555709082

An updated and expanded version of the training guide Booklist called "one of the most valuable professional publications to come off the presses in a long time," the new third edition of Communicating Professionally is completely revised with new sections outlining the opportunities offered by contemporary communication media. With more resource information on cross-cultural communication, including new applications of communication principles and the latest research-based material on communication in general, this comprehensive manual covers 

•  Fundamental skills such as listening, speaking, and writing
•  Reading others’ nonverbal behavior
•  How to integrate skills, with tips for practicing
• Sense-making, a theory of information as communication
• Common interactions like speaking one-on-one, working in groups, and giving presentations
• Training others in communication skills, including a special section on technology-based training