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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