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Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book offers a survey of library technology that's already transitioning from trend to everyday reality--systems, software, and approaches crucial to the knowledge institutions of tomorrow. Covers mobile technologies; privacy-protection technology tools; the Internet of Things (IoT); virtual reality; bots and automation; machine learning applications for libraries; libraries as digital humanities enablers; visualizations in discovery systems;...
Author
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This reworked guidebook shares how to build a digital collection from scratch, or simply understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library. It demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. It demystifies core technologies and workflows and covers a range of aspects from planning to implementation...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This resource provides guidance, tools, and case studies on how libraries can effectively engage with the public to address a range of issues for the betterment of their community, whether it is a city, neighborhood, campus, or something else. Featuring contributions by leaders active in library-led community engagement, it's designed to be equally useful as a teaching text for LIS students and a handbook for current programming, adult services, and...
Author
Series
The Library trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Two strangers find themselves connected by a mysterious and vast library, which contains many wonders and even more secrets, in the powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns. On a used-up world where civilisations have risen and retreated in an endless tide, leaving a dusty wasteland in their wake, there is one constant: an ancient library, the repository of all knowledge...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This book shows how libraries can partner with Wikipedia to improve content quality while ensuring library services and collections are more visible on the open web. It offers ways to get involved in the Wikipedia community through hosting editathons; contributing content and helping bridge gaps; ensuring library content is connected through the encyclopedia; working with the Wikipedia education community; and engaging with Wikipedians as allies to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This book explains the importance of diversity audits and offers options for how to go about conducting them to give library professionals a realistic and accurate assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the materials they provide their readers. It covers the best way to conduct an audit, what criteria to use, how to tailor audits to specific communities, cost, how much time it takes, and best practices.
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book encourages librarians to turn their fears and uncertainty about serving library patrons with substance abuse issues into strengths and empowerment, offering to-the-point guidance on welcoming people with substance use disorders and their loved ones through policy, materials, outreach, collaboration, programs, and services.
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book discusses incorporating assessment and analysis work into a library's existing workflow. It draws from real-world practices to suggest new approaches for acquisition and collections, cataloging and metadata, digital preservation, and e-resources and serials. Topics include budgets, workflows, vendors, and collaborative initiatives; multiple data sets for assessing collections; applications for working with data; preservation assessments;...
Author
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Put simply, there is no text about public librarianship more rigorous or comprehensive than McCook's survey. Now, the REFORMA Lifetime Achievement Award-winning author has teamed up with noted public library scholar and advocate Bossaller to update and expand her work to incorporate the field's renewed emphasis on outcomes and transformation. This essential tool (Library Journal) remains the definitive handbook on this branch of the profession.
10) Resilience
Author
Series
Library futures volume 2
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Resilience (or resiliency) incorporates preparations for and rapid recovery from physical, social, and economic disruptions, including environmental disasters, terrorist attacks, or economic collapse. This book 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....
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book shows librarians how to move beyond merely responding to community needs towards actively building a platform with their community. It also shares the experiences of numerous creative library workers and artists who are dedicated to cultivating creativity in both library users and staff.
12) Blockchain
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book examines blockchain technology, a concept with far-reaching implications for the future of the information professions. It offers a primer of what librarians and information professionals need to understand about blockchain technology. Several speculative visions for how blockchain could support the core work of libraries are included to help librarians understand the possibilities for improved operations and services.
Author
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fandoms are passionate communities of people, tied together by their fervent devotion to a fictional book, show, sport, and more. The authors provide library programmers with practical tips for offering programs that will appeal to the various fandoms that exist among your patrons. Each theme in the book includes suggestions that can be adapted for your facility.
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This book shows that the first step towards a sustainable library is sustainable thinking: a determined yet realistic attitude that supports institutional advancement, advocates and safeguards operating funds, and generates community loyalty. It provides a situation report, defines sustainable thinking, provides strategies and tactics, worksheets, discussion questions, checklists, additional resources and other tools, and covers communication with...
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Public libraries can play an important role in supporting library users in seeking health information. This book covers guiding users to high quality, up to date, authoritative health information, and why offering health promotion programs can be valuable, serving community needs while increasing library visibility. Offers information on history of the consumer health movement, sources, activities, health programs, privacy, liability, and a library's...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Government documents, both physical and electronic, call for special attention, and because they're useful and pervasive in nearly every kind of library, librarians of all types need to know how to work effectively with federal, state, and international resources. This volume gathers the expertise of government information librarians from across the country and provides concrete guidance and real-world insight into the work, collections, and interests...
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book gathers perspectives from a range of positions that speak to the facets of digital scholarship. This mosaic of perspectives reveals the challenges, questions, and personalities that sit at the nexus of academic libraries and digital scholarship culture. It also elucidates the many ways in which digital scholarship can express the values, priorities, opportunities, and challenges of the community's intellectual and technical environment.
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This resource profiles dozens of book clubs and offers a diverse cross-section of ideas to inspire you to rethink your reading groups and try out new ways to better meet your library's and community's needs. It outlines the main reasons that traditional book clubs can grow stagnant over time and offers concrete advice on how to change things up. Covers "walk and talk" book clubs, using non-library spaces, clubs with a specific focus, and more, and...
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