Take Your Library Workshops Online!
Take Your Library Workshops Online!

Author: Anne Grant

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1442263997

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The ethos of every library is to serve and to instruct. Library professionals teach every day in the sense that they show patrons where to find books or how to use computers. Increasingly, however, library users just don’t have the time to attend face-to-face workshops in advance of needs that they may have. They want to know the answer to their questions when THEY need it, not when YOU teach it. Take Your Library Workshops Online! will help you move valuable “teachable moments” from the physical library or classroom to virtual spaces. It features real-life examples of how to: create online synchronous sessions, brief tutorials, and pointed screen captures. Learning in the online environment can happen in a two-minute video or in a creative meme-like screen capture and can cover topics from logging in to a database to evaluating sources. Creating these learning objects can take from less than one day up to a week depending on the time you have to devote to it and the level of detail required.

Demystifying Online Instruction in Libraries
Demystifying Online Instruction in Libraries

Author: Dominique Turnbow

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0838919391

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The design of information literacy instruction and the building of it are two distinct skillsets and processes; yet all too often everything gets mashed together, creating needless confusion and stress. In this book Turnbow, an instructional designer, and Roth, an instructional technologist, suggest a better way to organize the work.

Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library
Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library

Author: Bernice Kao

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1610691539

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This unique book covers the who, what, when, where, why, and, most important, the HOW of creating a career center or jobseeker program in a public library. Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library provides a practical, down-to-earth guide for library staff who wish to better meet one of their patrons' most pressing needs. The book covers everything from program planning for classes, workshops, and special events to career advising, resources and facilities, recruiting personnel, funding, outreach and promotion, and program evaluation. The authors share a plethora of tips and tricks that can be customized to enable even small public libraries to offer job-search help. Real-life examples and case studies from across the United States show the blueprint in action. Even those who already have a job center in their library will learn about forming resourceful partnerships, gain new ideas for funding sources, and discover innovative services they can provide easily and affordably.

Inside, Outside, and Online
Inside, Outside, and Online

Author: Chrystie Hill

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0838991599

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Whatever your role, and whatever size or type of library, the principles outlined here can support anyone working to build a strong community of engaged, interested, and satisfied library users.

Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop
Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop

Author: Jerilyn Veldof

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2006-03-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780838909133

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From needs assessment through design and implementation to final evaluations, this practical guide takes librarians step by step through the workshop process. With a focus on practical applications, it shows instruction librarians how to make every minute count.

Technology Made Simple
Technology Made Simple

Author: Kimberly Bolan

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0838909205

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Provides information on implementing technology services in a small or medium-sized library.

Action Plan for Outcomes Assessment in Your Library
Action Plan for Outcomes Assessment in Your Library

Author: Peter Hernon

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780838908136

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This book examines the process of assessing if and how well students and library users are learning from the resources the library provides. The book provides data collection tools for measuring both learning and research outcomes that link outcomes to user satisfaction and includes detailed examples from actual outcomes assessment programs.

The Transforming Public Library Technology Infrastructure
The Transforming Public Library Technology Infrastructure

Author: American Library Association

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 0838958346

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Library Technology Reports August/September 2011 vol. 47 / no.6 This issue of Library Technology Reports, conceived and coordinated by the American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Research and Statistics, focuses on the evolution and current state of public-access technologies in public libraries from the infrastructure, services, and resources perspectives. This issue brings together longitudinal data, key issues, trends, and best practices that will provide library staff with tools for planning, advocacy, and service enhancements. A number of prominent library professionals contributed their expertise to this issue. Authors and topics include John carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, Emily E. Wahl, and Kathryn I. Sigler on Public Libraries and the Internet: An Evolutionary Perspective; Nicole D. Alemanne, Lauren H. Mandel, and Charles R. McClure on The Rural Public Library as Leader in Community Broadband Services; Robert A. Caluori, Jr. on Successfully Planning a Scalable and Effective Patron Wireless Network; Nancy Fredericks on E-Government and Employment Support Services; Larra Clark and Marijke Visser on Digital Literacy; and Stephanie Gerding on Transforming Public Library Patron Technology Training.

Writing Literature Reviews
Writing Literature Reviews

Author: Jose L. Galvan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-05

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1351858920

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Guideline 12: If the Results of Previous Studies Are Inconsistent or Widely Varying, Cite Them Separately

Library and Information Center Management
Library and Information Center Management

Author: Barbara B. Moran

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment. Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. Measurement and evaluation. Fiscal responsibility and control. These are just some of the wide range of responsibilities and necessary skills of contemporary library managers—not all of which are typically covered in detail in LIS educational programs. Now updated and expanded for its ninth edition, Libraries Unlimited's Library and Information Center Management is the core management text for library information science programs. This latest text adds new information on grant writing as well as more about budgets, marketing, financial management, assessment, and evidence-based management. The authors include various real-world examples from international settings to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the library and information center in our global world. Each chapter ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and opportunities to apply newly gained information: "Practice Your Skills" and "Discussion Questions."