Library Literature and Information Science
The Library Literature and Information Science database provides full text and indexing for English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year.
Library Literature and Information Science
No Shelf Required : E-books in Libraries
E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers. In this volume, author Sue Polanka brings together a variety of professionals to share their experience about e-books with librarians and publishers, providing forward thinking ideas while remaining grounded in practical information that can be implemented in all kinds of libraries.
No Shelf Required : E-books in Libraries
The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. The Florida Electronic Library offers information for all age groups, including homework help for students and resources for teachers.
The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages, and archival collections for historical research. It utilizes selected original records, photographs, and other materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.
The Library Literature and Information Science database provides full text and indexing for English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year.
Do you ever feel like you're drowning in an overwhelming number of tasks? These ready-to-use lifesavers will help you stay afloat in your job while you successfully manage your facilities. You'll find advice on a variety of subjects, from completing library inventory, handling overdue materials, and establishing a book club to teaching Internet research skills and improving public relations.
Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website Booktalks—Quick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Children, she provides another indispensable resource for librarians and teachers.
Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website Booktalks—Quick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With her latest book, 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens, she provides another indispensable resource for librarians and teachers.
The American Public Library Handbook is the first reference work to focus on all aspects of the American public library experience, providing a topical perspective through comprehensive essays and biographical information on important public librarians.
This issue of Library Technology Reports analyzes five different academic libraries to better understand their investments, detailing the outcome thus far, and drawing conclusions about the next-generation catalog.
The author, Barbara T. Mates, is the former director of the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled. In her book she strips away the technical jargon and introduces dozens of the latest options, including hardware, software, and peripherals that will in a practical and economical manner help make information accessible.
The Basic Business Library is a modern sourcebook of core resources for the business library and the business information consumers and researchers it serves. This up-to-date guide also discusses strategies for acquiring and building the business collection in a Web 2.0/3.0 world and recommended approaches to providing reference service for business research.
Beyond the Browser: Web 2.0 and Librarianship overviews the history of libraries and the Internet to provide necessary perspective and then examines current and future trends in libraries.
Sharing expertise gleaned from more than two decades as a library security manager, Warren Davis Graham demonstrates that libraries can maintain their best traditions of openness and public access by creating an unobtrusive yet effective security plan.
In each chapter, the author sets the scene or context, followed by what, why, and how sections. Scenarios are realistic and should provide librarians with ideas for resolving work and people-related problems, whether coaching an assistant, a library clerk, or a volunteer. This book offers objective solutions and methods for resolving personnel issues.
The American Library Association defines information literacy as a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. The Concise Guide to Information Literacy gives students the tools they need to develop those abilities, including the search techniques and evaluation methods that will help them pinpoint what actually is academically sound information.
Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century contains four chapters addressing broad categories of issues that catalogers and metadata librarians are currently facing. Every important topic is covered, such as changing metadata practices, standards, data record structures, data platforms, and user expectations, providing both theoretical and practical information.
Family literacy programs can be remarkably effective in helping families who struggle in various areas of literacy or supporting their children's academic needs. Crash Course in Family Literacy Programs provides an introduction and an overview of this critical subject, defining what literacy, family literacy, and family literacy events are, and covering critical topics such as sources of funding, conclusions of recent research, and bilingual family literacy.
For a library to fulfill its mission to provide community engagement and cultural dialogue, then diverse, excellent cultural programming is the key. In Cultural Programming for Libraries, the director of ALA's Public Programs Office shares time-tested strategies and practical, inspiring samples from first-rate programs across the country.
Written for every librarian or teacher looking for such new and creative teaching techniques, Cybrarian Extraordinaire: Compelling Information Literacy Instruction fills the gap. Based on the author's own experiences, the book shares specific active-learning exercises created to make library instruction more engaging for a wide variety of audiences.
A celebration of children, families, and reading held annually since 1996, Children's Day/Book Day, known as Dia, emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In anticipation of Dia's fifteenth anniversary, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) presents a collection of the best of its Dia programming ideas.
The author, Miriam Kahn, is a specialist in preservation and disaster response. She provides instructions and much incentive for updating or starting your library's disaster plan.
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service. Louise S. Robbins tells the story of the political, social, economic, and cultural threads that became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition. Relevant today, Ruth Brown’s story helps us understand the matrix of personal, community, state, and national forces that can lead to censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of individual rights.
In this step-by-step patron-centered guide, three experts who have conducted extensive research and piloted this outcome-based program for youth in the St. Louis Public Library, share their findings and proven strategies.
Author experts Ghoting and Martin-Diaz combines cutting-edge early literacy research, which is the heart of the Every Child Ready to Read program, with practical implementation tips for busy children’s librarians. Scripts and plans help librarians explain what adults can do to enhance children’s print motivation, phonological awareness, vocabulary, narrative skills, print awareness, and letter knowledge.
Building on proven methods of effective supervision, this book offers academic librarians a practical guide for the day-to-day challenges that arise in supervising student employees. The authors describe the roles of employees and supervisors and review general management principles. They then explain how to organize for student employment.
This book covers the five points of the e-resources life-cycle in a readable and accessible manner, providing valuable information that is applicable to real-world situations. Each of the working chapters covers one of the five life-cycle points (Acquisitions, Access, Administration, Support, and Evaluation), and supplies suggested readings and thought-provoking questions.
This collection of essays illustrates how librarians are infusing entrepreneurial principles in a variety of arenas, including public, private, academic, and special libraries. Applying new business models to traditional services, they eagerly embrace entrepreneurship in response to patrons' demands, funding declines, changing resource formats, and other challenges.
Volunteers in a time crunch need answers—fast. For Friends of Libraries, the popular Friends’ Sourcebook by Sandy Dolnick has provided in-depth answers. Peppered with the insights and opinions of Dolnick, and refined by her years of conversations with librarians, suppliers, trustees, and leaders from the Friends network, this volume offers answers for last-minute emergencies, outlines successful fundraising ideas, shares Friends groups’ best practices and provides often-used documents to customize with a mouse click.
Generation X includes those individuals born roughly between the years 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced unique advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays showcases the unique qualities and challenges that face Generation X librarians.
Gain the administrative support you need for your media center and library programs with this practical and enlightening guide. The author shows you how differences in background, learning styles, thought processes, leadership styles, and outlooks between school media specialists and building administrators can undermine the success of the library program. He then gives you step-by-step instructions for bridging the communication gap and leading your media center to success.
Patrons increasingly expect access to their libraries anywhere, anytime. This special report provides practical guidance in how librarians can put the library in the palms of their patrons’ hands by using the HTML skills that many librarians already have.
Because libraries are information and research centers, they can support a huge variety of grant funding initiatives outside their own purview. Cultural centers, businesses, and educational institutions are untapped resources for library funds. What's more, many libraries may find that collaborating on a grant application with another organization is preferable to going forward with a time-consuming application of their own. But finding the right collaborative partner and securing a place at its development table can be challenging.
Goldsmith begins with a somewhat theoretical discussion of graphic novels: a brief but informative history of the format; and a number of well-reasoned arguments for bringing the genre into library collections. The latter half of the book provides many concrete suggestions for creating, maintaining, promoting, and defending a graphic-novel collection. Various appendixes list additional resources on the analysis and study of the genre, list some major titles, and provide suggestions for writing collection-development policies.
This book aims to help librarians thrive in the demanding environment that exists for the solo librarian. Topics covered include time management, community involvement, public relations and marketing, professional development, internet-based ideas, administrative tasks, assessing and moving collections, and general overviews.
This latest revision of Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction: Applying Research to Practice in the 21st Century School Library brings together the research literature on information skills instruction with particular reference to models related to information seeking and the information search process.
Weeding can be a daunting challenge, especially without guidance or help. To make weeding part of a library's ongoing procedures, it's best to do it in manageable doses. This new comprehensive weeding guide is like a friendly mentor ready to assist librarians on one of their more onerous tasks.
The author, Sarah Anne Murphy, innovatively rethinks the philosophy behind current library reference services in this thought-provoking book. She re-brands reference librarianship on the model of a consulting business, providing a renewed vision of the reference desk by treating patrons as clients, spells out the importance of the patron's voice, and identifies the reference librarian's competitive advantage over Web search engines.
Being unemployed is potentially devastating; without a clear, well-thought out game plan and considerable attention to their own personal well-being, those affected may find it difficult to recover. In this ALA Editions Special Report, the author, a veteran librarian with decades of experience, helps at-risk librarians prepare for budget crunches, educate themselves about which library positions are being phased out and which will hold steady or expand, adjust their career goals, repurpose their existing skills for non-traditional librarianship, and even search for work in non-library settings.
Many librarians lack the awareness of how to influence others and shape the direction of their work despite possessing raw talent and superb technical skills. This book builds awareness by detailing library-specific examples of negotiation across a spectrum of contexts.
Presents plans for 32 passive programs designed to capture the attention of library patrons. Each chapter, which contains programs grouped thematically, details the steps necessary to reproduce the programs, and includes supporting handouts, activities, and photographs.
Drawing on decades of audiobook experience and research, librarians Sharon Grover and Lizette Hannegan convincingly make the case that audiobooks not only present excellent opportunities to engage the attention of young people but also advance literacy.
Intended for the novice and the old hand, individuals and large staffs, this valuable guide provides librarians with the effective marketing tools necessary to help their libraries thrive in these challenging times.
E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers. In this volume, author Sue Polanka brings together a variety of professionals to share their experience about e-books with librarians and publishers, providing forward thinking ideas while remaining grounded in practical information that can be implemented in all kinds of libraries.
With their explosive sales and widespread availability, the past few years have definitively proven that e-books are here to stay. In this sequel to her best-selling book of the same title, expert Sue Polanka dives even deeper into the world of digital distribution.
This issue of Library Technology Reports examines the unprecendented legal, technological, and vendor challenges a librarian faces when developing an e-book collection and focuses on strategies for purchasing e-books in a consortium, working with vendors, implementing e-reader programs in an academic environment, and purchasing electronic textbooks.
What does it truly take to provide excellent library service to children? The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has outlined seven core competencies skills and best practices that are the building blocks for professional development for children's librarians.
Emphasizing public, school, and academic libraries, Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship, taps the leading minds of the Latino library world to provide expert discourse on a wide spectrum of library services to Latino patrons in the United States. This collection of articles provides an accurate, insightful discussion of the issues and advances in Latino library service.
Based on their direct experience and many presentations to teachers and librarians, the authors have provided template lesson plans with curriculum and standards links for using the best pop-up books currently available in the instructional program of the school.
Appropriate for both pre-service and practicing school librarians at all grade levels, this book provides suggested techniques and examples of best practices for managing students in a school library.
When materials aren't available due to deterioration, missing pages, disconnected covers, or other problems, it can be frustrating for users and librarians alike. The answer is to provide appropriate care for the collection from the outset, while also guiding staff on making needed repairs. In Preservation and Conservation, two experts show library administrators and decision makers optimal collection preservation techniques, what it takes to set up a conservation work area, and safe ways to mount a small exhibit. In between, those responsible for repairs will find easily learned, illustrated, step-by-step instructions to repair and conserve books and documents.
This report from ALA Editions provides a history of the trend of local and state governments privatizing public services and assets. It also examines the history of public library privatization and the affects it has on services, patron satisfaction and staff, as well as legal issues.
Something sinister is afoot out there and this newly updated readers advisory has all the clues to help librarians solve the mystery of which titles readers should check out next.
This new edition is a complete revision and can be useful both as a textbook for library-school students and a training manual for library staff. The definition of readers' advisory service has been expanded to include nonfiction as well as fiction. Online tools for identifying and evaluating titles to suggest to today's new adult leisure readers are described, in addition to the tried-and-true print sources. The value of personal reading suggestions from staff and patrons is addressed. Topics for discussion and techniques for marketing good reading material are offered.
Motivating children to read is essential to building a lifelong love of reading. Many parents cannot model engagement with books and instead, teachers, school media specialists, and children's librarians must step into the breach to help children embrace a love of reading. According to award-winning librarian-educator and author Sharon Grimes, to help students love books and reading, their skills must go beyond merely recognizing words and turning pages without comprehension. She frames the situation with an insightful overview of current research on reading and how children learn.
In today's technology-driven world, reference librarians must serve users who come into the building as well as remote users who ask via various digital means. Reference Interview Today will help reference librarians decide which tools and strategies will best serve their diverse group of patrons, in person and in cyberspace.
Teen parents and their children represent an underserved, high-need population in many communities. Serving Teen Parents: From Literacy to Life Skills helps library staff support teen parents as their children's first teachers, positively affecting two generations at once.
Sizzling Summer Programs provides the creative spark for libraries committed to working with teens and preteens through summer programs. Enthusiastic colleagues nationwide share more than 50 successful programs, including nitty gritty details like handling registration, getting donations, creating partnerships, tracking reading, and promoting programs. Reading incentives, community service and volunteering, as well as programs for special teen populations (the homeless, incarcerated, or parents) make this a comprehensive and inspiring reference.
Social Networking for Schools uniquely identifies the three core ways that social media can be integrated within a school: as communications tools, as instructional tools, and for professional development. The collaborative effort of a former school librarian and current school administrator with a practicing school attorney, authors Steven M. Baule and Julie E. Lewis bring perspectives and critical insights to the topic not normally considered in similar literature.
In order to develop a young adult department from the ground up, librarians need to be informed about a myriad of interrelated tasks and responsibilities: creating policies, purchasing materials, program scheduling, outreach, and budgeting. This book covers all steps in the process of becoming a successful teen librarian, from getting the job and advocating for a teen department to adding qualified staff and ongoing professional development.
Teens, Libraries and Social Networking: What Librarians Need to Know is organized around ten major topics, including using social networking sites to connect teens to young adult literature, social networking and legislative issues, social networking and safety/privacy issues, and the social and educational benefits of social networking. Expert practitioners explain how such issues can and should impact library services to young adults.
Censorship controversies can involve the public objecting to a book in the collection, venues for displays and meetings, and sometimes library staff themselves are tempted to preemptively censor a work. Those facing censorship challenges can find support and inspiration in this book.
Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your email address released in response to a public-records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.
