A collaborative approach to grant seeking can stimulate and reshape the culture of your library organization. The exciting and rewarding activities of developing a successful grants program can yield enormous dividends for the benefit of your staff, patrons, and community. Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians will share new insights for those who want to access grant funding without reinventing the wheel. Based on years of practical grant writing and collaboration development experience, this resource provides a complete guide for setting up a library grant-seeking program, and for combining forces with community partners to increase grant funding to libraries. Venturing into the grants world can be scary and unpredictable. This book offers detailed strategies and practical steps to establish a supportive and collaborative environment that creates the capacity to consistently develop fundable proposals, and gives readers the confidence needed to make grant-seeking activities commonplace within libraries. Collaborative Grant Seeking will share featured topics unavailable in other grant writing publications, such as: *interpreting sponsor guidelines *identifying appropriate funding programs *determining the feasibility of project ideas *asset-based (vs. need-based) proposal development strategies *actual examples of successful and unusual library projects *initiating and sustaining collaborative relationships

Metaliteracy in Practice will provide inspiration for librarians and educators in need of up-to-date and thought-provoking information literacy curricula and instructional approaches. Editors Trudi E. Jacobson and Thomas P. Mackey, respected leaders in distance education and library instruction, reframed information literacy in their acclaimed previous book, Metaliteracy: Reinventing information literacy to empower learners, which provided an inclusive framework that encompasses all the newer literacies such as digital, visual, cyber and media literacy. Metaliteracy in Practice follows on from this book, placing its concepts firmly in real-world practice and delivering a compilation of innovative and practical teaching ideas from some of the leading thinkers in library and information literacy instruction today. Each chapter takes readers through the process of using the metaliteracy framework in new and exciting ways that easily transfer to the classroom and to work with students. These ideas are grounded in teaching traditional information literacy competencies but brought up-to-date with the addition of methods for teaching and learning about metacognition, information creation and participation in learning communities. The case studies contained in this collection detail the hows and whys of curricular design for metaliteracy, suitable for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Readers will also benefit from the book's practical ideas for: * teaching students about the importance of format choice * assessing user feedback * creating information as teachers * evaluating dynamic content critically and effectively * sharing information in collaborative environments. The collection has some of the most innovative teaching ideas for inspiring librarians and educators to revise lessons on critical thinking and information literacy, so that their students will graduate with the ability to formulate and ask their own questions.

Volume 7 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new approaches and initiatives in marketing the academic library, as well as the importance of outreach through partnerships and collaborations both internal and external to the library. Implementation of social media strategies, the use of library spaces for collaboration and inspiration, planning events and extravaganzas in the library, librarians as event coordinators and user-centered programming, the delivery of library services through digital engagement, using Instagram to create a library character for the YouTube generation, using workshops to promote digital library services, an examination of the new librarianship paradigm, the process of marketing and constructing a digital collection based on U.S. Highway 89 and the Intermountain West, and how librarians at Loyola University New Orleans have embedded their expertise and practice into their university culture, are the primary topics in this book.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: -, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Buchhandel und die Bibliotheken haben es in der heutigen Zeit schwer auf dem Buchmarkt attraktiv zu bleiben. Die Autorin Verena Tesar beschaftigt sich in ihrer Bachelorarbeit, im Studiengang Buchwissenschaft an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, mit einigen Online-Verleihmodellen und wie diese den Buchereien als Konkurrenten gegenuberstehen. Es werden E-Book-Verleihmodelle fur Offentliche Bibliotheken, z.B. die Onleihe, aber auch Modelle von privaten Anbietern, z. B. Skoobe und 24symbols, vorgestellt. Zum Schluss stellt sich die Frage, wie sich Bibliotheken und Buchereien in Zukunft ausrichten mussen, um den Bedurfnissen des modernen Lesers gerecht zu werden.

Consumer Health Information Programs and Services: Best Practices presents examples of successful and long-standing library programs and services that provide health information to consumers-the general public, patients, and families or patients - who seek information about health and diseases. This best practices volume brings together library programs and services currently offered in hospital libraries, public libraries, academic health sciences libraries, and standalone consumer health libraries, covering a range of topics and special programs. Advice and best practices provided by these experienced CHI librarians will help readers who are planning a new consumer health information service, or who are looking to upgrade and expand their current program or service. This best practices book will highlight successful library consumer health information programs and services, offering advice and tips about all aspects of providing health information to the general public and patients, from planning and establishing a CHI program, to offering specialized services to special populations. Readers will find both solid, tried-and-true methods for providing these services, as well as guidance on using newer, updated techniques to reach persons needing health information.

Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library's role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate education. Academic libraries are nexuses of research and technology; as such, they provide fertile ground for cultivating and curating digital scholarship. However, adding digital humanities to library service models requires a clear understanding of the resources and skills required. Integrating digital scholarship into existing models calls for a reimagining of the roles of libraries and librarians. In many cases, these reimagined roles call for expanded responsibilities, often in the areas of collaborative instruction and digital asset management, and in turn these expanded responsibilities can strain already stretched resources. Laying the Foundation provides practical solutions to the challenges of successfully incorporating digital humanities programs into existing library services. Collectively, its authors argue that librarians are critical resources for teaching digital humanities to undergraduate students and that libraries are essential for publishing, preserving, and making accessible digital scholarship.

Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new, unified cataloguing standard. Benefits of RDA include: A structure based on the conceptual models of FRBR (functional requirements for bibliographic data) and FRAD (functional requirements for authority data) to help catalogue users find the information they need more easily A flexible framework for content description of digital resources that also serves the needs of libraries organizing traditional resources A better fit with emerging technologies, enabling institutions to introduce efficiencies in data capture and storage retrieval. The online RDA Toolkit provides a one-stop resource for evaluating and implementing RDA, and is the most effective way to interact with the new standard. It includes searchable and browseable RDA instructions; two views of RDA content, by table of contents and by element set; user-created and shareable workflows and mappings - tools to customize RDA to support your organization's training, internal processes, and local policies; Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS) and links to other relevant cataloguing resources; and the full text of AACR2 with links to RDA. This full-text print version of RDA offers a snapshot that serves as an offline access point to help solo and part-time cataloguers evaluate RDA, as well as to support training and classroom use in any size institution. An index is included. The online RDA Toolkit includes PDFs, but purchasing the print version offers a convenient, time-saving option. The 2015 RDA Print Revision contains: A full accumulation of RDA - the revision contains a full set of all current RDA instructions. It replaces the previous version of RDA Print rather than being an update packet to that version. Numerous changes to the text of RDA have been made since the publication of the 2014 Revision. Cataloguing practice described by RDA has not altered dramatically due to these changes, but over a significant number of the pages in RDA Print were affected by the changes, making an RDA Print update packet impracticable.. The most current RDA - the revision contains all changes to RDA up to and including the 2015 RDA Update approved by the JSC. There are two types of changes to RDA that routinely take place-"Fast Track" changes and RDA Updates. The JSC periodically issues Fast Track changes to RDA to fix errors and to clarify meaning. These changes do not typically change cataloguing practice as described by RDA. An RDA Update is issued annually. In an Update process the JSC considers proposals to enhance and improve RDA as a cataloguing standard. An Update can and often does change the cataloguing process described in RDA. The 2015 Revision includes all Fast Track changes and RDA Updates since the 2014 publication of RDA in August 2014.

This enlightening new book in the Practical Guides for Librarians series presents the practicalities of developing, implementing, and evaluating use-driven acquisition (UDA) in academic and special libraries, from the multi-dimensional perspectives of collections, acquisitions, and e-resources. Now that UDA is a proven method of collection management being utilized by an array of libraries around the globe, the need for a straightforward, uncomplicated guidebook is more essential than ever. This book is both a reference source and a guide for current and future librarians. In addition to chapters highlighting e-book, print, and article-level UDA plans, the book will also include considerations for budgeting, interlibrary loan, consortia UDA, ongoing management and assessment strategies, and stimulating future trends. Of special interest are project management cycles detailing each phase and steps of implementing UDA plans, and relevant case studies involving librarians and vendors who have established UDA plans in libraries of various types and sizes. This book provides a practical methodology for setting up use-driven acquisitions plans to acquire access to print and e-books for users in academic and special libraries. Every chapter covers important collection development and budgeting objectives of the library, and proposes methods to assess cost and usage of the content received to determine effectiveness and potential modifications to UDA plans. Practical features that can be used in day-to-day operations include: * Project management lifecycle with phases and steps for successful implementation * Sample reports and executive summaries for administrators * Marketing and branding strategies * Step-by-step checklists * Assessment tools and examples * Multiple case studies of various types of libraries, including budgets and current UDA policies * Evaluative survey questions * Interview transcripts * Glossary of terms and acronym explanations

Membership marketing and management is an ever more demanding role within the institutions served-meeting fiscal demands, keeping pace with online marketing opportunities, and making data-driven decisions. The demands are diverse and ever-changing. This book addresses all aspects of management, expectations and productivity of a membership program in the digital age. Benchmarking, best practices and realistic outcomes are presented. Membership Marketing In The Digital Age is a membership manager's reference book to what works and how on relevant topics such as: *Member acquisition *Membership planning and projections *Membership retention and renewals *Membership servicing, engagement and loyalty It features over seventy illustrations including reproductions of marketing pieces and management tools used by leading museums and libraries across the country. Here's a book that will help your museum or library generate many times the purchase price through better practices that will increase your membership many times over.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Buchwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Geschichte der Schriftformen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Derrick de Kerckhove spricht in seinem Essay Text, Kontext, Hypertext" davon, dass es drei Bewusstseinsstadien mit jeweils assoziierten Typen des Sprachgebrauchs gebe: eines der mundlichen, eines der schriftlichen und eines der elektronischen Sprache. Die Schrift erfullt gewisse Funktionen fur die Kollektive, die sich ihrer bedienen: Sie entlastet ihre Erinnerung und macht allgemein mehr Wissen in weniger Zeit verfugbar. Dadurch verandert sich auch das Bewusstsein. Diese Arbeit beruht im Wesentlichen auf der Annahme, dass auch die elektronische Revolution der (Schrift-)Sprache durch die Entwicklung moderner Computer und die Vernetzung uber das Internet eine ahnliche Auswirkung haben wird. Hier stellt sich die Frage, was genau diese Auswirkungen verursacht: Ist es tatsachlich die Elektronifizierung, oder ist es die neue strukturelle Anordnung von Textteilen, die sich aus der Verwendung von Informationskanalen wie dem World Wide Web ergibt? Sollte man kunftig zu dem Schluss kommen, dass die unterstellte Anderung der Denkgewohnheiten darauf zuruckzufuhren ist, dass im Web der Hypertext2 dominiert, konnte man auf die Idee kommen, dass dessen Konzept gar nicht so neu ist wie der Aspekt der Elektronifizierung bzw. Digitalisierung. So lesen wir in der Wikipedia: "Hypertextuelle Strukturen sind seit Jahrhunderten bekannt; die im Aufschreibesystem der Neuzeit ausdifferenzierten Erschliessungshilfen fur lineare Texte wie Inhaltsverzeichnisse, Indizes, Querverweise und Fussnoten sowie jegliche Verweissysteme entsprechen funktional einem Hypertext." Grundlegende These dieser Arbeit ist, dass wir daruber hinaus noch weitaus mehr Hypertexte in praelektronischer Zeit finden konnen. Das Ziel wird im Folgenden sein, zu uberprufen, ob insbesondere Handschriften des Mittelal

Quickly following what many expected to be a wholesale revolution in library practices, institutional repositories encountered unforeseen problems and a surprising lack of impact. Clunky or cumbersome interfaces, lack of perceived value and use by scholars, fear of copyright infringement, and the like tended to dampen excitement and adoption. This collection of essays, arranged in five thematic sections, is intended to take the pulse of institutional repositories-to see how they have matured and what can be expected from them, as well as introduce what may be the future role of the institutional repository. Making Institutional Repositories Work takes novices as well as seasoned practitioners through the practical and conceptual steps necessary to develop a functioning institutional repository, customized to the needs and culture of the home institution. The first section covers all aspects of system platforms, including hosted and open-source options, big data capabilities and integration, and issues related to discoverability. The second section addresses policy issues, from the basics to open-source and deposit mandates. The third section focuses on recruiting and even creating content. Authors in this section will address the ways that different disciplines tend to have different motivations for deposit, as well as the various ways that institutional repositories can serve as publishing platforms. The fourth section covers assessment and success measures for all involved-librarians, deans, and administrators. The theory and practice of traditional metrics, alt metrics, and peer review receive chapter-length treatment. The fifth section provides case studies that include a boots-on-the-ground perspective of issues raised in the first four sections. By noting trends and potentialities, this final section, authored by Executive Director of SPARC Heather Joseph, makes future predictions and helps managers position institutional repositories to be responsive change and even shape the evolution of scholarly communication.

The new ACRL information literacy concepts brings renewed interest in information literacy instruction and skills for librarians. The New Information Literacy Instruction: Best Practices offers guidance in planning for and implementing information literacy instruction programs in a wide range of instructional situations, including: *Course-related instruction *Freshman composition courses *Professional medical education *New course development and delivery *One-shot sessions *Formal, credit courses *Distance education *Visual literacy *and more * As librarians take a new look at information literacy instruction, this essential book will help guide you in creating and maintaining a quality instruction program.