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Taking a broad approach from career counselling theory to recommendations of major sources of career and job information, this book, first published in 1992, covers subjects such as cooperative programs between librarians, career planning professionals, and job search counsellors and the evaluation of career-related materials. It emphasizes the constant demand for career and job information regardless of economic conditions. Librarians can act as intermediaries to help patrons locate career and employment sources dispersed throughout the collection, demonstrate their proper use, and guide them to additional useful sources. Specific chapters explain how to expand career and job services by networking with other community resources and developing a strong core collection of the best resources available. Other ground breaking topics analysed include employment and labour market trends for the 1990s, unemployment services in libraries, evaluation criteria for career resources, essential career planning and employment materials, specialized collections for relocation literature, and employment of persons with disabilities.
Information available through traditional business and competitive
resources can be complimented by information gained through social
media tools. Social Information is a must-have book for competitive
and business researchers in any discipline including librarians,
information professionals, intelligence analysts, students and
marketing personnel, and explores how more traditional resources
can be complimented by social media tools. The book outlines
different categories of social tools, competitive and business
applications of these tools, and provides example searches with
screenshots. The book provides concrete search examples, as well as
strategies and approaches for searching social tools that may be
available today or that may emerge tomorrow. Readers will learn
ways to quickly develop new search strategies as new tools and
features emerge. The future of social tools and information, and
the lasting impact that these tools have had on how information
plays a part in our lives, our businesses and our careers is
discussed. The title is structured into seven chapters, covering:
the impact of social media, and the approach of the book; a brief
history of business and competitive information and the rise of
social tools; blogs and microblogs; video, audio and images; social
search engines; and the future of social information.
Examining the different bodies that publish official material, this
book describes the types of material published, how it is made
available and how it is recorded. Finding Official British
Information focuses on the digital availability of official
information and considers how much is now freely available on the
web and how to locate it as well as addressing issues of web only
publishing. It covers public bodies in the UK and includes
publications issued by central and local government as well as the
devolved assemblies and the many other organisations that issue
official publications.
Many libraries and museums have adapted to the current information
climate, working with Google, Facebook, Twitter and iTunes to
deliver information for their users. Many have not. Google This
describes the variety of free or nearly free options for social
media, and shows how libraries are adapting, from the Library of
Congress to small public libraries. The author presents
conversations with social media innovators to show how their
experience can create success for your institution s library.
Chapters cover important aspects of social media for libraries
including: how they relate to the internet; web services such as
Google Custom Search, Facebook and Twitter, Flickr, iGoogle, and
more; electronic books; discovery platforms; and mobile
applications. The book ends by asking: Where is this all going?
Increasingly, library personnel are called upon to teach classes,
deliver presentations and represent their organizations in an
official capacity. This book is designed to assist those
professionals with little to no experience designing and delivering
training, instructional sessions, and presentations. Suitable for
all librarians, library staff and library school students, this
practical guide will get the library professional up and running as
a trainer and presenter.
Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing
librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries. It
examines the various models for providing public library services
around the world and discusses differences in such areas as funding
sources, standards, regulations and use. At a time when public
libraries are facing shrinking budgets and increasing pressure to
consolidate or otherwise modify their governance structure, this
book provides a timely glimpse into international best practices.
An invaluable guide for MLS professionals and students, this new
book explains how librarians can select an effective method of
library instruction based on their users, the objectives of the
instruction and the delivery environment. The content describes the
different methods available and in what circumstances the methods
are most effective. It includes descriptions of curriculums for the
methods currently available and describes a range of objectives the
curriculums meet and the common environments librarians use for
instruction. Information Literacy Instruction also introduces two
new ideas for methods of instruction: one which combines
information literacy with cyber-literacy (MLI) forming an
instructional method appropriate for internet users and internet
information and the Fully Automated Reference Instruction (FARI)
that actively involves users with the instruction while completing
research they are currently involved in for specific targeted
classes.
Aimed at professionals and trainee professionals within the library
and information service (LIS) fields, this book reminds the reader
of the frequently ignored communication-gulf between the
professional and the layman, and in particular the lack of true
communication between LIS professionals and the user. It focuses
especially on non-standard users, such as non-native speakers or
those with some disability. The author provides accessible examples
of good practice, assesses their degree of success and suggests
further ways to improve performance in information provision.
This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students,
faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working
to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on
campus, and in the local community. This book illustrates how
universities are uniquely situated to engage students in
discussions about diversity and how academic libraries in
particular can facilitate and ease these discussions. A Diversity
Council and the projects and programs it has developed have been
instrumental in this work and may serve as an inspiration and
launch pad for other libraries. Diversity Programming and Outreach
for Academic Libraries details anecdotal experiences, and provides
practical suggestions for developing diversity programs and forming
collaborations with other campus units, regardless of size, staff,
or focus of the academic library.
Presents a broad examination of the nature of virtual worlds and
the potential they provide in managing and expressing information
practices through that medium, grounding information professionals
and students of new media in the fundamental elements of virtual
worlds and online gaming. The book details the practical issues in
finding and using information in virtual environments and presents
a general theory of librarianship as it relates to virtual gaming
worlds. It is encompassed by a set of best practice methods that
libraries can effectively execute in their own environments,
meeting the needs of this new generation of library user, and
explores ways in which information literacy can be approached in
virtual worlds. Final chapters examine how conventional information
evaluation skills work falls short in virtual worlds online.
This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public,
private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and
shaping society at local, regional, national and international
levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic
tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other
key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex
ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively.
Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society
and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and
Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the
major challenges that libraries - however defined, managed,
developed and provided - now face, and will continue to face in the
future. It also focuses on the emerging chapter in cultural,
economic and social history and the library s role in serving
diverse communities within this new era.
Web 2.0 technology is a hot topic at the moment, and public
librarians in particular are beginning to feel the pressure to
apply these tools. Indeed, Web 2.0 has the potential to transform
library services, but only if the policy and strategy for those
services are ready to be transformed. The author not only reviews
these tools and provides practical advice and case studies on how
they can be applied in the public library setting, but also
recommends the policies and business cases that begin to create a
new strategy for public libraries.
Written from the perspective of a librarian, this book offers a
comprehensive overview of the impact of e-books on academic
libraries. The author discusses advantages to both researchers and
librarians and provides current examples of innovative uses of
e-books in academic contexts. This book reviews the current
situation in e-book publishing, and describes problems in managing
e-books in libraries caused by the variety of purchase models and
varying formats available, and the lack of standardisation. It
discusses solutions for providing access and maintaining
bibliographic control, looks at various initiatives to publicise
and promote e-books, and compares e-book usage surveys to track
changes in user preferences and behaviour over the last decade.
E-books have already had a huge impact on academic libraries, and
major advances in technology will bring further changes. There is a
need for collaboration between libraries and publishers. The book
concludes with reflections on the future of e-books in academic
libraries.
This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at
professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding
world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring
services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit
from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical
handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with
passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at
LIS programmes and related information programmes and for
librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid
the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news
search and monitoring.
Libraries/information centres are continuously evolving to keep up
with rapid changes in information gathering, processing, and
distribution. Corporate and non-profit special libraries face
special challenges in revitalizing their physical space and
providing efficient access to digital content. This book provides
solo-librarians or special library managers with practical advice
as to revitalize their libraries both in the physical space and the
digital space. The book uses case studies, surveys and literature
review to provide practical, innovative and evidence-based
information to help special librarians develop information centres
that will remain relevant to their organizations.
Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library
collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving,
circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and
analyze data from each point in a collection s life cycle.
Relationships between collections and other library services, such
as reference, programming, and technology, are also explored. The
result is a quality collection that is clean, current, relevant,
and useful, and which connects and highlights various library
services.
The sustainability of Networked Collaborative Learning (NCL) is a
key topic of discussion amongst the institutions where it has been
or may potentially be introduced. In order to determine the extent
of NCL's sustainability, the added value university education may
yield by adopting collaborative learning strategies must be
quantified. In turn, an understanding of the implications NCL
produces in terms of design and management is gained. After
comparing NCL with other Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
approaches and discussing the possible reasons for adopting it, a
multidimensional model for the sustainability of NCL is proposed.
The model is characterized by four dimensions: pedagogical
approaches, e-teacher professional development, instructional
design models and valuation/assessment approaches. Each of these
dimensions is examined on the basis of the author s direct
experience gained through applying NCL to his university teaching.
In a world where computing power, ubiquity and connectivity create
powerful new ways to facilitate learning, this book examines how
librarians and information professionals can utilize emerging
technologies to expand service and resource delivery. With
contributions from leading professionals, including lecturers,
librarians and e-learning technologists, this bookl explores
strategic approaches for effectively implementing, living with, and
managing revolutionary technological change in libraries.
Throughout its history, the Western library has played a
significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western
scholars. This book analyses that history, examining constructs of
librarianship, publishing and scholarship within that history as
gate keeping access to knowledge. Exploring significant events in
the field from the time of the Lyceum to the present day in the
development of repositories of books and their access by scholars.
Gatekeepers of Knowledge engages in an analysis of those events
from a perspective that makes visible the ways in which the
production, storage and access of books, have been privileged,
while others have been marginalised.
Targeted at Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals,
this book concentrates on usability evaluation methods used to
design usable and user-centered library websites. Aimed at the
practitioner, it is a practical guide to methods that are used to
gather information from potential users that shape the design of
the website based on an interactive design process. From planning
the study to writing the report, this book guides the reader
through the process of usability evaluation using examples from the
author s experience with usability evaluation of library
interfaces. It describes usability techniques, procedures, report
writing, and design changes that lead to a user-centered interface.
One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of
digital repositories are the innovative born digital documents
created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from
the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference
information presented in electronic databases, to rich, multi-media
hypertexts combining audio, still and moving video and text, and
many other sorts of material. Too often, librarians think of
electronic resources solely as providing access to subscription
databases. This book encourages librarians to think holistically of
the life cycle of electronic resources from new items being created
at their institution, to end-user access, to long term preservation
of digital resources.
Australian Library Supervision and Management is aimed at both
students and practitioners at supervisory to middle management
levels. It introduces management theory, but much of the theory is
woven through the text, which emphasises practical issues and
perspectives. Topics given special attention include skills
required to implement and support participative management, team
management, leadership, self management, change management,
strategic planning, job design, performance measurement,
negotiation and conflict resolution.
Literacy and Reading Programmes for Children and Young People: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents interviews with over 40 librarians from around the world who tell of their library programs. The volumes are arranged geographically with Volume 1 offering interviews from library professionals from the USA and Europe, and with Volume 2 sharing programs from Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East. The volumes highlight the diversity of the types of programs catering to the varying needs of children and young adults throughout the world. Case studies featured in this book outline the details of programs, events, and activities provided by over 40 organizations in the context of social capital and social inclusion. Each interview chapter discusses the contributions made to literacy development and community building of children and teens. With the many variations and examples of best practice, librarians and educators can glean new ideas for their own programs. The interviews reveal the challenges and issues faced and the work being achieved in vastly different environments, in many geographic areas, and in diverse economic, social, and cultural contexts. The programs include those of national and state libraries, public libraries, and mobile libraries carried out by public libraries, NGOs, and commercial organizations in both developed and developing countries. They also feature programs of multicultural libraries, libraries for indigenous people, and libraries for refugees. This publication complements the range of initiatives and activities carried out by IFLA's Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section that supports library services and reading promotion initiatives catering to children and young adults around the world. These volumes are rich in variety and will provide much food for thought for creating unique and successful library programs.
Literacy and Reading Programmes for Children and Young People: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents interviews with over 40 librarians from around the world who tell of their library programs. The volumes are arranged geographically with Volume 1 offering interviews from library professionals from the USA and Europe, and with Volume 2 sharing programs from Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East. The volumes highlight the diversity of the types of programs catering to the varying needs of children and young adults throughout the world. Case studies featured in this book outline the details of programs, events, and activities provided by over 40 organizations in the context of social capital and social inclusion. Each interview chapter discusses the contributions made to literacy development and community building of children and teens. With the many variations and examples of best practice, librarians and educators can glean new ideas for their own programs. The interviews reveal the challenges and issues faced and the work being achieved in vastly different environments, in many geographic areas, and in diverse economic, social, and cultural contexts. The programs include those of national and state libraries, public libraries, and mobile libraries carried out by public libraries, NGOs, and commercial organizations in both developed and developing countries. They also feature programs of multicultural libraries, libraries for indigenous people, and libraries for refugees. This publication complements the range of initiatives and activities carried out by IFLA's Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section that supports library services and reading promotion initiatives catering to children and young adults around the world. These volumes are rich in variety and will provide much food for thought for creating unique and successful library programs.
This book analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library by drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world. It argues that libraries need to be more deliberate in their internationalization efforts and collaborate with other college personnel and departments outside the library. This book cuts across the fields of library science and higher education administration, ensuring that the book will appeal to researchers and students working in these disciplines. Library professionals around the world will also find much to interest them within the book. |
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