Discover innovative outreach services you can implement for your
library! Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries
examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to
promote awareness of the library by meeting the information needs
of underserved or uninformed patrons. This book contains the
experiences of academic and special librarians who describe a wide
array of successful outreach programs that are in place throughout
the country. This valuable tool introduces professional librarians
and library science students and faculty to current and highly
innovative models of outreach services implemented in a variety of
academic and special library settings. This extensive resource
shows how to use outreach programs to market new information
resources and services to library constituents. Outreach Services
in Academic and Special Libraries contains charts, graphs, and
pictorials to help walk you through the process of creating an
outreach program at your library. This book also presents
bibliographies, suggestions on how to improve on existing designs,
and the librarians' wish lists of ideas they'd like to try in the
future. Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries
presents case studies covering many topics related to outreach
services, including: outreach to special groups of remote users
multicultural outreach collaborative outreach partnerships with
university and college departments and community organizations
outreach Web sites targeting special groups marketing library
services and resources information literacy as a form of outreach
multi-media kiosks and exhibits book talks outreach to new faculty
and transfer students and more! Librarians will benefit from the
wide range of creative ideas and successful case studies
implemented by library colleagues representing institutions from
around the country. Outreach Services in Academic and Special
Libraries serves as a catalyst for librarians to implement similar
outreach programs at their own academic or special library.
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