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Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Tools and Tips for Practitioners

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Full Title:

Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Tools and Tips for Practitioners

Contributors:

By (Author) Donna L. Gilton

ISBN:

9781442269521

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publication Date:

21st June 2016

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Adult education, continuous learning

Dewey:

021.24

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

222

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 225mm, Spine 16mm

Weight:

336g

Description

Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Tools and Tips For Practitioners is the sequel to Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Principles, Programs, and People. On the one hand, Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries focuses on the information needs and the developmental and psychological characteristics of diverse library users of all ages. It endorses the use of ILI to promote lifelong learning in public libraries, both by borrowing techniques from academic and school libraries and by building on existing public library traditions of programming and outreach. This book also compares lifelong learning in public libraries to informal and nonformal education in museums, community organizations and agencies, places of worship, and other organizations. In addition, Lifelong Learnng in Public Libraries describes basic steps that librarians can execute in order to get started. On the other hand, Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries focuses much more on how public librarians can specifically plan and implement their instruction with chapters on planning for instruction, using teaching methodologies, teaching with and about technology, and bringing ILI together with more traditional public library services, programming, and activities, such as reference and Readers Advisory services, bibliotherapy, and cultural and literacy programming. Changes in ILI standards and comparisons of ILI with basic reading, media, digital, and cultural literacies are also described. Both books together should act as basic manuals for public librarians who promote lifelong learning. Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries also have helpful teaching hints for all librarians and other professionals who teach in a variety of settings.

Author Bio

Donna Gilton is currently Professor Emerita, Library Science, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of Rhode Island, where she was a faculty member since 1992. She earned her PhD from Pittsburgh and has published extensively in the research literature as well as two previous books.

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