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Offers solutions to the problems of recruiting and training cataloguing librarians. Topics discussed include training strategies, the impact of library computer systems and the librarian's response to changing methods of organization in order to create good library service.

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This guide is designed to equip practitioners with the strategies they need to master interpersonal and technical interdependencies. Learn how to socialize technological changes within your library, assess the core competencies and comfort levels of colleagues, direct reports, and end users, and methodically optimize both library technologies.

(Paperback)

Citation Management Tools: A Practical Guide for Librarians will provide librarians with the essential skills and information required to support the use of citation managers at their libraries, and to explore creative ways to use these tools.

(Hardback)

ClimateQUAL is a toolkit that provides the ultimate management tool in a library setting for effective organizational adaptation by employing deep assessment of a librarys staff opinions that plumb the dimensions of climate and organizational culture. It has produced important new research findings over the 15 year period it has been applied.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This work examines the origins of the modern management of records and archives. It explores the importance of records in modern society, re-examining some of the historical antecedents for critical functions within modern records professions.

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Electronic resource management is becoming a primary responsibility of library managers. The techniques presented for managing electronic resources improves the library's service value through relationships between library professionals and with library customers.

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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. Col...

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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. Col...

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(Paperback)

Comic Book Collections and Programming is an essential reference for collections librarians, childrens librarians, and teen librarians, whether they are comics-lovers or have never read an issue. It covers the practical realities of this non-traditional format, like binding, weeding, and budgeting.

(Hardback)

Communication and Teamwork: An Introduction for Support Staff contains essential strategies about interpersonal relations, customer service, teamwork, and communication. Using this handbook as a guide, Library Support Staff will be able to apply principles of teamwork by adapting the ALA-LSSC standards of Communication and Teamwork.

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Communication and Teamwork: An Introduction for Support Staff contains essential strategies about interpersonal relations, customer service, teamwork, and communication. Using this handbook as a guide, Library Support Staff will be able to apply principles of teamwork by adapting the ALA-LSSC standards of Communication and Teamwork.

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Where would a library be without its student employees Motivated by their appreciation for these unsung heroes, Baldwin and Barkley cover the basics of good supervision, with specific reference to student employees in libraries: how to hire, how to fire, and everything in between.

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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 he...

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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 he...

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(Paperback)

Learn about copyright law through questions and answers that give spot-on information when you need it, with the authority to support your position. These coping strategies for real-world copyright situations provide useable solutions for your everyday questions about copyright.

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Libraries are public places-open to anyone and everyone. This book contains invaluable, practical tips for library staff who sometimes must deal with difficult or even dangerous individuals and situations.

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This short but thorough manual makes preparing for disaster less intimidating.

All library staff, from library volunteers to library directors and branch managers, have a role to play in preparing for and recovering from disaster.

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This text contains a comprehensive overview of library services for preschool children that provides simple, practical tips for working with the youngest library patrons, including computer usage.

Tailoring a portion of your library towards the needs of toddlers, preschoolers, and parents of infants is a complicated undertaking.

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Taking a management position in a new library or being promoted to a higher position in your library means a new approach to interpersonal relations.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Explains effective marketing strategies and identifies the tools needed to boost the visibility and increase the use of your library in the community.

(Paperback)