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Changing technologies and diversifying populations have meant a higher demand for library instruction at most academic libraries. This practical, step-by-step plan for developing and implementing a peer tutoring program can improve library services and make your job easier.

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This clear and concise manual will help librarians understand licenses so that they can become better reviewers, drafters, and negotiators.

Libraries purchase or subscribe to countless resources that are governed by licensesboth digital products and physical objects like rare books or equipment.

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Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or repurpose space or develop maker style programming. This book covers developing makerspaces, writing grant proposals, and helping staff and administrators learn about the technologies and processes involved.

(Hardback)

Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or repurpose space or develop maker style programming. This book covers developing makerspaces, writing grant proposals, and helping staff and administrators learn about the technologies and processes involved.

(Paperback)

This revolutionary introduction to library management is the first conceived in and written for a digital age. Library Management for the Digital Age covers hierarchies, policies, communication, working relationships, facilities, human resources, settings, customer services, budgeting, and emergency management.

(Hardback)

This revolutionary introduction to library management is the first conceived in and written for a digital age. Library Management for the Digital Age covers hierarchies, policies, communication, working relationships, facilities, human resources, settings, customer services, budgeting, and emergency management.

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Using the Harvard Depository model, but applying the issues and activities to other models as well, a host of contributors cover such issues as governance and cost, design and construction, preservation, selection, pre-shelving preparation, systems, access and management, services, and transportation.

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This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. Readers of the book will develop informed opinions about planning, a practice that when entered into unaware can enslave an organization in endless data gathering routines and tax their endurance beyond reasonable points.

(Hardback, 9th edition)

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A list of distributors of Spanish-language materials-books, periodicals, AV materials, computer and other educational resources-is provided, as well as Web site addresses of Spanish-language sites. Vocabulary lists for library and computer-related words and phrases and guidelines for correctly writing Spanish words are also included.

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(Hardback, Second Edition)

This second edition explores the landscape of TAGs, covering funding, bylaws, program planning, and community involvement. Profiles of successful teen groups tell each groups story along with pertinent teen feedback. Sample forms, as well as evaluation advice, can be borrowed or adapted.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

This second edition explores the landscape of TAGs, covering funding, bylaws, program planning, and community involvement. Profiles of successful teen groups tell each groups story along with pertinent teen feedback. Sample forms, as well as evaluation advice, can be borrowed or adapted.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

This A-Z guidebook on makerspaces is jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies.

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Conceived as a companion to The Next Library Leadership (Libraries Unlimited, 2003), Making a Difference includes not only a discussion of effective attributes, but of issues central to the development of leadership qualities, strategies, and dispositions.

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Flexible scheduling and flexible access have been around for years, but students in many school systems have yet to reap their benefits.

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Instead of using expensive off-the-shelf surveys or relying on a poorly worded survey, read Making Surveys Work for Your Library and design your own that collect actionable data.

Library listservs and websites are littered with examples of surveys that are too long, freighted with complex language, and generally poorly designed.

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When teens volunteer at the library, they gain new skills, make connections, and build their resumes, while libraries benefit from a new generation of advocates.

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Focusing on the management of serials in libraries and the role of serials in scholarly communications, this book combines descriptive and prescriptive approaches to illuminate major serials management issues.

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Proceeds through every possible aspect of the relationships and work involved for successful cooperation among libraries and information technology services. Topics include staffing and reporting lines, inter-organizational relationships and proceed through training, daily, and periodic operations to research and new technologies.