How Libraries Make Tough Choices In Difficult Times

How Libraries Make Tough Choices in Difficult Times

• Author : David Stern
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2013-02-19
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 226
• ISBN 10 : 9781780633671

Contemporary library managers face the need to make difficult choices regarding resource allocation in the modern business environment. How Libraries Make Tough Choices in Difficult Times is a practical guide for library managers, offering techniques to analyze existing and potential services, implement best practices for maximizing existing resources, and utilize pressing financial scenarios in order to justify making difficult reallocation decisions. The book begins by asking the fundamental questions of why, what, and how, moving on to look at how to manage expectations and report to both administration and faculty. The book then considers the four ‘D’s of Do, Delegate, Delay and Drop, before covering project management, and how to understand the mission and objectives of your organisation. The book then focuses on: service quality improvement analyses; identifying underlying issues; reviewing resources; identifying best practice; managing feedback and expectations; and looking at decision making skills and implications. Introduces both philosophies and techniques for decision-making that will help inexperienced library managers Provides resources for a practical orientation to new Service Quality Improvement and Project Management approaches as library managers address a wide range of resource allocation considerations Written by a highly experienced practitioner in the field

Public Libraries and Resilient Cities

• Author : Michael Dudley
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release Date : 2013
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 194
• ISBN 10 : 9780838911365

Public libraries are keystone public institutions for any thriving community, and as such can be leaders in making cities better places to work, play, and live. Here, Dudley shows how public libraries can contribute to 'placemaking', or the creation and nurturing of vital and unique communities for their residents.

Academic Librarianship

• Author : G. Edward Evans
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release Date : 2018-01-16
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 304
• ISBN 10 : 9780838916674

This updated edition enables readers to understand how academic libraries deliver information, offer services, and provide learning spaces in new ways to better meet the needs of today's students, faculty, and other communities of academic library users.

Managing Burnout in the Workplace

• Author : Nancy McCormack
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2013-10-31
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 224
• ISBN 10 : 9781780634005

Information professionals are under constant stress. Libraries are ushering in sweeping changes that involve the closing of branches and reference desks, wholesale dumping of print, disappearing space, and employment of non-professional staff to fill what have traditionally been the roles of librarians. Increasing workloads, constant interruptions, ceaseless change, continual downsizing, budget cuts, repetitive work, and the pressures of public services have caused burnout in many information professionals. Managing Burnout in the Workplace concentrates on the problem of burnout, what it is and how it differs from chronic stress, low morale, and depression. The book addresses burnout from psychological, legal, and human resources perspectives. Chapters also cover how burnout is defined, symptom recognition, managing and overcoming burnout, and how to avoid career derailment while coping with burnout. Focuses on burnout in relation to information professionals and their work Explores how burnout is identified and diagnosed and how it is measured in the workplace Provides an overview of interdisciplinary research on burnout, incorporating studies from various areas

How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed

• Author : Rushworth M. Kidder
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 2009-11-24
• Genre: Self-Help
• Pages : 272
• ISBN 10 : 9780061968723

This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions. “A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.” —Jimmy Carter An essential guide to ethical action updated for our challenging times, How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder offers practical tools for dealing with the difficult moral dilemmas we face in our everyday lives. The founder and president of the Institute for Global Ethics, Dr. Kidder provides guidelines for making the important decisions in situations that may not be that clear cut—from most private and personal to the most public and global. Former U.S. senator and NBA legend Bill Bradley calls How Good People Make Tough Choices “a valuable guide to more informed and self-conscious moral judgments.”

Serials Collection Management in Recessionary Times

• Author : Karen G. Lawson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2015-04-08
• Genre: Business & Economics
• Pages : 216
• ISBN 10 : 9781317983309

Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation. This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad range of technological and economic challenges. These challenges include the fallout from the global economic crisis, the positioning of usage statistics, the advent of open access scholarship, database management, responding to budgetary constrictions and general access to serials. Taken as a whole, this collection provides practitioners in the library sector and in higher education with a wide variety of insights on the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities involved with serials collection management in recessionary times, written by academic librarians, vendors, publishers, fundraisers, and higher education professionals. This book was published as a special issue of The Serials Librarian.

Working in the Virtual Stacks

• Author : Laura Townsend Kane
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release Date : 2011-06-30
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 184
• ISBN 10 : 9780838993279

Written in a warm and personal style, Working in the Virtual Stacks presents an exciting future for librarians, already upon us today!

Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011 Part 2 February 24 2010 111 2 Hearings

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2010
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 534
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015090414429

Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011 Fiscal year 2011 Legislative Branch appropriations requests

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2010
• Genre: United States
• Pages : 540
• ISBN 10 : UCR:31210022671133

Going Digital

• Author : Donald L Dewitt
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-05-13
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 248
• ISBN 10 : 9781135786083

Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format offers you succinct and analytic views of the problems and benefits of digital resources in the traditional academic library. Library administrators, collection managers, and librarians will learn the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and digital collections and the costs of providing local access or implementing remote access to digital collections. Originally presented at a series of five symposiums sponsored by the Research Libraries Group, the articles inGoing Digital will help you decide upon a cost-effective collection method that will meet the needs of your library, your patrons, and your budget. The chapters in this text are written by the nation’s leading librarians who pose and answer questions about hardware and software needed for digital libraries, the costs involved, establishing and maintaining access to digital collections, copyright concerns, and long-term preservation problems. Going Digital gives you insight into factors that will help you decide what will best meet the goals of your library, such as: the advantages and disadvantages of preserving microfilm and digital conversion choosing the correct hardware and software for your digital preservation program the changes required from librarians when shifting from collection development to digital resources examining the selection process for collections from perspectives of access, public service, technological requirements, and preservation ways to improve access to traditional collections cost comparisons between digital and hard copy resources devising a technical plan for successful digital conversion of projects involving the user’s wants when selecting collections for digital conversion and recognizing the central parts patrons play in the selection process In light of the changing ways we receive and keep our information, Going Digital discusses new collection preservation cr

Fundraising

• Author : Joyce V. Garczynski
• Publisher : Chandos Publishing
• Release Date : 2017-10-30
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 176
• ISBN 10 : 9780081020043

Fundraising: How to Raise Money for Your Library Using Social Media introduces the phenomena that many members, supporters and fundraisers are not using social media to fundraise for their libraries, and may not be aware of its strengths and pitfalls. The book discusses why social media should be used to fundraise and how to successfully employ social media campaigns, also providing examples from library funding initiatives that libraries can follow. Since social media changes relatively quickly, library staff members, supporters and fundraisers need up-to-date information on how to craft messages for the platforms that they use. This book presents less on best practices for specific social media platform, focusing more on library social media fundraising strategies that have been found to be effective (for example, how libraries have successfully created fundraising campaigns with hashtags). Discusses why social media should be used to fundraise Outlines how to successfully employ social media to fundraise Presents examples from successful library funding campaigns via social media that other libraries can follow

Making Tough Decisions

• Author : Robert Wandberg
• Publisher : Capstone
• Release Date : 2000-07
• Genre: Decision making in adolescence
• Pages : 68
• ISBN 10 : 0736888381

Explains a six-step method for making decisions and provides tips on setting goals, dreaming, and planning for the future.

Law Librarianship in the Digital Age

• Author : Ellyssa Kroski
• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
• Release Date : 2013-11-14
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 532
• ISBN 10 : 9780810888074

It is absolutely essential that today’s law librarians are digitally literate and possess an understanding and awareness of recent advancements and trends in information technology as they pertain to the library field. Law Librarianship in the Digital Age offers a one-stop, comprehensive guide to achieving both of those goals.

Privatizing Libraries

• Author : Jane Jerrard
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release Date : 2012-01-26
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 74
• ISBN 10 : 9780838911549

This timely special report from ALA Editions provides a succinct but comprehensive overview of the "privatization" of public libraries. It provides a history of the trend of local and state governments privatizing public services and assets, and then examines the history of public library privatization right up to the California legislation introduced earlier this year to restrict cities in the state from privatizing library services.The book also examines what happens when a private, for-profit organization takes over essential management tasks and decisions of a public library, including the effects this can have on services, patron satisfaction and staff, as well as legal issues. It provides in-depth recommendations for librarians who want to retain control of their own institutions. Complete with case studies, statistics, and a valuable checklist of to-dos for libraries that are facing partial or complete privatization.

Library Data

• Author : Darby Orcutt
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 313
• ISBN 10 : 9781591588269

Numerical evidence is everywhere. And libraries are among the most abundant producers and storehouses of such evidence, as well as a key contact to numbers held elsewhere. But not all of this data is collected for the benefit of our users; some are integral to the functioning of the library itself. The papers in this collection run the gamut from library administrators addressing how to make data presentations appealing and effective, to an article on applying capital budgeting models to libraries, to a simple way to integrate Excel pivot tables with SQL stored procedures to create an amazingly elegant tool for vendor data analysis and visualization. They also cover specialized scenarios within, for example, the worlds of reference, collection development, serial acquisitions, web site design, and bibliographic instruction