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Reading Matters provides evidence that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of pleasure reading collections, both fiction and nonfiction, and of readers' advisory services. The authors assert that reading should be woven into the majority of library activities: reference, collection building, provision of leisure materials, readers' advisory services, storytelling and story time programs, adult literacy programs, and more....
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"Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons...
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You want your library to be a creative hub, but every community-- every patron-- thinks differently about creativity. Batykefer and Damon-Moore want to shake your thinking about the way you approach and market your library's resources and services in order to help your patrons. They help you identify what's already working at your library, consider ways to amplify them, and discuss options for filling any gaps that you identify along the way. -- adapted...
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The term "tactical urbanism" is a new phrase for a type of action that has existed for centuries: actions designed to improve a city or neighborhood with minimal oversight, budget, or delay. It's usually local, immediate, and accomplished without a lot of training or resources. Munro shows that, although libraries have reputations as traditional and bureaucratic, they are also communal systems which can utilize the grassroots, humanist values of tactical...
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"With the increasing need to prove the value of specific library services in order to obtain grants and funding, the practice of measuring user outcomes is becoming crucial to the library. Libraries need to communicate the value of library programs by assessing their effects on library patrons and the community as a whole." "Under a National Leadership Grant from IMLS, expert authors Durrance and Fisher have tested and developed the How Libraries...
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This book teaches librarians in diverse communities how to develop and implement early learning programming beyond traditional storytimes, and offers a blueprint for making play a sustainable early-learning program series for budgets big and small. Ideas for making early learning activities relevant to the six early literacy skills in a public library setting, and tips for marketing the program to parents and caregivers are also included.
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Bizzle shows how successful libraries introduce new ideas into their presentations, web presence, and digital services. Marketing campaigns can be a challenge, and Bizzle shares universal concepts to promote a successful social media presence and increase community awareness of your library.--
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Whole Person Librarianship guides librarians through the practical process of facilitating connections among libraries, social workers, and social services; explains why those connections are important; and puts them in the context of a national movement. Collaboration between libraries and social workers is an exploding trend that will continue to be relevant to the future of public and academic libraries. Whole Person Librarianship incorporates...
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Spaces that have been designed to allow users to create, build, and learn new projects and technologies, makerspaces employ a variety of tools. From crochet and painting to AutoCAD design software, developing a community around shared use of space and equipment-- a tenet of the makerspace movement-- fits squarely into a library's mission. Bagley examines nine makerspaces in public, academic, and school libraries, describing their design and technical...