Library Roles in Achieving Financial Literacy among its Patrons is a collection of articles from 25 librarians in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, each contributing 3,000-4,000 words: concise chapters with sidebars, bullets, and headers; there is an introduction. Contributors were selected for the creative potential in their topics, those that can be used in various types of libraries and that demonstrate a command of financial literacy and are able to communicate what they know to aiding users solve their financial information problems. The collection has three sections. The first provides an overview of financial literacy: what it means generally, what needs exist among library patrons, and what approaches have been tried to date. The second section deals with resources that are available in libraries, or should be made available. These include collections, skill sets in librarians, program opportunities and others. The third section is a series of case studies that demonstrate successes and best practices. Includes a foreword by ALA President Julie Todaro.

Product Description: The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries: Research, User Applications, and Networking, Volume 2

Carol Smallwood's The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 1: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity explores how Google's suite of tools, from Google Docs (now Google Drive), Google Scholar, Hangout, Forms, and others made freely available to the Internet Community can be used by libraries to expand the role of digital operations in the management of library materials, to communicate with their patrons and collaborators, to exploit the resources on the Web, and many others. The book has 29 chapters organized into sections that focus on ways that Google’s suite of tools can be applied to address problems in a specific area of library concern. The section headings are: Library Instruction for Users; Collaboration within and among libraries; Library Administration; Collection Management; and Library Productivity. In each topical area, the chapters show how librarians are taking advantage of these tools to change the way that their library works. All of this without the burden of an additional bill to pay. Through these carefully selected case studies from real libraries, you will be able to learn about the surprising and powerful potential that exists through Google tools to improve library operations.

Product Description: In a tight economy women entrepreneurs are making progress in a field that has been traditionally (along with science, math, and engineering) one which women haven’t been well represented—technology. Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities is by contributors from the United States and Canada sharing how the Internet has opened doors, leveled the playing field, and provided new opportunities...read more

Product Description: This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays expands a new intellectual terrain for sociology; virtue ethics. Using a variety of religious perspectives, of Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Quakerism, with considerations of Islam and the New Age, this engaged and topical collection deals with properties of virtue in relation to the person, celibacy, hope, and apocalypse, mourning, moral ambiguity...read more

Product Description: Using a library's facilities to bring arts to the community is not only a valuable service, but also a wonderful marketing and outreach opportunity, a tangible way to show the public that libraries offer value, thus shoring up grassroots support...read more

Product Description: Preservation of historical documents and library related materials is a growing problem in all library types and institutions. Fortunately, editors Carol Smallwood and Elaine Williams have pulled together the wisdom of practicing professionals to elucidate how to cope with the many problems that arise when preserving, managing, and digitizing important collections...read more

Product Description: Retirement holds many questions for librarians. Smallwood s volume offers insight, inspiration, and tips for those already retired as well as those thinking about retiring. A raft of veteran librarians, financial advisors, and other experts addressPlanning for retirement, and how to leave things in good shape for those continuing your workThe pros and cons of taking early retirement, including financial considerationsHow to stay connected to the profession after leaving the job by engaging in part-time work and through professional related activitiesSecond careers, community volunteering, travel, staying healthy, budgeting, and other post-retirement activities and concernsThis book helps librarians navigate a smooth passage into retirement...read more

How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian is a compilation of chapters by librarians offering advice to colleagues who must work alone or with very limited help. The contributors come from schools and colleges, special and corporate archives, public libraries, and seasoned L.I.S. faculty across the United States and abroad who are familiar with the vigor, dedication, and creativity necessary for solo librarians.

Product Description: There s no shortage of library management books out there but how many of them actually tackle the little details of day-to-day management, the hard-to-categorize things that slip through the cracks of a larger handbook? Library Management Tips that Work does exactly that, addressing dozens of such issues facing library managers, includingHow to create a job manual, and keep staff accountableKeeping your library board in the loopUsing numbers to make your caseDealing with unreturned library materialsMethods for managing multiple libraries with one FTE librarianRetaining services despite budget cuts and staff shortagesPublic relations on a shoestringWritten by contributors from across the field, this eclectic guide offers best practices suitable for managers in all types of libraries...read more

Product Description: For those of us who were raised in an urban center and occasionally bundled into some uncle's old Ford or onto a train for a day trip to the outland (which could be defined as anywhere away from city streets and sweltering apartment buildings), the natural world was a suspicious place...read more

Product Description: Fewer employees, shorter hours, diminished collection budgets, reduced programs and services all at a time of record library usage. Don t fret and fritter away scarce resources. Be frugal! In this book, library expert Smallwood persuasively demonstrates that the necessity of doing business differently can be positive...read more

Product Description: Including 64 focused snapshots of outreach inaction, this resource reflects the creative solutionsof librarians searching for new and innovative waysto build programs that meet customer needs whileexpanding the library s scope into the community...read more

Product Description: Professionals in all areas of librarianship will find inspiration in the essays collected here--each of them innovative tips for increasing circulation, enhancing collections, and improving flexibility. With extensive experience in the nation's top libraries and media centers, the 73 contributors describe what really works based on their real-world experiences...read more

Product Description: You know that if you finish the novel you’re working on it would sell – or maybe you have written a story for a children’s book. Your colleagues and family tell you it’s great, but you don’t know what to do next. You’re an educator not a writer, and the publishing world seems out of your grasp...read more

'This work contains a comprehensive list of informative websites providing a variety of information on each of the 50 states. Each state lists 50 websites that provide information of particular use to teachers, students and librarians. An appendix lists an additional 50 websites, useful for all states, which brings this work to a total of 2,550 entries'--Provided by publisher.Contains a list of websites providing a variety of information on each of the fifty states.

Lists and describes Web sites dedicated to a myriad of holidays and special events, noting each site's age level and suggesting curriculum tie-ins for such events as National Inventors Day, Earth Day, and Chinese New Year.

Product Description: This book can help locate a variety of printed information - free or costing less than $15 - on physical health, mental health and safety. Over 700 topics are covered, such as sex education, immunization, vitamins, first aid, nutrition, drug abuse. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers advice on improving library management and the media atmosphere, discusses how to handle the everyday stresses of a school library, and includes an extensive list of useful resources

This book can help locate a variety of printed information - free or costing less than $15 - on physical health, mental health and safety. Over 700 topics are covered, such as sex education, immunization, vitamins, first aid, nutrition, drug abuse.

Product Description: Teach the environmental three Rs--reduce, reuse, and recycle--to your students and patrons! Here are tried-and-true tips for recycling items commonly used in the library and classroom. Divided into 5 sections, this is chock-full of sound ideas for setting up school recycling programs, saving money, encouraging creativity, and instilling the need for recycling in students and teachers...read more