Product Description: Whether they re students taking the traditional path of entering college from high school, or adult first-time or re-entry students, navigating the admissions and financial aid process can be overwhelming for the college bound. Public libraries can help provide information and guidance for a successful start, and this book shows how to do it...read more

Product Description: In spite of the doom and gloom predicted in the press for the future of libraries, these institutions aren't at the top of the endangered species list just yet. Librarians who are focusing significant attention and staffing resources on undergraduates—and are thinking creatively about what engages this specific group of students—are forging the future for academic libraries...read more

Product Description: Children s and young adult librarians are crucial links to effective learning for students. This straightforward handbook is filled with nuts-and-bolts advice on the best ways to help young people with their homework, no matter what the assignment...read more

Product Description: Connecting to share ideas, resources, and programs offers school and public libraries an exciting means of achieving their own goals as well as those of the community at large. In this timely guide, young adult library consultant Tasha Squires delves into the many possible avenues for partnership, from summer reading programs to book talks to resource sharing and more...read more

'This handbook articulates the reasons and defines a strategy for promoting a program of class visits to the public library, and provides detailed instructions and easily adaptable templates to assist librarians in initiating an organized program of class visits'--Provided by publisher.Offers a rationale and defines a strategy for promoting a program of class visits to the public library, and provides detailed instructions and easily adaptable templates to assist librarians in initiating an organized program of class visits.

Product Description: Very often in the operation of two-year and other small academic libraries there are common issues and concerns. Librarians working in such institutions take the opportunity to share current thinking on such topics as managing change, accreditation standards, auxiliary roles and responsibilities on the campus, marketing library services, collection development, personnel issues, cooperation with other institutions, coping with technology, and a host of unusual problems...read more

Product Description: School and public libraries are on the same team, yet for practical reasons it often doesn't feel or look like it. If you are in either setting and want to join forces to strengthen what is a natural alliance, this book is for you...read more

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Product Description: Service quality is an issue separate from internal observations of effectiveness and efficiency, and cannot adequately be conveyed by output and performance measures. Considerations of service quality require librarians to regard management and the provision of service from an entirely new perspective- from the viewpoint of the library user, for whom the outcome of a trip to the library has far greater relevance than the institutions' outputs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes how to measure student's use of materials and libraries in order to design school library services based on usage patterns

Product Description: This guide is designed as a library survival kit for graduate students, enabling them to fully utilize the library resources at their disposal. Topics discussed include the Card Catalogue and basic periodical indexes, the Library of Congress classification, and computer-prepared indexes and abstracts...read more