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Measuring Your Library's Value: How to do a Cost-Benefit Analysis
for Your Public Library ISBN: 083890923X
by Donald S. Elliott
Under pressure to quantify the benefits your library provides? Is a cost-benefit analysis right for your institution? With tax-funded organizations under microscopic scrutiny, library directors need to make a strong public case for the value their library provides.
Measuring Your Library's Value, designed to serve large to medium sized public libraries, gives librarians the tools to conduct a defensible and credible cost-benefit analysis (CBA). This hands-on reference covers the economic basics with librarian-friendly terms and examples, preparing library leaders to collaborate with economist-consultants.
Fundamentals
of Library Supervision ISBN: 0838908950
by Joan Giesecke
Library managers and supervisors face staffing decisions every day. When priorities change quickly—whether relating to diversity, legal challenges, new technology, or simply a desire to build an exciting team and bring people together to do their best—it takes more than good intentions to achieve results. Two experienced library managers explain how to create a productive work place, as they weave practical advice and expert commentary into an easy-to-use resource. Drawing both from common sense and from the experience and insights of the pros, they address an increasingly turbulent library environment.
The Library Security and Safety Guide to Prevention, Planning and
Response (Sept 2007) ISBN: 0838909493
by Miriam Kahn
Libraries need to be open and inviting, yet safe for patrons, staff, and collections.
How can you ensure your library is both accessible and secure? Security planning, part of disaster response and continuous operations planning, is the key to proactively addressing potential safety issues. Look over the shoulder of disaster expert Kahn as she walks through key safety and security issues step by step.
The Big Book of Library Grant Money 2007 (Aug 2007) ISBN: 0838909280
by Information
Today
This forward-looking edition includes nearly 2,400 private and corporate foundations and givers that have either indicated an interest in giving money to libraries or have already done so. Potential donors in The Big Book are profiled with contact and portfolio information, past contributions summary and analysis, and application information. With historical data, you can track contributions and assets and predict future giving patterns. Offering you the most “hooks” for connecting with actual people, The Big Book also provides contact information for more than 13,000 foundation officers and directors. As an added feature, ALA’s own development office experts have included tips on winning grants for libraries.
The Whole Digital Library Handbook ISBN: 0838909264
by Diane Kresh
Essential facts, advice, lists, documents, guidelines, lore, wit, and wisdom: Along with fun and irreverence, it’s what readers have come to expect from the Whole Library series. This latest entry zooms in on the cutting edge -- the digital library. In a one-volume compendium that’s by turns encyclopedic, useful, and engaging, contributors provide an overview of digital libraries, covering the state of information, issues, customers, challenges, tools and technology, preservation, and the future.
Preschool Favorites: 35 Storytimes Kids Love ISBN: 0838909388
By Diane Briggs
Comprehensive, easy to use, and overflowing with fresh ideas, Preschool Favorites has everything needed to create storytimes: just add the kids! Each of the 35 fun themes includes a wealth of book suggestions, fingerplays (the “glue” that holds storytime together!), short poems, flannelboard stories (complete with patterns), music suggestions (and discography), and very simple crafts.
Fundamentals of Children's Services ISBN: 0838909078
by Michael Sullivan
Sullivan conducts a friendly tour in this comprehensive reference, covering both innovative and standard practices in children's services. From the collection and programming, to homework support, reference and reader's advisory, to promoting and budgeting, children's services parallel other library services and are no less important.
Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel ISBN: 0838909337
by Tony Greiner
In this unique guide, two collection development experts show how to use Excel® to translate circulation and collection data into meaningful reports for making collection management decisions. Step-by-step instructionsaccompanied by screen shots allow anyone to use Excel® to quickly “crunch the numbers” that often bog down library use studies.
Reader's
Advisory Guide to NonFiction (June 2007) ISBN:
0838909361
by Neal Wyatt
Navigating what at she calls the “ extravagantly rich world of nonfiction,” renowned readers’ advisor (RA) Wyatt builds readers’ advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library’s entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. Within each, she explains the scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and the subject’s position in readers’ advisory interviews.
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