Author: Deborah Fink
Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The rapid evolution of the information society places heavy demands on the traditional library instruction course. This book presents a new model for course development that features creative problem-solving and critical evaluation along with the conventional skills in library research.
Author: Paul T. Jaeger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442233478
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current standing of public libraries in public policy and political discourse. It both explains the complex current circumstances and offers strategies for effectively creating a better future for public libraries. The main message is that there is a pressing need for public librarians and other supporters of public libraries to be: Aware of the political process and its implications for libraries; Attuned to the interrelationships between policy and politics; and Engaged in the policy process to articulate the need for policies that support public libraries. The style is both scholarly and accessible to general readers, with the goal of being useful to students, educators, researchers, practitioners, and friends of public libraries in library and information science. It will also be usefull for those engaged in areas of public policy, government, economics, and political science who are interested in the relationships between public libraries, public policy, and political processes. Building upon the discussion of the key issues, the book offers proposals for professional, policy-making, and political strategies that can strengthen the public library and its ability to meet the needs of individuals and communities. The discussion and analysis in the book draw upon data and real world examples from the many studies that the authors have conducted on related topics, including libraries’ outreach to increasingly diverse service populations and efforts to meet community needs through innovative partnerships. As the intersection of politics, policy, and libraries has grown in importance and complexity in recent years, the need for a book on their interrelationships is long overdue.
Author: Oliver Garceau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: E. J. Josey
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Can librarians influence the political process to maximize library support? These essays address this question, and other issues such as the political environments of university, college, community, college and special libraries.
Author: Richard D. Irving
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000759024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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This book, first published in 1988, looks at the relationship between public policy and information and reports ways in which libraries respond to the need for public policy information. Chapters provide perspectives from a variety of library settings with different user groups who, in turn, have different information needs. This volume will stimulate you to examine the adequacy of your own reference services and to a greater appreciation of the dynamic relationship between public policy and information services.
Author: Oliver Garceau
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Studies issues related to public libraries and their governing bodies, professional associates, and the strategy of group politics. Includes a look at the relationship between librarians, board members, and public officials.
Author: David Shavit
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Public librarians do not usually see themselves as politicians. However, as decision-makers in an institutional setting, affected by a variety of pressures and conflicting interests, they are involved in politics in both the broad and narrow sense. Moreover, recent developments in the public library system have brought the librarian directly into the political sphere. Professor Shavit's study, the first major work on the subject in over 35 years, fills a major gap in scholarship on the public library in the political process and provides a detailed survey of the political context in which the modern library functions.
Author: Association of Research Libraries. University Library Management Studies Office
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Ernest R. DeProspo
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. It brings together noted researchers and successful library directors and educators who have extended the landmark findings and efforts of their mentor and friend, Ernest DeProsp. The editors give a historical account of contemporary measurement activities; suggest methodologies for measuring performance; offer viewpoints on planning, goal-setting and validity; and comment on problems associated with planning, one of the major tools of measurement. Readers of the book will develop informed opinions about planning, a practice that when entered into unaware can enslave an organization in endless data gathering routines and tax their endurance beyond reasonable points. Thought-provoking comments on the directions taken, and not taken, by library thinkers challenge the reader to speculate about current library-think.
Author: Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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