Library Services for Multicultural Patrons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library Services for Multicultural Patrons write by Carol Smallwood. This book was released on 2013. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library types--school, public and academic. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons is by and for all libraries that are striving to provide multicultural services to match the growing diversity in the cultural background of patrons. The book is designed to offer helpful tips and practical advice to academic, public, and school librarians who want to better serve the multicultural groups in their communities. The contributors to the book are themselves practicing librarians and they share creative ideas for welcoming multicultural patrons into libraries and strategies for serving them more effectively. Librarians will find in these chapters tried and true tips and techniques for marketing and promotion, improving reference services for speakers of English as a second language, and enhancing programming that they can easily implement in their own libraries and communities. The chapters are divided into the following categories for ease of access: 1) Getting Organized and Finding Partners, 2) Reaching Students, 3) Community Connections, 4) Applying Technology, 6) Outreach Initiatives, 6) Programming and Events, and 7) Reference Services. Librarians of all types will be pleased to discover easy-to-implement suggestions for collaborative efforts, many rich and diverse programming ideas, strategies for improving reference services and library instruction to speakers of English as a second language, marketing and promotional tips designed to welcome multicultural patrons into the library, and much more.
Library Services for Non-affiliated Patrons
Library Services for Non-affiliated Patrons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library Services for Non-affiliated Patrons write by Eugene Stephen Mitchell. This book was released on 1994. Library Services for Non-affiliated Patrons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work offers sample policies and procedures for dealing with service to the non-affiliated library user. Included are examples of information sheets, application and registration forms, ID cards, recourse letters, and reciprocal agreements.
Library Services for Online Patrons
Library Services for Online Patrons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library Services for Online Patrons write by Joelle E. Pitts. This book was released on 2019-10-16. Library Services for Online Patrons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A practical blueprint for improving online services for library patrons who learn, study, and research online"--
Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas
Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas write by Gerard B. McCabe. This book was released on 1991-11-26. Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Solutions to the unique problems of academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas are provided in this professional handbook. Issues faced by the administrators of these libraries can differ markedly from those encountered by their counterparts in residential college towns, with service demands emanating from both the surrounding community and their own academic community. Written by experienced urban university librarians, each chapter addresses issues unique to the in-city academic library. Reaching out to their communities to establish links with business, industry, and other libraries, the administrators of the urban/metropolitan libraries require a great degree of diplomacy and management skills. Service demands arising from urban high schools place additional pressures on limited resources. This handbook shows how the use of new technologies can assist the urban academic librarian in fashioning services for a nonresident faculty, as well as a usually older student body, comprised of many international and part-time students. The characteristics of city living and their impact on information-seeking behavior are discussed. Other topics covered are resource sharing, setting fees, staff and collection security, environmental pollution and space requirements.
Digital versus Non-Digital Reference
Digital versus Non-Digital Reference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital versus Non-Digital Reference write by Linda S Katz. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Digital versus Non-Digital Reference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compare and contrast library reference models and more consumer-oriented models! Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask A Librarian Online and Offline analyzes the quality of commercial Ask A Librarian (AskA) and tutorial services and how they compare to traditional library services. Edited by Jessamyn West—proprietor of librarian.net and the “hippest ex-librarian on the Web” according to Wired magazine—the book looks at library models and more consumer-oriented models, examining a variety of services that range from Ask Jeeves® and Google Answers™ to your own reference desk and Web e-mail reference forms. Academic librarians and information specialists share their experiences—good and bad—in starting, assessing, or ending AskA services and in working with collaborative reference tools and outsourcing reference services, and discuss the highs and lows of dealing with individual online services. Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask A Librarian Online and Offline chronicles the experiences and interactions of librarians with digital reference, including case studies, how-to guides, and philosophical essays. The book’s contributors discuss their concerns about using the Internet as not only a reference tool but as a reference medium that most libraries find inevitable to some degree. Topics include the political ramifications of offsite or outsourced reference, the truth behind the assertion that “it’s all available online,” cultural and/or language barriers to text-based reference services, and patrons’ experiences with reference tools, from a librarian’s perspective. Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask A Librarian Online and Offline addresses: policy, staffing and technology for telephone reference services e-mail reference in public libraries the University of Michigan’s Internet Public Library archivists and remote users in the digital age success and failure with commercial AskA programs the history of Q and A NJ, New Jersey’s virtual reference service multilingual chat reference systems the ongoing debate over the value of digital reference the case for nonintrusive reference Digital versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask A Librarian Online and Offline is an invaluable resource for practitioners and academics on the appropriate assessment, technologies, and methods for successfully creating and operating human-mediated, Internet-based information services.
