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  • Using Social Media in Libraries

    Best Practices

    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    Since there’s no point in Twittering if no one acts on your tweets and there’s no point in having a Facebook page with a million “likes” if library use doesn’t increase, you’ll welcome the eight best practices presented here because they will help your library both actually do social media in a way that matters and do it well.The successful strategies presented here range from the Vancouver Public ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • E-Learning in Libraries

    Best Practices

    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    If libraries are to remain centers for lifelong learning, then that learning must increasingly be e-learning. But, where can librarians turn for the best ideas and inspiration on how to implement e-learning programs? This book features nine exemplary programs set in all types of libraries. You’ll find proven, successful ways of introducing online credit-based information literacy instruction, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mobile Library Services

    Best Practices

    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    Just as Andrew Carnegie’s support changed the landscape of public libraries in America, Apple’s launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 forever altered how people expected to interact with services. Libraries, like every other kind of organization, must now make their services—not just their catalogs—available on an array of mobile devices.Mobile Library Servicesprovides 11 proven ways to reach out ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Customer Service in Libraries

    Best Practices

    Series series Best Practices in Library Services
    In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries’ best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused technology planning, picture book arrangement with patrons in mind, Web 2.0 tools to connect ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library

    Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff

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    Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital scholarship, data management, library as publisher, web archiving, and the research lifecycle. ... Read more

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  • Distributed Learning

    Pedagogy and Technology in Online Information Literacy Instruction

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    The field of distributed learning is constantly evolving. Online technology provides instructors with the flexibility to offer meaningful instruction to students who are at a distance or in some cases right on campus, but still unable to be physically present in the classroom. This dynamic environment challenges librarians to monitor, learn, adapt, collaborate, and use new technological advances ... Read more

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  • Wearable Technology

    Smart Watches to Google Glass for Libraries

    by Tom Bruno ...
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  • Using Google Earth in Libraries

    A Practical Guide for Librarians

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    Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world. The uses of Google Earth in academia, in libraries, and across disciplines are endless and each year more innovate research projects are being released. Since its launch, Google Earth has had an enormous impact on the way people ... Read more

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  • Digitizing Flat Media

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    Here is a concise guide to the nuts and bolts of converting flat media (books, papers, maps, posters, slides, micro formats, etc) into digital files. It provides librarians and archivists with the practical knowledge to understand the process and decision making in the digitization of flat media. Instead of having to learn by trial and error, they will get a well-rounded education of the practical ... Read more

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  • Serving Online Customers

    Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

    Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessible online. To compete in the digital age, libraries must provide outstanding customer service to their virtual users.In Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World, Donald A. Barclay carefully examines business literature ... Read more

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  • Digital Disruption and Electronic Resource Management in Libraries

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