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Summary of titles:
1]
Managing Change: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians
Susan Carol Curzon
(see below for fuller details)
2]
Evaluating the Impact of Your Library Sharon Markless and David Streatfield
(see below for fuller details)
3]
Teach Beyond Your Reach
An Instructor’s Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance
Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More
By Robin Neidorf
(see below for fuller details)
4] The NextGen Librarian’s Survival Guide
By Rachel Singer Gordon (see below for fuller details)
5]
The New OPL Sourcebook
A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries
By Judith A. Siess (see below for fuller details)
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1]
Managing Change: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians
Susan Carol Curzon
Guiding staff and organizations through turbulent times – budget cuts,
personnel shortages, new technologies, reorganization and consolidation
– is an absolutely necessary skill for today’s library managers. Susan
Curzon, one of Library Journal’s Librarians of the Year, has completely
revised her classic change manual.
This guide outlines the step-by-step processes and detailed
instructions necessary for conceptualizing the issues; planning;
preparing; decision-making; controlling resistance; and implementing
changes. Practical guidance for dealing with technology’s impact on
libraries, applying the latest research in change management, and
developing new strategies for coping with change are included.
An all new ‘Teaching Tools’ section – featuring sample scenarios;
questions and discussion points; coaching prompts; motivational tips;
and more – helps managers share the knowledge with their staff and
colleagues. With a foreword by Michael Gorman, this updated essential
guide will help you not only cope – but thrive – in our constantly
changing library environment.
Facet Publishing; March 2006; 150pp; paperback; 1-85604-601-X; £39.95
2]
Evaluating the Impact of Your Library Sharon Markless and David Streatfield
This book will address a major issue for all library and information
service managers that has recently taken on new importance - assessing
the impact of services. All types of libraries and information services
have traditionally collected a range of performance information that
can tell their managers something about the efficiency of those
services. What is now required is better information about the
effectiveness of services, i.e. about the impact of services on users,
including remote users. LIS managers find it hard to get a grip on the
slippery concept of service impact and have struggled to address impact
questions in their planning. In response the authors have developed and
tested an approach that helps managers in LIS understand and enact
impact assessment indicators that relate to their objectives. The core
chapters of the book will take people through their rigorously-tested
process model for impact assessment backed by tools and examples to
equip managers with all that they need to address their own service
impact questions. Chapters include: - the demand for evidence; -
getting to grips with impact; - putting the impact into planning; -
getting things clear: objectives and success criteria; - making things
happen: activities and process indicators; - thinking about evidence; -
collecting the evidence: talking to people; other methods; -
benchmarking around impact; - towards evidence-based library and
information work.;
This book is an essential tool for practising library and information
service managers and policy makers in the field. It will be equally
relevant to LIS managers in public, education (schools, FE, HE), health
and special libraries and information services. It will also be of
interest to people engaged in professional education in the field as
lecturers or students.
Facet Publishing; April 2006 hardback 1-85604-488-2 224pp £39.95
3]
Teach Beyond Your Reach
An Instructor’s Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance
Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More
By Robin Neidorf
Distance learning is enabling individuals to earn college and graduate
degrees, professional certificates, and a wide range of skills and
credentials. In addition to the rapidly expanding role of distance
learning in higher education, all types of organizations now offer
Web-based training courses to employees, clients, and other associates.
In Teach Beyond Your Reach, teacher and author Robin Neidorf takes a
practical, curriculum-focused approach designed to help new and
experienced distance educators develop and deliver quality courses and
training sessions. She shares best practices and examples, surveys the
tools of the trade, and covers key issues, including instructional
design, course craft, adult learning styles, student-teacher
interaction, strategies for building a community of learners, and much
more. Read this informative and inspiring book to master the evolving
art and science of distance education.
Information Today Inc., CyberAge Books • June 2006/248 pp/softbound
ISBN 0-910965-73-0 Regular Price: $29.95
4]
The NextGen Librarian’s Survival Guide
By Rachel Singer Gordon
Here is a unique resource for next generation librarians, addressing
the specific needs of GenXers and Millennials as they work to define
themselves as information professionals. The book focuses on how
NextGens can move their careers forward and positively impact the
profession. Library career guru Rachel Singer Gordon—herself a NextGen
librarian—provides timely advice along with tips and insights from
dozens of librarians on issues ranging from image and stereotypes, to
surviving library school and entry-level positions, to working with
older colleagues. A special section for current library administrators
and managers makes this a must-read not only for NextGen librarians,
but for those who recruit, work with, and mentor them.
Information Today Inc., 2006/248 pp/softbound
ISBN 1-57387-256-3 Regular Price: $29.50
5]
The New OPL Sourcebook
A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries
By Judith A. Siess
This updated and expanded edition of the essential guide for small and
one-person libraries (OPLs) covers virtually every key management topic
of interest to OPLs. In addition to offering a wealth of practical
tips, strategies, and case studies, author Judith Siess takes an
international perspective that reflects the growing number of OPL’s
worldwide. The book’s in-depth directory section lists important
organizations, publications, vendors and suppliers, discussion lists,
and Web sites.
Information Today Inc., - March 2006/456 pp/softbound
ISBN 1-57387-241-5 Regular Price: $39.50
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