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Summary of titles:
1)
Information Tomorrow. Reflections on Technology and the Future of
Public and Academic Libraries.
Edited by Rachel Singer Gordon
(see below for fuller details)
2)
The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times.
By Marylaine Block
(see below for fuller details)
3)
Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management:
A Practical Guide.
By Kelvin Smith
(see below for fuller details)
4)
Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.
By Johanna Rothman
(see below for fuller details)
5)
Government Documents Librarianship: A Guide for the Neo-Depository Era
By Lisa A Ennis
(see below for fuller details)
6)
The Accidental Technology Trainer
A Guide for Libraries
By Stephanie Gerding
(see below for fuller details)
7)
Intranets for Info Pros
Edited by Mary Lee Kennedy and Jane Dysart
(see below for fuller details)
8)
Preserving Archives
Helen Forde
(see below for fuller details)
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1)
Information Tomorrow. Reflections on Technology and the Future of
Public and Academic Libraries.
Edited by Rachel Singer Gordon
Any discussion of the future of libraries must consider the impact of
the technological advances and innovations that are inextricably wound
up with library operations and user expectations. According to Rachel
Singer Gordon, librarians remain relevant and useful by confronting
technological challenges head-on and finding ways to integrate the
best and most appropriate innovations into library services and
operations.
In Information Tomorrow, Gordon brings together 20 of todays leading
thinkers on the intersections between libraries and technology. They
address various ways in which new technologies influence librarians
actions and goals and offer ideas for using technology to meet patrons
where they are. The result is an engaging, wide-ranging, and sometimes
provocative discussion for systems librarians, library IT workers,
library managers and administrators, and anyone working with or
interested in technology in libraries.
In addition to a preface by Gordon, the books foreword and 16 chapters
feature insights and opinions from these library leaders, bloggers,
and futurists:
Stephen Abram Lori Bell Steven J. Bell John Blyberg Robert Bocher
Daniel Chudnov Jill Emery Meredith G. Farkas Megan K. Fox Beth
Gallaway Joseph Janes David Lee King Jenny Levine Tom Peters
Dorothea Salo John D. Shank Michael Stephens Rhonda B. Trueman
Jessamyn West Alane Wilson
Writing in the books foreword, Stephen Abram says, I cant agree with
every position in this work, and that is just wonderful! ... I need to
have my buttons pushed regularly. I believe theres enough in this book
to push a few buttons for you and your organization. And that, to me,
is what a collection should doeducate, inform, irritate, and inspire.
Information Today, Inc.; 2007/280 pp/softbound; ISBN
978-1-57387-303-1; $35.00
2)
The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for challenging Times.
By Marylaine Block
Here is a highly readable guide to strategies and projects that have
helped more than 100 public libraries gain community support and
funding during challenging times. Marylaine Block integrates survey
responses from innovative library directors with her research,
analysis, and extended interviews to showcase hundreds of winning
programs and services. The result is a rich source of ideas and
encouragement for those who want their libraries to thrive, not merely
survive.
Strategies explored in the book include youth services; the library as
place; partnerships; marketing; stressing the economic value; Library
2.0; outreach; and helping the community achieve its aspirations.
Projects are described in practitioners own words, with additional
examples drawn from libraries long-range plans, annual reports,
programs, and Web sites, as well as from news stories and the library
literature.
Information Today, Inc.; 2007/352 pp/softbound ISBN 978-1-57387-277-5;
Regular Price: $39.50
3)
Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management: A Practical Guide.
By Kelvin Smith
Many organizations are moving away from managing records and
information in paper form to setting up electronic records management
(ERM) systems. There is a range of reasons for this: economic
considerations may be the driver for change, or government policy
initiatives may be coming into play.
Whatever the situation in your organization, this book provides
straightforward, practical guidance on how to prepare for and enable
ERM. It sets out and explains the issues organizations need to
consider in selecting a system, and the procedures required for
effective implementation.
Help is also given with the complexities of managing hybrid records
during an interim period between paper and electronic record management.
The book is divided into three main parts covering the preparation for
ERM, and its design and implementation. The key areas covered are:
the underlying principles
the context
making a business case for ERM
the main issues for design
the information survey
the file plan
appraisal methodology
preservation
access
the main issues for implementation
project management
procurement
change management
training
the future of information management.
This essential guide should be on the desk of any library and
information professional, records manager, archivist or knowledge
manager involved in planning and introducing an ERM system, whether in
a public or private sector organization.
Facet Publishing; October 2007; 232pp; hardback; 978-1-85604-615-2; 39.95
4)
Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management.
Johanna Rothman
Your project cant fail. Thats a lot of pressure on you, and yet you
dont want to buy into any one specific process, methodology, or
lifecycle.
Your project is different. It doesnt fit into those neat descriptions.
Manage It! will show you how to beg, borrow, and steal from the best
methodologies to fit your particular project. It will help you find
what works best for you and not for some mythological project that
doesnt even exist.
Before you know it, your project will be on track and headed to a
successful conclusion. Youll:
Learn all about different project lifecycles
See how to organize a project
Compare sample project dashboards
See how to staff a project
Know when youre doneand what that means.
You wont need expensive tools or fancy software. Manage It! shows you
how to use low-tech techniques to directly address the most pressing
problems of modern software project development.
Pragmatic Bookshelf; 360 pages, May 2007; ISBN: 978-0-9787392-4-9; $34.95
5)
Government Documents Librarianship: A Guide for the Neo-Depository Era
By Lisa A Ennis
This guide breaks down the components of government documents
librarianship into manageable, easy to understand parts. Lisa A.
Ennis, a tried by fire documents librarian, begins by looking at
career opportunities in both Federal Depository Libraries (FDLs) and
non-depository libraries with government document collections. Ennis
discusses skills and traits; networking and training options; managing
and administering people, paperwork, and collections; and both public
service and technical service issues.
Government Documents Librarianship provides essential background on
the GPO and the FDLP, covering the shift to a digital environment and
publication of the new Electronic FDL Manual. The informative coverage
is matched by an enthusiastic can-do approach that will appeal to any
librarian considering or already engaged in government documents work.
Information Today, Inc.; 2007/200 pp/hardbound ISBN 978-1-57387-270-6;
Regular Price: $49.50
6)
The Accidental Technology Trainer
A Guide for Libraries
By Stephanie Gerding
an extremely useful and reassuring guide for library staff who find
themselves newly responsible for technology trainingwhether in
computer labs, classrooms, or one-on-one with library users. Stephanie
Gerding addresses the most common concerns of new trainers, recommends
great tools and techniques, and shares helpful advice from many of her
fellow tech trainers.
The Accidental Technology Trainer will help you get up to speed
quickly and become a more confident and successful trainer. Youll
learn how to integrate expert tips and tricks and leverage your
natural skills to ensure excellent results. If you are faced with
technology training needs for which you do not feel fully prepared,
The Accidental Technology Trainer is the book youve been waiting for!
Information Today
2007/272 pp/softbound
ISBN 978-1-57387-269-0
Regular Price: $29.50
7)
Intranets for Info Pros
Edited by Mary Lee Kennedy and Jane Dysart
Foreword by Tom Davenport
Perhaps nowhere else will you find such useful content on how
information and IT professionals should view and leverage intranets.
Tom Davenport, from the Foreword
The intranet is among the primary landscapes in which
information-based work occurs, yet many info pros view it with equal
parts skepticism and dread. In Intranets for Info Pros, editors
Kennedy and Dysart and 10 expert contributors provide a wealth of
advice and support for the information professional charged with
implementing or contributing to an intranet.
Leading thinkers and practitioners contributing to Intranets for Info
Pros are Angela Abell, Avi Rappoport, Jose Claudio Terra, Cory
Costanzo, Craig St. Clair, Cynthia Ross Pedersen, Debra Wallace, Eric
Hards, Ian Littlejohn, and Mike Crandall. Together with Kennedy and
Dysart they demonstrate the intranets strategic value, describe
important trends and best practices, and equip info pros to make a key
contribution to their organizations intranet success.
Information Today
2007/304 pp/softbound
ISBN 978-1-57387-309-3
Regular Price: $ 39.50
8)
Preserving Archives
Helen Forde
Facet Publishing
Access to archival material the documentary heritage of people
all over the world that gives them their identity and ensures their
rights is dependent on the survival of fragile materials: paper,
parchment, photographic materials, audiovisual materials and, most
recently, magnetic and optical formats. The primary importance of such
survival is widely acknowledged but sometimes overlooked in a rush to
provide ever better means of access. But without the basic material,
no services can be offered. Preservation is the heart of archival
activity.
Archivists in all types of organizations face questions of how to
plan a preservation strategy in less than perfect circumstances, or
deal with a sudden emergency. This book considers the causes of
threats to the basic material, outlines the preservation options
available and offers flexible solutions applicable in a variety of
situations. Benefiting from the author's contact with international
specialists as Head of Preservation Services at the National Archives
of the UK, it offers a wide range of case studies and examples
Key topics are:
* standards and policies of archive preservation
* preservation assessment
* understanding archive materials and their characteristics
* managing digital preservation
* archive buildings and their characteristics
* managing archival storage
* managing risks and avoiding disaster
* setting up a conservation workshop
* moving the records
* exhibiting archives
* handling the records
* managing a pest control programme
* using and creating surrogates
* putting preservation into practice.
This is a vital handbook for professional archivists, but also
for the many librarians, curators and enthusiasts, trained and
untrained, in museums, local studies centres and voluntary societies
in need of good clear advice.
2006; 336pp; hardback; 978-1-85604-577-3; 39.95
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