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Managing Student Assistants: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians

Kimberly Burke Sweetman

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Whether a volunteer, intern, work-study student, or part-time employee, students can be a valuable part of the library s staff. With their benefits, however, come unique challenges. Kimberly Burke Sweetman, a frequent presenter of management workshops, shares practical guidance for making the most of students in your organization. She examines the basics: building the case for student workers in your library, designing the position, drafting the job description, and preparing for the hiring process; then walks you through advertising the position, recruiting the right candidates, and interviewing effectively. Here is the practical advice you need to recruit, hire, orient, and train student workers as well as motivate and coach them appropriately to minimize turnover. This guide is filled with examples, checklists, forms, templates, and exercises.

Defining Relevancy: Managing the New Academic Library (Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection)

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Connection. Competition. Collaboration. These three words define management of college libraries, today and in the future. They also describe the contents of this book, which focus on planning for the multiple directions that college library managers must consider and act upon. Contributed chapters cover the challenges nearly all must face, such as understanding users, information literacy, staff alignment, and the integration of physical building and function. Some chapters contain studies and models that can be replicated at similar institutions. Others offer documentation that can be used in reports or presentations to administrators and boards. Together, they convey a plethora of good ideas for responding to customers, competitors, technologies, and stakeholders.

The College Student's Research Companion, Third Edition

Arlene Rodda Quaratiello

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Incredible Time Saver!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has saved me an incredible amount of time while doing my latest research project. I wish I had discovered this gem sooner!

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This user-friendly guide is ideal for students faced with writing their first assignment using the college library—and makes an ideal text for information literacy classes and workshops. Quaratiello covers everything students need to know about finding information in all formats, including Web searching skills. She begins with library organization basics, including using the OPAC, and moves through essential reference books, use of periodical indexes, CD-ROM databases in libraries, using online databases (including InfoTrac, EBSCOhost, and ingenta) for research, and how to find and assess information on the Internet. Substantial changes have been made to the chapters about Web searches and popular electronic resources. Quartiello’s concise, breezy style has been proven to appeal to today’s college students. This completely updated third edition is more useful and practical than ever as both a basic guide and text for information literacy instruction.

A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992 (Houghton Library Publications)

Hugh Amory, Elizabeth A. Falsey, Nancy Finlay

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Harvard's home for rare books and manuscripts opened in 1942, and thanks to the energy of a small group of librarians and the creativity and generosity of its benefactor, Arthur Houghton, it quickly emerged as a center of inquiry and memory without equal. This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.

Convergence and Collaboration of Campus Information Services

Peter Hernon, Ronald R. Powell

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Convergence and collaboration enable an academic library to be more fully engaged with its campus. In its simplest form, convergence is defined as joint activities of a campus's units to further their shared mission of supporting teaching, learning, and inquiry. Convergence, which involves collaboration in both organizational structures and service delivery, leads to users benefiting from contact with individuals who have relevant expertise. Collaboration also may lead to convergence of collections, thereby enhancing library service to an institution's constituents. Specific examples of convergence/collaboration include centers for teaching excellence, tutor and writing centers, information arcades, facilities for multi-media production and delivery, information and learning commons, cafes, photocopying centers; centers for distance education, participation in the use of course management software (e.g., Blackboard) to make library resources available to classes digitally and to make students more information literate, publishing (e.g., university presses and digital collections, including institutional repositories), counseling and career centers, and services for students for whom English is a secondary language (mostly in community colleges). For anyone interested in how academic libraries can be more closely tied to the various missions of the colleges/universities in which they reside.

Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians

Alice Harrison Bahr

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Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians helps you understand how the librarian can play a central role in the new university paradigm. In the past few years, the focus of higher education has begun to shift from the traditional, passive lecture-discussion where teachers talk and students listen to a new model that emphasizes student-centered, collaborative learning in all contexts, not just formal classroom situations. Academic libraries and librarians must adapt to meet the demands of this new educational motif or else fall behind. This book offers an overview of the kinds of library service that will be required, from helping students learn to use bibliographic databases to real-time online interactive information assistance -- the cyber equivalent of the reference desk. You will learn practical techniques to facilitate information literacy and the principles of creating a seamless learning culture. One area in which libraries must provide new services is in helping students learn to manage the flood of available data. Though many students are familiar with the online universe, they don't know how to design artful information-seeking strategies either there or in the more traditional venues of printed books and journals, microfilm, and pamphlets. Librarians can teach skills beyond basic information retrieval, including evaluation, critical thinking, and building a successful research strategy. These skills are more crucial than ever, not just to help students write term papers, but also to prepare them for the kind of jobs they will face in an information-based economy. Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians provides you with practical suggestions for transformingtraditional library instruction, including: -- rethinking assumptions about students' needs and behavior -- designing courses for students at different levels -- making the transition to libraries without walls -- creating core resources to promote information literacy -- ensuring that library programs and collations are visible to users

The Upside of Downsizing: Using Library Instruction to Cope

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Many academic libraries are currently struggling with funding, and the new technological needs of libraries, plus dramatic increases in serials prices, have created even larger budget strain. This work offers librarians a number of ways in which to cope with this disturbing trend.

An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries

Mary Augusta Thomas

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Journey Through the Smithsonian Libraries 4 out of 5 stars.
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"An Odyssey in Print" is primarily the catalogue of an on-going (through May 2003) exhibition at the Smithsonian Libraries. The exhibition highlights some of the rarest, most beautiful and most interesting works in the Libraries' collections, loosely organized around the theme of "journeys" -- real, imagined and metaphorical. Saying the organization is "loose" is being generous -- in fact, the organization is almost haphazard (books that reflect real journeys show up in the section on journeys over land, but also in the section on journeys of the mind) and seems to have been imposed after-the-fact on books that were selected primarily for their historical or aesthetic importance (for example, the trade literature in the final pages probably has historical importance, but it's a tight squeeze to force it into the "journeys" theme). Nevertheless, the books selected are invariably interesting and many are beautiful -- if you are a lover of books or of natural history, you will enjoy browsing through the catalogue, without regard to the somewhat sloppy curating. A brief paragraph summarizing the background and significance of each book in the catalogue is included along with very nice reproductions of one or more of the book's illustrations.

What I found most intriguing were the introductory essays. Michael Dirda provides an eloquent paean to the joys of reading and the mystique of libraries, where everything is possible. Mary Augusta Thomas, the exhibition curator, covers the history of the Smithsonian Libraries and their collections. Most interesting to me was the essay by Storrs Olson, Senior Curator of the Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, who discusses the importance of the Libraries and their historical collections to the on-going work of science. It's easy to look at the books exhibited in this volume and see them only as objects, as magnificent illustrations of the book arts or historical curiosities, but Olson makes it clear that these books have continuing life and utility for those who care for them. Recommended for anyone interested in the the book arts, the history of the book or the history of science.

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Situated at the center of the world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries links the holdings of 22 Smithsonian museums and research centers into one system encompassing 1.5 million books and manuscripts. The expansive collection includes many rare and unusual works equal to the celebrated art and artifacts of the Smithsonian's museums.

Serials Management in Academic Libraries: A Guide to Issues and Practices (The Greenwood Library Management Collection)

Jean Walter Farrington

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In the decade ahead, libraries will have to do more with less. Because the cost of journals, particularly in the sciences, has skyrocketed, library budgets are able to buy fewer serials. At the same time, library budgets have been reduced, so that fewer staff and less detailed cataloging are becoming the way of the future. And while many serials remain available in printed form, publishers have been providing a growing number of electronic journals, and some experts believe that serials will eventually cease to exist in printed form. While budgetary restrictions and the growth of electronic publishing will continue to affect all areas of academic librarianship, serials management in particular will demand a great amount of adaptability and flexibility. This professional reference is a guide to the many evolving issues in serials management, as well as a source of practical information designed to assist academic librarians in successfully managing their serials in a rapidly changing environment. Some of the key issues discussed include access versus ownership, the electronic dissemination of texts, document delivery systems, standards for the electronic transfer of data, and the debate over the outsourcing of cataloging. Fortunately, many of the issues concerning serials management readily lend themselves to automation. Thus, this volume gives considerable attention to automation as a solution to many of the problems confronting librarians. Each chapter includes references to current literature, and the volume concludes with a selected bibliography of works for further reading.

Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling: A Guide for Academic Libraries

Anne M. Fields, Karen R. Diaz

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Digital stories are brief multi-modal digital videos, which libraries can use to engage their staff members with one another, to market library services and collections, to attract donors, and most importantly, to engage students and faculty with the library. Fields and Diaz address the "how-tos" of creating digital stories, as well as the challenges of building a digital storytelling program and creating partnerships across campus. Of primary interest to academic librarians and instructional technology staff.