Access Services
Author | : Trevor A. Dawes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Trevor A. Dawes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Academic libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeanie Austin |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2021-11-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838937403 |
As part of our mission to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all library patrons, our profession needs to come to terms with the consequences of mass incarceration, which have saturated the everyday lives of people in the United States and heavily impacts Black, Indigenous, and people of color; LGBTQ people; and people who are in poverty. Jeanie Austin, a librarian with San Francisco Public Library's Jail and Reentry Services program, helms this important contribution to the discourse, providing tools applicable in a variety of settings. This text covers practical information about services in public and academic libraries, and libraries in juvenile detention centers, jails, and prisons, while contextualizing these services for LIS classrooms and interdisciplinary scholars. It powerfully advocates for rethinking the intersections between librarianship and carceral systems, pointing the way towards different possibilities. This clear-eyed text begins with an overview of the convergence of library and information science and carceral systems within the United States, summarizing histories of information access and control such as book banning, and the ongoing work of incarcerated people and community members to gain more access to materials; examines the range of carceral institutions and their forms, including juvenile detention, jails, immigration detention centers, adult prisons, and forms of electronic monitoring; draws from research into the information practices of incarcerated people as well as individual accounts to examine the importance of information access while incarcerated; shares valuable case studies of various library systems that are currently providing both direct and indirect services, including programming, book clubs, library spaces, roving book carts, and remote reference; provides guidance on collection development tools and processes; discusses methods for providing reentry support through library materials and programming, from customized signage and displays to raising public awareness of the realities of policing and incarceration; gives advice on supporting community groups and providing outreach to transitional housing; includes tips for building organizational support and getting started, with advice on approaching library management, creating procedures for challenges, ensuring patron privacy, and how to approach partners who are involved with overseeing the functioning of the carceral facility; and concludes with a set of next steps, recommended reading, and points of reflection.
Author | : Veronica Arellano Douglas |
Publisher | : Library Juice Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781634000604 |
"Offers a historical-cultural context for the ethos of service in libraries and critically examines this professional value as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, and (dis)ability"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Gregg Sapp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000755045 |
This book, first published in 1992, establishes a theoretical base for access services while also suggesting connections between theory and practice. It provides fresh thinking that re-examines previous writings in this area, presents new experimental designs and results, creates contemporary organizational solutions, and adopts innovative techniques for increasing users’ access to library materials within constrained budgets. Access services librarians, circulation department librarians, and library managers, especially those who are considering a reorganization that will include access services, will benefit from the philosophical and theoretical articles as well as practical advice on the design, delivery, and evaluation of responsive library services. Chapters in this invaluable book fill the gap in the literature about access services including theoretical descriptions of access services, current developing trends in access services, the historical development of the access services concept, practical studies related to common access services issues, and projections of future challenges.
Author | : Susan Higgins |
Publisher | : Chandos Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2007-05-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Offers strategies to match the information needs and wants of children and young adults in public libraries and translates these into knowledge for providing relevant services. The trends in service provision are covered within the context of appropriate management, programming and marketing of services.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Blind |
ISBN | : |
Provision of library service to blind and physically handicapped individuals is an ever-developing art/science requiring a knowledge of individual needs, a mastery of information science processes and techniques, and an awareness of the plethora of available print and nonprint resources. This book is intended to bring together a composite overview of the needs of individials unable to use print resources and to describe current and historic practices designed to meet those needs. - Preface.
Author | : Ryan Dowd |
Publisher | : ALA Editions |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780838916261 |
"Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials" --
Author | : Carrie Forbes |
Publisher | : Libraries Unlimited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-06-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1440869537 |
Providing practical and theoretical chapters on academic library services for graduate students, this volume helps information professionals support this often-overlooked campus population to address their multiple roles and identities as students and as future faculty members or professionals. As more and more students attend graduate programs, many higher education institutions have established professional development programs to help graduate students learn the wide range of skills needed to be successful as both students and as future professionals or academics. To presuppose that graduate students are proficient library users is a mistake. Graduate students need and want help, and many libraries are now offering specialized services for this diverse population. Contributors to this edited volume provide case studies and practical advice on academic library services for graduate students that support their multiple roles on campus and address the complex social and emotional issues related to their other roles as parents, working adults, caretakers, and more. As academic libraries shift from functioning primarily as collections repositories to collaborating as key players in discovery and knowledge creation, value-added services for graduate students are even more central to libraries' changing missions. This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing professional conversation and is a useful tool for librarians who want to better support graduate students at their institutions.
Author | : Gillian M. McCombs |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1000445143 |
This book takes a close look at the recent changing emphasis from collections to access, and from document description to document delivery. As the automation of library processes has moved from technical services to reference services, the roles of the professionals working in those capacities have changed dramatically. Library administrators who are looking to redeploy resources will gain helpful insights from the experiences of librarians who have already redirected their organizations. This helpful volume will be of tremendous assistance in redefining the traditional roles of reference and technical librarians. Access Services offers new insights into the movement from bibliographic access to information access that is reshaping reference services today. Informative discussions on topics such as cross-training experiments, revised organizational structures, the new role of the bibliographic utilities, library school education for the redefined professional, and changes in cataloging codes reveal what impact this trend has for librarians, services, and patrons.