Transforming Libraries, Building Communities

Transforming Libraries, Building Communities
Author: Julie Biando Edwards
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-05-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810891824

This book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information. Written by practicing public librarians and an academic librarian with an interest in public libraries, the book focuses on how public libraries can become more community centered and, by doing so, how they can transform both themselves and their communities. The authors argue that focusing on building community through innovative and responsive services and programs will be the best way for the public library to reposition itself in the years to come.

Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students

Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students
Author: Crystal Renfro
Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 9780838946060

A practical atlas of how librarians around the world are serving the dynamic academics that are today's graduate students. In four sections--One Size Does Not Fit All: Services by Discipline, Degree, and Delivery Method; Librarian Functions and Spaces Transformed to Meet Graduate Students' Needs; More Than Just Information Literacy: Workshops and Data Services; and Partnerships--readers will discover a plethora of programs and ideas gleaned directly from experienced librarians working at some of the top academic institutions, and explore the power of leveraging their library initiatives through partnerships with other university units. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, graduate students have comprised between 14 and 15 percent of all students enrolled in higher education since 2000, and are expected to exceed 3,300,000 students in 2020. While the traditional graduate student starting their fifth consecutive year of study still populates university campuses, graduate students also include seasoned professionals seeking an advanced degree to further career goals, career changers, international students, and online-only students. Each grad student comes with their own levels of expertise, challenging librarians to provide targeted help aligned with the expectations of their specific program of study. Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students incorporates the experiences of librarians from across the United States, Canada, and Europe into thirty-four chapters packed with programs, best practices, and ideas readers can implement in their own libraries.

Transforming Libraries

Transforming Libraries
Author: Ron Starker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-05-20
Genre: Information services
ISBN: 9781945167300

Tips, tools, strategies to make libraries relevant in the digital age. Transforming Libraries reevaluates learning spaces and research tools. Exploring opportunities to expand the way schools use libraries today, the book includes resources and ideas for adding audio and video creation spaces. Make your library a high-touch, high-tech, user-friendly gathering space.

Transforming Libraries

Transforming Libraries
Author: William G. Jones
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1998
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN:

Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces

Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces
Author: Alanna Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538114682

Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces presents first-hand case studies and practical advice on transforming health sciences library spaces in the 21st century. Collected here are the experiences and thoughts of librarians on the transformation of health sciences library spaces. They provide insights into planning, budgeting, collecting, and integrating user feedback, collaborating with leadership and architects and thriving in the good times and the tight times. The book has three main sections: The Realities of Making Virtual Work Library Spaces that Work for Users Library Spaces Working with What They’ve Got These tackle crucial issues including: Identifying and overhauling dated spaces that lack flexibility Gathering information on usage behavior and user feedback in relation to our spaces. Working with feedback to increase satisfaction, and use of the library space with little funds. Removing a large percentage of the physical collection and deciding what to replace it with. Maximizing relationships with stakeholders such as leadership and external departments to transform the library space. Understanding what going 100% virtual means in practice. Managing usage of materials not traditionally well suited to online access.

The Learning Commons

The Learning Commons
Author: Pam Colburn Harland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598845187

This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons. The goal of the learning-commons strategy is to provide a centralized, "go-to" location for all users seeking help on the complex issues of teaching, researching, and being a global citizen in our changing world. A library organized around the learning-commons construct fosters collaborative work and social interaction between users during research and learning. This paradigm also encourages use of innovative technologies and information resources. Transforming a traditional library into a thriving learning commons does take some planning and effort, however. Each of the seven chapters in this book explains a simple step that a librarian can take to improve their facility. Photographs and concrete examples of the suggested strategies are included; checklists at the end of each chapter serve as indicators for measuring progress. This text is useful for library administrators in school settings (both public and private, K-12) as well as academic, public, and special libraries.

Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society

Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society
Author: Barbara Dewey
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1780630387

Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have real world experience with transformational change and thought-provoking ideas for the future of research libraries, academic librarianship, research collections, and the changing nature of global scholarship within a higher education context. Authors are leaders in the research libraries field from a variety of countries Thought provoking chapters will help guide research library transformation globally Contains a diversity of thinking on research librarianship in the 21st century

Transforming Libraries

Transforming Libraries
Author: GraceAnne A. DeCandido
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1999
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN:

Transforming Print

Transforming Print
Author: Shari Laster
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838948828

In this book, collection management staff at academic libraries will find fertile ideas for transforming print collections to become more engaging and widely used by the diverse communities they serve.

Putting the User First

Putting the User First
Author: Courtney Greene McDonald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: 9780838987322

User experience is everywhere. From your library's website to the signage by the elevators, everything contributes to the overall user experience of our patrons. Just one simple idea can transform your library: put the user first. But as you likely already know, just because something's simple doesn't mean it's easy. How best to identify, implement, and evaluate user-driven changes in order to improve physical and virtual services? The good news is that even small changes can make big headway. Putting the User First: 30 Strategies for Transforming Library Services will give you 30 hands-on strategies and practical suggestions to enable you to begin transforming your library, library services, and even your personal practice to be more responsive, effective and user-centered today.