[PDF] Six Issues Facing Libraries Today eBook

Author : John M. Budd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1442277386

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This book addresses some of the most pressing issues in library and information science. It offers informed insight and perspectives on six essential and timely questions facing the profession: What is information? What is information literacy? What roles do academic libraries play in higher education today? How can we effectively educate librarians? What are the ethical and moral bases of the library and information professions? What is the future of librarianship? Written by John M. Budd, one of librarianship’s most-respected educators and the author of twelve previous books, and copublished with Beta Phi Mu, the International Honor Society for librarianship, this is sure to become one of profession’s most talked-about books.

Author : John M. Budd
Publisher : Beta Phi Mu Scholars
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442277373

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Written by John M. Budd, one of librarianship's most-respected educators, this book addresses some of the most pressing issues in library and information science. It offers informed insight and perspectives on six essential and timely issues facing the profession:�The theory and definition of information�Critical approaches to information literacy�The politics of higher education and beyond�Ethics and information (including freedom of speech)�What lies ahead for education for librarianship�The future of the profession

Author : Andrea Jamison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 153816292X

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The book serves as a "how to" guide for evaluating and crafting collection development policies that will help create equity in library collections. The book not only helps contextualize the need for inclusive collection development policies but features user-friendly tables, guides, and sample policies.

Author : Jo Henry
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838916236

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Frankly, it’s not something we like to talk about. There is an unfortunate stigma to acknowledging workplace dysfunction, let alone trying to grapple with the problem. But negative behaviors such as incivility, toxicity, deviant behavior, workplace politics, and team and leadership dysfunction not only make the library a stressful workplace, they also run counter to the core values of librarianship. An important tool for library leaders and managers as well as library staff, this book examines these negative relationship-based issues and suggests practical, research-based solutions by discussing the importance of understanding oneself as related to the library workplace;identifying attributes specific to libraries that foster personal success;showing how organizational dysfunction is rooted in problems such as poor communication, inadequate leadership, and lack of employee engagement;breaking down relatable scenarios to analyze what’s behind them and how to defuse them, ranging from a gossipy coworker who fails to contribute to the organization to workplace bullying and mobbing;exploring causes, results, and potential solutions in the areas of cyberloafing, fraud, theft, and sabotage;delving into the importance of conflict management, surveying a variety of approaches and applications;examining the use of teams in libraries and the impact of favoritism, nepotism, and sexism; andproviding techniques for successful collaboration, leadership, organizational communication, and other key management topics. By tackling the dysfunctional library head on, managers as well as library workers who find themselves in a toxic situation will be poised to better meet library goals and move the library forward.

Author : Natalie Greene Taylor
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1839825987

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Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate their work in political and information literacy and how these efforts can be improved, the recommendations and examples within which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.

Author : R. David Lankes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 9781522957805

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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity. In an ever more digital and connected world do we still need places of books in our towns, colleges, or schools? If libraries aren't about books, what are they about?In Expect More, David Lankes, winner of the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, walks you through what to expect out of your library. Lankes argues that communities need libraries that go beyond bricks and mortar and beyond books. We need to expect more out of our libraries. They should be places of learning and advocates for our communities in terms of learning, privacy, intellectual property, and economic development.Expect More is a rallying call to communities to raise the bar, and their expectations, for great libraries.

Author : April M. Dawkins
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440872368

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"Despite censorship, fake news, and fear, school librarians champion every student's right to know"--

Author : Teresa Neely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135791406

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A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries! Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides effective retention strategies for diverse employees. It also shows how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits for university employees who are unmarried same- and opposite-sex couples. Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries provides a unique research perspective on assessment and diversity integration in the academic libraries and highlights effective working strategies for a multicultural library environment, examining: partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies which work directly with students assessment and diversity integration in the academic library workplace and six critical challenges for working well in a multicultural environment communication and teaching incorporating service learning experiences in the library and information science curriculum model retention programs for junior faculty of color