"This important resource provides targeted guidance on how libraries can effectively engage with the public to address a range of issues for the betterment of their community, whether it is a city, neighborhood, campus, or something else"--

"This is the first public library text to look at the administration of the public library as essentially different from that of other library types. It also emphasizes the crucial nature of advocacy, promotion, and marketing and demonstrates how each public library can identify and meet the needs of its own particular community"--

In this collection of essays, staff working directly with teens explore ideas, services and programs that continue to evolve within their libraries. The challenges revealed emphasize the fact that neglecting teen library services risks a future in which libraries themselves are no longer valuable to the community and the potential advocates which todays teenagers will someday become.

"Senior Services Today will help library staff provide excellent services and programs for older adults. This practical guide's purpose will guide libraries and seniors in cultivating symbiotic relationships with a key community by intwining the library's core mission with seniors' personal values"--

This commonsense guide will help library managers understand the underpinnings of technology and how to powerfully manage tech to serve patrons and staff alike. Learn: ow libraries fit into the overall technology market; Strategies to future-proof library technology efforts; Approaches to technology planning that stick - and strategies to keep the plan on track; Skills to understand technology investments by understanding the total costs of ownership...

"Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. This manual is applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students"--

Fandoms are passionate communities of people, tied together by their fervent devotion to a fictional book, show, sport, and more. The authors provide library programmers with practical tips for offering programs that will appeal to the various fandoms that exist among your patrons. Each theme in the book includes suggestions that can be adapted for your facility.

"Learn how to assist library patrons, including self-represented litigants, through legal research instruction, programming, and outreach"--

"This book provides you with guidelines for financial literacy education in libraries"-- Financial literacy is vital to a person's success and well-being-- at all stages of life. A basic understanding of finance can help people out of dire financial situations, and help keep them from being defrauded. Library programming can help empower underserved Americans by educating them to financial decision making and planning. This book pulls together resources...

"Working on the foundation of Inquire and the domains of Think, Create, Share, and Grow, this book will cover how inquiry aids in lifelong learning for the Learner and the Librarian, and how it creates a strong Library program. Working from the theoretical - why inquiry is important for all learners to cultivate and to embrace critical thinking skills, communication skills, collaboration skills, and creativity skills - to the practical application...