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  • THE HIGH-IMPACT DIGITAL LIBRARY
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    THE HIGH-IMPACT DIGITAL LIBRARY
    JEREMY MYNTTI / ANNA NEATROUR / RACHEL JANE WITTMANN / REBEKAH CUMMINGS / JANE D. MONSON / MEGAN MYRES MC
    Digital library terminology like “accessible,” “discoverable,” and “searchable” usually presumes passive collections waiting to be found by motivated information seekers. Rarely do we envision collection managers initiating outreach with those most likely to benefit from the collections. This new collection from Core flips the script, exploring the many ways that digital librar...

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  • WELL-BEING IN THE LIBRARY WORKPLACE
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    WELL-BEING IN THE LIBRARY WORKPLACE
    BOBBI L. NEWMAN
    Fostering well-being in today's library workplaces is no longer a luxury but a necessity, particularly for managers tasked with guiding and supporting their teams. Amidst budget cuts, attempts to ban or restrict books, attacks on library staff online and in-person, and potentially hostile and aggressive patrons, taking care of ourselves and our staff by putting good policies an...

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  • RIGHTSIZING THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY COLLECTION
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    RIGHTSIZING THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY COLLECTION
    MARY E. MILLER / SUZANNE M. WARD
    Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the first edition of this book demonstrated the power and flexibility of “rightsizing,” an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection. In the five years since Ward’s first edition, the shared print infrastructure has ...

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  • INTRODUCING RDA
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    INTRODUCING RDA
    CHRIS OLIVER
    Since Oliver’s guide was first published in 2010, thousands of LIS students, records managers, and catalogers and other library professionals have relied on its clear, plainspoken explanation of RDA: Resource Description and Access as their first step towards becoming acquainted with the cataloging standard. Now, reflecting the changes to RDA after the completion of the 3R Proj...

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  • ASK, LISTEN, EMPOWER
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    ASK, LISTEN, EMPOWER
    MARY DAVIS FOURNIER
    Foreword by Tracie D. Hall Community engagement isn't simply an important component of a successful library—it’s the foundation upon which every service, offering, and initiative rests. Working collaboratively with community members—be they library customers, residents, faculty, students or partner organizations— ensures that the library works, period. This important resource f...

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  • PIVOTING DURING THE PANDEMIC
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    PIVOTING DURING THE PANDEMIC
    When the pandemic suddenly forced many public libraries to close their doors or limit patron access, library staff redoubled their efforts to serve their communities in every way possible. Demonstrating their resilience by quickly pivoting to new modes of service, public libraries are continuing to offer innovative yet practical ways to connect patrons to the information and se...

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  • MODULAR ONLINE LEARNING DESIGN
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    MODULAR ONLINE LEARNING DESIGN
    AMANDA NICHOLS HESS
    Does your online instruction program sometimes feel like a constant scramble to keep pace with requests and deadlines? Modular design is the answer. Approaching projects, whether large and small, with an eye towards future uses will put you on the path to accomplishing broader, organizational goals. And by intentionally building documentation and structure into your process, yo...

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  • COLLECTION MANAGEMENT FOR YOUTH
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    COLLECTION MANAGEMENT FOR YOUTH
    SANDRA HUGHES-HASSELL, PH.D.
    With a renewed emphasis on facilitating learning, supporting multiple literacies, and advancing equity and inclusion, the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this trusted text provides models and tools that will enable library staff who serve youth to create and maintain collections that provide equitable access to all youth. And as Hughes-Hassell demonstrates, the...

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  • PROVING YOUR LIBRARY'S VALUE
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    PROVING YOUR LIBRARY'S VALUE
    ALAN FISHEL / JILLIAN WENTWORTH / UNITED FOR LIBRARIES
    You know the value of your library, but elected officials, donors, community leaders, funders, and other important stakeholders may not. How can you make the library a priority for these groups, who may have preconceived notions about what the library does, as you compete with other important community organizations for funding? In this book from United for Libraries, you’ll le...

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  • ALL AGES WELCOME
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    ALL AGES WELCOME
    LINA BERTINELLI / MADELINE JARVIS / MADELINE JARVIS / KATHY KOSINSKI / TESS WILSON
    According to 2016 Pew Research Center survey data, Millennials are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult demographic. But despite being core library users, millennials and other younger generations are often underrepresented on library boards and library advocacy groups, including Friends groups and Foundations.  But you can change t...

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  • CONSTRUCTING LIBRARY BUILDINGS THAT WORK
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    CONSTRUCTING LIBRARY BUILDINGS THAT WORK
    FRED SCHLIPF
    When it’s time to start planning for a renovation or construction project, you don’t need a book that covers everything from A to Z. Instead you need a concentrated set of tools and techniques that will guide you and your team to find the best solutions for your specific project. That’s exactly what library building expert Schlipf provides in his new book, which will be a key r...

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  • DEMYSTIFYING ONLINE INSTRUCTION IN LIBRARIES
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    DEMYSTIFYING ONLINE INSTRUCTION IN LIBRARIES
    DOMINIQUE TURNBOW / AMANDA ROTH
    The design of information literacy instruction and the building of it are two distinct skillsets and processes; yet all too often everything gets mashed together, creating needless confusion and stress. In this book Turnbow, an instructional designer, and Roth, an instructional technologist, suggest a better way to organize the work. They shed light on the people, processes, an...

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  • MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY
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    MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY
    MICHELLE REALE
    While the profession has generated many books on information literacy, none to date have validated exactly why it is so difficult to teach. In her new book, Reale posits that examining and reflecting on the reality of those factors is what will enable practitioners to meet the challenge of their important mandate. Using the same warm and conversational tone as in her previous w...

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  • MAKING SENSE OF BUSINESS REFERENCE
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    MAKING SENSE OF BUSINESS REFERENCE
    CELIA ROSS
    “It reads as if you have an expert coach in business reference helping you each step of the way." That’s how Academic BRASS summarized the first edition of this unique, unparalleled resource authored by Ross, a past winner of the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. Now she’s revised and updated it to tackle even more “bizref” headscratchers rel...

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  • OPEN PRAXIS, OPEN ACCESS
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    OPEN PRAXIS, OPEN ACCESS
    DARREN CHASE / DANA HAUGH
    Many in the world of scholarship share the conviction that open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems. This collection brings together librarians, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and thinkers to take measure of the open access movement. The editors meld critical ess...

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  • LIBRARYLAND
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    LIBRARYLAND
    BEN BIZZLE, SUE CONSIDINE
    Libraries are community connectors, places where people come together, think together, and learn together. Libraries support and nurture strong, resilient communities. Day in and day out, the library workers at these institutions are doing much more than ensuring equal and equitable access to information; and their impact stretches far beyond the books, programs, and services t...

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  • A TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH TO LIBRARY SERVICES
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    A TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH TO LIBRARY SERVICES
    REBECCA TOLLEY
    We are only now coming to terms with how common trauma really is; a landmark Kaiser study that surveyed patients receiving physicals found that almost two-thirds had experienced at least one form of abuse, neglect, or other trauma as a child. Though originating in the fields of health and social services, trauma-informed care is a framework that holds great promise for applicat...

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  • 100+ IDEAS TO INSPIRE SMART SPACES AND CREATIVE PLACES
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    100+ IDEAS TO INSPIRE SMART SPACES AND CREATIVE PLACES
    ELISABETH DOUCETT
    The ideas in this book are all about helping your library building become a more exciting, interesting, experiential space where people are engaged and want to spend time.  More time spent in the library increases the library’s value and relevance to its users—and the more intriguing the space is, the more it helps draw in new patrons.  Taking inspiration and examples from comp...

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  • 100+ IDEAS TO INSPIRE SMART SPACES AND CREATIVE PLACES
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    100+ IDEAS TO INSPIRE SMART SPACES AND CREATIVE PLACES
    ELISABETH DOUCETT
    The ideas in this book are all about helping your library building become a more exciting, interesting, experiential space where people are engaged and want to spend time.  More time spent in the library increases the library’s value and relevance to its users—and the more intriguing the space is, the more it helps draw in new patrons.  Taking inspiration and examples...

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  • THE CULTURE OF DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
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    THE CULTURE OF DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
    ROBUN CHIN ROEMER, VERLETTA KERN
    At the heart of digital scholarship are universal questions, lessons, and principles relating both to the mission of higher education and the shared values that make an academic library culture. But while global in aspirations, digital scholarship starts with local culture drawn from the community. Editors Chin Roemer and Kern invite you into their institutional workspace, the ...

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  • INCUBATING CREATIVITY AT YOUR LIBRARY
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    INCUBATING CREATIVITY AT YOUR LIBRARY
    LAURA DAMON-MOORE / ERINN BATYKEFER
    Creativity needs a platform. As technology consultant David Weinberger puts it, “A platform provides resources that lets other people build things.” The library is an ideal platform, and in this book Batykefer and Damon-Moore, creators of the Library as Incubator Project, share the experiences of numerous creative library workers and artists who are making it happen. Their stor...

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  • LIBRARIES AND THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE CRISIS
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    LIBRARIES AND THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE CRISIS
    CINDY GROVE
    The opioid epidemic, and other behavioral health issues such as alcohol and drug abuse, directly impact every community across the nation; and, by extension, public libraries’ daily work. Because libraries are not only trusted guardians of information but also vital community centers, people struggling with addictive behaviors as well as their family members and friends often t...

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  • INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM STORIES FROM A SHIFTING LANDSCAPE
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    INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM STORIES FROM A SHIFTING LANDSCAPE
    VALERIE NYE
    Intellectual freedom is a complex concept that democracies and free societies around the world define in different ways but always strive to uphold. And ALA has long recognized the crucial role that libraries play in protecting this right. But what does it mean in practice? How do library workers handle the ethical conundrums that often accompany the commitment to defending it?...

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  • COACHING COPYRIGHT
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    COACHING COPYRIGHT
    ERIN L ELLIS, KEVIN L SMITH
    From researching to remixing, library users need your guidance on a wide range of copyright topics. The way to move beyond “yes, you can” or “no, you can’t” is to become a copyright coach. In this collection librarian and attorney Smith teams up with information literacy expert Ellis to offer a framework for coaching copyright, empowering users to take a practical approach to s...

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  • CULTIVATING CIVILITY
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    CULTIVATING CIVILITY
    JO HENRY / JOE ESHLEMAN / RICHARD MONIZ
    Like other workplaces, libraries can sometimes be stressful, with library workers bearing the brunt of such problems as uncivil patrons, poor communication, inadequate leadership, and toxic behaviors by fellow employees. But there’s hope. Following up their acclaimed examination of the dysfunctional library ("should be essential reading for library leaders" raves Journal of the...

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  • LINKED DATA FOR THE PERPLEXED LIBRARIAN
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    LINKED DATA FOR THE PERPLEXED LIBRARIAN
    SCOTT CARLSON / CORY LAMPERT / DARNELLE MELVIN / ANNE WASHINGTON
    Linked data has become a punchline in certain circles of the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community, derided as a much-hyped project that will ultimately never come to fruition. But the fact is, linked data is already happening now, evident in projects from Big Tech and the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the web pages of library service platforms. The goa...

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  • LEARNER-CENTERED PEDAGOGY
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    LEARNER-CENTERED PEDAGOGY
    KEVIN MICHAEL KLIPFEL / DANI BRECHER COOK
    Today's emphasis on metrics and personalization make evidence-based instruction an imperative. In this practice-based handbook, the authors draw on the research of the humanistic psychologist and educator Carl Rogers to present an empathetic approach to information literacy sessions, reference service, and outreach.  With an eye on everyday library work, they offer concrete, em...

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  • COPYRIGHT LAW FOR LIBRARIANS AND EDUCATORS
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    COPYRIGHT LAW FOR LIBRARIANS AND EDUCATORS
    KENNETH D. CREWS
    Copyright law never sleeps, making it imperative to keep abreast of the latest developments. Declared "an exemplary text that seals the standards for such books" (Managing Information), this newly revised and updated edition by respected copyright authority Crews offers timely insights and succinct guidance for LIS students, librarians, and educators alike. Readers will learn b...

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  • LIBRARIES THAT LEARN
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    LIBRARIES THAT LEARN
    JENNIFER A BARTLETT
    Sharing organizational knowledge supports onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and the day-to-day smooth functioning of the workplace. So why are the procedures, policies, and best practices for your organization often so hard to find? Although the term "knowledge management" might conjure up images of a bureaucratic labyrinth, essentially it means getting the right information to ...

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  • ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES IN TECHNICAL SERVICES
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    ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES IN TECHNICAL SERVICES
    KIMBERLY EDWARDS, MICHELLE LEONARD
    Are you spending money wisely? Can you prove it? The call for efficiency and evidence-based practice has sparked an examination traditional assessment and statistic-gathering. This collective work from ALCTS suggests new approaches for acquisition and collections; cataloging and metadata; digital preservation; and e-resources and serials. Exploring your options for assessment w...

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