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  • METADATA
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    METADATA
    MARCIA LEI ZENG / JIAN QIN
    This benchmark text is back in a new edition thoroughly updated to incorporate developments and changes in metadata and related domains. Zeng and Qin provide a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, offering a comprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of library and information science and beyond. Readers w...

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  • ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES IN TECHNICAL SERVICES
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    ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES IN TECHNICAL SERVICES
    KIMBERLEY A. 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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  • ENHANCING TEACHING AND LEARNING
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    ENHANCING TEACHING AND LEARNING
    JEAN DONHAM / CHELSEA SIMS
    Rapid change calls for informed leadership. The goal of Donham’s text has always been to help school library professionals make a difference in the educational experience and academic attainment of students in their schools. With the addition of new co-author Sims, a junior high school librarian, this newly revised fourth edition rises to the challenge with updates and enhancem...

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  • RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
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    RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
    PATRICIA C. FRANKS
    As Information Management put it, "On the strength of its currency and coverage alone, Franks' book is poised to take over as the recommended go-to reference for both students and RIM professionals for many years to come." The new second edition cements this work's status as an up-to-date classic, its content updated and expanded to address emerging technologies, most notably b...

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  • ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP
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    ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP
    G. EDWARD EVANS / STACEY GREENWELL
    Ideal for practitioners looking to advance their careers and for use in LIS programs, this "comprehensive overview" (Journal of Access Services) has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a timely exploration of the characteristics of academic librarianship and its place in the ever-changing environment of higher education. Evans and new coauthor Greenwell guide readers...

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  • EMBEDDED BUSINESS LIBRARIANSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARIAN
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    EMBEDDED BUSINESS LIBRARIANSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARIAN
    BARBARA A. ALVAREZ
    When a public library invests in building relationships with business owners, professionals, and job seekers in the community, it is investing in the livelihood, well-being, and future of all of its citizens. By demonstrating how the library is a valuable resource for these patrons, the embedded business librarian can be an equal partner in the business community and have an eq...

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  • YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
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    YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
    MICHAEL CART
    Cart’s authoritative survey is already a go-to text for students of literary studies, teachers, and YA staff. In this new edition he gives it a thorough update to make it even more relevant and comprehensive. Surveying the landscape of YA lit both past and present, this book sketches in the origins of literature targeted at young adults; shows how the best of the genre...

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  • BECOMING A MEDIA MENTOR
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    BECOMING A MEDIA MENTOR
    CEN CAMPBELL / CLAUDIA HAINES
    In a time of rapidly changing technologies, the role of the youth services librarian has expanded to include the realm of digital media. Supporting children’s literacy now means serving as a media mentor. This book empowers youth services staff to confidently assist families and caregivers as they navigate the digital world, guiding them towards digital media experiences that w...

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  • ENGAGING BABIES IN THE LIBRARY
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    ENGAGING BABIES IN THE LIBRARY
    DEBRA J. KNOLL
    Public libraries across the nation continue to transform themselves into learning centers for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. There are many resources available to help librarians create baby-friendly play spaces and enhanced storytimes, but until now there has been gap in the literature addressing the developmental needs and changing behaviors of babies and toddlers. Par...

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  • THE LIBRARIAN'S NITTY-GRITTY GUIDE TO CONTENT MARKETING
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    THE LIBRARIAN'S NITTY-GRITTY GUIDE TO CONTENT MARKETING
    LAURA SOLOMON
    What is content marketing? Simply put, it’s the most effective way to increase your value to customers. When you deliver content that library users find useful and relevant, you give a compelling answer to their question, “What’s in it for me?” Author of the best-selling book The Librarian's Nitty-Gritty Guide to Social Media, Solomon speaks directly to public relations personn...

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  • SHARED COLLECTIONS
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    SHARED COLLECTIONS
    DAWN HALE
    Libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a country. As a strategy for saving space and money while expanding access to additional materials and resources, the value of shared collections is indubitable. This collected volume from the Ass...

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  • INSPIRED COLLABORATION
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    INSPIRED COLLABORATION
    DOROTHY STOLTZ
    with Susan M. Mitchell, Cen Campbell, Rolf Grafwallner, Kathleen Reif, and Stephanie Mareck ShauckCollaboration involves a fusion of individual talents and skills through outreach and cooperation. And it is one of the key ingredients of a vibrant, successful library that is also relevant to the community it serves. But it doesn’t just happen magically, and it’s a challenge to ...

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  • DIGITIZING YOUR COLLECTION
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    DIGITIZING YOUR COLLECTION
    SUSANNE CARO
    Digitizing your collection is not only a great way to increase access to your materials, it also engages patrons on a whole new level and helps communicate your library’s value. But with staff time and resources already spread thin, it can be a challenge to plan and undertake a digitization initiative. The good news is that public libraries across the country have done just tha...

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  • FOUNDATIONS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
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    FOUNDATIONS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
    RICHARD E. RUBIN
    Spanning all types of libraries, from public to academic, school, and special, this book illuminates the major facets of library and information science for aspiring professionals as well as those already practicing in the field. ...

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  • FRBR, BEFORE AND AFTER
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    FRBR, BEFORE AND AFTER
    KAREN COYLE
    Coyle’s expert ability to draw from the deep historical background of cataloging theory to illuminate the potentials of library data on the Web helped win her the 2011 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award. Here she persuasively argues that to more effectively connect library users with books, movies, music, computer games, and other resources, library data needs to move beyond F...

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  • BECOMING AN EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN
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    BECOMING AN EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN
    MICHELLE REALE
    Embedded librarianship is “not one size fits all,” yet many books on the subject treat it in a cold, objective manner that doesn’t adequately communicate how becoming an embedded librarian actually works in the real world. Here, Reale shares her own university classroom experiences to offer a step-by-step primer for those contemplating the practice. Demystifying what can someti...

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  • A HISTORY OF ALA POLICY ON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
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    A HISTORY OF ALA POLICY ON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
    TRINA MAGI
    Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this vol...

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  • REAL-WORLD TEEN SERVICES
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    REAL-WORLD TEEN SERVICES
    JENNIFER VELÁSQUEZ
    There are plenty of resources about teen services that focus on YA readers’ advisory and programming ideas. But the basics of day-to-day service to teens in the library setting, a discipline requiring specific skills, is all too often glossed over in professional literature. As a result many LIS grads begin serving teens armed with an incomplete understanding of why their job ...

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  • ASSESSING SERVICE QUALITY
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    ASSESSING SERVICE QUALITY
    PETER HERNON / ELLEN ALTMAN / ROBERT E. DUGAN
    Academic and public libraries are continuing to transform as the information landscape changes, expanding their missions into new service roles that call for improved organizational performance and accountability. Since Assessing Service Quality premiered in 1998, receiving the prestigious Highsmith Library Literature Award, scores of library managers and administrators have tr...

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  • ASSESSING SERVICE QUALITY
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    ASSESSING SERVICE QUALITY
    PETER HERNON
    Academic and public libraries are continuing to transform as the information landscape changes, expanding their missions into new service roles that call for improved organizational performance and accountability. Since Assessing Service Quality premiered in 1998, receiving the prestigious Highsmith Library Literature Award, scores of library managers and administrators have tr...

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  • LEADING LIBRARIES
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    LEADING LIBRARIES
    WYOMA VANDUINKERKEN / WENDI ARANT KASPAR
    Quality leadership is integral to the very future of our profession. And it doesn't only come from the top down. Effective leadership is customer-focused and collaborative, fostering a service culture that invites the involvement of individuals in every part and at every level of the organization, as the authors persuasively demonstrate in this practical new book. Drawing from ...

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  • INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM MANUAL
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    INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM MANUAL
    TRINA MAGI
    Since it was established in 1967, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has championed the rights of library users to seek and receive information on all subjects from all points of view without restriction and without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by others. The new edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual is more than just an invaluable ...

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  • NEW ROUTES TO LIBRARY SUCCESS
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    NEW ROUTES TO LIBRARY SUCCESS
    ELISABETH
    Whether in person or electronically, users come to the public library from outside the library realm. And that’s exactly where genuinely transformational ideas lie. In this book Doucett mines new territory by exploring how successful organizations "outside the stacks" conduct their business. By analyzing what several private-sector organizations and their leaders are doing outs...

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  • THE PURPOSE-BASED LIBRARY
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    THE PURPOSE-BASED LIBRARY
    JOHN J. HUBER / STEVEN V. POTTER
    In the years since John Huber’s trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking—that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers—on its head. These libraries have proven that by streamlining and improving customer services, they ...

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  • TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY PLANNING
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    TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY PLANNING
    MARY MALLERY
    Most library disaster plans focus on response and recovery from collection and facilities disasters, such as fire and floods. But because technology is becoming ever more integral to libraries’ role in their communities, any interruption in service and resources is a serious matter. A disaster’s effect on internet and social media sites, electronic resources, digital collectio...

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  • OUR ENDURING VALUES REVISITED
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    OUR ENDURING VALUES REVISITED
    MICHAEL GORMAN
    In the almost 15 years since Our Enduring Values was published, there has been a sea change in the way much of the world thinks about and uses libraries. Young librarians and seasoned LIS professionals alike are experiencing increasing pressure to adjust to new economic, societal, and technological demands amidst the often-dire rhetoric currently surrounding the future of our i...

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  • THE LIBRARY INNOVATION TOOLKIT
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    THE LIBRARY INNOVATION TOOLKIT
    ANTHONY MOLARO
    Progress for the sake of progress is all too often a drain on precious time and resources. The communities and users that libraries serve are always changing; true innovation helps libraries adapt to meet their needs and aspirations both now and in the future. This stimulating collection offers numerous snapshots of innovation in action at a range of libraries, showcasing ideas...

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  • LIBRARIES AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
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    LIBRARIES AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
    FRANCISCA GOLDSMITH
    Ever since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, public library staff throughout the country have been working hard to provide access to information about the law while educating their communities about how implementation affects them. But defining the expectations and limitations of libraries’ roles regarding support of the new law remains a challenge. This important gu...

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  • THE READERS' ADVISORY GUIDE TO GENRE BLENDS
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    THE READERS' ADVISORY GUIDE TO GENRE BLENDS
    MEGAN M. MCARDLE
    Genre fiction has always been a complex mixture of themes and elements. The increasing popularity of “genre blends,” or fiction that straddles the traditional labels, means greater pleasure for readers but a greater challenge for readers’ advisory. In this informative and entertaining book McArdle gets library staff up to speed on these engaging titles, showing how such crossov...

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  • REINVENTING REFERENCE
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    REINVENTING REFERENCE
    KATIE ELSON ANDERSON
    Uniquely positioned to connect library users to the information they seek, and thus to the wider world, library staff who serve on the front lines of reference have both the power and responsibility to position the library as an institution that remains relevant and responsive. This collection takes a critical look at the overarching trends that affect current library policy an...

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