Libraries Within The Library

Author : Christine Pawley,Louise S. Robbins
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299293239

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Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America by Christine Pawley,Louise S. Robbins Pdf

For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other reference books, and literary genres including poetry, plays, and novels. Public libraries continue to have an extraordinary impact; in the early twenty-first century, the American Library Association reports that there are more public library branches than McDonald's restaurants in the United States. Much has been written about libraries from professional and managerial points of view, but less so from the perspectives of those most intimately involved—patrons and librarians. Drawing on circulation records, patron reviews, and other archived materials, Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America underscores the evolving roles that libraries have played in the lives of American readers. Each essay in this collection examines a historical circumstance related to reading in libraries. The essays are organized in sections on methods of researching the history of reading in libraries; immigrants and localities; censorship issues; and the role of libraries in providing access to alternative, nonmainstream publications. The volume shows public libraries as living spaces where individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds, needs, and desires encountered and used a great variety of texts, images, and other media throughout the twentieth century.

Author : John E. Buschman,Gloria J. Leckie
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015066881866

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The Library as Place by John E. Buschman,Gloria J. Leckie Pdf

Libraries, as a component of cultural space, are ubiquitous to almost every society during almost every time period. However, as places of cultural and symbolic and intellectual meaning, they have varied greatly. To capture both aspects, this collection of 14 original papers covers library spaces old and new, real and imagined, large and small, public and private. Contributions range from a consideration of the Garrison library in the British Empire, to the Carnegie library as a social institution, to the imagined library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The result is a fascinating look at the library as a physical, social, and intellectual place within the hearts and minds of its clientele and the public at large.

Author : Richard Rogers Bowker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 026030879X

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The Library List by Richard Rogers Bowker Pdf

Excerpt from The Library List: Being a List of Public Libraries in the United States and in Canada of Over 1000 Volumes, With Classification by Size and Name of Librarian The library list is a compilation based on the list of libraries compiled by the United States Bureau of Education, and forming part of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, now the Hon. N. H. R. Dawson. It differs from that, however, in eliminating the minor libraries of under a thousand volumes, in adding the names of Librarians, and in classifying, by means of types of different face, libraries of corresponding numbers, as over over over 5000, and over 1000. There is also added a supplementary list of libraries, made partly by the Bureau of Education and partly from the records of the oflice of the library journai In the present shape, with the opportunity given by the printing on alter nate pages for correcting and extending the list to any date, it is hoped that this library Lls'r may be of service to all concerned with the library interest. The library list includes also the Libraries of Canada and the other British North American Provinces, for which it is indebted to the enterprise and courtesy of jame's Bain, jr., Librarian of the Free Public Library, Toronto. This is an addition which we believe will be of great value and interest, as it is, we think, the first careful census of Canadian Libraries. It was at first proposed to add schedules of Libraries of Great Britain and of other countries, but the facts that the present material is inadequate, and that Messrs. H. R, Tedder and E. C. Thomas, whose list in the fourteenth volume of the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the best existing authority, are now at work upon a similar undertaking for Great Britain, has precluded the inclusion of foreign libraries. The distinction by means of type will enable those who have occasion to com municate with libraries to address few or many as they prefer, and many libraries will find it peculiarly useful for exchanging their reports and publications with libraries of corresponding size. The Brooklyn Library, for instance, has used this list, as origi nally published in the library journal, to send its annual report and its musical bulletin to all libraries of over volumes in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136588020

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Library Users and Reference Services by Linda S Katz Pdf

This useful book helps reference librarians understand the information seeking needs and behaviors of the diverse groups of people in the communities they serve. With the increasing diversity of the American population, librarians striving to plan and deliver excellent reference services must enhance their understanding of how best to assist many types of individuals and groups, from children to the elderly. Library Users and Reference Services provides much-needed help in this area, delivering strategies and methods to aid readers in their quest for increasingly effective service for all members of the communities in which they work.Library Users and Reference Services is divided into four sections of chapters which cover a broad range of topics to assist readers in planning and delivering appropriate services. Section One explores customer service, economics of information, and marketing as key concepts useful in studying information needs of specific groups in the population. Section Two focuses on scholars and students in three broad academic disciplines: science, humanities, and social sciences. Section Three covers groups with special characteristics such as age, economic standing, gender, or profession. Section Four discusses evaluation and provides guidance in the use of the most widely accepted measures for assessing reference effectiveness.The book’s final chapter explores redesigning reference services for the future, providing a glimpse of how such services may change. Library Users and Reference Services is a practical guide to help readers understand the many issues related to serving diverse populations in a community. Reference librarians and graduate library school students and faculty will learn more effective ways to help a heterogeneous public with the help of this new book.

Author : Chakraborty, Susmita
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781466643666

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Collaboration in International and Comparative Librarianship by Chakraborty, Susmita Pdf

With the introduction of the Bologna Process, the emphasis on the importance of international librarianship and its activity between governmental or non-governmental institutions, organizations, and groups of nations has continued to grow. Collaboration in International and Comparative Librarianship highlights the importance of international librarianship in governmental and non-governmental institutions, organizations, and groups in order to promote, develop, and maintain librarianship and the library profession around the world. This publication is essential for graduate students, researchers, teachers, and LIS administrators in the field of library science.

Author : Pierce Butler
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781447492948

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An Introduction To Library Science by Pierce Butler Pdf

AN INTRODUCTION TO LIBRARY SCIENCE by PIERCE BUTLER. FOREWORD: THE Graduate Library School of the Uni versity of Chicago was established in 1926 in response to a desire on the part of many librarians and organizations interested in education for librarianship that a library school should be provided in connection with one of Americas great universities which would de vote itself to advanced study and investigation in the field of librarianship. In urging the establishment of such a school its advocates were impressed with the rapidly in creasing resources of American libraries and their consequent growing complexity. They were also convinced of the necessity of providing instruction in accord with the highest standards of modern scholarship in order that the most ef fective forms of library organization and admin istration might be insured. The rapid expansion of public, county, school, and special libraries al so offered convincing evidence that the relation ships of these organizations to society and gov ernment were of such a nature as to require con sideration as comprehensive and scholarly as that given to the development and direction of social and economic institutions. The University of Chicago, in assuming re sponsibility for the development of such a school, has constantly kept these objectives in mind. Accordingly, the Graduate Library School, established on this basis, has undertaken to realize these objectives through the organiza tion of its curricula, the methods of investiga tion which it employs, and the correlation of its work with that of other schools and departments of the University which seem to have something of value to contribute to the study of librarian ship. The School has also undertaken the publi cation of the Library Quarterly through which members of its staff and student body, librari ans, and others may present the results of inves tigations or record significant developments in the various fields of library interest. In order to carry this work further, the School herewith begins the publication of a series of studies in Library Science in which will appear from time to time the results of more extensive studies than can appropriately be presented through the pages of the Library Quarterly, The present volume, An Introduction to Li brary Science is the first of these studies to ap pear in the series. It has been prepared by Dr. Pierce Butler, formerly of the staff of the New berry Library and now Professor of Bibliograph ical History in the Graduate Library School. As the title indicates, it is concerned with the consideration of librarianship as a science. It should be pointed out, however, that the title will prove misleading if it is interpreted too liter ally. The volume is not an elementary handbook which deals with library rules and procedures. On the contrary, through the essays which con stitute the volume. Dr. Butler sets forth the es sential nature of science as he conceives it, and shows how the problems of the modern library as an important social institution may be studied in accord with its spirit and methods. In this re spect it reflects the approach made by the School to librarianship and the attitude assumed by it in the study and investigation of library prob lems. That many librarians will not agree that libra rianship can properly be studied in this way is to be taken for granted. Differences of opinion on this point have already been expressed and will continue to be. It is the hope of Dr. Butler and of the School, however, that while this diversity of opinion will continue to exist, those who hold such a contrary opinion will accord his presenta tion a sympathetic hearing...

Author : Ross Harvey,Douglas Ross Harvey
Publisher : London : Bowker-Saur
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015029565580

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Preservation in Libraries by Ross Harvey,Douglas Ross Harvey Pdf

Providing a single point of access to the pert knowledge, theories & experience throughout the library & information science world, this international selection of writings was chosen for its power to amplify & illustrate preservation policy. Readings range from fire recovery at the USSR Library of the Academy of Sciences to preservation education in U.S. library schools, & reveal how preventative aspects of preservation can be integrated into daily management. (TOPICS IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES)

Author : Henry Eduard Legler
Publisher : anboco
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736415997

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Library Ideals by Henry Eduard Legler Pdf

WSCONSIN, a true cradle of freedom and successful government, has fostered several librarians who were true humanists. Dr. Peckham was one. Dr. Thwaites was another. Henry E. Legler was unlike either of these, but greater than either in his continued and unabated activity for the good of the people. Once, on being complimented for his splendid work in natural history and his persistence in the pursuit of scientific facts, Dr. Peckham remarked: "Oh, yes, but the facts have no value in themselves. They merely build up the groundwork of the ideas, and help you climb to the point of view where the deeper aspects of the subject spread out before you like a landscape beneath a mountain-top." Mr. Legler's activity in behalf of libraries will support the same explanation. He seemed always immersed in detail, always planning some movement and carrying it into effect by his peculiar, dynamic persistence. But he who observed the man kindly and closely cannot have failed to have noticed that there was a distinct Beyond illumining and overshadowing it all. There was a dream to come true, a vision to be unfolded. The dream and vision were in the man's speech and eye. He lived under a prophecy. It is not for us to estimate whether this prophecy became fulfilled in his life as one of us. But it is our privilege to confess that it brought to us the[Pg viii] things which Europeans have designated as "culture" and which really is enlightenment. Thus it is that many of Mr. Legler's associates and friends will recollect with gratitude that some gave them knowledge, and others gave them opportunities, but it was for Mr. Legler to illumine their knowledge and opportunity with the live spark of inspiration. The dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner.

Author : Frank W. Hoffmann,Richard John Wood
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810851806

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Library Collection Development Policies by Frank W. Hoffmann,Richard John Wood Pdf

This book represents an ongoing effort to fill the void in the library literature relating to collection development policies. The authors, whose experience each spans four decades as library educators and practitioners, created the book--as well as a forthcoming companion volume devoted to school libraries--to assist both library school students and professionals in the field in the compilation, revision, and implementation of collection development policies. Cutting edge trends such as digital document delivery and library cooperation are also covered. Furthermore, given the premise that a well-rounded policy reflects all activities concerning the collection management process--including the evaluation, selection, acquisition, and weeding of information resources--it is hoped that this work will also prove useful to non-librarians possessing some kind of stake in high quality library holdings, such as library board members, politicians, and administrators directly responsible for library operations, and institutional patrons.

Author : Beth Posner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216111290

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Library Information and Resource Sharing by Beth Posner Pdf

Through the perspectives of interlibrary loan (ILL) specialists, this book examines what ILL departments are doing, the value of ILL librarians in the evolving library environment, and how library collections and services are being affected by new ILL policies. In today's libraries, ILL specialists are facilitating service that goes far beyond traditional borrowing and lending. Recent innovations in interlibrary loan and library resource-sharing practices have advanced the information-sharing mission of libraries—a sea change that affects and benefits all library operations and staff. This book explores the far-reaching significance of these innovations in ILL for other areas of library activity, from acquisitions and collection development to reference and instruction to circulation and e-resource management and beyond. Readers will understand that as valuable as traditional ILL remains, ILL librarians are also well-placed to do much more. For example, ILL staff can inform acquisitions and collection development decisions with request data; demonstrate the need to maintain and preserve the long tail of print; advocate for the fair use of copyrighted print material and license terms that safeguard library information sharing in the digital environment; nurture consortial relationships and international cooperation between libraries; and promote the discovery of information, all of which can help librarians meet the information needs of their communities.

Author : William Isaac Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOMDLP:aey8516:0001.001

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Public Libraries in America by William Isaac Fletcher Pdf

Author : Gretchen L. Hoffman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538108529

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Organizing Library Collections by Gretchen L. Hoffman Pdf

Libraries organize their collections to help library users find what they need. Organizing library collections may seem like a straightforward and streamlined process, but it can be quite complex, and there is a large body of theory and practice that shape and support this work. Learning about the organization of library collections can be challenging. Libraries have a long history of organizing their collections, there are many principles, models, standards, and tools used to organize collections, and theory and practice are changing constantly. Written for beginning library science students, Organizing Library Collections: Theory and Practice introduces the theory and practice of organizing library collections in a clear, straightforward, and understandable way. It explains why and how libraries organize their collections, and how theory and practice work together to help library users. It introduces basic cataloging and metadata theory, describes and evaluates the major cataloging and metadata standards and tools used to organize library collections, and explains, in general, how all libraries organize their collections in practice. Yet, this book not only introduces theory and practice in general, it introduces students to a wide range of topics involved in organizing library collections. This book explores how academic, public, school, and special libraries typically organize their collections and why. It also discusses standardization and explains how cataloging and metadata standards and policies are developed. Ethical issues also are explored and ethical decision-making is addressed. In addition, several discussion questions and class activities reinforce concepts introduced in each chapter. Students should walk away from this book understanding why and how libraries organize their collections.

Author : Edward Edwards
Publisher : London, Trübner & Company
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : BL:A0018257019

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Free Town Libraries, Their Formation, Management, and History by Edward Edwards Pdf

Author : George Lupone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317993780

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Assessment of Library Collections in a Consortial Environment by George Lupone Pdf

The consortial environment provides librarians with new ways to manage collections at their home institutions. Academic libraries in Ohio have been participating in OhioLINK since 1988, and the consortium has had an effect on shaping local collections for more than one decade. While each institution pursues its own collection management strategy, the shared resources and delivery system provided through OhioLINK influence local collections profoundly. What has been the effect? This work is a collection of articles assessing local collections within a consortial environment. The authors assess collections from their own vantage points, considering such diverse factors as cost, regional depositories, book reviews, and faculty input. The influence of consortial ties in shaping local collections is a common thread throughout the work. This book was published as a special issue of Collection Management.

Author : Barbara Lockett,American Library Association. Subcommittee on Guidelines for Collection Development
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015010366162

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Guide to the Evaluation of Library Collections by Barbara Lockett,American Library Association. Subcommittee on Guidelines for Collection Development Pdf

This text provides principles and methods for determining if a library collection is fulfilling the stated mission of the library. It is a clear introduction to collection evaluation for the novice collection manager, and it is also useful as a review and reference for the experienced librarian.