Using Libguides To Enhance Library Services

Author : Aaron W. Dobbs,Ryan L. Sittler,Douglas Cook
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781555708801

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Using LibGuides to Enhance Library Services by Aaron W. Dobbs,Ryan L. Sittler,Douglas Cook Pdf

The easy-to-use tools in Springshare’s LibGuides help you organize webpages, improve students’ research experience and learning, and offer an online community of librarians sharing their work and ideas. Editors Dobbs, Sittler, and Cook have recruited expert contributors to address specific applications, creating a one-stop reference. Readers will be able to create subject guides that achieve the full potential of LibGuides with advice on such topics as Learning from the best—a showcase of 28 LibGuides with exceptional design and pedagogy Collaborating with faculty to embed LibGuides in course management systems Creating a customized look to your LibGuides with design flair and enhanced functionality Getting ready for smart-phone users with a plan for the mobile web Setting up Google Analytics on a LibGuide site Teaching with LibGuides

Author : Carrie Forbes,Peggy Keeran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781440869549

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Academic Library Services for Graduate Students by Carrie Forbes,Peggy Keeran Pdf

Providing practical and theoretical chapters on academic library services for graduate students, this volume helps information professionals support this often-overlooked campus population to address their multiple roles and identities as students and as future faculty members or professionals. As more and more students attend graduate programs, many higher education institutions have established professional development programs to help graduate students learn the wide range of skills needed to be successful as both students and as future professionals or academics. To presuppose that graduate students are proficient library users is a mistake. Graduate students need and want help, and many libraries are now offering specialized services for this diverse population. Contributors to this edited volume provide case studies and practical advice on academic library services for graduate students that support their multiple roles on campus and address the complex social and emotional issues related to their other roles as parents, working adults, caretakers, and more. As academic libraries shift from functioning primarily as collections repositories to collaborating as key players in discovery and knowledge creation, value-added services for graduate students are even more central to libraries' changing missions. This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing professional conversation and is a useful tool for librarians who want to better support graduate students at their institutions.

Author : Aaron W. Dobbs,Ryan L. Sittler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442270343

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Integrating LibGuides into Library Websites by Aaron W. Dobbs,Ryan L. Sittler Pdf

Integrating LibGuides into Library Websites introduces ideas and options for both newer users and administrators. This book covers responsive, mobile-first web design, and provides overviews and in-depth information for LibGuides authors and administrators. Topics covered include: Introduction: If you’re new to LibGuides, learn the ins and outs as well as how to maximize functionality through the use of the new version and LibApps Administration and Management: Learn about the administrator’s role in LibGuides and how you foster cooperation and integration between content creators and users Usability and Accessibility: Using theoretical and concrete ideas, improve LibGuides content and user experience Pedagogy: Through tips and best practices, learn how to enhance the classroom experience by incorporating LibGuides into teaching Level-up your LibGuides content with improved accessibility and usability. Imbue your LibGuides instructional support with sound pedagogical theory. It’s great to have a useful, accessible site as a starting point. Take your LibGuides to the next level using sound pedagogical design and practices. Through detailed instructions and real life examples, this authoritative LITA Guide provides you with the tools and knowledge to enhance and invigorate your LibGuides experience.

Author : Jakob Nielsen,Raluca Budiu
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780133122176

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Mobile Usability by Jakob Nielsen,Raluca Budiu Pdf

How do we create a satisfactory user experience when limited to a small device? This new guide focuses on usability for mobile devices, primarily smartphones and touchphones, and covers such topics as developing a mobile strategy, designing for small screens, writing for mobile, usability comparisons, and looking toward the future. The book includes 228-full color illustrations to demonstrate the points. Based on expert reviews and international studies with participants ranging from students to early technology adopters and business people using websites on a variety of mobile devices, this guide offers a complete look at the landscape for a mobile world. Author Jakob Nielsen is considered one of the world's leading experts on Web usability. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Prioritizing Web Usability and the groundbreaking Designing Web Usability, which has sold more than 250,000 copies and has been translated in 22 languages.

Author : Susanne Caro
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838915974

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Government Information Essentials by Susanne Caro Pdf

Government documents, both physical and electronic, constitute a rich and varied resource that calls for special attention. And because government information is useful and pervasive in nearly every kind of library, more and more librarians of all types need to know how to work effectively with federal, state, and international resources. This contributed volume gathers the expertise of experienced government information librarians from across the country. Providing real-world insight into the work, collections, and interests of this discipline, this book surveys the wide variety of government information and the people who use it;discusses what it’s like to be a government documents librarian, from the first day on the job through taking on a management role;addresses networking, training, and other essential tools for collaboration and learning;covers space planning, streamlining, disaster preparedness and response, the increasing prevalence of digital information, and other key collection issues;offers best practices for connecting library users with government information;looks at research guides, workshops, and other teaching and training topics; andexplores advocating for transparency and access to information, promoting government documents to library users, and using exhibits as community outreach. With more government publications becoming freely available, this volume fills an important need, presenting concrete guidance that will help librarians flourish in this crucial field.

Author : Christie Koontz,Barbara Gubbin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110232271

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IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines by Christie Koontz,Barbara Gubbin Pdf

The public library is the prime community access point designed to respond to a multitude of ever-changing information needs. These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations. They assist to better develop effective services, relevant collections, and accessible formats within the context and requirements of the local community. In this exciting and complex information world it is important for professionals in search of knowledge, information and creative experience to succeed. This is the 2nd edition of The Public Library Service IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines for Development.

Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : John J. Burke
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781555709150

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The Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion, Fourth Edition by John J. Burke Pdf

The fourth edition of Burke's comprehensive resource, newly revised and updated, is a perfect primer for LIS students and should be at the top of the list for any current or future library professional looking to stay at the forefront of technological advancement. This all-in-one guide helps readers contribute to improving institutional performance, boost productivity, and stay connected to the latest library technology topics and tools by offering incisive coverage of Library technology basics, with a historical overview providing context, suggested resources for staying up to date, and a chapter on appraising and purchasing equipment and putting systems into operation Technology tools, including computers of all kinds (desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices), office applications, the wireless world, the vast changes and potential of library catalogs and databases, social media, and much more How libraries put technology to work through adaptive/assistive technology, virtual reference, blogs, screencasting, distance learning, and other day-to-day workflow Building and maintaining technology, offering guidance on spam, spyware, security strips, and other dangers of the cyberworld, plus troubleshooting tips for typical technology problems and advice on making technology environments comfortable for users The importance of long-range technology planning and how to take steps to start the planning process

Author : Erik T. Mitchell
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781555708788

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Cloud-Based Services for Your Library by Erik T. Mitchell Pdf

By exploring specific examples of cloud computing and virtualization, this book allows libraries considering cloud computing to start their exploration of these systems with a more informed perspective.

Author : Claire B. Gunnels,Susan E. Green,Patricia M. Butler
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780838911389

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Joint Libraries by Claire B. Gunnels,Susan E. Green,Patricia M. Butler Pdf

The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model.

Author : Mary Beth Weber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442238640

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Rethinking Library Technical Services by Mary Beth Weber Pdf

Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field? In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers and editor of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), the official journal of ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and one of the top peer-reviewed scholarly technical services journals has compiled a veritable who’s who of the field to answer just these questions. Experts including Amy K. Weiss, Sylvia Hall-Ellis, and Sherri L. Vellucci answer vital questions like: Is there a future for traditional cataloging, acquisitions, and technical services? How can librarians influence the outcome of vendor-provided resources such as e-books, licensing, records sets, and authority control? Will RDA live up to its promise? Are approval plans and subject profiles relics of the past? Is there a need to curate data through its lifecycle? What skills will be needed in the future in technical services jobs?

Author : Bhattacharyya, Swati,Patnaik, K Rama
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781522528036

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Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age by Bhattacharyya, Swati,Patnaik, K Rama Pdf

The current digital age is impacting the contents and delivery of instructional service in many ways. Instructional sessions not only describe various features of a resource, but these sessions also bring issues like the ethical use of information, copyrights, and the value of open knowledge to light. Librarians are required to help users to learn use these tools. Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age provides emerging information on data visualization tools, creating effective instructions, and instructional design in library sciences. While highlighting the challenges of effectively training new and seasoned librarians in these various aspects of data technology and teaching methods, readers will learn the importance of giving librarians the tools they need to complete their new responsibilities. This book is an important resource for entry level and seasoned librarians, researchers, and instructional design specialists seeking current research on up to date library instruction in the modern technology age.

Author : Hali R. Keeler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538135686

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Foundations of Library Services by Hali R. Keeler Pdf

Trained library support staff play a critical role in assisting the user in locating and interpreting the resources available in libraries. To do so requires the knowledge and practice of library missions and roles in different types of libraries and the delivery of that information to an increasingly diverse clientele. The plethora of resources available today requires that support staff understand and implement the basic principles of information services as well as the responsibility and relationships among library departments and functional areas. Foundations of Library Services is both a text for professors who teach in library support staff programs and an introductory reference manual for support staff who work in libraries. As part of the Library Support Staff Series, this updated edition will guide the LSS to be able to: Understand the mission and role of the library in its community Be familiar with the ethics and values of the profession, including those of the Library Bill of Rights, the ALA Code of Ethics, freedom of information, confidentiality of library records and privacy issues Know the responsibility and relationships among library departments Practice the basic principles of circulation, including interlibrary loan; current cataloging and classification systems; and acquisitions and collection development policies. Understand how libraries are governed and funded within their organizations or government structures Realize the value of cooperation to enhance services Practice quality customer service Communicate and promote the library’s values and services Recognize and respond to diversity in user needs

Author : Trudi E. Jacobson ,Thomas P. Mackey
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838913796

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Metaliteracy in Practice by Trudi E. Jacobson ,Thomas P. Mackey Pdf

Author : Susan Elizabeth Ward Aber,Jeremy Aber
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780081000458

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Map Librarianship by Susan Elizabeth Ward Aber,Jeremy Aber Pdf

Map Librarianship identifies basic geoliteracy concepts and enhances reference and instruction skills by providing details on finding, downloading, delivering, and assessing maps, remotely sensed imagery, and other geospatial resources and services, primarily from trusted government sources. By offering descriptions of traditional maps, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and other geospatial technologies, the book provides a timely and practical guide for the map and geospatial librarian to blend confidence in traditional library skill sets. Includes rarely discussed concepts of citing and referencing maps and geospatial data, fair use and copyright Creates an awareness and appreciation of existing print map collections, while building digital stewardship with surrogate map and aerial imagery collections Provides an introduction to the theory and applications of GIS, remote sensing, participatory neogeography and neocartography practices, and other geospatial technologies Includes a list of geospatial resources with descriptions and illustrations of commonly used map types and formats, online geospatial data sources, and an introduction to the most commonly used geospatial software packages available, on both desktop and mobile platforms