RUSA’s (Reference and User Services Association, a division of ALA) Standards and Guidelines Committee revised the existing guidelines for Liaison work in 2009. The standards and guidelines help librarians identify users that can help in collection services and issues. They also identify objectives and continuing education opportunities for liaisons. (2010, p. 97)
According to the committee, liaison work is the mean by which librarians involve their patrons in assessing the collection to determine how satisfied the patrons are with it. The work includes identifying patrons’ needs, evaluating the collection, removing unused materials, and acquiring new materials. Liaison work allows the librarian to communicate with the patrons and the patrons to communicate
with the librarian.
The guidelines also provide for training and support for liaisons. As much as possible the liaisons background, interests and experiences should reflect those of the community. They should enhance their knowledge and skills through continuing education, in-services, and relationship building through technology, literature, or face-to-face contact.
Liaisons work in public, academic, and special libraries. In public libraries, they provide collection development policies to staff and patrons. They also target assessment and management to the special needs and interests of the patrons, which include recreational readers, civic groups, government agencies, businesses, senior citizens, the disabled, students, teachers, people in institutions, English language learners, and persons involved in literacy programs. In addition, they provide activities and outreach programs through adult and juvenile programs, Friends of the Library chapters, fo...
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... that the NAP uses, as well as the services and materials they offer their immigrant population can serve as a model for other libraries to emulate.
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The King County Library System is the fifth largest library system in circulation in the United States. The current director of the KCLS, Bill Ptacek, started with the organization three years ago and is in the process of working towards a new strategic plan titled "The Year 2000 Plan, which has a long-term goal of integrating all the resources of the library system equally and to coordinate all the efforts to ensure it was providing the best possible service to the community. In the three years, Ptacek worked to expand the mission to cover services for the community to include children, life-long learning, career development, and literacy (Chell, 1996, pg.2). The reworking of the mission and services of KCLS was in full swing, but there were
Librarians are defined as “a person, typically with a degree in library science, who administers or assists in a library.” In truth, they are much more than that. In a recent interview with Traci Glass, the Teen Librarian at the Eugene Public library, we explored her personal story with becoming a librarian, including how it has benefitted and affected her life.
...h are mentioned elsewhere in this book that support local programs. ALSC also provides a database of local programs at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/initiatives/diadelosninos/diacelebrations/diacelebrations.cfm so that librarians can see what their peers are doing and discover new ways to enhance local programs.
Sheih, C. S. (2012). An Exploratory Study on Coping Strategies of Confronting Difficult Patrons: The Case of University Circulation Librarians. Journal of Libray and Information Science Research, 7(1), 120-127.
Who can resist a book with a chapter titled, "Labia Lumps, Chunky Discharge, and Other Things They Never Taught Me in Library School"? Released this past summer, Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out takes no prisoners as its contributors ponder everything from the backtracking of '60s values by ALA's baby boomers to librarian imagery in erotica. This edited volume is a sequel to a 1972 self-published book titled Revolting Librarians. The original is worth checking out for its historical value alone. The editors of the 2003 volume, Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West gathered essays from ten of the original writers from the 1972 book for this version and it is interesting to see what thirty years has done to these radical librarians.
ii. A clear framework for local safeguarding boards for monitoring local services effectiveness. iii. Guidance aims to help professionals understand what they need to do and what they can expect of one another in order to safeguard/keep children
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Part (3) explain what expertise and resources a professional in your chosen profession would need in order to meet the needs your profession
...he also wants people to know that the library has more to offer than just Internet and provides equal access. The library spends a lot of money on their online databases and one off-the-wall resource that people may not know about is their information about auto care. They also give advice on job applications, resumes, research and genealogy. One of the goals of the library is to bring culture to our area. They often have exhibits and displays about history and other ways of life. They even have foreign film nights.
Hudak, Tina. (2008). Are Librarians reading teachers, too? Library Media Connection, 26(5). (Hudak, Tina, 2008)
I began, initially at CSM, as a volunteer archives assistant, learning how best to organise, accession and catalogue items in the collection. I have proven myself to be a committed, capable and reliable intern, and am responsible for assisting the curator and senior members of staff with their activities and
A library or information unit must have a dedicated plan on having an organized Collection Development Policy, represents the guideposts of all types of library institutions. Collection development is the process of planning, selecting, acquiring and evaluating the library collections’ convenience to print and electronic collection developments. Thus, it is essential to have a written collection development policy, a statement of general collection building principles with desalinating the purpose and content of a collection in terms of relevance and internal audiences (Clayton and Gorman 2007). Broadly, the international and local libraries have sketched written collection development policies which they are aware of its uses. Recently, the written policies consistently renewed with the rise of digital collections. However, the value of the written collection development plan shakes with the complexity of managing electronic resources, funding and time considerations, criticism on how it written and also its inflexibility. This essay will examine the arguments for having the advantages of the written collection development policy (CDP) and the issues evolve which against the latter.
Supporting programs of school libraries that allow the students to check out books that they can read in their free time that is recorded in a reading log so that parents can check and sign off on the child's progress.
... to the Library and that have generally been underused resources. B. Greater use of the Library's Capitol Hill facilities by scholars for the kind of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, multimedia, multilingual, and synthetic writing that is important to Congressional deliberation and national policy-making, but inadequately encouraged both by special interest groups and by advocacy-oriented think tanks; and C. Greater use by the general public through programs that stimulate interest, increase knowledge, and encourage more citizens to use the collections on-site and electronically.”The Library employees will add their position as information guides by “helping more people find appropriate materials in a swelling sea of unsorted information” and directing them to services and resources exclusive to the Library of Congress. This requires not only more growth of employees that the Library has formerly had, but also making it easier in new ways more wide-ranging and “systematic use by researchers of the distinctive materials that only the Library of Congress has.” Courses for the common public, such as displays or publications, must display the importance and value of the collections.