Community Led Libraries Toolkit
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Developing Community Led Public Libraries
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Author : John Pateman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Developing Community Led Public Libraries written by John Pateman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This important book examines the potential for a new community led service model in public libraries. Using theoretical approaches to working with socially excluded community members, with a direct application of those approaches in Canadian public libraries, the authors offer a powerful and persuasive case for adopting the community led approach in libraries worldwide. The book showcases good practice and outlines the challenges to community development work. With public libraries facing budget cuts, this book offers an alternative way forward based on a community led approach to developing needs based library services. This book makes a unique contribution to public library thinking and policy, synthesising the outcomes of research and best practice at the cutting edge of library service delivery, and will be essential reading for all those researching and working in the public library sector.
Community Led Libraries Toolkit
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Author : Sandra Singh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Community Led Libraries Toolkit written by Sandra Singh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Customer services categories.
Developing Community Led Public Libraries
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Author : Mr John Pateman
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Developing Community Led Public Libraries written by Mr John Pateman and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This important book examines the potential for a new community led service model in public libraries. Using theoretical approaches to working with socially excluded community members, with a direct application of those approaches in Canadian public libraries, the authors offer a powerful and persuasive case for adopting the community led approach in libraries worldwide. The book showcases good practice and outlines the challenges to community development work. With public libraries facing budget cuts, this book offers an alternative way forward based on a community led approach to developing needs based library services. This book makes a unique contribution to public library thinking and policy, synthesising the outcomes of research and best practice at the cutting edge of library service delivery, and will be essential reading for all those researching and working in the public library sector.
Community Led Libraries Toolkit
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Community Led Libraries Toolkit written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Vancouver Public Library (VPL) initiated the Working Together Project in 2004 to develop methods for libraries to work with low-income communities through a community development approach. Funded as a demonstration project by the Office of Learning Technologies of Human Resources and Social Development Canada, funding was available over three years which was extended to four. The long-term funding was invaluable, allowing the participating libraries both to undertake the lengthy process of understanding and implementing community development approaches and to incorporate some of their lessons into their library systems. Unfortunately, program and funding constraints centred the Project on urban communities, despite recognition that rural libraries have similar issues.
Community Led Libraries Toolkit
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Author : Working Together Team
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Community Led Libraries Toolkit written by Working Together Team and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Transforming Libraries Building Communities
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Author : Julie Biando Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2013-05-30
Transforming Libraries Building Communities written by Julie Biando Edwards and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information. Written by practicing public librarians and an academic librarian with an interest in public libraries, the book focuses on how public libraries can become more community centered and, by doing so, how they can transform both themselves and their communities. The authors argue that focusing on building community through innovative and responsive services and programs will be the best way for the public library to reposition itself in the years to come. Repositioning the library acknowledges that information is in abundance in contemporary life. And while accessing information will always be at the heart of what libraries do, it isn’t the only thing they do. It may not be, in the future, even the most important thing that they do. This book encourages librarians to admit that our role has evolved and to reframe the discussion so that it is about what we actually can do – play an essential role in meeting community needs and building strong and vibrant local communities. The authors argue that repositioning libraries as community centered institutions is a responsibility. Libraries bring people together. They create community, and they also create mini-communities – everything from book groups to writing circles to new citizen groups to linguistic or ethnic communities reflected in programming and in collections. These mini-communities help provide fellowship and foster relationships amongst the group members, but also, because they exist in the public place that is the library, help the larger community recognize and learn about the mini-communities that create the larger community. This is the work of libraries. The book is divided into three parts which include explorations into the importance of the community centered library, practical advice on making your library more community centered, and a showcase of community centered library programs, services and initiatives across the United States. A special focus of the book is on how community development literature and practice can inform librarianship, with an emphasis on Asset Based Community Development principles. The book looks at how community centered libraries build individual and community assets and how, in doing so, they serve as essential community anchors and institutions.
Community Led Libraries Toolkit
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Author : Working Together Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Community Led Libraries Toolkit written by Working Together Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Libraries and community categories.
Library Publishing Toolkit
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Author : Allison P. Brown
language : en
Publisher: IDS Project Press
Release Date : 2013
Library Publishing Toolkit written by Allison P. Brown and has been published by IDS Project Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Libraries and electronic publishing categories.
Both public and academic libraries are invested in the creation and distribution of information and digital content. They have morphed from keepers of content into content creators and curators, and seek best practices and efficient workflows with emerging publishing platforms and services. The Library Publishing Toolkit looks at the broad and varied landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to content.
Social Justice And Library Work
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Author : Stephen Bales
language : en
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-18
Social Justice And Library Work written by Stephen Bales and has been published by Chandos Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization. The modern spirit of social and cultural critique, however, has focused our attention on the concrete, material relationships that determine human potentiality and opportunity, and library workers are increasingly seeing the institution of the library, as well as library work, as embedded in a web of relations that extends beyond the library's traditional sphere of influence. In light of this critical consciousness, more and more library and information science professionals are coming to see themselves as change agents and front-line advocates of social justice issues. This book will serve as a guide for those library workers and related information professionals that disregard traditional ideas of "library neutrality" and static, idealized conceptions of Western culture. The book will work as an entry point for those just forming a consciousness oriented towards social justice work and will be also be of value to more experienced "transformative library workers" as an up-to-date supplement to their praxis. - Justifies the use of a variety of theoretical and practical resources for effecting positive change - Explores the role of the librarian as change agents
Bold Minds
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Author : Margaret Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Bold Minds written by Margaret Weaver and has been published by Facet Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Are librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st century? This is a fundamental question and one that presents differing opinions across the many diverse information sectors. If there is a continuing need for libraries and for librarians, then how do library leaders obtain strategic support when there appears to be a lack of clarity or understanding about the very purpose of libraries at a time when economically, libraries are under pressure to develop new business models and be more commercially focussed? Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption brings together international leaders who frame many aspects of the current library provision and who carry responsibility for the library models of the future to consider how librarians and libraries can be a driving force in a time of disruptive economic, technological and cultural change. Each chapter critically presents a short leadership provocation regarding libraries and their purpose, encompassing impact, service delivery, collections, staff skills and professional training and assessing what it means for leaders, their sectors and organisations, and how they have developed their personal leadership signature. This book will be invaluable to library and information professionals in a range of public and private sector libraries as well as policy makers in services where libraries are a component. It will also be useful for students, educational establishments, and IT professionals with an information management element to their work.