Browsing by Subject "Public services (Libraries)"

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    Big data
    (2015-10-05) Coates, Heather L.
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    Change and Transition in Public Services
    (ACRL, 1997) Lewis, David W.
    Academic libraries and, more important, all of higher education have been in the midst of a fundamental transformation over the past decade. Changes in information technology, requirements for increased accountability from stakeholder groups, and pressures to accomplish more with fewer resources have combined to produce a period of organizational restructurings that will require librarians to reshape their professional identities and roles.
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    Circulation policies for external users: A comparative study of public urban research institutions
    (Journal of Access Services [Taylor & Francis Online] http://www.tandfonline.com/, 2012-07) Weare, William H., Jr.; Stevenson, Matthew
    This article is a study of the policies that govern the use of the university library by external users at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and 12 peer institutions used by IUPUI for comparative purposes. A search of each institution’s Web site was conducted as well as interviews with circulation librarians and managers. Although it was useful to learn of common practices, it was especially beneficial to learn about policies that differed substantially from those in place at comparable institutions. Creative solutions developed to address problems at other libraries can be used to influence policy development.
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    Data Services: Making it Happen
    (s4.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2013/profile.cfm?profile_name=download&handout_key=4C22E652-FFAD-40D8-91DB-846AA18F5702&xtemplate=1, 2013-04-12) Coates, Heather L.; Konkiel, Stacy; Witt, Michael
    The explosion of digital research data has created exciting opportunities for librarians to engage with faculty, staff, and students in their research processes. Advances in computing, sensor technologies, and communications are challenging researchers’ abilities to find, manage, utilize, visualize, and store data. Three librarians from public Universities will describe practical approaches for developing new services, collaborations, and content to meet these needs. Real-world examples and relevant issues will be posed for group discussion.
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    Multi-Age Programming in Story Hour
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 1998) Sigety, Lori Caskey; Hooten, Roanna
    The Virginia M. Tutt Branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library, IN offers story hours for children. Until recently, the story hours were offered four times per week (excluding additional programming). They were divided into specific-age groups: two sessions of two to three year-olds, and two sessions of three to five year-olds. The groups met on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. To balance the sessions, one of each specific age group met on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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    New Support for the Research Process: Desktop Delivery of Microform Content
    (2011-01) Weare, William H., Jr.
    While trying to access microform content, patrons at the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources at Valparaiso University were often hampered by unfamiliar equipment, temperamental software, and a puzzling file management system. In an effort to address these problems, the Access Services Department launched a pilot program for the electronic delivery of microform content. It was decided to discontinue the self-service model and design a system in which patrons could request specific items from the microform collection which would then be retrieved and scanned by the staff and made available electronically through the interlibrary loan client. After describing the problems a typical user might encounter with the existing system, the author explains the solution piloted by the library, outlines the policies and procedures, reviews the outcomes, and finally draws attention to the considerable potential of such a service.
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    One Children's Librarian: A Philosophy of Library Service to Children
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 1997) Spetter, Stephanie
    "You must love working with kids!" is the standard response I get from people when I tell them I am a children's librarian, right after the "Oh," and the nodding, smiling, quizzical look that says, "Is she an intellectual or a nerd?" If I did not think I would be ostracized for taboo honesty, I would always tell them, "No, I do not love working with kids, I love my job." My job just happens to involve working with kids sometimes, but that is not what I do all the time. In fact, I only work with kids the percentage of hours that I work the reference desk and during programming time. The remainder of the time is spent in hours on other tasks and responsibilities such as program planning, department or library planning, publicity, collection development (which includes more long hours over selection aids and weeding), networking, evaluation, scheduling, outreach, etc. Children's librarianship revolves around kids: their parents, their caregivers, their social workers, and their teachers. All the materials we buy, all the programs we execute, and all the planning we do is a means to an end, and that end is to serve this specific "brand" of library user. Serving this brand of user can be extremely difficult, because it engages, as demonstrated, a variety of people that have extremely different needs and desires.
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    Reaching Out to Seniors
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Byers, Jo Ann
    Senior citizens are an important segment of the Warsaw Community Public Library’s (WCPL) constituency. We are constantly looking for ways to reach out to them and to encourage them to use our services, whether or not they are able to visit our facilities. This article will briefly describe two special services that we’ve designed for those seniors who are unable to come in.
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    Reference and Information Services for the Next Generation
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2007) Bannwart, Susan
    In their article, “Born with the Chip,” Abram and Luther discuss the next generation of library users. At 81 million, NextGens are next in size to boomers. Born between 1982 and 2002, this next generation represents an underserved user group that may not be well understood by current libraries. This generation who grew up using computers does not think of them as technology but as part of their everyday culture. Abram and Luther (2004) reveal the following key points that explain the significant impact this user group will have on the services that libraries provide.
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    The User-Driven Purchase Give Away Library: A Thought Experiment
    (2010-07-22T13:21:18Z) Lewis, David W.
    This article is an exercise in imagination. It is an exploration of a radical alternative to longstanding academic library practice. With this exploration, it is my hope that we will begin to imagine how libraries must change in response what Clay Shirky calls, “the largest increase in expressive capacity in human history.” Technology offers new alternatives; in what follows we will explore one alternative way in which these technologies can be applied. The proposal is that rather than purchasing books, cataloging them, and putting them on shelves in anticipation of use, libraries could only purchased and produced when a user wished to use it, and that rather than loaning the user the book, the library would give it away to the user to keep.