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Infographics For Everyone, Timothy A. Balch
Infographics For Everyone, Timothy A. Balch
Librarian Research
Presenting information using infographics lets you grab users’ attention, impart data in a fun way, and show relationships among the data. Using sites such as Piktochart and Easel.ly you can create great infographics for a variety of purposes.
Success With Library Volunteers, Kelli Johnson
Success With Library Volunteers, Kelli Johnson
Librarian Research
While volunteerism has not been a top priority in many academic libraries in the past, the current state of college budgets may make recruiting volunteers a more attractive prospect. Leslie and Glen Holt’s book, Success with Library Volunteers, offers an extensive look into the past, present, and future of volunteers in all types of libraries. The book is clear and concise with many practical examples. Each chapter is accentuated with comprehensive notes and contains a case study of a successful volunteer program in the King County Washing- ton Library System.
The Quality Infrastructure: Measuring, Analyzing, And Improving Library Services, Kelli Johnson
The Quality Infrastructure: Measuring, Analyzing, And Improving Library Services, Kelli Johnson
Librarian Research
Higher education has been hard hit over the last few years dealing with declining budgets and rising costs, growing accreditation standards and surging accreditation reform, and mounting quality assurance activities. This book is well timed, addressing some of the concerns that many academic librar- ians have. As several of the book’s contributors discuss, academic libraries are faced with declining budgets and the need to justify to administrators what librarians do. To accomplish this, librarians and library administrators need to adequately assess library services.
A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Gretchen Rae Beach, Jingping Zhang
A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Gretchen Rae Beach, Jingping Zhang
Librarian Research
This is a case study about the implementation of an institutional repository (IR) at Marshall University. Libraries have always collected information from a worldwide marketplace and have disseminated these resources locally. The IR has created a new function for the library by making it practical to acquire locally developed resources and to disseminate them freely worldwide. This has altered the traditional role of librarians and suggests a broader set of implications for the future usefulness and relevancy of the IR as doors open to new partnerships that will strengthen the university and the library’s place within it.