This presentation was developed by Fayetteville Free Library and delivered for an Onondaga County Public Library Collection Task Force Meeting in November 2013.
This document summarizes techniques for collection development and management at libraries. It discusses analyzing existing collections, setting criteria to weed materials, identifying gaps, and using reports to manage missing, lost, and circulating items. It also covers building a patron-driven acquisition model using popularity and demand data. The document provides tips for rethinking continuing orders and formats. Finally, it outlines best practices for readers' advisory services, including title and author recommendations, book displays, and custom book lists.
The History Fair research process involves three stages of increasing specificity:
1) Basic background research using general secondary sources to develop a broad understanding.
2) Focused research on the topic using more specialized secondary sources and some primary sources to narrow the topic.
3) In-depth research using expert secondary sources and archival primary sources to tell the story.
The History Fair research process involves three stages of increasing specificity:
1) Basic background research using general secondary sources to develop a broad understanding.
2) Focused research on the topic using more specialized secondary sources and some primary sources to narrow the topic.
3) In-depth research using expert secondary sources and archival primary sources to tell the story.
The document discusses the future of reader's advisory services in libraries. It describes reader's advisory as helping patrons find books that match their interests. Traditionally, this was done through in-person conversations between librarians and patrons, but the document proposes expanding online reader's advisory services through tools like subject guides, new book lists, and a form-based system. This would allow patrons to get book recommendations 24/7 while still providing meaningful engagement with library staff.
This document provides tips and tricks for readers' advisory work. It discusses appealing to patrons based on characters, pacing, storyline, and writing style. It recommends not overcomplicating recommendations and getting a feel for how in-depth patrons want suggestions. The document also lists various print and online resources for passive readers' advisory like booklists, displays, and genre guides. It highlights some free online databases and tools for finding read-alikes and series information.
Interested in providing betters Readers' Advisory service to your teen patrons? Check this presentation for information on how books make our teen patrons "feel" and matching those feelings to the right book.
Readers' advisory services aim to match patrons with books they will enjoy reading for pleasure. While once focused on directing patrons only towards "better" books, readers' advisory now emphasizes recreational reading and respecting individual tastes. Librarians can provide advisory assistance using both print and electronic resources, and their skills are valuable for attracting patrons and supporting the library.
This document summarizes techniques for collection development and management at libraries. It discusses analyzing existing collections, setting criteria to weed materials, identifying gaps, and using reports to manage missing, lost, and circulating items. It also covers building a patron-driven acquisition model using popularity and demand data. The document provides tips for rethinking continuing orders and formats. Finally, it outlines best practices for readers' advisory services, including title and author recommendations, book displays, and custom book lists.
The History Fair research process involves three stages of increasing specificity:
1) Basic background research using general secondary sources to develop a broad understanding.
2) Focused research on the topic using more specialized secondary sources and some primary sources to narrow the topic.
3) In-depth research using expert secondary sources and archival primary sources to tell the story.
The History Fair research process involves three stages of increasing specificity:
1) Basic background research using general secondary sources to develop a broad understanding.
2) Focused research on the topic using more specialized secondary sources and some primary sources to narrow the topic.
3) In-depth research using expert secondary sources and archival primary sources to tell the story.
The document discusses the future of reader's advisory services in libraries. It describes reader's advisory as helping patrons find books that match their interests. Traditionally, this was done through in-person conversations between librarians and patrons, but the document proposes expanding online reader's advisory services through tools like subject guides, new book lists, and a form-based system. This would allow patrons to get book recommendations 24/7 while still providing meaningful engagement with library staff.
This document provides tips and tricks for readers' advisory work. It discusses appealing to patrons based on characters, pacing, storyline, and writing style. It recommends not overcomplicating recommendations and getting a feel for how in-depth patrons want suggestions. The document also lists various print and online resources for passive readers' advisory like booklists, displays, and genre guides. It highlights some free online databases and tools for finding read-alikes and series information.
Interested in providing betters Readers' Advisory service to your teen patrons? Check this presentation for information on how books make our teen patrons "feel" and matching those feelings to the right book.
Readers' advisory services aim to match patrons with books they will enjoy reading for pleasure. While once focused on directing patrons only towards "better" books, readers' advisory now emphasizes recreational reading and respecting individual tastes. Librarians can provide advisory assistance using both print and electronic resources, and their skills are valuable for attracting patrons and supporting the library.
The document provides an introduction to mysteries for children. It discusses finding the right book for readers through reference interviews, appeal factors of books, and techniques for reference interviews. It also overviewed the mystery genre and discussed common motifs in mysteries for youth, such as puzzles, clues, and supernatural elements. Finally, it categorized four common types of mysteries for youth and provided tips for book discussions with readers.
Rethinking Readers Advisory: An Interactive ApproachALATechSource
This document discusses form-based readers' advisory, an interactive approach to readers' advisory. It begins with an introduction of the presenters and a poll asking attendees what they hope to gain. It then discusses challenges with current readers' advisory methods before explaining the benefits of form-based services. It covers how to propose this new approach to library leadership and the key elements of an effective reader survey form and personalized reading guides. It stresses the importance of building a strong readers' advisory team and identifies competencies of effective team members. It concludes by discussing resources that can be used to create personalized reading guides.
This document provides instructions for using a library catalog to find books and other materials. It explains that the catalog allows users to search by title, author, subject, keywords, call number and other fields. It provides tips for effective searching, such as omitting common words like "A", "An" and "The" from searches. The document also describes how to place holds on items, both for single or multiple materials. It highlights features for limiting searches by location, material type and other filters.
A PowerPoint tutorial on Reader's Advisory, tips on providing good reader's advisory, and the difference between the paranormal genre and the urban fantasy genre.
Readers' advisory services aim to match patrons with books they will enjoy reading for pleasure. This library service helps patrons select recreational reading materials. It has evolved from a prescriptive model in the early 20th century focused on "better books" to a more patron-oriented approach that values fiction reading. Readers' advisory librarians now use various print and electronic resources, as well as their own reading knowledge, to suggest titles to patrons based on books they have enjoyed previously. The goal is to foster enjoyment of reading and support for the library.
Reader's advisory services involve librarians suggesting fiction and nonfiction titles to patrons based on their interests. This helps patrons find books to read for pleasure. While readers' advisory has been around since the 1920s, it reemerged as a focus over the past 20 years. Librarians now take a less didactic approach, seeing recreational reading as worthwhile. Direct readers' advisory focuses on a reader's likes and dislikes, while indirect involves pre-made booklists. Libraries provide various tools, both print and electronic, to help librarians match patrons to titles. Mastering readers' advisory requires being an avid reader oneself and ongoing learning.
This document provides an overview of conducting library research in Aboriginal studies. It outlines resources for finding books and journal articles, including using the library website and databases. Search tips are provided, such as using keywords and subject headings, as well as limiting searches. Differences between books and journal articles are highlighted. Students are encouraged to get help from the Aboriginal studies research guide, their instructor, or a librarian.
This document is a quiz about library skills that provides definitions for common library terms. It asks the reader to match terms like "library", "illustrations", and "fiction" with their definitions. The quiz covers topics like parts of a book, types of books, and services offered at libraries. It tests vocabulary related to checking out books, reading levels, book organization, and awards given to children's books.
A database is a collection of organized information stored in a way that allows for quick access. It contains records of similar data items, with each record divided into fields containing specific pieces of information. For example, a database could contain records for each student at a high school, with fields for each student's name, address, and favorite teacher. Users can search databases to find needed records by entering search terms in a search box limited to key fields, or by conducting more specific advanced searches that designate which fields to search.
This document provides an introduction to the SGTC library located on the Americus Campus and Crisp County Center. It describes the various types of printed materials available in the library including fiction and non-fiction books, reference books, periodicals, and how they are organized. It also provides tips for choosing a research topic, searching for information using keywords and subjects, evaluating online sources, and dealing with too many or too few search results.
This document discusses various aspects of what makes good children's literature and policies for selecting children's books. It provides perspectives from experts on qualities of effective children's books, tips for choosing books, the importance of classroom libraries and selection policies. It also notes that books like Harry Potter have faced challenges from some groups.
This document discusses how development interventions and their evaluations often fail to account for complex social dynamics and unintended impacts. It presents a theory of change model that distinguishes between inputs, processes, outcomes, and short-term and long-term impacts of interventions. It also identifies different levels of social relationships within households, communities, with program actors, economic actors, and political actors that can influence intervention impacts. Finally, it presents a framework for assessing intended material impacts as well as unintended social impacts that can be positive, neutral, or negative.
This document describes the development and testing of a Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP) to assess the impact of rural development projects. The QUIP uses semi-structured interviews and focus groups to collect respondents' accounts of changes in livelihoods and wellbeing. It codes the evidence of impact and drivers of change. The QUIP was tested on 4 projects in Malawi and Ethiopia. The results showed both positive and negative changes reported in food production, income, and other domains. Positively, respondents attributed changes to project activities like training and seed distribution. Negatively, factors like input costs, illness, and weather were reported. The discussion notes limitations like reliance on self-reported data but suggests ways to address them like
Este documento describe una experiencia de laboratorio sobre medición eléctrica. Los estudiantes midieron la resistencia, corriente y voltaje de tres resistencias usando un multímetro digital y un voltímetro analógico. Registraron los datos en una tabla y los usarán para verificar la ley de Ohm. El objetivo es aprender a usar instrumentos de medición eléctrica y conocer conceptos como resistencia, corriente y voltaje.
The document discusses democratic evolution through access, participation, and collaboration. It notes that democratic evolution begins and ends with access, as people need access to information and decision-makers, and decision-makers need access to the ideas of people. Meaningful participation provides choice. However, the document states that leaping from participatory government to collaborative governance is complex and presents challenges around balancing openness with privacy and security, encouraging participation at different expertise levels, using new technologies, managing large amounts of qualitative data, and collecting actionable input.
This document summarizes the conclusions from a workshop discussing how mixed methods research can effectively address complex issues related to poverty and vulnerability. It provides examples of mixed methods studies that captured both depth and breadth to provide important context and insights overlooked by traditional quantitative measures alone. The conclusions emphasize that mixed methods, when done credibly through multidisciplinary teams, can produce useful evidence for policymakers by acknowledging complex realities. However, mixed methods research also faces challenges, and researchers must critically reflect on their work to ensure high quality.
Stunting in India is caused by a "blind spot" related to faecally transmitted infections (FTIs) from open defecation. The 5 As framework of nutrition identifies various factors that contribute to stunting, including Absorption issues caused by FTIs through diarrhoeas and intestinal parasites that damage the gut. Environmental enteropathy from bacterial infections also impacts Absorption. This leads to reduced Antibodies to fight infections and takes a toll on nutritional status. While programs focus on Availability, Access and Awareness, addressing the Absorption issues caused by the high prevalence of open defecation in rural India through sanitation interventions could help reduce stunting in the country.
The document provides an introduction to mysteries for children. It discusses finding the right book for readers through reference interviews, appeal factors of books, and techniques for reference interviews. It also overviewed the mystery genre and discussed common motifs in mysteries for youth, such as puzzles, clues, and supernatural elements. Finally, it categorized four common types of mysteries for youth and provided tips for book discussions with readers.
Rethinking Readers Advisory: An Interactive ApproachALATechSource
This document discusses form-based readers' advisory, an interactive approach to readers' advisory. It begins with an introduction of the presenters and a poll asking attendees what they hope to gain. It then discusses challenges with current readers' advisory methods before explaining the benefits of form-based services. It covers how to propose this new approach to library leadership and the key elements of an effective reader survey form and personalized reading guides. It stresses the importance of building a strong readers' advisory team and identifies competencies of effective team members. It concludes by discussing resources that can be used to create personalized reading guides.
This document provides instructions for using a library catalog to find books and other materials. It explains that the catalog allows users to search by title, author, subject, keywords, call number and other fields. It provides tips for effective searching, such as omitting common words like "A", "An" and "The" from searches. The document also describes how to place holds on items, both for single or multiple materials. It highlights features for limiting searches by location, material type and other filters.
A PowerPoint tutorial on Reader's Advisory, tips on providing good reader's advisory, and the difference between the paranormal genre and the urban fantasy genre.
Readers' advisory services aim to match patrons with books they will enjoy reading for pleasure. This library service helps patrons select recreational reading materials. It has evolved from a prescriptive model in the early 20th century focused on "better books" to a more patron-oriented approach that values fiction reading. Readers' advisory librarians now use various print and electronic resources, as well as their own reading knowledge, to suggest titles to patrons based on books they have enjoyed previously. The goal is to foster enjoyment of reading and support for the library.
Reader's advisory services involve librarians suggesting fiction and nonfiction titles to patrons based on their interests. This helps patrons find books to read for pleasure. While readers' advisory has been around since the 1920s, it reemerged as a focus over the past 20 years. Librarians now take a less didactic approach, seeing recreational reading as worthwhile. Direct readers' advisory focuses on a reader's likes and dislikes, while indirect involves pre-made booklists. Libraries provide various tools, both print and electronic, to help librarians match patrons to titles. Mastering readers' advisory requires being an avid reader oneself and ongoing learning.
This document provides an overview of conducting library research in Aboriginal studies. It outlines resources for finding books and journal articles, including using the library website and databases. Search tips are provided, such as using keywords and subject headings, as well as limiting searches. Differences between books and journal articles are highlighted. Students are encouraged to get help from the Aboriginal studies research guide, their instructor, or a librarian.
This document is a quiz about library skills that provides definitions for common library terms. It asks the reader to match terms like "library", "illustrations", and "fiction" with their definitions. The quiz covers topics like parts of a book, types of books, and services offered at libraries. It tests vocabulary related to checking out books, reading levels, book organization, and awards given to children's books.
A database is a collection of organized information stored in a way that allows for quick access. It contains records of similar data items, with each record divided into fields containing specific pieces of information. For example, a database could contain records for each student at a high school, with fields for each student's name, address, and favorite teacher. Users can search databases to find needed records by entering search terms in a search box limited to key fields, or by conducting more specific advanced searches that designate which fields to search.
This document provides an introduction to the SGTC library located on the Americus Campus and Crisp County Center. It describes the various types of printed materials available in the library including fiction and non-fiction books, reference books, periodicals, and how they are organized. It also provides tips for choosing a research topic, searching for information using keywords and subjects, evaluating online sources, and dealing with too many or too few search results.
This document discusses various aspects of what makes good children's literature and policies for selecting children's books. It provides perspectives from experts on qualities of effective children's books, tips for choosing books, the importance of classroom libraries and selection policies. It also notes that books like Harry Potter have faced challenges from some groups.
This document discusses how development interventions and their evaluations often fail to account for complex social dynamics and unintended impacts. It presents a theory of change model that distinguishes between inputs, processes, outcomes, and short-term and long-term impacts of interventions. It also identifies different levels of social relationships within households, communities, with program actors, economic actors, and political actors that can influence intervention impacts. Finally, it presents a framework for assessing intended material impacts as well as unintended social impacts that can be positive, neutral, or negative.
This document describes the development and testing of a Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP) to assess the impact of rural development projects. The QUIP uses semi-structured interviews and focus groups to collect respondents' accounts of changes in livelihoods and wellbeing. It codes the evidence of impact and drivers of change. The QUIP was tested on 4 projects in Malawi and Ethiopia. The results showed both positive and negative changes reported in food production, income, and other domains. Positively, respondents attributed changes to project activities like training and seed distribution. Negatively, factors like input costs, illness, and weather were reported. The discussion notes limitations like reliance on self-reported data but suggests ways to address them like
Este documento describe una experiencia de laboratorio sobre medición eléctrica. Los estudiantes midieron la resistencia, corriente y voltaje de tres resistencias usando un multímetro digital y un voltímetro analógico. Registraron los datos en una tabla y los usarán para verificar la ley de Ohm. El objetivo es aprender a usar instrumentos de medición eléctrica y conocer conceptos como resistencia, corriente y voltaje.
The document discusses democratic evolution through access, participation, and collaboration. It notes that democratic evolution begins and ends with access, as people need access to information and decision-makers, and decision-makers need access to the ideas of people. Meaningful participation provides choice. However, the document states that leaping from participatory government to collaborative governance is complex and presents challenges around balancing openness with privacy and security, encouraging participation at different expertise levels, using new technologies, managing large amounts of qualitative data, and collecting actionable input.
This document summarizes the conclusions from a workshop discussing how mixed methods research can effectively address complex issues related to poverty and vulnerability. It provides examples of mixed methods studies that captured both depth and breadth to provide important context and insights overlooked by traditional quantitative measures alone. The conclusions emphasize that mixed methods, when done credibly through multidisciplinary teams, can produce useful evidence for policymakers by acknowledging complex realities. However, mixed methods research also faces challenges, and researchers must critically reflect on their work to ensure high quality.
Stunting in India is caused by a "blind spot" related to faecally transmitted infections (FTIs) from open defecation. The 5 As framework of nutrition identifies various factors that contribute to stunting, including Absorption issues caused by FTIs through diarrhoeas and intestinal parasites that damage the gut. Environmental enteropathy from bacterial infections also impacts Absorption. This leads to reduced Antibodies to fight infections and takes a toll on nutritional status. While programs focus on Availability, Access and Awareness, addressing the Absorption issues caused by the high prevalence of open defecation in rural India through sanitation interventions could help reduce stunting in the country.
Slideware from a seminar given by Professor Kirsten Sehnbruck at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on 10 February 2015. The seminar discussed quality of employment, and looked at the importance of developing appropriate data and methodologies to establish indicators of the quality of employment that can be used across a broad range of countries, the need for systematic and synthetic measurement of the quality of employment, and the advantages and disadvantages of different methodologies.
You can also listen to the seminar at: https://www.mixcloud.com/ids/professor-kirsten-sehnbruch-speaks-on-monitoring-the-quality-of-employment-february-2015/
This document discusses whether low-income countries can effectively tax transnational corporations. It argues that current rules around arm's length pricing treat corporate taxation as an "economic fairytale" that does not align profits with actual economic activity in countries. While the OECD's BEPS initiative aims to better align profits with economic activity, the IMF notes it does not address a fair allocation of tax revenue across countries. The document presents data showing how corporate tax bases would increase if profits were aligned with real economic factors like payroll, employees, assets, and turnover. It posits that low-income countries defining their own corporate tax rules could jumpstart fiscal sovereignty, but would likely face massive resistance from transnational corporations lobbying international organizations.
This document outlines Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) approaches developed in South Asia by Save the Children. It discusses how CSSP is understood as social protection programs designed to positively impact children. Key approaches taken include improving access to government programs, enhancing child sensitivity of programs, piloting new programs, and integrating with service delivery. Achievements include supporting over 100,000 people and bringing over 3,000 children out of child labor. Challenges include demonstrating long-term impact and gaining government support for scaling up approaches.
This document discusses making social protection programs in Nepal more sensitive to children's needs. It analyzes several existing programs: the child grant has modest impact due to low amounts and delays; scholarships have limited impact due to low amounts and other barriers to education; and public works programs could have greater impact if they provided childcare and more work days. It identifies challenges like low coordination, capacity, and awareness. Recommendations include strengthening implementation, expanding coverage through a twin-track approach, increasing transfer amounts, improving registration flexibility, and better linking programs to sensitization and child protection.
This document summarizes a presentation on investigating patterns of mismatch between household wealth and child well-being in Ethiopia and Vietnam using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. The study aims to explore if mismatches are due to measurement error, lagged effects of poverty, opportunity costs of child labor, or other household, infrastructure, social attitude factors. Quantitative data from surveys in both countries from 1999-2009 are analyzed along with qualitative interviews. Preliminary findings show complex relationships between monetary poverty and multidimensional child outcomes. Policy implications focus on improving measurement of child poverty, targeting programs, and addressing underlying causes through livelihood and social programs rather than individual blame.
This document discusses international financing for clean energy electrification in developing countries. It finds that foreign aid and private financing for electrification has increased from $15 billion in 1990 to over $60 billion in 2010. The top donors of electrification aid between 1990 and 2010 were Germany, Japan, the US, France and the UK. India and China received the most electrification aid and private financing. While aid has supported both renewable and non-renewable energy, private investments have overwhelmingly focused on non-renewable sources. The document examines factors that have driven the allocation of aid and private investments, and what is needed now to unlock more financing for green electrification projects in developing nations.
The document summarizes the World Social Science Report 2016, which addresses social science challenges related to inequality. It was produced by 107 authors from 40 countries and examines inequalities across economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, spatial and knowledge dimensions. Key findings include that economic and political power are increasingly concentrated among small elites in many countries, global inequality has declined but within-country inequality is rising, and reducing inequality is important for achieving sustainability and other global goals. Successful approaches combine context-specific policies and social/political action.
FYE Tutorial - An Introduction to the FIU Librariesdouglashasty
The FIU Libraries are dedicated to helping students succeed academically. They provide a variety of resources, both online and in-person, including databases, books, research guidance, study spaces, and assistance from librarians. Students can access electronic and print materials, search the catalog for books, use databases to find peer-reviewed articles, and get help from librarians in-person, via phone, chat, or email. The library supports students through all stages of the research process from developing a topic to evaluating sources.
Lesson slide for teaching undergraduate students about call numbers & subject headings in a for-credit information literacy and research skills class, ISLT 1111.
The document provides guidance on using displays and merchandising techniques to boost material circulation in libraries. It discusses learning fundamental display design guidelines and retail techniques to feature a collection. Studies have found that displaying materials can increase circulation by 300-1000% by making the library more inviting and providing reader recommendations. The document also offers tips for creating effective displays, including determining locations, topics, and audiences as well as guidelines for visual design.
- A research paper uses information from sources like books, articles, and the internet to tell readers about a topic. It requires choosing a topic, narrowing the topic into specific questions, creating an outline to organize research, taking notes from reliable sources, writing a rough draft, revising for clarity, editing for errors, and publishing the final draft.
- Students should avoid plagiarism by properly citing sources and giving credit to the original authors. Keeping track of all sources is important for creating a bibliography or "Sources Cited" page at the end.
- When researching, students should use reliable sources like educational websites and avoid copying directly from sources like Wikipedia without citing. Taking notes on index cards can help
The document provides guidance on how to write a research paper. It discusses choosing a topic, narrowing the topic into specific questions, creating an outline, avoiding plagiarism by citing sources, researching reliable sources, taking notes, drafting a rough paper, revising for organization and structure, editing for errors, and finalizing the paper for submission.
Debbie Alvarez provides many suggestions for encouraging reading in the classroom, including reading aloud daily, celebrating book-related holidays and events, recommending books to students, and maintaining an enthusiastic reading environment. She recommends the book "Reading in the Wild" by Donalyn Miller as a professional resource. Alvarez also shares online reading resources and book lists to support teachers in selecting books for students.
This document discusses reasons why weeding library collections can be difficult and provides tips for overcoming obstacles to weeding. It notes that regular weeding is important for improving library appeal, saving space and staff/patron time, and keeping collections current. Common reasons cited for not weeding include fears of discarding useful materials or upsetting patrons. The document provides guidelines and criteria for systematic weeding from the CREW method. It also offers weeding advice for specific collection areas and tips for getting staff onboard with weeding.
This document discusses reasons why weeding library collections can be difficult and provides tips for overcoming obstacles to effective weeding. It notes that regular weeding is important for improving library appeal, saving space and staff/patron time, and updating collections. However, weeding is challenging due to objections like "there's no such thing as a bad book" or concerns that items might still be useful. The document provides statistics showing that few requested items are actually weeded and outlines the CREW method for systematic weeding reviews. It offers advice for weeding different sections and emphasizes making weeding an ongoing process.
- A research paper uses information from sources like books, articles, and the internet to tell readers about a topic. It requires choosing a topic, narrowing the topic into specific questions, creating an outline to organize research, taking notes from reliable sources, writing a rough draft, revising for clarity, editing for errors, and publishing the final draft.
- Students should avoid plagiarism by properly citing sources and creating a bibliography. Reliable sources include library books, approved websites like .edu and .gov sites, and sources recommended by teachers. Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source.
- The example topic of the history of Thanksgiving is used to demonstrate how to narrow a topic into questions, create an outline with
This document discusses reasons for and challenges with weeding library collections. It notes that weeding is important to increase appeal, save space and time, and eliminate outdated materials. However, weeding is challenging due to objections like the idea that "there's no such thing as a bad book" or concerns that items might still be needed. The document provides tips for overcoming objections and outlines criteria and methods for effective weeding based on use, condition, relevance and other factors. Specific advice is offered for weeding different sections like fiction, non-fiction, media and reference. The goals of weeding are to focus collections on current needs and make materials easier for patrons to find.
Join Laura Johnson, Nebraska Library Commission, to explore weeding and hear some solutions to the problem. We’ll discuss what weeding criteria are, and how they vary according to subjects and types of material, as well as according to situation. We will also offer some tips and techniques for keeping the library collection user-friendly, useful, and well-groomed. Come with your favorite tips, and with some weeding problems you’d like to discuss.
Cultivating Library, Author, and Speaker Connectionsjlukesh
This document provides guidance for libraries on cultivating relationships with authors and other speakers. It discusses:
1) Considering your event goals and audience when choosing speakers.
2) Starting the search for speakers well in advance, keeping a list of potential speakers and networking for recommendations.
3) Doing research on potential speakers, checking references, and communicating details to confirm arrangements.
4) Following up with speakers after their event and maintaining ongoing relationships.
This document discusses various topics related to writing, communication, and being a religious writer. It provides tips for writers, such as knowing your audience and using writing tools. It explores reasons people read and discusses whether visual media have replaced written works. While new technologies exist, books remain popular due to their portability and personal nature. The document also outlines steps for writing a book, including choosing subjects, avoiding plagiarism, and approaching publishers. Potential areas of interest for religious writers are also listed, such as religious fundamentalism, intellectual property rights, and intercultural methodologies in theology.
A public library uses a mixture of BISAC and genre based collections to maximize display options and promote browsing by patrons. Prepared by McMillan Memorial Library for the April 2010 Central Wisconsin Library Conference. Download to see speaker's notes.
This document outlines the syllabus for a course on teaching children's literature. The course will explore a variety of topics related to using children's books in elementary classrooms, including book selection criteria, social issues in children's literature, censorship, and teaching strategies. Students will read and discuss many children's books, complete assignments like web searches and book circles to share books with the class, and write responses to readings. The goal is for students to develop an understanding of how children's literature can address topics like relationships, culture, and social justice.
The document provides guidance for 10th form students on completing an oral book review presentation. It outlines the objectives of developing reading, critical thinking, speaking, listening and language skills. Students must choose a book at their ability level, prepare a presentation on the author and book review. The presentation should be 8-12 minutes. A book review makes an argument about the work, stating an opinion on its knowledge, judgments and organization. Tips are provided on writing a review including describing the book, discussing likes and dislikes, rounding up thoughts by recommending readers, and optionally giving a rating.
Narrative-Driven Recommendation for Casual Leisure NeedsMarijn Koolen
Recommender systems typically generate recommendations for a user based on their profile, or for an item given its user interactions, but there are many scenarios especially in leisure domains such as books, movies, games and music, where users have specific recommendation needs, where they want to steer the recommendation process towards certain aspects they find relevant. Currently, there are few recommender or search systems that can deal with the complexity of such directed needs, nor do we know well which data types (metadata, user ratings and reviews, item content) are useful to match against different aspects of recommendation needs. There are many discussion forums where users describe their needs and their frustration with current search and recommender systems. In this talk I will summarize our work on analyzing relevance aspects for these needs and describe experiments on dealing with these.
Cultivating Library, Authors, and Speaker Connectionssjlukesh
This document provides tips for cultivating relationships with authors and speakers for library events. It recommends starting early to brainstorm potential speakers based on desired topics and audience. Further research should be done to check the speaker's credentials and references. Communication with the speaker is important to ensure all logistical details are covered. Following up after the event with feedback and thank you notes helps maintain the relationship for future events. Several online resources and organizations are listed that can help identify potential library-author speakers.
Cultivating Library, Author, and Speaker Connectionsjlukesh
This document provides tips for cultivating relationships with authors and speakers for library events. It discusses considering factors like the event topic and audience when choosing speakers. Sources for finding speakers include writers organizations, humanities councils, and individual author websites. Homework on potential speakers includes checking credentials and references. Good follow up like feedback and thank you notes helps maintain relationships. Maintaining a speaker list allows libraries to bring back favorites or share recommendations.
Intro to HTML: STEAM & Making in Informal Learning Environments Community of ...Fayetteville Free Library
View the lesson used to teach HTML to members of the STEAM & Making in Informal Learning Environments Community of Practice, during our Coding Learning Day on 5/3/2017
This presentation was delivered by Fayetteville Free Library's Executive Director, Susan Considine, and Director of Community Engagement and Experience, Leah Kraus, at the Computers in Libraries conference in March 2016.
This document discusses how libraries can incorporate making and maker culture through inspiration, innovation, and education rather than needing expensive equipment or large spaces. It provides examples of how Fayetteville Free Library and other libraries inspire community members through activities like Lego robotics and sewing clubs. These activities allow participants to develop innovative solutions and educate each other. The document emphasizes that libraries should start with their own community's interests and needs rather than replicating what others are doing.
Does your library support 21st century literacy skills? Why STEAM in libraries? This webinar will expose you to the research that supports the integration of informal STEAM learning into your libraries’ programming and services. Leave armed with a starter toolkit of ideas so you can experiment with STEAM in your library today!
NYLA MSRT Webinar, delivered in June 2015
The Fayetteville Free Library in Fayetteville, New York opened the nation's first library makerspace, called the Fab Lab, to provide free and open access to tools and technology for community members to discover, create and build projects. The Fab Lab has been highly successful, with over 10,000 hours of 3D printing time logged and hundreds of community members certified to use the 3D printers, laser cutters, and vinyl cutters. In addition to open access, the Fab Lab also offers classes, camps, and programming led by volunteers to teach skills like 3D modeling and sewing to over 300 attendees. The makerspace has supported entrepreneurship in the community and strengthened local partnerships and small businesses.
Want to bring STEAM to your library? Find ways to leverage existing dollars, programs, spaces, services and collections and integrate STEAM components. Don’t worry about reinventing the wheel at your library; just inject some STEAM in to what you already do!
NYLA MSRT Webinar delivered on 8/25/15 by Fayetteville Free Library
This presentation was delivered by Sue Considine at the Mid Hudson Library System Annual meeting in October 2013, and at Edmonton Public Library's Leader-In-Residence program in spring 2014.
This presentation has been presented many times by the Fayetteville Free Library in many iterations, including for as a webinar for the "American Spaces" series at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, and as a continuing education program for Wester New York Library Resource Council.
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This presentation was developed by Fayetteville Free Library and delivered to a classroom of students at Lincoln Middle School in Syracuse, NY during February 2015.
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Ffl collection development 101
1. FFL COLLECTION
DEVELOPMENT 101
OCPL COLLECTION TASK FORCE
MEETING
11/13/13
Presented by Monica Kuryla, Director of Innovative Information
Access
Fayetteville Free Library
2. Collection Management
Analyze existing collection (at least once a year)
Set a goal (i.e need to make more room for X, so
would like to create X amount of space)
Set up criteria for evaluation-ask yourself “what is
reasonable?” (i.e. creation date, last circ, etc.)
Sample criteria: Physically older than 10 years
Has not circulated in 2-3 years
Weed based on criteria
Determine whether to replace lost, m/t copies
Review gaps in collection (nonfiction, series by
author, classics, etc.)
3. Collection Management cont.
Simply Reports Use for Collection Management
Identify items in your collection that are in
Missing/Trace or Lost status
Fixing bad records-call numbers that are
misspelled or wrong
Weeding-using the criteria of: barcode, call #,
title, item creation date, last circ transaction
date.
Can be used to identify gaps in the collection-
titles in a series missing, etc.
4. Building a Patron Driven
Acquisition Collection
Start with the list of bestselling authors (it’s a sure
thing). Order # of copies based on popularity (i.e. 6
copies for the new James Patterson, etc.)
Analyze stats/Run reports (Simple Reports & Holds
Manager)
Listen to what the readers want, not necessarily what
reviewers say
Simply Reports can be used to determine which titles to
order per format
Sample criteria for purchase:
More than 2 holds by FY patron (pickup)
Additional copies based on >20 holds per title
Holds Manager can be used to identify how long your
patrons have been waiting for a title and whether or not
you have a copy
5. Building a Patron Driven
Acquisition Collection cont.
Familiarize yourself with a variety of sources
by keeping up with the “buzz”:
NPR books, NYT book review, Early Word
blog, Cindy Orr’s Reader Advisory Online blog,
People magazine, Books on Air-author on talk
shows, etc.
Anticipate popular topics, including most
anticipated books of the upcoming season,
events (i.e. Catching Fire Movie, etc), books to
film
Patrons DO judge a book by its cover!
6. What to Rethink
Continuing Order Plans
Playaways, Large Print, Audio CDs, Print
Reference, Music CDs
Databases
Program costs
7. Readers Advisory
Ways to provide readers advisory service:
1) In person-over the desk interactions and in the stacks conversations
2) Virtual form- a more in depth way to create a customized reading list
3) Opportunities to discover new title independently:
Using in house and virtual displays-readalikes/topical
Print lists-bookmarks/brochures with custom booklists
Virtual lists that link to catalog via the web
Types of readers advisory:
Title readalike (ex. My favorite book was “The Help”…I am looking similar for books)
Author readalike (ex. My favorite author is “Janet Evanovich”….I am looking for
similar authors)
Genre readalike (ex. I am looking for a good British Mystery..)
Book Club pick (ex. I am looking for my next book club pick..)
Custom Book Recommendation (form submitted via email)
8. Readers Advisory Reference
Interview
Most frequently asked question:
“I am looking for a ‘good book’..Do you have any
suggestions?”
Interview Tips:
What is the last book that you read and liked?
Do you have a favorite author?
What are you in the mood for?
Parents of children, spouses/children of seniors
-Ask what genre they might be interested in (do they like humor?,
etc.)
-Don’t necessarily focus on age for children, but rather get hints of
what author or genre they read in the past.
9. Creating Conversations with
Readers
It’s about conversation/connection with library- approach readers in the stacks!
For example:
“Are you content to browse or would you like some suggestions?”
“What are you in the mood to read?”
“What are the last 3 books you enjoyed?”-listen for appeal terms
Make connections beyond personal reading-you aren’t expected to read everything! Awareness
of what is out there is the key.
For example:
“This author is supposed to be the next Steig Larsson..”
“I just finished this and..”
“I read a review that said..”
“I heard and interview on NPR..”
“I have heard a lot about that one..”
“Critics are saying..”
**Invite the reader back to share!**
10. Readers Advisory Resources
Novelist database
BookBrowse web based subscription
Use displays/booklists
For Book Clubs:
http://www.litlovers.com/
http://readinggroupguides.com/content/index.a
sp
http://www.bookmovement.com/
11. Questions?
Fayetteville Free Library
Homepage: www.fflib.org
Twitter: @fayettevillelib
Facebook: www.facebook.com/fayfreelibrary
Monica Kuryla
Director of Innovative Information Access
mkuryla@fflib.org
@mkuryla
Susan Considine
Executive Director
sconsidine@fflib.org
@sconsidine