libraries and community

A step-by-step guide to creating a makerspace within a library.

Tells the story of the Little Free Library movement and features a resource guide, blueprints, and more than 350 color photographs.

Describes a nine-step process for planning, organizing, and running a library contest, offering ideas and advice on how to select a contest planner and develop community partnerships, establish goals and estimate budget, define contest type, determine eligibility, schedule the contest, select a prize, choose judges, promote the contest, and evaluate success.

Cover title: Publicity and display ideas for libraries. Contains display ideas with instructions for windows, bulletin boards, walls, clubs, projects, etc.

A practical handbook for librarians dealing with the whys, the hows, and the tricks of the trade of library public relations.

Resource guide for librarians on public relations with information on how to spotlight special events, developing a "we care" environment, and more.

Presents a practical guide that examines the public and school library's role in the education and life of the reader, and offers suggestions for making pleasure reading a priority in schools.

Presents a practical guide to planning and hosting author visits ; and provides information on selecting an author, choosing the type of event, publicity, and managing the autograph line.

A guide to librarianship based on knowledge and learning, describing the importance of reaching beyond the search for new uses for the Internet and twenty-first-century technologies, and providing a visual representation of the field with statements on theories, examples of practice, key ideas, and related topics.

A guide for libraries and librarians that discusses popular social software technologies--blogs, RSS, wikis, social networking, screencasting, photo-sharing, podcasting, instant messaging, gaming, and more--and provides examples and interviews to explain the impact of each technology.