From outreach to equity innovative models of library policy and practice

The many assumptions about current library outreach services - that they're off-site, depend on special funding, and are administered by specific staff - no longer reflect the realities of providing equitable library services to the audiences who most need them. This guide answers both "wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: American Library Association. Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (-)
Otros Autores: Osborne, Robin, 1954- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : American Library Association 2004.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31931133*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Satia Marshall Orange and Robin Osborne
  • Services outside Library Walls / Jan Meadows
  • Models
  • Library Elderly Outreach Project / Jane Karp
  • InfoBUS: Serving Immigrant and Refugee Populations / Damone Virgilio
  • Serving Homeless People: Partnering with Shelters and Transitional Homes / Lisa A. Canavan
  • Deposit Collections: Streamlining Procedures for Better Service / Patricia Linhoff
  • Bookmobile Service to Preschool Children and Caregivers / Theresa Gemmer
  • Outreach to Prisons: Connecting Inmates and Public Library Services / Glennor Shirley
  • Tribal Libraries Program of the New Mexico State Library / Dana John
  • Words on Wheels and Traveling Library Center: Staffing to Optimize Services / Jeannie Dilger-Hill
  • Outreach inside the Library / Rhea Brown Lawson
  • Models
  • The Child's Place: Inclusive Services for Children with Special Needs / Carrie Banks
  • Assistive Technology Collection: Serving People with Disabilities / Marylou Tuckwiller
  • Family Language Kit Program: Connecting with Immigrant Families / Helen Benoit
  • LEAP: A Comprehensive and Multifaceted After-School Program / Sandra Anne Farrell and Sandra Miller
  • Libraries as Community Builders: The Greensboro Experience / Steve Sumerford
  • TIP Service: Community Information and Referral @ Your Library / Margaret Gillis Bruni
  • Community Youth Corps: Teens as Library Resources / Deborah D. Taylor
  • Global Outreach Services: Outreach in Academic Libraries / Thelma H. Tate
  • Outreach Using Information Technology / Kathleen (KG) Ouye
  • Models
  • Central Valley Digital Network: Partners in Bridging the Digital Divide / Carol Whiteside
  • www.firstfind.info: Organizing Easy-to-Use Information on the Web / Robin Osborne
  • Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology / Loreine Roy and Antony Cherian
  • Outreach Efforts at the Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library / Liz Workman
  • Info Seekers and the Biotech Learning Center: Building for the Future / Jean O. Crispieri
  • Technical Services: Connecting Minds / Zora J. Sampson
  • Models
  • A Librarian's Librarian: Albert P. Marshall / Satia Marshall Orange
  • Subject Access and Responsibility / Hope A. Olson
  • The Multilingual Materials Acquisition Center / Ingrid Betancourt and Ina Rimpau
  • Uses of Metadata to Expand Access / Jacquie Samples
  • Planning for System Migration with Input from Staff and Public / Vivian M. Pisano
  • BadgerLink: A Statewide License to Learn / Sally Drew
  • Creating an Enabling Online Environment / Axel Schmetzke
  • Expanding Access to Collections through Digitization / Ewa Barczyk and Krystyna Matusiak
  • Advocacy and Outreach: A Natural Connection / Maureen O'Connor
  • Models
  • Sisterfriends@Your Library: Marketing and Building Support for Programs / LaToya McLean
  • Outreach Starts at the Top: Advice from a Library Director / Dinah Smith O'Brien
  • Advocating for Library Services in County Facilities / Sharon Holley
  • Cultural Ambassadors Program: Putting the World within Reach / Susan McCarthy
  • Libraries and Literacy: Making New Connections / Roberta Reiss
  • New American Program: Outreach through Partnerships / Adriana Acauan Tandler
  • World Language Collections: Mining Demographic Data / A. Issac Pulver and Joan Clark
  • Staff Development: Assessing Our Own Behaviors / Sandra Rios Balderrama
  • Models
  • Developing Outreach Skills in Library Staff / Yolanda J. Cuesta
  • Qualitative Measures of Outreach Effectiveness / Denice Adkins
  • Hiring for Outreach / Faye C. Roberts
  • Training Staff for Job Service Outreach / Bernice Kao
  • Sharing Skills: Outreach@the Arizona Library Development Division / Jan Elliott
  • Learning by Doing: Outreach Training in a Branch Library / Linda S. Greene
  • The Diversity Initiative: One Committee's Story / Jeanne DeLaney, Judith Cramer, and Carolyn Evans
  • Outreach as Friendship in Peer-Based Community / Pat Wagner.