Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Today's Librarians

✍ Scribed by Guy Robertson

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates. The book's author presents an unrivalled portrait of front-line librarianship that is based upon his unique experience and voice. Chapters consider workplace matters, the fate of hardcopy books, speechmaking at conferences, the effects of recessions on libraries, continuing education, and corporate gift-giving programs. This book will make an excellent and useful addition to library collections in library science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Front-Line Librarianship
Chandos Information Professional Series
Front-Line Librarianship
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A -
By Popular Demand: Various Genres and Tastes
1 - Reading in season: how the yearly cycle affects your choice of books
1.1 Cottage and campground
1.2 Dickensian alternatives
1.3 On the road
1.4 Innocent?
1.5 Jack comes back
2 - Mystery madness: understanding the demand for crime fiction in libraries
2.1 Death by demand
2.2 What the professor wants
2.3 Selection tools
2.4 Death on order
2.5 Matters of taste
3 - Reaching the outer limits: science fiction in the library
3.1 Hugo’s achievement
3.2 Monsters and young men
3.3 Atwood’s handmaid
3.4 Fear of Goths
3.5 Safeway neuromancer
3.6 Rowling power
3.7 Join the club
4 - Life enjoyed: the appeal of biography collections
4.1 Why so popular?
4.2 Imagining the life
4.3 Paris Hilton and Co
4.4 Living collections
5 - Travel collections: off the shelf, on the road
5.1 What guidebooks give
5.2 Atlases
5.3 Early travel literature
5.4 Enter the British
5.5 Not so painful
5.6 Rick does Europe
6 - Blankets will not protect you! an overview of horror fiction
6.1 Older English horror
6.2 Victorian shivers
6.3 American classic
6.4 King of the genre
7 - Making the Penguins fly: classics collections in public libraries
7.1 Broad interests
7.2 Life without Freud
7.3 Tapestry of wisdom
7.4 Questions and decisions
7.5 The politics of shelving
8 - First love, printed and bound
8.1 Going Hobbit
8.2 Magic Kingdom
8.3 You can be a librarian
8.4 Personal passion in the workplace
8.5 Reading for eternity
B -
Social Studies
9 - Alternative librarianship: voices from the field
10 - Life at the cellular level: dealing with wireless communications in libraries
10.1 Kids and parents
10.2 A cell-free zone
11 - Moonlight sonata: librarians discuss their work after work
11.1 Debt management and fitness
11.2 The rotten nest egg
11.3 Food for thought
11.4 Beethoven for adult amateurs
11.5 Getting sweaty for fun and profit
12 - Manual matters: developing successful guidelines and losing priceless boredom
13 - Keeping up appearances: looking like a librarian in an age of paranoia
13.1 The customs of the country
13.2 Helpful dandruff
13.3 Librarians, beards, etc
13.4 Star power
14 - Surviving hard times: how libraries can deal with recessions
14.1 Balance required
14.2 ERM
14.3 More management and why not
14.4 If it ain’t broke…
14.5 Boxes of bargains
14.6 What we fear most
14.7 Recovery, eventually
15 - What goes down: library experiences of the urban poor
15.1 Sleeping in the streets
15.2 A couple of users
15.3 A former colleague
15.4 What’s in the bag
16 - Keynoting: an honest overview
16.1 The gang’s all here
16.2 The winning smile
16.3 For the camera
16.4 Fly for cover
16.5 Please drop in
16.6 Moment of truth
17 - Quote us freely: British librarians speak out about recent cutbacks
17.1 Cooking with new technology
17.2 Grime
17.3 The rebellious spirit
17.4 Caveat: maggie
17.5 Angry students
17.6 Perseverance
17.7 Damn the pigeons
18 - For your eyes only: love and disorder in our domestic libraries
18.1 The lure of the sofa
18.2 Serendipity
18.3 Swedish equipment
18.4 He came in through the bedroom window
18.5 Neurosis
19 - Who’s next door? Living with your library’s neighbors
19.1 Something in the air
19.2 Good woman
19.3 Unhappy hour
19.4 Banking on cooperation
19.5 The pain of divorce, the pleasures of chai
20 - Worldwide weeding: when books no longer furnish a room
20.1 Manner of disposal
20.2 More fiction than ever
20.3 Dinosaurs choose Proust
20.4 New uses for space
20.5 Back to 007
21 - What care ye for raiment? Dress codes and styles in our libraries
21.1 Slob alert
21.2 First the shirts, and then …
21.3 Hair off the spectrum
21.4 High-altitude footwear
21.5 Footwear, cont
21.6 Watch for icicles
22 - Circulation counter service in public and academic libraries: dealing face-to-face with patrons
22.1 Bronzino
22.2 Put on hold
22.3 In the wet
22.4 A matter of qualifications
22.5 Security
22.6 The case of the missing molars, cont
C -
Visiting the Library:People and Programs
23 - Gold, Frankincense, and Murder: the wise bookseller’s guide to corporate gifts
24 - “It’s not just the books!” Wheelchair patrons speak out
24.1 Safe spots
24.2 Library attitudes
24.3 Independence on wheels
24.4 When to ignore the rules
24.5 Individual respect
25 - What’s cooking at your library: a special event
25.1 Getting started
25.2 Cook it and they will come
25.3 Finding a presenter
25.4 Setting a date
25.5 Getting the word out
25.6 Signing up
25.7 Final preparations
25.8 Signage
25.9 Day of reckoning
25.10 Troubleshooting
25.11 A savory conclusion
26 - Abroad in your library: what tourists want, what they get
27 - Here’s looking at you, kid: what special visitors want when they tour your library
27.1 The vision
27.2 Location, location
27.3 On the outside
27.4 Staff workspace
27.5 For the public
27.6 Shelving
27.7 Your influence
28 - Discover your inner elf: Christmas programs for public libraries
28.1 Deck the hall
28.2 Scrooge, etc
28.3 Annually, or else
28.4 Facilities management
29 - Boo! Halloween in our libraries
29.1 Plastic bats
29.2 Storytime
29.3 Adult fiction
29.4 Costumes will be worn
29.5 Ghoulish Donald
29.6 Off the wall
30 - Confessions of a library Santa
31 - November memories: librarians and patrons observe Remembrance Day
31.1 Blazers and berets
31.2 Photos and their contexts
31.3 Not on display
31.4 Year-round circulation
31.5 Accommodating veterans
31.6 Snipers
32 - Gone astray: an exploration of library lost-and-founds
32.1 Contents of the drawer
32.2 The wandering wallet
32.3 Lottery winner
32.4 Emotional response
32.5 For the love of a plastic duck
32.6 Police matters
33 - Cat care programs in public libraries: providing essential information to owners
33.1 One reason why
33.2 Nutrition
33.3 The unhappy question
33.4 On the prowl
33.5 Q & Q & Q & A
33.6 Fame
34 - Serving the solitary: librarians demonstrate “in-reach”
34.1 Various reasons
34.2 Excruciating
34.3 In-reach defined
34.4 A common need
34.5 A common service experience
34.6 Shiny brogues
D -
Senior Moments
35 - Seniors: what they want and what they get in Canada’s public libraries
36 - Leisure reading for seniors: sorting out tastes and topics
36.1 Solve for X
36.2 TV tie-ins
36.3 Club talk
36.4 Romance and children’s treasures
36.5 Other formats
37 - Finance, felines, and figuring It all out: utilitarian reading for seniors
37.1 Seniors need books and more
37.2 A matter of health
37.3 Ending up without fear
37.4 Life is a garden
37.5 Pet care
37.6 Financial concerns
37.7 Life goes on
38 - Tis the season: christmas programs for seniors
38.1 Aptly nicknamed
38.2 Storytime
38.3 By oneself
38.4 Perfect for table or tree
38.5 Limited seating
39 - It’s never too late to Tolstoy: adventures of a seniors’ reading club
39.1 Blithe spirits
39.2 What it takes
39.3 Convoy formation
39.4 Bathtub risk
39.5 Biblical visuals
E -
Library Technicians
40 - Training techs: preparing library technicians for an evolving job market
41 - File under tango: lifelong learning for library technicians
41.1 Love and technology
41.2 Cerebral workout
41.3 Do you copy?
41.4 First and last tango in tech services
41.5 Reference greens and browns
F -
For the Record
42 - Paper crazy no more: records management for library chaos junkies
42.1 Step one: getting past denial
42.2 Step two: assigning records management responsibilities
42.3 Step three: compiling the records inventory
42.4 Step four: retention scheduling
42.5 Step five: establishing confidentiality levels and organizing document destruction
42.6 Step six: preventing data loss
42.7 Step seven: developing the library archives
42.8 Step eight: sustaining the records management process
42.9 Sources: the author’s choice
43 - CIA for beginners: records management training for library technicians
44 - Records management for office managers: a special librarian’s clip ‘N share
44.1 A list of what you have
44.2 What you keep, what you shred
44.3 Archival treasures
44.4 Storage here, storage there
44.5 Available expertise
G -
Rare Books and Other Rubbish
45 - Gold in the garbage: making the most from the treasure in your trash
45.1 Nobody bought it
45.2 An expert eye
45.3 A win–win scenario
46 - One for the books: lectures on collecting from coast to coast
46.1 The bard’s Rotarians
46.2 Tribes
46.3 High spots, high prices
46.4 Mississauga romantic
46.5 Restoration costs
46.6 Biblio-survival
H -
English Hours
47 - Librarian’s London: visiting the city of readers
48 - Under the bridge with Margaret and Charles: browsing in London’s South Bank Book Market
49 - Spirited business: styles of bookselling in Piccadilly
49.1 Park your steed outside
49.2 Grave matters of privacy
49.3 Aboveground marketing and sales
49.4 Parenting
49.5 The sound of popping corks
50 - Here be dragons: continuing education in library history
50.1 On the road
50.2 Age is relative
50.3 Calfskin cartography
50.4 Medieval zoology
50.5 Textual meditation
50.6 Special patrons
51 - Finding Mr. Perfect: WH Smith in Paddington Station
51.1 Impulse
51.2 Oxford men
51.3 Diverting material
51.4 One-stop shopping
51.5 Profit from reading
52 - Visiting Oxford: lifelong memories from one day on the move
53 - Perfect for your wall or shelf: shopping at London’s popular tourist attractions
53.1 Office decoration made easy
53.2 The real thing
53.3 A matter of taste
53.4 Ophelia
53.5 Making the connection
53.6 Rosetta Stone
53.7 The Abbey
53.8 The grave matter of lunch
I -
Corporate Concerns
54 - Confidentiality at risk: how the info-thief threatens your corporate information
55 - E-pest alert
56 - Data on the road: keeping portable IT safe while you travel
Index
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