Preparing a Guide to your Library and Information Service

✍ Scribed by Sylvia P. Webb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 61
• Series: Aslib Know How Guides
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Discusses the choice of information that can be included as well as the different styles in which it can be presented.Covers not just the physical preparation but also distribution and publicity.Selected examples of interesting features.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Why produce a guide
Establishing the need
Awards for good PR material
3. Purpose and coverage of different types of guide
General promotion
Location and access
Layout
Operational details
Subject guides
Market research
4. The user: who, where and when
5. Style and format: how to get your message across
Staff involvement and responsibility
Writing skills
Style and language
6. The visual impact: design details
The printed guide
7. Printing and production: internal or external?
Use of external consultants and services
Making use of in-house facilities3
8. Conclusion
Evaluating your guide
Points to remember
9. Selected examples of interesting features
Cover design
Use of logos
Making the most of electronic sources and guides
10. Further reading
11. Organisations and addresses