Setting Up a New Library and Information Service

✍ Scribed by Kirby Porter (Auth.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 159
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is intended as a guide for those people who have been charged with establishing a library or information service in their organisation. It is a practical guide to the steps that need to be taken, the people that will need to be dealt with and the procedures that will have to be adopted in order to bring the venture to a successful conclusion. The book contains many practical tips and hints from the author, based upon his 'hands-on', practical experience of setting up many new information services.

Deals with the whole process - from start to finish
Based on sound principles that have worked in practice
Easy to follow as a step-by-step guide

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
CHANDOS: INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL SERIES, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Introduction, Pages ix-x
About the author, Page xi
1 - Why organisations need library and information services, Pages 1-7
2 - First steps to getting started, Pages 9-19
3 - The importance of customers in the planning and development of the new service, Pages 21-29
4 - Managing access to your information – classification, Pages 31-52
5 - Managing access to your information – cataloguing, Pages 53-69
6 - Providing additional material for your users – the art of stock selection, Pages 71-97
7 - Planning further service development, Pages 99-115
8 - Measuring the performance of the library service, Pages 117-133
9 - Marketing the new service, Pages 135-147
10 - Conclusion, Pages 149-151
Appendix A - Useful reference publications, Pages 153-155
Appendix B - Copyright, Pages 157-161
Index, Pages 163-164

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