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Scarecrow Press Transforming Libraries Building Communities The
Book SynopsisThis book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information. Written by practicing public librarians and an academic librarian with an interest in public libraries, the book focuses on how public libraries can become more community centered and, by doing so, how they can transform both themselves and their communities. The authors argue that focusing on building community through innovative and responsive services and programs will be the best way for the public library to reposition itself in the years to come. Repositioning the library acknowledges that information is in abundance in contemporary life. And while accessing information will always be at the heart of what libraries do, it isn't the only thing they do. It may not be, in the future, even the most important thing that they do. This book encourages librarians to admit that our role has evolved and to reframe the discussion so that it is about what we actually can do play an essential role in meeting community needs and building strong and vibrant local communities. The authors argue that repositioning libraries as community centered institutions is a responsibility. Libraries bring people together. They create community, and they also create mini-communities everything from book groups to writing circles to new citizen groups to linguistic or ethnic communities reflected in programming and in collections. These mini-communities help provide fellowship and foster relationships amongst the group members, but also, because they exist in the public place that is the library, help the larger community recognize and learn about the mini-communities that create the larger community. This is the work of libraries. The book is divided into three parts which include explorations into the importance of the community centered library, practical advice on making your library more community centered, and a showcase of community centered library programs, services and initiatives across the United States. A special focus of the book is on how community development literature and practice can inform librarianship, with an emphasis on Asset Based Community Development principles. The book looks at how community centered libraries build individual and community assets and how, in doing so, they serve as essential community anchors and institutions.Trade ReviewAuthored by the ethnic studies librarian and multicultural coordinator at the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana in Missoula, the teen librarian at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, and the adult services librarian at the Peabody Institute Library, this work offers 15 chapters organized into 3 parts: the what and why of community-centered libraries, how to create community-centered libraries, and inspiration for community-centered libraries. Intended for the public librarian, 'this work demonstrates how public libraries can position themselves as active and vibrant centers of community life in the twenty-first century' (p. vii). Drawing on real-life examples, the co-authors demonstrate through case studies how libraries of all sizes, demographics, and budgets in the United States can and do work to become community-centered. Drawing on what has already been done, sharing tips, tricks, inspiration, what to do, and what not to do, this book will encourage and enable any public library to become more community-centered. Librarians in other types of libraries can also benefit from selected chapters, based on the community needs, whether looking to find the importance and relevance of being community-centered; how to allocate the resources, collaborate, and obtain grants; or determining how to focus on civic action, sustainability, the arts, or other purposes. Down-to-earth and practical, yet packed with ideas and inspiration, this work is beneficial to any public library’s professional collection. * American Reference Books Annual *Table of ContentsForeword by Kathleen de la Peña McCook Introduction Part 1 Chapter 1 - Community-Centered Library Services: Their Importance and Relevance Chapter 2 - Community-Centered Libraries: The Hearts of Revitalized Communities Chapter 3 - The Future of Libraries, Now Part 2 Chapter 4 - Allocate the Resources Chapter 5 - Think Like a Programmer Chapter 6 - Networking Chapter 7 - Collaborations Chapter 8 - Get Grants Part 3 Chapter 9 - Libraries as Centers of Civic Action Chapter 10 - Libraries as Centers for Sustainability Chapter 11 - Libraries as Cultural Reflections of the Community Chapter 12 - Libraries as Community Centers for Diverse Populations Chapter 13 - Libraries as Centers for the Arts Chapter 14 - Libraries as Universities Chapter 15 - Libraries as Champions of Youth Conclusion
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ABC-CLIO Literacy Reading the Word and the World Critical Studies in Education Series
Book SynopsisAt a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response. Harvard Educational Review Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. Times Educational Supplement [This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. Contemporary Sociology
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Institute of Jamaica
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston v.1
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Legare Street Press Catalogue No. 25
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of Bengali Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum. A Supplementary Catologue of Bengali Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 18861910. Compiled by J.F. Blumhardt ... Printed by Order of
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Institute of Jamaica
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Legare Street Press The United States
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Legare Street Press Dictionary Catalogue of the First 505 Volumes of Everymans Library
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Legare Street Press The Centennial Celebration of General Sullivans Campaign Against the Iroquois in 1779
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Legare Street Press Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit Mich. 1889
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Legare Street Press A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Eton College
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Legare Street Press A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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Legare Street Press Classified List of Books Available for Traveling Libraries.
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Legare Street Press Report of the Committee on the Library With a Statement of the State Librarian. 1865
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Legare Street Press Five Thousand Books
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of Bengali Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum. A Supplementary Catologue of Bengali Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 18861910. Compiled by J.F. Blumhardt ... Printed by Order of
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Legare Street Press The Cardiff Libraries Review
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Legare Street Press History of the Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
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Legare Street Press Memorial of Nathaniel Holmes Morison 18151890
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Legare Street Press Finding List Niagara Falls Public Library Niagara Falls N.Y. January 1899
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Legare Street Press Report of the State Librarian. 1860
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Legare Street Press Annual Report of the Commissioners for Public Libraries and Museums for the Parish of St. Mary Battersea 18871900
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of Stereopticons Dissolving View Apparatus Magic Lanterns
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Legare Street Press Contributions Towards a Bibliography of the Civil War in the United States
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Legare Street Press Bulletin of the New Rochelle Public Library. 1902
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Books in the Lending and Reference Departments
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of Books in Friends Library Cherry Street Below Fifth Philadelphia
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Legare Street Press Dictionary Catalogue of the First 505 Volumes of Everymans Library
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Legare Street Press Books for Young People a Class List With Index of Authors Subjects ... Together With Reference Lists on Washington Lincoln Grant Easter Arbor Day Memorial Day Independence Day Thanksgiving Christmas.
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Legare Street Press A List of the Genealogical Works in the Illinois State Historical Library Springfield Illinois
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Entire and Select Library of the Late Rev. Samuel Cooper Thacher
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Legare Street Press Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit Mich. 1889
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of the Hindi Panjabi and Hindustandi Manuscripts in the Library of the British Museum
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Legare Street Press The History of Genghizcan the Great First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars in Four Books
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Legare Street Press A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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Legare Street Press Catalogue of Books in the Central Lending Library to December 1906 Comp. by Archibald Sparke.
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Legare Street Press The Libraries of California
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Legare Street Press Outlines of Jainism
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