{"product_id":"library-outreach-partnerships-and-distance-education-9780789008428","title":"Library Outreach Partnerships and Distance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncrease patronage with effective outreach strategies!From the Introduction, by Wendi Arant and Pixie Anne Mosley: “Outreach is a concept that is gaining more and more significance for libraries, particularly with the recent developments in information technology. Dictionaries define it as ''the act of extending services, benefits, etc. to a wider section of the population.’This definition also implies a mission to communicate a particular message to an audience in order to gain their support. Its meaning for libraries is profound, having consequences for fund raising, public service, and public relations.”Library Outreach, Partnerships, and Distance Education: Reference Librarians at the Gateway focuses on extending community outreach in libraries toward a broader public by expanding services that are based on recent advances in information technology. This crucial volume with help you will explore many of the issues that are currently a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I. Technology and Outreach \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wired But Not Connected: Accessibility of Academic Library Home Pages \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Real-Time Reference Service for the Remote User: From the Telephone and Electronic Mail to Internet Chat, Instant Messaging, and Collaborative software \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Marketing Electronic Resources and Services: Surveying Faculty Use as a First Step \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Accessing the Old and the New: Outreach via Web Exhibits and Archive Collections at the University of Arizona Library \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Expanding Outreach to a Unique User Community: The Slavic Reference Service and the Internet \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e II. Targeting Special Connections: Specific User Groups and Liaison Partners \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ready to Read: A Collaborative, Community-Wide Emergent Literacy Program \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pressing the F1 Key--And Retrieving Each Other \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Orienting Neighborhood Youth to an Academic Library: Creating Campus-Community Connections \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Providing Library Outreach to Student Athletes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Developing Proactive Partnerships: Minority Cultural Centers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Expanding the Learning Community: An Academic Library Outreach Program to High Schools \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e III. A Different Approach: New User Programs and Outreach Services \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The “Open House,” An Effective Library Public Relations and Instruction Tool \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Outside the Exhibit Case: An Undergraduate Library Welcomes the Community \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Developing a Liaison Program in a New Organizational Structure--A Work in Progress \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Collaborative Learning: University Archives and Freshman Composition \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Academic Library Outreach Through Faculty Partnerships and Web-Based Research Aids \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e IV. Outreach in an Academic Library: Overview, Issues, and Background \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Improving ADA Access: Critical Planning \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Instruction and Outreach at Colorado State University Libraries \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Outreach at a Public, Academic, Regional Library--Texas A\u0026amp;M University-Corpus Christi \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Outreach to Distance Learners: When the Distance Education Instructor Sends Students to the Library, Where Do They Go? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405061235031,"sku":"9780789008428","price":63.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780789008428.jpg?v=1730488548","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/library-outreach-partnerships-and-distance-education-9780789008428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}