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MP-ALA American Library Assoc Zotero A guide for librarians researchers and educators
Functioning as a thorough introduction to Zotero - from setting up to saving, organising, and citing items, and ending with more advanced topics - as well as a guide to teaching Zotero, including case studies of researchers throughout the book, this is both a guide to the tool and a handbook for understanding how different groups use it.
£44.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc A Basic Music Library Essential Scores and Sound Recordings 1 Volume 1 Popular Music
Featuring the many records selected by experts in dozens of specialised and popular areas of music, this title is divided into three sections: classical music (organised by genre, composer, and title); popular music (organised by genre and artist); and, world music (organised by geographic area, genre, and artist).
£248.40
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Instructional Identities and Information Literac Volume 2 Transforming Our Programs Institutions and Profession
In three volumes, Instructional Identities and Information Literacy uses transformative learning theory - a way of understanding adult learning and ourselves - to explore the ways librarians can meaningfully advance how we think about our identities, instructional work, and learning as transformation.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc A Matter of Facts The Value of Evidence in an Information Age
Because facts matter, archives matter. In this urgent manifesto, archives luminary Millar makes the case that authentic and accurate evidence is crucial in supporting and fostering a society that is respectful, democratic, and self-aware.
£44.06
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Resilience
Discusses how resilience can align with library values of equity and access, and why libraries and information professionals may be ideal partners or providers in helping individuals and the communities which they serve adopt resilient practices.
£24.26
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The College Students Research Companion Finding Evaluating and Citing the Resources You Need to Succeed
Most college students are novice researchers for whom Google is the option of first resort. But the information provided by the surface websites found this way often lacks substance and is of questionable authority. Save your students from fruitless, random web searching with this cutting-edge, newly updated guide.
£24.26
MP-ALA American Library Assoc 32 Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality Programs for Libraries
A timely, all-in-one guide to planning, organizing, and running virtual events in libraries. Ranging from simple gaming activities utilizing VR headsets to augmented reality tours, exhibits, immersive experiences, and STEM educational programs, these ideas include something for every size and type of academic, public, and school library.
£67.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Teaching Life Skills at the Library Programs on Money Management Career Development and More
Provides a hands-on and interactive approach to creating and planning library programs and activities that will enable patrons to learn and build the most important life skills.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Fostering Wellness in the Workplace A Handbook for Libraries
Whether you're an administrator or library leader concerned about the health and well-being of your team, or a library worker excited to launch a health and wellness movement in your library, you'll find sensible guidance and inspiration in Newman's handbook.
£51.26
MP-ALA American Library Assoc 25 Projects for Eco Explorers
Presents more than two dozen ready-to-use projects on environmental topics that can be integrated into K-5 educational lesson plans and library programming for children aged 4-10. Starting with a representative picture book as a foundation, children are guided through each topic using a hands-on project that reinforces learning.
£24.26
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Framing Information Literacy Volume 5 Scholarship as Conversation
Presents lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. These six volumes provide explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities.
£33.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Modular Online Learning Design A Flexible Approach for Diverse Learning Needs
Does your online instruction program sometimes feel like a constant scramble to keep pace with requests and deadlines? Modular design is the answer. Approaching projects, whether large and small, with an eye towards future uses will put you on the path to accomplishing broader, organisational goals.
£63.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Rainy Day Ready Financial Literacy Programs and Tools
Empowering people with the knowledge to make sound financial decisions is an important way to make a difference in your community, and many libraries are doing just that. Drawing from the expertise of business librarians and ALA's Public Programs Office, this book is a guide for offering financial literacy initiatives at your own library.
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Social and Emotional Learning for Picture Book Readers
Spotlights 24 compelling picture books with ready-to-go lesson plans that support social and emotional learning (SEL) through the National School Library Standards. Each chapter focuses on one SEL theme to help learners practice targeted social-emotional skills.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Creating Adaptable Digital Preservation Workflows
£44.06
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Serving Patrons with Disabilities Perspectives and Insights from People with Disabilities
Ensuring accessibility is more important than ever; however, answering questions of what needs to be done and why to make a library accessible can be an uncomfortable and daunting hurdle to true inclusion. This book is a safe, nonjudgmental tool for overcoming this awkwardness.
£38.66
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Managing Grey Literature
Though it provides a richness of content, grey literature is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections.
£67.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Building Digital Libraries
Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition.
£81.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Practical Handbook of Library Architecture Creating Building Spaces that Work
Distilling hard fought wisdom gleaned from hundreds of successful library construction projects they've supervised or coordinated, the authors present this definitive resource on library architecture. With a special emphasis on avoiding common problems in library design, in a down-to-earth manner they address a range of issues applicable to any undertaking.
£144.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Academic Library Mentoring Fostering Growth and Mentoring of Library Faculty and Librarians
Presents a cross-section of mentoring thought and practice in college and university libraries, including mentoring definitions, practice fundamentals, models, programme development, surveys, and analysis. Across three volumes, it explores library mentoring programmes and the lived experiences of library faculty.
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Teaching Information Literacy Reframed 50 FrameworkBased Exercises for Creating InformationLiterate Learners
£55.80
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The SixStep Guide to Library Worker Engagement
Offering proven strategies alongside recommended action points in each chapter, this resource guides managers and administrators through developing and maintaining a more engaged and diverse workplace.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Teaching Research Data Management
Armed with this guide's strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty.
£67.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc TwentyFirstCentury Access Services On the Front Line of Academic Librarianship
£46.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Sequels An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series
Includes hundreds of annotated series, title and subject indexes, and suggestions for reading order. This guide is suitable for general readers and library patrons as well as readers' advisors; public, university, and high school reference librarians; acquisition and collection management librarians; and bookstore staff and book reviewers.
£107.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Your Passport to International Librarianship
Volunteering in international libraries is not only feasible, it's also the perfect prescription for recharging, renewing, and recommitting oneself to librarianship. In this volume, the authors draw from their experiences working with groups such as Librarians without Borders to offer a passport to these exciting opportunities.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposiu Reflections Revisions and New Works
This anthology provides a toolkit for critical library pedagogy that recognizes how knowledge is created within historical and deeply politicized contexts. Contributors explore intersections between information literacy and critical pedagogy and provide current thinking, assessment, and reflection.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Foundations of Information Literacy
While many books have been written on information literacy, this text is the first to examine information literacy from a cross-national, cross-cultural, and cross-institutional perspective. The authors also explore key related issues such as technology, public policy, human rights, community engagement, and advocacy.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc HotTicket Meetings
It's time to flip the script on this bedrock of organisational culture and remake meetings into the kind of hot-ticket gatherings that will make attendees feel motivated, informed and included. In this succinct Leadership Planner, loaded with self-reflective questions, activities, and prompts, Hakala-Ausperk shows you how to forge ahead.
£19.76
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Meaningful Metrics A 21st Century Librarians Guide to Bibliometrics Almetrics and Research Impact
What does it mean to have meaningful metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? With a foreword by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem, this highly engaging and activity-laden book serves to introduce readers to the fast-paced world of research metrics from the unique perspective of academic librarians and LIS practitioners.
£49.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Fun of Motivation Crossing the Threshold Concepts
Examines the theories behind motivation and fun in the classroom, and offers three instructional techniques that highlight their benefits. The book then explores the application of these theories, each chapter addressing one of the threshold concepts provided in ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
£46.80
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Academic Library Mentoring Fostering Growth and Mentoring of Students and Staff
Presents a cross-section of mentoring thought and practice in college and university libraries, including mentoring definitions, practice fundamentals, models, programme development, surveys, and analysis. Across three volumes, it explores library mentoring programmes and the lived experiences of library faculty.
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Managing Data for Patron Privacy Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries
Build trust with your library's users by securing their data privacy. Taking a holistic approach, this guide presents practical ways to implement privacy ethics into data practices.
£71.55
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Libraries and Sustainability Programs and Practices for Community Impact
Library workers at all types of organizations, as well as LIS students learning about this newest Core Value of Librarianship, will find this book an easy-to-digest introduction to what staff at a range of libraries have accomplished in incorporating sustainability into their decision making and professional practices.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection
By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users. This book demonstrates the power of ‘rightsizing’, an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Marketing Plans in Action
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Uncommon Quotes for Library Lovers
Celebrate librarianship and the love of libraries with this new collection of quotes. Included are 100 of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and uplifting aphorisms about books, the joy of reading, intellectual freedom, and librarianship.
£10.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Constructing Library Buildings That Work
When it's time to start planning for a renovation or construction project, you don't need a book that covers everything from A to Z. Instead you need a concentrated set of tools and techniques that will guide you to find the best solutions for your specific project. That's exactly what library building expert Schlipf provides in this book.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Engaging Babies in the Library Putting Theory into Practice
Until now there has been gap in the literature addressing the developmental needs and changing behaviours of babies and toddlers. Focusing squarely on the how of providing quality library service to babies and families, this book provides sensible, sensitive advice on meeting their physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs.
£46.80
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Designing Libraries for the 21st Century
Explores trends and identifies promising strategies for new or renovated library space. The book features an impressive array of authors who provide guidance, principles, and a wealth of creative ideas for spaces, technology, programs, and partnerships.
£144.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Libraries Leadership and Scholarly Communicati Essays by Rick Anderson
£64.80
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Records and Information Management
£81.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Library Signage and Wayfinding Design Communicating Effectively with Your Users
Take a more user-centred approach to crafting library signage with this handy guide. Well-designed signage is clear, direct, and reduces confusion and frustration among library users and library workers alike.
£53.10
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Libraries that Build Business Advancing Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Public Libraries
Libraries have already begun to transform communities, with programs ranging from one-on-one business consultations, classes, and workshops to networking and equipment lending, as the many initiatives spotlighted in this book demonstrate.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Library Liaisons Training Guide to Collection Management
Library liaisons often have primary jobs that do not involve collection development, but their familiarity with collection practices makes all the difference in faculty relations. And time pressures mean that on-boarding needs to be as streamlined as possible. This concise, field-tested training manual will put your liaison on solid footing.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Interim Leadership in Libraries Building Relationships Making Decisions and Moving On
Draws on evidence-based research, professional expertise, and personal experience to address the practical implications that arise from the decision to appoint interim leaders. Authors from a variety of institutions who have served in many different interim roles explore this unique type of leadership.
£67.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Introducing Scholarly Research ReadytoUse Lesson Plans and Activities for Undergraduates
From this book, instruction librarians will gain strategies and practical tools for introducing undergraduates to scholarly research topics such as research ethics, the role of research in higher education, quantitative and qualitative methods, and research in the areas of STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Using Context in Information Literacy Instructio Beyond Basic Skills
Shows how to teach information literacy as something other than a basic skill, but also how to do it in whatever mode of teaching you're most often engaged in, whether that's a credit-bearing course, a one-shot session, a tutorial, a reference desk interaction, or a library program.
£63.00
