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Incubating creativity at your library
CHICAGO — Creativity needs a platform. As technology consultant David Weinberger puts it, “A platform provides resources that lets other people build things.” The library is an ideal platform, and in “ Incubating Creativity at Your Library: A Sourcebook...
Seamless youth services for every age and stage
CHICAGO — The tweens aren’t the only “in-between” years in a child’s life—the storytime-to-school age and teen-to-adult transitions are just as momentous, and as tricky to address when it comes to programming. That’s certainly one factor behind the...
Choice white paper encourages libraries to develop and implement a marketing outreach strategy
MIDDLETOWN, CT. – Choice today announced the publication of the fourth in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This paper, their second marketing-focused...
Simple tools for wrangling data
CHICAGO — Data manipulation and analysis are far easier than you might imagine—in fact, using tools that come standard with your desktop computer, you can learn how to extract, manipulate, and analyze data (and metadata) of any size and complexity. In “...
72 time-saving guides for library marketing
CHICAGO — You know you need to get the word out. But where do you start? How do you keep track of everything? Don’t work harder—work smarter. The key is to stay organized and focused through solid project management skills, and at the heart of it all lies...
Millar champions the value of evidence in new Archival Futures book
CHICAGO — The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital technologies have opened the door to a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” can be so easily accepted as valid. And because...
New book series dives into the Shared Foundations anchoring the AASL Standards
CHICAGO – A new series of upcoming books from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and 91传媒 Editions will provide an immersive and dedicated study of the Shared Foundations that anchor the "National School Library Standards for Learners...
Advice in conversation with academic library leaders
CHICAGO — The path towards leadership starts with you. But you don’t have to go it alone. For “ A Starter's Guide for Academic Library Leaders: Advice in Conversation,” published by 91传媒 Editions, authors Amanda Clay Powers, Martin Garnar, and Dustin Fife...
The culture of digital scholarship
CHICAGO — At the heart of digital scholarship are universal questions, lessons, and principles relating both to the mission of higher education and the shared values that make an academic library culture. But while global in aspirations, digital...
ACRL releases "2018 Academic Library Trends and Statistics"
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “ 2018 Academic Library Trends and Statistics,” the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures and service...
New from ACRL - 鈥淭he Grounded Instruction Librarian鈥
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “ The Grounded Instruction Librarian: Participating in The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” edited by Melissa Mallon, Lauren Hays, Cara Bradley, Rhonda...
June 2019 ITAL Issue Now Available
Chicago -- The June 2019 issue (volume 38, number 1) of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is now available. Reviewed Articles and Communications No Need to Ask: Creating Permissionless Blockchains of Metadata Records (Dejah Rubel) 50 years of...
ALCTS Publishing releases first guide in new monographs series
CHICAGO— ALCTS Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the first title in its new Sudden Position Guide series. Edited by Jeremy Myntti and authored by Ben Abrahamse, Whitney Buccicone, Stephen Buss, Autumn Faulkner, Matthew Gallagher and Nicole...
Discovering your own style of library leadership
CHICAGO — Author Jason Martin won’t tell you how to be a leader. In fact, that’s not the point of his new book “ Library Leadership Your Way,” published by 91传媒 Editions. Instead he’ll give you a roadmap and the tools to find it out for yourself, guiding...
Supporting creative writers at the library
CHICAGO — Information professionals and educators can help patrons find their own stories in libraries—not only as readers, but also as writers. Stories, whether fiction, nonfiction, or verse, often have research behind them; and libraries and archives...
