The Upside of Downsizing: Using Library Instruction to Cope - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555702171 ISBN 13: 9781555702175

Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Many academic libraries are currently struggling with funding, and the new technological needs of libraries, plus dramatic increases in serials prices, have created even larger budget strain. This work offers librarians a number of ways in which to cope with this disturbing trend.

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Figures List
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Who, What, When, Why-Defining Our Terms
Chapter 1: Term I: The "New" Library
Chapter 2: Term II: The New Librarians
Chapter 3: Term III: New and Old Users: Service to Both
Part II: How-Creating the Teaching Program
Chapter 4: Our 12-Step Teaching Program
Chapter 5: Setting the Stage
Step 1: Determining the Need
Step 2: Securing initial administrative / collegial support
Step 3: Information gathering
Step 4: Instructional needs assessment
Step 5: Discussion / brainstorming / consulting / prioritizing
Chapter 6: What Type of Instruction is Right for Your Library?
Step 6: Program / session design
Chapter 7: Finding, Creating, Becoming Library Teachers
Step 7: Training
Chapter 8: Getting it Going, Keeping it Running
Step 8: Publicity
Step 9: Infrastructure
Step 10: Feedback
Step 11: Evaluation
Step 12: Revision
Part III: Where-Instructional Settings
Chapter 9: The New Reference Desk
Chapter 10: The "Newer" Reference Desk:
Electronic Arcades
Chapter 11: Classrooms in the Library:
Electronic and Otherwise
Chapter 12: Teaching in the Electronic Classroom
Chapter 13: Teaching in Cyberspace: The Remote User,
Libraries, and Distance Education
Chapter 14: Tinker, Tailor, Itinerant Teacher
The UnGlossary
Glossary
Index
Colophon
-- Table of Contents

Recommended for planners, practitioners, and library school faculty. -- Library Journal

From Scientific American:

Budget cuts in academic libraries have led to reductions in staff. The Upside of Downsizing... provides...strategies for coping.

About this edition

• Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1555702171
• ISBN 13: 9781555702175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249
• Editor: Laguardia Cheryl, Bentley Stella, Mantorana Janet