The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times - Softcover

Marylaine Block

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573872776 ISBN 13: 9781573872775

Publisher: Information Today, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

Here is a highly readable guide to strategies and projects that have helped over 100 public libraries gain community support and funding during challenging times. Marylaine Block integrates survey responses from innovative library directors with her research, analysis, and extended interviews to showcase hundreds of winning programs and services. The strategies explored include: Youth Services; The Library as Place; Partnerships; Marketing; Stressing the Economic Value; Library 2.0; Outreach; and Helping the Community Achieve Its Aspirations. Projects are described in practitioners own words, with additional examples drawn from libraries long-range plans, annual reports, programs, and Web sites, as well as from news stories and library literature. The result is a rich source of ideas and inspiration for those who want their libraries to thrive, not merely survive. Supported by the author s Web page.

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1573872776
• ISBN 13: 9781573872775
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352