Managing Children's Services in Libraries - Softcover

Fasick, Adele M.; Holt, Leslie Edmonds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610691008 ISBN 13: 9781610691000

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2012

Synopsis

Providing guidelines for designing collections and services that best serve 21st-century needs in school and public libraries, this book helps librarians to understand today's children and the ways they interact with information and recreational materials.

Managing Children's Services in Libraries, Fourth Edition is designed to give students and new library workers the skills they need to succeed as well as get experienced librarians up to speed on the new developments in technology, publishing, and education. The book takes a broad view of all aspects of library work with children, addressing the dramatic and ongoing changes in school and pubic libraries.

This latest edition of a popular, proven resource focuses on practical ways to organize library services to children and the adults who care for them, and on expanding services from the building level to the greater community. Sections focus specifically on collections, planning services, managing personnel and budgets, and working with other community agencies. The book is written to serve as a textbook for courses in services to children and young adults, and is appropriate for short workshops and in-service training for library staff. Administrators and department heads will find it a useful tool for designing and updating library services.

About this title

About the Author

ADELE M. FASICK is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Reviews

The fourth edition has been updated to reflect the fast-paced changes that have occurred in children's services since the last one was published five years ago. The authors identify the challenges and changes that have occurred in each of the six different sections and include school and special libraries as well as public libraries. All of the topics one might expect to find are covered: collection development, budgeting, facilities and space planning, outreach, marketing, and intellectual freedom. But they have all been updated to include either the new developments in technology or the fiscal realities of the day. This edition expands on some topics such as strategic planning and evaluation of services and includes a new section on getting to know today's children by describing their changing habits in information-seeking and reading. It gives a more outward view to the community, and not just managing services at the building level. The book includes lists of expanded reading at the end of each chapter. It is designed to serve as a textbook for courses in library services to children or for new librarians needing a guide to their current positions.-Renee McGrath, Nassau Library System, NYα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610691008
• ISBN 13: 9781610691000
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 240