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Format: 1 online resource (304 pages).

ISBN: 0-08-102778-8

Series Statement: Chandos information professional series

Note: Front Cover -- Front-Line Librarianship -- Chandos Information Professional Series -- Front-Line Librarianship -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A - By Popular Demand: Various Genres and Tastes -- 1 - Reading in season: how the yearly cycle affects your choice of books -- 1.1 Cottage and campground -- 1.2 Dickensian alternatives -- 1.3 On the road -- 1.4 Innocent? -- 1.5 Jack comes back -- 2 - Mystery madness: understanding the demand for crime fiction in libraries -- 2.1 Death by demand -- 2.2 What the professor wants -- 2.3 Selection tools -- 2.4 Death on order -- 2.5 Matters of taste -- 3 - Reaching the outer limits: science fiction in the library -- 3.1 Hugo's achievement -- 3.2 Monsters and young men -- 3.3 Atwood's handmaid -- 3.4 Fear of Goths -- 3.5 Safeway neuromancer -- 3.6 Rowling power -- 3.7 Join the club -- 4 - Life enjoyed: the appeal of biography collections -- 4.1 Why so popular? -- 4.2 Imagining the life -- 4.3 Paris Hilton and Co -- 4.4 Living collections -- 5 - Travel collections: off the shelf, on the road -- 5.1 What guidebooks give -- 5.2 Atlases -- 5.3 Early travel literature -- 5.4 Enter the British -- 5.5 Not so painful -- 5.6 Rick does Europe -- 6 - Blankets will not protect you! an overview of horror fiction -- 6.1 Older English horror -- 6.2 Victorian shivers -- 6.3 American classic -- 6.4 King of the genre -- 7 - Making the Penguins fly: classics collections in public libraries -- 7.1 Broad interests -- 7.2 Life without Freud -- 7.3 Tapestry of wisdom -- 7.4 Questions and decisions -- 7.5 The politics of shelving -- 8 - First love, printed and bound -- 8.1 Going Hobbit -- 8.2 Magic Kingdom -- 8.3 You can be a librarian -- 8.4 Personal passion in the workplace -- 8.5 Reading for eternity -- B - Social Studies -- 9 - Alternative librarianship: voices from the field. , 10 - Life at the cellular level: dealing with wireless communications in libraries -- 10.1 Kids and parents -- 10.2 A cell-free zone -- 11 - Moonlight sonata: librarians discuss their work after work -- 11.1 Debt management and fitness -- 11.2 The rotten nest egg -- 11.3 Food for thought -- 11.4 Beethoven for adult amateurs -- 11.5 Getting sweaty for fun and profit -- 12 - Manual matters: developing successful guidelines and losing priceless boredom -- 13 - Keeping up appearances: looking like a librarian in an age of paranoia -- 13.1 The customs of the country -- 13.2 Helpful dandruff -- 13.3 Librarians, beards, etc -- 13.4 Star power -- 14 - Surviving hard times: how libraries can deal with recessions -- 14.1 Balance required -- 14.2 ERM -- 14.3 More management and why not -- 14.4 If it ain't broke… -- 14.5 Boxes of bargains -- 14.6 What we fear most -- 14.7 Recovery, eventually -- 15 - What goes down: library experiences of the urban poor -- 15.1 Sleeping in the streets -- 15.2 A couple of users -- 15.3 A former colleague -- 15.4 What's in the bag -- 16 - Keynoting: an honest overview -- 16.1 The gang's all here -- 16.2 The winning smile -- 16.3 For the camera -- 16.4 Fly for cover -- 16.5 Please drop in -- 16.6 Moment of truth -- 17 - Quote us freely: British librarians speak out about recent cutbacks -- 17.1 Cooking with new technology -- 17.2 Grime -- 17.3 The rebellious spirit -- 17.4 Caveat: maggie -- 17.5 Angry students -- 17.6 Perseverance -- 17.7 Damn the pigeons -- 18 - For your eyes only: love and disorder in our domestic libraries -- 18.1 The lure of the sofa -- 18.2 Serendipity -- 18.3 Swedish equipment -- 18.4 He came in through the bedroom window -- 18.5 Neurosis -- 19 - Who's next door? Living with your library's neighbors -- 19.1 Something in the air -- 19.2 Good woman -- 19.3 Unhappy hour -- 19.4 Banking on cooperation. , 19.5 The pain of divorce, the pleasures of chai -- 20 - Worldwide weeding: when books no longer furnish a room -- 20.1 Manner of disposal -- 20.2 More fiction than ever -- 20.3 Dinosaurs choose Proust -- 20.4 New uses for space -- 20.5 Back to 007 -- 21 - What care ye for raiment? Dress codes and styles in our libraries -- 21.1 Slob alert -- 21.2 First the shirts, and then … -- 21.3 Hair off the spectrum -- 21.4 High-altitude footwear -- 21.5 Footwear, cont -- 21.6 Watch for icicles -- 22 - Circulation counter service in public and academic libraries: dealing face-to-face with patrons -- 22.1 Bronzino -- 22.2 Put on hold -- 22.3 In the wet -- 22.4 A matter of qualifications -- 22.5 Security -- 22.6 The case of the missing molars, cont -- C - Visiting the Library:People and Programs -- 23 - Gold, Frankincense, and Murder: the wise bookseller's guide to corporate gifts -- 24 - "It's not just the books!" Wheelchair patrons speak out -- 24.1 Safe spots -- 24.2 Library attitudes -- 24.3 Independence on wheels -- 24.4 When to ignore the rules -- 24.5 Individual respect -- 25 - What's cooking at your library: a special event -- 25.1 Getting started -- 25.2 Cook it and they will come -- 25.3 Finding a presenter -- 25.4 Setting a date -- 25.5 Getting the word out -- 25.6 Signing up -- 25.7 Final preparations -- 25.8 Signage -- 25.9 Day of reckoning -- 25.10 Troubleshooting -- 25.11 A savory conclusion -- 26 - Abroad in your library: what tourists want, what they get -- 27 - Here's looking at you, kid: what special visitors want when they tour your library -- 27.1 The vision -- 27.2 Location, location -- 27.3 On the outside -- 27.4 Staff workspace -- 27.5 For the public -- 27.6 Shelving -- 27.7 Your influence -- 28 - Discover your inner elf: Christmas programs for public libraries -- 28.1 Deck the hall -- 28.2 Scrooge, etc -- 28.3 Annually, or else. , 28.4 Facilities management -- 29 - Boo! Halloween in our libraries -- 29.1 Plastic bats -- 29.2 Storytime -- 29.3 Adult fiction -- 29.4 Costumes will be worn -- 29.5 Ghoulish Donald -- 29.6 Off the wall -- 30 - Confessions of a library Santa -- 31 - November memories: librarians and patrons observe Remembrance Day -- 31.1 Blazers and berets -- 31.2 Photos and their contexts -- 31.3 Not on display -- 31.4 Year-round circulation -- 31.5 Accommodating veterans -- 31.6 Snipers -- 32 - Gone astray: an exploration of library lost-and-founds -- 32.1 Contents of the drawer -- 32.2 The wandering wallet -- 32.3 Lottery winner -- 32.4 Emotional response -- 32.5 For the love of a plastic duck -- 32.6 Police matters -- 33 - Cat care programs in public libraries: providing essential information to owners -- 33.1 One reason why -- 33.2 Nutrition -- 33.3 The unhappy question -- 33.4 On the prowl -- 33.5 Q & Q & Q & A -- 33.6 Fame -- 34 - Serving the solitary: librarians demonstrate "in-reach" -- 34.1 Various reasons -- 34.2 Excruciating -- 34.3 In-reach defined -- 34.4 A common need -- 34.5 A common service experience -- 34.6 Shiny brogues -- D - Senior Moments -- 35 - Seniors: what they want and what they get in Canada's public libraries -- 36 - Leisure reading for seniors: sorting out tastes and topics -- 36.1 Solve for X -- 36.2 TV tie-ins -- 36.3 Club talk -- 36.4 Romance and children's treasures -- 36.5 Other formats -- 37 - Finance, felines, and figuring It all out: utilitarian reading for seniors -- 37.1 Seniors need books and more -- 37.2 A matter of health -- 37.3 Ending up without fear -- 37.4 Life is a garden -- 37.5 Pet care -- 37.6 Financial concerns -- 37.7 Life goes on -- 38 - Tis the season: christmas programs for seniors -- 38.1 Aptly nicknamed -- 38.2 Storytime -- 38.3 By oneself -- 38.4 Perfect for table or tree -- 38.5 Limited seating. , 39 - It's never too late to Tolstoy: adventures of a seniors' reading club -- 39.1 Blithe spirits -- 39.2 What it takes -- 39.3 Convoy formation -- 39.4 Bathtub risk -- 39.5 Biblical visuals -- E - Library Technicians -- 40 - Training techs: preparing library technicians for an evolving job market -- 41 - File under tango: lifelong learning for library technicians -- 41.1 Love and technology -- 41.2 Cerebral workout -- 41.3 Do you copy? -- 41.4 First and last tango in tech services -- 41.5 Reference greens and browns -- F - For the Record -- 42 - Paper crazy no more: records management for library chaos junkies -- 42.1 Step one: getting past denial -- 42.2 Step two: assigning records management responsibilities -- 42.3 Step three: compiling the records inventory -- 42.4 Step four: retention scheduling -- 42.5 Step five: establishing confidentiality levels and organizing document destruction -- 42.6 Step six: preventing data loss -- 42.7 Step seven: developing the library archives -- 42.8 Step eight: sustaining the records management process -- 42.9 Sources: the author's choice -- 43 - CIA for beginners: records management training for library technicians -- 44 - Records management for office managers: a special librarian's clip 'N share -- 44.1 A list of what you have -- 44.2 What you keep, what you shred -- 44.3 Archival treasures -- 44.4 Storage here, storage there -- 44.5 Available expertise -- G - Rare Books and Other Rubbish -- 45 - Gold in the garbage: making the most from the treasure in your trash -- 45.1 Nobody bought it -- 45.2 An expert eye -- 45.3 A win-win scenario -- 46 - One for the books: lectures on collecting from coast to coast -- 46.1 The bard's Rotarians -- 46.2 Tribes -- 46.3 High spots, high prices -- 46.4 Mississauga romantic -- 46.5 Restoration costs -- 46.6 Biblio-survival -- H - English Hours. , 47 - Librarian's London: visiting the city of readers.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-08-102729-X

Language: English