Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Today's Librarians

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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
	48 - Under the bridge with Margaret and Charles: browsing in London’s South Bank Book Market
	49 - Spirited business: styles of bookselling in Piccadilly
		49.1 Park your steed outside
		49.2 Grave matters of privacy
		49.3 Aboveground marketing and sales
		49.4 Parenting
		49.5 The sound of popping corks
	50 - Here be dragons: continuing education in library history
		50.1 On the road
		50.2 Age is relative
		50.3 Calfskin cartography
		50.4 Medieval zoology
		50.5 Textual meditation
		50.6 Special patrons
	51 - Finding Mr. Perfect: WH Smith in Paddington Station
		51.1 Impulse
		51.2 Oxford men
		51.3 Diverting material
		51.4 One-stop shopping
		51.5 Profit from reading
	52 - Visiting Oxford: lifelong memories from one day on the move
	53 - Perfect for your wall or shelf: shopping at London’s popular tourist attractions
		53.1 Office decoration made easy
		53.2 The real thing
		53.3 A matter of taste
		53.4 Ophelia
		53.5 Making the connection
		53.6 Rosetta Stone
		53.7 The Abbey
		53.8 The grave matter of lunch
I -
Corporate Concerns
	54 - Confidentiality at risk: how the info-thief threatens your corporate information
	55 - E-pest alert
	56 - Data on the road: keeping portable IT safe while you travel
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