Public Library Start-up Guide.
Title:
Public Library Start-up Guide.
Author:
Hage, Christine Lind.
ISBN:
9780838998564
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (177 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Public Libraries -- Chapter 2 - Establishing the Library -- Chapter 3 - Building the Team -- Chapter 4 - Securing Library Financing -- Chapter 5 - Shaping the Organization -- Chapter 6 - Taking Care of Business -- Chapter 7 - Planning for the Long Term -- Chapter 8 - Participating in Cooperative Arrangements -- Chapter 9 - Building the Perfect Library -- Chapter 10 - Furnishing and Equipping a Public Library -- Chapter 11 - Developing the Collection -- Chapter 12 - Planning and Developing Services -- Chapter 13 - Promoting the Library -- Index.
Abstract:
An estimated thirteen million people in the U.S. are not served by a public library. This presents opportunities for creating new libraries. Involving complex, timeconsuming, and expensive decisions, the prospect of starting a library without the right direction seems overwhelming.The Public Library Start-Up Guide provides a framework for success from looking at the big strategic picture to picking the furniture. Expert library director and author Christine Hage offers a succinct, nontechnical, and step-by-step approach covering all the practical issues for library professionals as well as nonlibrarians who need to know where to start.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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