Diversity Programming and Outreach for Academic Libraries

• Author : Kathleen Hanna,Mindy Cooper,Robin Crumrin
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 24 June 2011

This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students, faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on campus, and in the local community. This book illustrates how universities are uniquely situated to engage students in discussions about diversity and how academic libraries in particular can facilitate and ease these discussions. A Diversity Council and the projects and programs it has developed have been instrumental in this work

• Author : Michelle Demeter,Haley K. Holmes
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 30 April 2019

This book provides in-depth practical advice and examples of public and academic library programming activities. Included in this volume are methods for identifying target audiences, activities and ways to find and generate even more ideas, tools for assessment and budgeting, and tips on planning programs from inception to execution.

• Author : William C. Welburn,Janice Welburn,Beth McNeil
• Publisher : Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
• Release : 26 July 2021

• Author : Peggy Keeran,Carrie Forbes
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 22 September 2018

Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration brings together a variety of ways academic libraries engage with communities. This edited volume is a resource for discovering new programming ideas and principles of effective marketing, and it will aid strategic thinking about outreach activities.

• Author : Carol Smallwood,Lura Sanborn
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 06 November 2017

“Gender issues have expanded in recent years and become increasingly nuanced. Therefore, this collection of essays on gender studies resources, services and research from the librarianship perspective are especially welcome. While the focus remains feminist, masculinity and other gender identities are explored through meaningful processes. Chapters include both “traditional” aspects of gender studies, such as cataloging patriarchy and ‘herstory’ content analysis as well as innovative ways to voice under-represented gendered points of view through use of space, curation, and edit-a-thons.

• Author : Wendy Arent,Pixey Anne Mosley
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 09 June 2000

Increase patronage with effective outreach strategies! From the Introduction, by Wendi Arant and Pixie Anne Mosley: “Outreach is a concept that is gaining more and more significance for libraries, particularly with the recent developments in information technology. Dictionaries define it as 'the act of extending services, benefits, etc. to a wider section of the population.’This definition also implies a mission to communicate a particular message to an audience in order to gain their support. Its meaning for libraries is

• Author : Pamela A. Jackson,Patrick Sullivan
• Publisher : Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
• Release : 26 July 2021

The case studies describe projects that support the success of international students studying at academic institutions, and provide examples of strategies for librarians to encourage library use among international students and increase international student success.

• Author : Carol Smallwood,Kim Becnel
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 26 July 2021

Library Services for Multicultural Patrons provides librarians of all types who want to better serve the multicultural groups in their communities with easy-to-implement suggestions for collaborative efforts, many rich and diverse programming ideas, strategies for improving reference services and library instruction to speakers of English as a second language, marketing and promotional tips designed to welcome multicultural patrons into the library, and much more.

• Author : Kaetrena D. Davis
• Publisher : Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
• Release : 26 July 2021

• Author : Diane E. Peters
• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
• Release : 12 April 2010

This book addresses the issues faced by both international students and by librarians who work with them and offers suggestions on ways to make the relationship between the two groups more positive and productive. The annotated bibliography provides an overview of the literature on the topic.

• Author : Paul Kelsey,Sigrid Kelsey
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 26 July 2021

Discover innovative outreach services you can implement for your library! Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to promote awareness of the library by meeting the information needs of underserved or uninformed patrons. This book contains the experiences of academic and special librarians who describe a wide array of successful outreach programs that are in place throughout the country. This valuable tool introduces professional librarians and library science students and faculty

• Author : Lori Mestre
• Publisher : Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
• Release : 26 July 2021

• Author : Carrie Forbes, Associate Dean for Student and Scholar Services, University of Denver Libraries,Jennifer Bowers
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 05 December 2014

Rethinking Reference for Academic Libraries: Innovative Developments and Future Trends, containing five sections and fourteen chapters, reviews the current state of reference services in academic libraries with an emphasis on innovative developments and future trends. The main theme that runs through the book is the urgent need for inventive, imaginative, and responsive reference and research services.

• Author : Teresa Neely,Kuang-Hwei Lee-Smeltzer
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 15 April 2013

A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries! Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides effective retention strategies for diverse employees. It also shows how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits for university employees who are unmarried same- and opposite-sex couples. Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries provides a unique research perspective on assessment

• Author : Loanne Snavely
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 26 July 2021

"This unique book explores exciting programs and initiatives that can both engage undergraduate students with academic libraries and assist academic librarians in creating a vibrant library atmosphere"--