Setting Up a New Library and Information Service
eBook - PDF

Setting Up a New Library and Information Service

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Setting Up a New Library and Information Service

About this book

This book is intended as a guide for those people who have been charged with establishing a library or information service in their organisation. It is a practical guide to the steps that need to be taken, the people that will need to be dealt with and the procedures that will have to be adopted in order to bring the venture to a successful conclusion. The book contains many practical tips and hints from the author, based upon his 'hands-on', practical experience of setting up many new information services. - Deals with the whole process – from start to finish - Based on sound principles that have worked in practice - Easy to follow as a step-by-step guide

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Setting Up a New Library and Information Service
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. About the author
  7. Chapter 1. Why organisations need library and information services
  8. Chapter 2. First steps to getting started
  9. Chapter 3. The importance of customers in the planning and development of the new service
  10. Chapter 4. Managing access to your information – classification
  11. Chapter 5. Managing access to your information – cataloguing
  12. Chapter 6. Providing additional material for your users – the art of stock selection
  13. Chapter 7. Planning further service development
  14. Chapter 8. Measuring the performance of the library service
  15. Chapter 9. Marketing the new service
  16. Chapter 10. Conclusion
  17. Appendix A: Useful reference publications
  18. Appendix B: Copyright
  19. Index