logo for American Library Association
I, Digital
Personal Collections in the Digital Era
Christopher A. Lee
American Library Association, 2011

logo for American Library Association
I Found It on the Internet
Coming of Age Online
Frances Jacobson Harris
American Library Association, 2011

logo for American Library Association
Impactful Community-Based Literacy Projects
Lesley S. J. Farmer
American Library Association, 2021

Foreword by Dr. Lois Bridges

Inspired by the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program and its applicants, which have showcased and disseminated innovative literacy initiatives across the country and around the world since 2013, this book provides evidence-based practice guidelines for librarians and educators. To optimize results, the projects in this book blend early literacy benefits, fundamental reading skills, and other foundational concepts with culture- or community-specific sensitivity and leveraging. They’re adaptable based on age, audience, size, resources, and budget; and most importantly, they address social inequities and foster cross-culture interactions. Inside, readers will find

  • detailed profiles of dozens of successful literacy projects, which include such activities as oral storytelling, the Parent-Child Home Program, a repository of multilingual children’s stories, accessible web readers, personal tutors, and many more; 
  • an overview of universal steps to literacy, explaining how people learn, generic reading skill development, human developmental issues, and habits of literacy;
  • research-based factors for impactful literacy projects;
  • discussion of the importance and role of literacy partners such as families, schools and universities, libraries, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit entities;
  • advice on project planning, including needs assessment, goals and objectives, literacy review, target audience, project personnel, resources, setting and timing, communication, support, implementation, and continuous assessment and improvement; and
  • guidance on building capacity, empowering the community, and sustaining a culture of literacy.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Implementing Cost-Effective Assistive Computer Technology
A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
Jane Vincent
American Library Association, 2012

front cover of Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A Handbook for Academic Libraries
Corliss Lee
American Library Association, 2022
“[T]he diversity of perspectives presented within this publication will build on the reader’s existing knowledge to bring nuances and alternative approaches to these enduring, seemingly intractable challenges within the LIS profession and within society.”
from the Foreword by Mark A. Puente
 
Academic library workers often make use of systemic, bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic dimensions of organizational behavior to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, but many are also doing the crucial work of pushing back at the structures surrounding them in ways small and large.
 
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and representative institutions. 19 chapters are divided into 6 sections:
 
  • Recruitment, Retention and Promotion
  • Professional Development
  • Leveraging Collegial Networks
  • Reinforcing the Message
  • Organizational Change
  • Assessment
 
Chapters cover topics including active diversity recruitment strategies; inclusive hiring; gendered ageism; librarians with disabilities; diversity and inclusion with student workers; residencies and retention; creating and implementing a diversity strategic plan; cultural competency training; libraries’ responses to Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action; and accountability and assessment. Authors provide practical guiding principles, effective practices, and sample programs and training. 
 
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion explores how academic libraries have leveraged and deployed their institutions’ resources to effect DEI improvements while working toward implementing systemic solutions. It provides means and inspiration for continuing to try to hire, retain, and promote the change we want to see in the world regardless of existing structures and systems, and ways to improve those structures and systems for the future.
 
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Implementing for Results
Your Strategic Plan in Action
Sandra Nelson
American Library Association, 2009

logo for American Library Association
Implementing FRBR in Libraries
Key Issues and Future Directions
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2009

logo for American Library Association
Implementing Virtual Reference Services
Beth Thomsett-Scott
American Library Association, 2013

logo for American Library Association
Improving the Visibility and Use of Digital Repositories
Kenneth Arlitsch
American Library Association, 2013

logo for American Library Association
In the Words of the Winners
The Newbery and Caldecott Medals 2001-2010
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2011

front cover of Include
Include
Julie Stivers
American Library Association, 2022

Include, part of a six-volume series on the Shared Foundations in AASL’s National School Library Standards, brings together a chorus of school librarians, scholars, and students representing a wide range of races, ethnicities, experiences, and identities. This book offers

  • an understanding of why the concept of Include is paramount to school librarian practice, supported by key research to share and inspire the inclusion of learner and educator voices and experiences;
  • an explanation of what it looks like to successfully integrate the Include Shared Foundation in terms of collection, space, and instruction; 
  • useable guidance that school librarians can confidently incorporate in their settings , including easy-to-implement ideas, inspiring stories, events, and transformation; and
  • reflections, questions, and action steps to help readers move their practice forward.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Including Families of Children with Special Needs
A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
Sandra Feinberg
American Library Association, 2013

logo for American Library Association
Incubating Creativity at Your Library
A Sourcebook for Connecting with Communities
Laura Damon-Moore
American Library Association, 2019

Creativity needs a platform. As technology consultant David Weinberger puts it, “A platform provides resources that lets other people build things.” The library is an ideal platform, and in this book Batykefer and Damon-Moore, creators of the Library as Incubator Project, share the experiences of numerous creative library workers and artists who are making it happen. Their stories will show you how to move beyond merely responding to community needs towards actively building a platform with your community. And best of all, you don’t need to start from scratch—rather, you amplify what’s already working. Filled with ideas and initiatives that can be customized to suit your library and its community, this book

  • discusses the four elements (Resources, Invitations, Partnerships & Engagement, and Staff) and the two lenses (Community-Led and Evaluation) of the Creative Library platform;
  • outlines six steps for surveying your community’s artistic landscape;
  • gives methods for expanding partnerships and connections with individuals and organizations through exploration, hands-on learning, and engagement with the community;
  • shares perspectives on the “ideal library” from several artists, with three examples of artist-in-residence programs;
  • offers examples of community invitations in action, such as the Pittsburgh Fiberarts Guild workshops on creating flowers using recycled materials;
  • shows how to use “orphan photos” from your archives for creative inspiration;
  • advises on using qualitative evaluations to effectively “weed” your initiatives; and
  • shares tips for encouraging library staff to express their creativity, turning avocations into library initiatives like Handmade Crafternoons, the Yahara Music Library, or BOOKLESS.

By building on existing elements at your library and filling in the gaps with community-driven additions, your library can be a space that cultivates creativity in both its users and staff.

[more]

logo for American Library Association
The Indispensable Academic Librarian
Teaching and Collaborating for Change
Michelle Reale
American Library Association, 2018

logo for American Library Association
Information Literacy Assessment
Standards-Based Tools and Assignments
Teresa Y. Neely
American Library Association, 2006

logo for American Library Association
Information Literacy Instruction that Works
A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population
Patrick Ragains
American Library Association, 2013

logo for American Library Association
Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
American Library Association
American Library Association, 1999

logo for American Library Association
Information Power
Building Partnerships for Learning
American Association of School Librarians
American Library Association, 1998

logo for American Library Association
Inquire
Lori E. Donovan
American Library Association, 2022

logo for American Library Association
Inside, Outside, and Online
Building Your Library Community
Chrystie Hill
American Library Association, 2009

logo for American Library Association
Inspired Collaboration
Ideas for Discovering and Applying Your Potential
Dorothy Stoltz
American Library Association, 2016

logo for American Library Association
Inspired Thinking
Big Ideas to Enrich Yourself and Your Community
Dorothy Stoltz
American Library Association, 2020

logo for American Library Association
Institutional Repositories
Clipp #44
Brighid Gonzales
American Library Association, 2018

logo for American Library Association
Instructional Design for Librarians and Information Professionals
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2011

logo for American Library Association
Intellectual Freedom for Teens
A Practical Guide for Young Adult & School Librarians
Kristin Fletcher-Spear
American Library Association, 2014

front cover of Intellectual Freedom Manual
Intellectual Freedom Manual
Trina Magi
American Library Association, 2021

The newest edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual is more than simply an update of a foundational text that has served as a crucial resource for more than four decades. It is a living document that serves as the authoritative reference for day-to-day guidance on maintaining free and equal access to information for all people. Whether you’re developing or revising policies, on-boarding new staff or trustees, responding to challenges and controversies, or studying librarianship, you’ll find this an indispensable resource, with features such as

  • ALA policy statements, approved by committees and Council, articulating core intellectual freedom principles and best practices;
  • 8 new interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights, which address urgent issues like internet filtering, public performances, political activity, religion, and equity, diversity, and inclusion;
  • “Issues at a Glance” sidebars which present key concepts, points of law, tips, and questions for reflection;
  • expanded content about developing library policies that support intellectual freedom;
  • updated information on censorship of library programs, displays, and databases;
  • “Advocacy and Assistance,” a section offering concrete guidance when you’re called on to talk to the media or meet with legislators;
  • Deeper Look essays which examine the laws related to library operations;
  • advice on when to call the police, when not to, and how to handle personally identifiable information when they arrive; and
  • an expanded glossary.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Manual
Trina Magi
American Library Association, 2015

logo for American Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Manual
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2010

logo for American Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Manual
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2006

front cover of Intellectual Freedom Stories from a Shifting Landscape
Intellectual Freedom Stories from a Shifting Landscape
Valerie Nye
American Library Association, 2020

Intellectual freedom is a complex concept that democracies and free societies around the world define in different ways but always strive to uphold. And ALA has long recognized the crucial role that libraries play in protecting this right. But what does it mean in practice? How do library workers handle the ethical conundrums that often accompany the commitment to defending it? Rather than merely laying out abstract policies and best practices, this important new collection gathers real-world stories of intellectual freedom in action to illuminate the difficulties, triumphs, and occasional setbacks of advocating for free and equal access to information for all people in a shifting landscape. Offering insight to LIS students and current practitioners on how we can advance the profession of librarianship while fighting censorship and other challenges, these personal narratives explore such formidable situations as

  • presenting drag queen story times in rural America;
  • a Black Lives Matter “die-in” at the undergraduate library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison;
  • combating censorship at a prison library;
  • hosting a moderated talk about threats to modern democracy that included a neo-Nazi spokesman;
  • a provocative exhibition that triggered intimidating phone calls, emails, and a threat to burn down an art library;  
  • calls to eliminate non-Indigenous children’s literature from the collection of a tribal college library; and
  • preserving patrons’ right to privacy in the face of an FBI subpoena.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Intellectual Property
Everything the Digital-Age Librarian Needs to Know
Timothy Lee American Library Association
American Library Association, 2008

logo for American Library Association
Interacting with History
Teaching with Primary Sources
Katharine Lehman
American Library Association, 2014

front cover of Interim Leadership in Libraries
Interim Leadership in Libraries
Building Relationships, Making Decisions, and Moving On
Jennifer E. Knievel
American Library Association, 2022
It’s common for libraries to use visiting, interim, temporary, and acting roles to solve a variety of personnel vacancies. And with the current, widespread retirements and turnover at the most senior levels of library leadership, more and more libraries are being led by interim leaders.
 
Interim Leadership in Libraries: Building Relationships, Making Decisions, and Moving On draws on evidence-based research, professional expertise, and personal experience to address the practical implications that arise from the decision to appoint interim leaders. Authors from a variety of institutions who have served in many different interim roles explore this unique type of leadership in five thorough sections:
  • Building Relationships for Interim Leaders
  • Leading with Confidence
  • Making Long-Term Decisions as an Interim Leader
  • Leading Through Contraction: When No One Can Be Hired
  • Moving On: When the Dust Settles 
Chapters cover topics including serving as a non-librarian interim, leading through a hiring freeze, strategic planning and reorganization as interim, and developing future library leaders. Individuals asked to step into interim or acting leadership roles face personal and professional challenges. This book will help leaders, and those who work with them, learn from the successes and failures of others who came before them in order to have a lasting impact on their organization.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook
Cherié L. Weible
American Library Association, 2011

logo for American Library Association
Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook
American Library Association
American Library Association, 1997

logo for American Library Association
Introducing RDA
A Guide to the Basics
Chris Oliver
American Library Association, 2010

front cover of Introducing RDA
Introducing RDA
A Guide To The Basics After 3R
Chris Oliver
American Library Association, 2021

Since Oliver’s guide was first published in 2010, thousands of LIS students, records managers, and catalogers and other library professionals have relied on its clear, plainspoken explanation of RDA: Resource Description and Access as their first step towards becoming acquainted with the cataloging standard. Now, reflecting the changes to RDA after the completion of the 3R Project, Oliver brings her Special Report up to date. This essential primer

  • concisely explains what RDA is, its basic features, and the main factors in its development;
  • describes RDA’s relationship to the international standards and models that continue to influence its evolution;
  • provides an overview of the latest developments, focusing on the impact of the 3R Project, the results of aligning RDA with IFLA’s Library Reference Model (LRM), and the outcomes of internationalization;
  • illustrates how information is organized in the post 3R Toolkit and explains how to navigate through this new structure; and
  • discusses how RDA continues to enable improved resource discovery both in traditional and new applications, including the linked data environment.
[more]

logo for American Library Association
An Introduction to Collection Development for School Librarians
Mona Kerby
American Library Association, 2019

front cover of Introduction to Public Librarianship
Introduction to Public Librarianship
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
American Library Association, 2018

Put simply, there is no text about public librarianship more rigorous or comprehensive than McCook's survey. Now, the REFORMA Lifetime Achievement Award-winning author has teamed up with noted public library scholar and advocate Bossaller to update and expand her work to incorporate the field's renewed emphasis on outcomes and transformation. This "essential tool" (Library Journal) remains the definitive handbook on this branch of the profession. It covers every aspect of the public library, from its earliest history through its current incarnation on the cutting edge of the information environment, including

  • statistics, standards, planning, evaluations, and results;
  • legal issues, funding, and politics;
  • organization, administration, and staffing;
  • all aspects of library technology, from structure and infrastructure to websites and makerspaces;
  • adult services, youth services, and children's services;
  • associations, state library agencies, and other professional organizations;
  • global perspectives on public libraries; and
  • advocacy, outreach, and human rights.

Exhaustively researched and expansive in its scope, this benchmark text continues to serve both LIS students and working professionals.

[more]

logo for American Library Association
Introduction to Public Librarianship
Kathleen de la Peña McCook
American Library Association, 2011

logo for American Library Association
Introduction to Public Librarianship
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2004

logo for American Library Association
Introduction to Reference Sources in Health Science
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2008

logo for American Library Association
Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences
Jeffrey T. Huber
American Library Association, 2014

logo for American Library Association
Irrepressible Reformer
Wayne A. Wiegand
American Library Association, 1996

logo for American Library Association
Is Consulting for You?
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2008

logo for American Library Association
Issues in Librarianship
Presented Papers at the ALA 2008 Annual Conference
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2008


Send via email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter