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227 books about Libraries and 12 start with P

227 books about Libraries and 12 227 books about Libraries
12 start with P start with P

Past Imperfect

Essays on History, Libraries, and the Humanities

Lawrence W. Towner

University of Chicago Press, 1993

Lawrence W. Towner was head of one of the country's largest independent research libraries. He was also an eloquent spokesman for the needs of scholars and institutions in the humanities. While at the Newberry Library, he built and focused its prestigious collections, pioneered in the preservation of books, and created major research centers. His efforts established the library as a community of scholars while encouraging its use by students and the general public.

Towner's essays and talks cover a broad range of topics of continuing relevance to scholarship and the humanities. His writings gathered in Past Imperfect are concerned with such issues as the role of independent research libraries and the politics of funding. A section of historical essays on the common people of New England reveal his concern with neglected fields of history, a theme that guided his career as a librarian. Spanning the range of his experience and expertise, this volume expresses Towner's coherent vision of the place of humanities, libraries, and scholarship in American life.

Lawrence W. Towner (1921-92) taught history at M.I.T., the College of William and Mary, and Northwestern University. In 1962 he was appointed librarian of the Newberry Library and directed the library for the next twenty-four years.

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Past Or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning Through

Eleanor Mitchell

Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2012

Past or Portal

Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives

Eleanor Mitchell

Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2012

Pil 58,Center For Learning

Writing Centers & Libraries

James Elmborg

Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2011

Placing Papers

The American Literary Archives Market

Amy Hildreth Chen

University of Massachusetts Press, 2020

The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

The market for contemporary authors' archives began when research libraries needed to cheaply provide primary sources for the swelling number of students and faculty following World War II. Demand soon grew, and while writers and their families found new opportunities to make money, so too did book dealers and literary agents with the foresight to pivot their businesses to serve living authors. Public interest surrounding celebrity writers had exploded by the late twentieth century, and as Placing Papers illustrates, even the best funded institutions were forced to contend with the facts that acquiring contemporary literary archives had become cost prohibitive and increasingly competitive.

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Planning Our Future Libraries

Blueprints for 2025

Kim Leeder

American Library Association, 2013

The Power of Play

Designing Early Learning Spaces

Dorothy Stoltz

American Library Association, 2015

Powerful Public Relations

American Library Association

American Library Association, 2002

Privatizing Libraries

Jane Jerrard

American Library Association, 2012

Project Management in Libraries

On Time, On Budget, On Target

Carly Wiggins Searcy

American Library Association, 2018

Proving Your Library's Value

Persuasive, Organized, and Memorable Messaging

Alan Fishel

American Library Association, 2020

You know the value of your library, but elected officials, donors, community leaders, funders, and other important stakeholders may not. How can you make the library a priority for these groups, who may have preconceived notions about what the library does, as you compete with other important community organizations for funding? In this book from United for Libraries, you’ll learn how to use The E’s of Libraries® (Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Engagement, and Empowerment) to quickly demonstrate why your library is essential and worthy of funding, using messaging that is organized, persuasive, and memorable. With the help of worksheets, charts, and prompts, you will learn how to

use language designed to win over stakeholders, funders, and partners;
craft custom messaging in several formats that is easily accessible and memorable, including elevator speeches, budget presentations, and annual appeals; and
create presentations and other materials tailored to any audience based on the sample documents included.

This book's innovative framework can be used by any size or type of library, and by any library advocate, including Friends groups, library staff, trustees, and foundations.