Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century
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Carol Smallwood received a MLS from Western Michigan University, MA in History from Eastern Michigan University. Librarians as Community Partners: an Outreach Handbook; Bringing the Arts into the Library are recent ALA anthologies. Others are: Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012); Marketing Your Library (McFarland, 2012); Library Services for Multicultural Patrons: Strategies to Encourage Library Use (Scarecrow Press, 2013). Her library experience includes school, public, academic, special, as well as administration and being a library systems consultant.This anthology offers helpful examples and advice every small library director can replicate from improving management skills to implementing current technologies, to better serve their constituents.
- Donna Brice, VP/President Elect of Association for Rural & Small Libraries, Inc. and Library Director of the Eastern Lancaster County Library, New Holland, Pennsylvania,
This collection addresses the needs well beyond the scope of a small library. Library professionals will find the wealth of essential information for planning, management, and implementation of a variety of services and everyday operations.
- Vera Gubnitskaia, Youth Services Manager, Orange County (Florida) Library System,
This anthology speaks to the challenges and triumphs of working in small public libraries, providing tested tools and techniques that yield proven results.
- Kerol Harrod, librarian, Denton Public Library, Denton, Texas,
A go-to resource that supports the unique role of small public libraries in serving their local communities.
- Lisa Fraser, Services Implementation Coordinator, King County Library System, Washington,
Management in libraries matters and this resource details how to do it creatively, practically.
- Vandella Brown, contributor: Mentoring in Librarianship (McFarland),