GATS and Public Library Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel E Trosow ◽  
Kirsti E Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Publicly Supported

Public library service is based on the values of providing universal access to information by promoting literacy, supporting authors and scholars in their research, preserving cultural heritage, and providing other publicly supported services. The mandate of the public library is grounded in broad societal goals that justify a model of service delivery that relies on public funding and that operates. . .

scholarly journals Every Child Ready to Read: Building Bridges to Early Childhood Educators

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Saroj Ghoting ◽  
Pamela Rogers ◽  
Dorothy Stoltz
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Staff

The more we librarians can be a part of [our partners’] world, the more our partners help us shape library services to be responsive to the community,” says Mary Hastler, CEO of Harford County (MD) Public Library.More than twelve years after its inception, the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library initiative (ECRR) continues to expand in response to our needs. To help library staff strengthen and deepen our connections with our community partners, the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children have enhanced the content in a new downloadable toolkit (https://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11997) targeting early childhood educators.

scholarly journals Library Services to Inmates in the Rural County Jails of Western North Carolina

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian D Ellern ◽  
Karen Mason
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Western North Carolina ◽  
Service Policies ◽  
County Jails

This paper investigates the current statues of library collections and services in the rural jails in western North Carolina. The authors interviewed the sheriffs and jail administrators in 6 of the 7 western most county detention centers.  The benefits of reading and importance of literacy to this underserved population, descriptions the collections and library service policies along with photographs of the actual book collections and the challenges the jails face in maintaining and delivering these services, are presented. This paper advocates that one possible solution to this situation is working towards building partnerships between the public library systems and their local jails and how that can benefits everyone in the community. 

Art library services in public libraries

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Sonia French
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Library Service ◽  
International Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Music Information

The mixed fortunes of art, and of subject specialisation, in British public libraries in recent years is compared to the situation in Denmark where librarianship in the service of art has as its main focus the good of the people. The principles which give art librarianship its own integrity are reiterated and the gradual invasion of public library services by the commercial ethic is rejected. Art librarianship can still achieve new successes, and some of these are noted. The scope for new initiatives which the public library service offers is recognised and new areas for development are suggested, modelled on the international network of Music Information Centres.

scholarly journals Collaborative leadership in public library service development

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 518-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Collaborative Leadership ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Evaluation Approach

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss findings from the formative evaluation of a national public library development initiative in England, with a focus on the practice and impact of collaborative leadership. Design/methodology/approach A realistic evaluation approach was used in the study, enabling a nuanced assessment of the initiative’s contexts, mechanisms and outcomes in relation to its core objectives. These included testing innovative, partnership approaches to library service delivery, encouraging greater synergy between libraries and the arts and other public and commercial sectors. Evaluation findings are subsequently contextualised using a conceptual framework drawn from critical management studies on collaborative advantage. Findings Data show that the initiative was an effective catalyst for enhanced collaborative leadership in the public library sector, including the development of a cross-sector community of practice, with evidence of collective ownership and decision making. The relative collaborative advantages of the initiative are underpinned by evidence on the unique value of public library services to collaborating organisations and sectors. Practical implications Outcomes are of relevance to a range of public services and governing bodies with reference to shared strategic objectives with other sectors and services and collaborative leadership learning and practice. Social implications There are implications relating to the public value of library services and how this can potentially be enhanced via collaborative leadership approaches to service design and delivery. This is especially pertinent given current cross-government policy drivers towards integrated public services. Originality/value The research makes an original contribution to contemporary debates on cultural value in considering the cross-sector role and impact of collaborative leadership.

scholarly journals Designing Public Library of Binjai City by Metaphorical Architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-240
Author(s):  
Imam Faisal Pane ◽  
Febrina
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Concept Design ◽  
Visual Form ◽  
The Public ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Reading Interest

The lack of public reading interest makes people rarely come to visit the public library. The public library of The Binjai city as a media to increase people's knowledge, in fact, that still using traditional planning and structuring and has a less comfortable atmosphere. The Binjai city public library requires to improve its facilities and infrastructures related to the standards of a public library, so that possible to increase people's interest in visiting the library. The designer can make several alternative approaches to design an object, one of that is a metaphorical approach. Choosing of metaphor theme is a theme approachment by taking the book as a visual form that applicated to an element of the building. The strong Malay culture of Binjai city as a local heritage can be applicated in designing the public library of Binjai City. The concept design of the Binjai City Public Library is applied to accommodate library services and activities. By taking a representation physical form of the book as part of the building construction, giving all facilities and services can be functioned to attract more people's attention to visit the library.

The public library service

1936 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-164
Author(s):  
M.J. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public

The Public Library in an Aging Society

2014 ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saori Donkai ◽  
Chieko Mizoue
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aging Society ◽  
Service Category ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Recent Government ◽  
Individual Service

This chapter describes the present conditions of our aging society, with a particular focus on Japan as a typical example of such a society. In Japan, one in every four individuals is over 65 years of age, and one in eight is over 75 years of age. Further, based on this demographic change to an older population, this chapter discusses a new library service designed to enhance the lives of elderly citizens. The authors explore this new service from the viewpoint of lifelong learning, utilizing the results of recent government surveys and some case studies, such as those done at the Izumo City Hikawa Library and the Akita Prefectural Library in Japan. Although the elderly have been placed within the category of “disabled library patrons,” in recent years, it has become more common to consider the elderly, as a whole, as an individual service category. We should, in the near future, pay more attention to supporting elderly citizens at public libraries to engage them in the development and maintenance of their own communities.

Developing self-help books on prescription schemes

2010 ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
Paul Farrand ◽  
Joanne Woodford
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
The Self ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Written Materials

Chapter 19 describes a practical way for CBT self-help resources to be made more widely available. Book prescription schemes offer an attractive solution to funders. Potentially access to CBT self-help can be rolled out widely through the public library services. The chapter presents an overview of the development of this approach, highlighting some novel aspects of the scheme, such as the prescription element in which, as is the case with medication, self-help books are ‘prescribed’ by the LI practitioner. Anecdotally, this element of the scheme seems to help legitimize the use of the written materials and increases patient expectancies around the self-help approach. However, there are also distinct challenges associated with such schemes, not least the difficulties in ensuring that the self-help books recommended and ‘prescribed’ on the scheme are evidence-based and are not likely to do harm.

Public Libraries in Ireland II. Public libraries and the visual arts today

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Deirdre Ellis-King ◽  
Marjory Sliney
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Network ◽  
The Many

In recent years increased interest in the visual arts has led public libraries to increase stock to support this area, to organise exhibitions and to make connections with other arts-related bodies. The recognised extent, quality and value of the public library network lie both in its service to users and in good-quality and centrally located buildings. Imaginative links have been made between the library service and other cultural institutions in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe, particularly in the many thinly populated areas of the country which could otherwise be isolated from the cultural facilities available in the larger conurbations.

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