Library procedures manual for automated school libraries

Managing a school library How to ensure effective and accountable library management. Topics include staffing, planning and evaluation, procedures and guidelines, budgets, reports, promotion, copyright and disaster management.

Library systems An overview of the automated systems you can use to deliver library services. Topics include library management systems, the library catalogue, RFID, library security, websites and intranet. The role of the library in supporting teaching and learning programs. Topics include media literacy, makerspaces, reading engagement, digital literacy, information literacy and academic integrity. Circulation services Tracking and managing library loans. Features of an effective circulation system.

Collection Manager: Sample Weeding Spreadsheet. Weeding Slips When looking through the collection and selecting books for weeding. These slips can be used to communicate why you believe the book needs to be removed. Baumbach; Linda Lael Miller. ISBN: Feel the Need to Weed! This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.

If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Cataloging Tools and Resources: Home Overview of standards underlying library cataloging, with links to sources for the tools.

Elements of Cataloging and Classification To "catalog" a book or other form of library material involves several interrelated processes which all contribute to the achievement of Charles Ammi Cutter's "objects" for a catalog: To enable a person to find a book of which the author, title, or subject is known To show what the library has by a given author, on a given subject, or in a given kind of literature, and To assist in the choice of a book.

RDA is a package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata that are well-formed according to international models for user-focussed linked data applications. Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators. American Association of School Librarians. Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.

Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action. See Information Literacy, Academic Libraries. Library Bill of Rights. Nelson, Sandra. Definitions of Reference. Guidelines for Business Information Responses. Guidelines for Cooperative Reference Services. Reference and Adult Services Division. Guideline for Health and Medical Reference.

Hooper, Brad. Writing Reviews for Readers' Advisory. Revised , Approved in September Young Adult Library Services Association. Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff. Adopted on June 27, Teen Programming Guidelines. C reated in by a task force of YALSA with feedback from the library community achieved through a public comment period in December Reed, Sally G. The Complete Library Trustee Handbook.