On the road with outreach : mobile library services

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Where to find it

Information & Library Science Library

Call Number
Z686 .O62 2010
Status
Available

Summary

This "how-to" manual is a thorough compilation of essays detailing the start-up, maintenance, management, and evaluation of mobile, public library outreach services, promising to become the "bible" of public library outreach.

Today mobile outreach is more vital and diverse than ever, with librarians taking it to the streets for senior citizens, childcare organizations, immigrants and low-literate populations, urban and rural communities, prisoners, low-income populations, and other traditionally underserved public library populations.

The first book of its kind in more than two decades, On the Road with Outreach: Mobile Library Services provides step-by-step guidance for those wishing to initiate or improve outreach services in their communities. The essays collected here come from some of the best-known movers and shakers in the mobile outreach field--all of them subject experts and active outreach practitioners. Focusing on the practicalities of establishing and maintaining service to various populations, the book covers everything from design, purchase, maintenance, and automation of bookmobiles to planning and promotion and serving specific populations. Anecdotes, as well as sample service agreements, contracts, applications, staff schedules, and other working documents enhance the text.

Contents

Planning and marketing outreach services / Candice Brown -- Managing outreach staff / Amy Varner Stephens -- Mobile library collections / Julie Abbott and Jeannie Dilger-Hill -- Rural bookmobile service / Jan Meadows -- Bookmobile services to urban and suburban communities / Julie Abbott -- Library services to immigrants and English language learners / Emily Klopstein ... [et al.] -- Serving preschool children and childcare providers / Theresa Gemmer and Ruth Pettibone -- Serving school-age children / Mary Anne Marjamaa -- Books-by-mail / Kathleen Mayo -- Homebound delivery service / Joyce Voss -- Lobby stop service to nursing homes and retirement facilities / Bernie Garrison -- Library services to incarcerated adults / Maggie McFalls-Picher -- Library services to incarcerated youth / Teresa Valenti -- Designing your new bookmobile / Scott Pointon -- Writing vehicle specifications / Michael Swendrowski -- Vehicle maintenance / Jeremy Andrykowski -- Automating your bookmobile with communications technologies / Tom Walker.

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