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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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On the Road with Outreach: Mobile Library Services

On the Road with Outreach: Mobile Library Services

Dilger-Hill, Jeannie
Maccreaigh, Erica

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ISBN10: 159158678X
ISBN13: 9781591586784
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 372
Weight: 2.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.40 Depth: 10.80
Language: English

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.

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