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Positioning Your Library for the 21st Century: Strategies for Engagement, Relevance and Sustainability

Positioning Your Library for the 21st Century: Strategies for Engagement, Relevance and Sustainability

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PREORDER - Expected ship date September 22, 2026

ISBN10: 0443490279
ISBN13: 9780443490279
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 200
Language: English
Positioning Your Library for the 21st Century: Strategies for Engagement, Relevance, and Sustainability identifies and removes hidden barriers, equipping readers to enable libraries to uncover and eliminate operational and communication barriers that limit access, reduce engagement, or disproportionately impact underserved populations. The book provides readers with practical crisis response tools, delivering sample plans, templates, and checklists to help libraries prepare for immediate, emerging, and sustained crises, thus ensuring a confident, coordinated response when it matters most.

Sections navigates advocacy and neutrality, enabling readers to support libraries in balancing commitments to equity and social justice with the responsibility to maintain broad public trust across diverse political and cultural perspectives, while also encouraging library leaders to examine the narrative they share with stakeholders and how that narrative supports or undermines long-term goals, relevance, and community support.

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