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The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook

The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook

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ISBN10: 0443157952
ISBN13: 9780443157950
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Published: Jun 19 2024
Pages: 674
Weight: 2.24
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Library and Information Science**

Actively diversifying the content to increase its relevance to an international audience, this practical handbook provides a one-stop-shop with accompanying time-saving templates that can be easily adapted to help aid the daily activities and processes often faced by those working in information, knowledge, libraries and related disciplines.

The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook provides an internationally applicable and practical handbook that shows a timeline of key activities that happen throughout, in this example, an academic year. Sections provide examples on Acquisitions, cataloguing, updating library guidance (before academic year start - September), Student and Staff Inductions (September/October), Quarterly Business Review to review updates and library usage (Oct - Dec), Library cover over student/staff holiday period (Dec), Quarterly Business Review (Jan - Mar), Quality standard(s) re-accreditation (April), Research methods/study skills webinars (April), Library cover over student holiday period (April), Quarterly Business Review (April -June), and much more.

The idea behind this practical handbook is to provide guidance and templates to cover responsibilities, challenges, benchmarking, acquisitions, classification, archiving, copyright management, and so much more.

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