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MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

Creating the High- NEW Small Libraries,
Functioning Intrapreneurship Big Impact

Library Space Handbook for How to Better Serve
Expert Advice from Librarians Your Community in
Librarians, Architects, How to Be a Change the Digital Age
and Designers YUNFEI DU
Agent in Your Library
MARTA MESTROVIC DEYRUP, EDITOR
ARNE J. ALMQUIST AND
SHARON G. ALMQUIST

June 2016, 153pp, 7x10
Print: 978-1-4408-4156-9
November 2016, 158pp, 7x10 $55.00, £43.00, €50.00
Print: 978-1-4408-4058-6 eBook: 978-1-4408-4157-6
$70.00, £54.00, €64.00 January 2017, 153pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
eBook: 978-1-4408-4059-3 Print: 978-1-61069-528-2
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00
eBook: 978-1-61069-529-9 Library managers today must adopt
“ an audience needing a guide a new mindset in order to perform a
This text is recommended for
broad spectrum of activities and attract
” innovation in your library? From idea patrons. This valuable book shows how
for the titular purpose. Do you have a great idea for an new users who are not traditional library
—VOYA, February 1, 2017 to execution, this book provides the to get your community behind your
This book provides practical information information necessary to help you to library by making it an essential part
and insights to library administrators become an intrapreneurial star at your of community life and demonstrating
and building plan team members at library. its benefit to all members of the
academic and public libraries who FEATURES community.
are considering or starting a library • Provides readers with a unique
expansion or reconfiguration of existing understanding of the application of FEATURES
space. the intrapreneurial concept within • Helps smaller public libraries re-
establish their relevance and value to
FEATURES libraries and helps librarians acquire a their communities
new and essential survival skill
• Covers all of the steps in the building • Broadens possibilities for library
process, from preparing the RFP and • Supplies practical, actionable service that will demonstrate how
selecting an architect to developing information in a clear, literate, and your library is an essential part of all
a financial contingency plan and commonsense style that lends itself community life and positively impacts
managing community and staff equally well to linear reading or use all members of your community
expectations as a reference • Presents effective tools for
• Includes contributions from some • Presents the viewpoints of two collaboration, community outreach,
of the most accomplished library successful library entrepreneurs and partnership
architects and designers from across sharing their experiences of what has • Offers an inclusive approach to
the nation worked—and what hasn’t library service that embraces diverse
• Includes processes, short case populations
studies, and “food for thought”
sections that fully document and
flesh out the ideas presented

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