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LIBRARIANSHIP: PHILOSOPHY,

VALUES, AND ISSUES

Adding Value to Libraries,
FORTHCOMING Archives, and Museums
The Portable MLIS Harnessing the Force That Drives

Insights from the Experts Your Organization’s Future

Second Edition | KEN HAYCOCK AND JOSEPH R. MATTHEWS
MARY-JO ROMANIUK, EDITORS
The original edition of this “ This is a user-friendly,
book gained popularity accessible guide that
as a required work for clearly outlines how
LIS because it uniquely institutions can enter
provided a broad, the digital, global arena
accessible overview of to reconnect with their
the core curricular areas clients and reclaim their
and foundations for the positions as innovative,
library profession. What meaningful institutes of
knowledge, culture, and
distinguishes the book community.
as an introduction to March 2016, 271pp, 8 1/2x11 ”
the work of professional Print: 978-1-4408-4288-7 —VOYA, December 6, 2016
librarians is that it’s not $70.00, £54.00, €64.00 Value is at the core of every
just about information eBook: 978-1-4408-4289-4 organization’s purpose. Without
December 2017, 396pp, 7x10 in context or about value, organizations die. Libraries—
Print: 978-1-4408-5203-9 libraries and their
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00 mission. Importantly, as well as museums, archives, and galleries—have traditionally
eBook: 978-1-4408-5204-6 added value to their communities through their collections
it also covers the and services, but yesterday’s collections and services are no
required competencies of professional librarians, laying a firm longer enough. In order to remain sustainable, today’s libraries,
foundation for future courses.
archives, museums, and galleries must explore new ways to add
FEATURES value that resonate in the lives of their customers.
• Updates a core textbook and introduction to the profession This unique book explains how addressing the “5 C’s” of
that will be useful for almost all LIS programs and new adding value—content, context, connection, collaboration,
librarians
and community—enables organizations to find new ways to
invigorate their services, better serve their communities, and
thrive today and tomorrow. It addresses adding value in the
context of other key topics, such as crowdsourcing, embedded
librarianship, makerspaces, self publishing, and repurposing
spaces. Filled with charts, tables, screenshots, and other visual
representation, this is a useful and provocative guide that
anyone interested in vesting in the successful future of libraries,
archives, and museums needs to read.

FEATURES
• Helps managers and administrators create long-range plans
KEN HAYCOCK, EdD, is research professor of management for sustainability and growth
and organization at the University of Southern California,
where he directs the Center for Library Leadership and • Offers real-life models of libraries that have successfully
Management. implemented concepts of the value-added organization
MARY-JO ROMANIUK, PhD, is university librarian at the
University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

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