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- Responsibiities of library boards and directors by the Kansas Library Trustee Association
- Describes major trust and functions of a Kansas library board and the major responsibilities of the library director.
- What do you know about your library?
- Investigating these questions gives new librarians a jump start on the knowledge they need to run their library.
- CKLS Dictionary of Library Terms
- Library terms for new librarians.
- Library and Education Acronyms
- Extensive list of library abbreviations.
- Kansas Public Library Handbook
- Online copy of Roy Bird's wonderful handbook. Though some portions of this 1998 work are now out of date, most remains useful.
- Sample library policies
- Web sites offering sample policies on a wide range of topics.
- Collection management
- Links to explanations and resources for assessment, collection policies, where to find reviews, how to order, weeding.
- Introductions to
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- Writing collection development policies (i.e., guidelines for doing the following three operations)
- Collection assessment (i.e., evaluating your collection)
- Materials selection (i.e., selecting books, videos, etc,
- Weeding (i.e., removing items from the collection)
- Subject headings in library catalogs
- Dewey classification (i.e., meaning of numbers of spine labels)
- MARC cataloging (i.e., how library catalogs are created on computers)
- Reference interview (i.e., how to find out what people really want to know)
- Evaluating Reference Sources (i.e., determining whether a reference book or Web site is good)
- Ethics and public service
- Basic tutorials on
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- Early childhood services
- Services to school aged children
- Young Adult (YA) Services (i.e., services to preteens and teens)