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Central Kansas Library System:
Stuff new librarians need to know

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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 Though some portions of this 1998 work are now out of date, most remains useful.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
  • 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
  • Early childhood services
  • Services to school aged children
  • Young Adult (YA) Services (i.e., services to preteens and teens)
Last Updated 04-2008
E-mail comments or corrections to gsanty@ckls.org