Nelson, Sandra S.
Contents: Plan to plan -- Identify service priorities -- Set the stage -- Describe the future -- Communicate the plan -- The rest of the story -- Be an informed citizen : local, national, and world affairs -- Build successful enterprises : business and nonprofit support -- Celebrate diversity : cultural awareness -- Connect to the online world : public internet access -- Create young readers : early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bus Library NelsonCummings, Troy
Summary: It has been a busy summer of makerspace projects at the library and monster hunting for the three members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol, and the puddles that are appearing all over town are a clue to the identity of another monster--an angry hydra water monster who is obsessed with cleaning up (literally) the town of Stermont, even if it means drowning all the messy children who live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CUMOrlean, Susan
Summary: "Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word OrleanSummary: This gentle story of growing with books encourages little ones to discover the joy of reading as well as getting them ready and excited to visit the library.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LOLGross, Valerie J.
Summary: "This book describes a groundbreaking concept that enables public libraries--and librarians--to become indispensible by following a "Three Pillars" educational approach, and by replacing traditional terms with powerful, intuitive, value-enhanced terminology that everyone understands"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libraries Unlimited 2013
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1 available in Administration Reference, Call number: ADM 020 GRODurrance, Joan C.
Contents: The urgent need to tell the library story more effectively -- Outcomes : an approach that shows the value of libraries -- The "How Libraries and Librarians Help" outcome model : applying contextual approaches to outcome evaluation -- Step one, getting started : preparing to conduct an outcomes study -- Step two, collecting data for outcomes : approaches and tools -- Step three, analyzing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2005
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: OFR 027 DURLehane, Cornelius
Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Young, Karen Romano
Summary: Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilised branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighbourhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Wiegand, Wayne A.
Summary: "Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.475 WIEWiegand, Wayne A.
Summary: "Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020 WIEReed, Sally Gardner
Summary: Give your trustees the tools needed to translate their experiences and interests into strong results on behalf of their libraries. Sally Gardner Reed draws on her years of success leading Friends of Libraries USA to provide trustees with straightforward, easy-to-read, guidance on how to make the most of their vital role. She guides readers through important issues including sustainable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal-Schuman Publishers 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Unless otherwise indicated, Traverse Area District Library Regular Board meetings are scheduled for 5:30 PM on the third Thursday each month in the McGuire room at 610 Woodmere Ave., Traverse City, MI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: UpNorth Media Center
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.4 TRATrezise, John.
Summary: The establishment and development of the Interlochen Library was brought about by the vision and the dedication of many individuals who have worked to support it since its inception in the early 1980's. This history tells the story in some detail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlochen Public Library 2000
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Robbins, Louise S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Dowd, Ryan
Summary: "Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2018
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Gates, Eva
Summary: "They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GATOrlean, Susan
Summary: Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 027 ORLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 027 ORLGates, Eva
Summary: "It's summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James's college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GATHanagarne, Joshua
Summary: An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANAGARNE, JOSH HANCummings, Troy
Summary: Something is stealing machine parts from all over Stermont, including a wrecking ball from a local construction site, and Alexander and his fellow monster hunters, Rip, and Nikki, fear that it is building a Stermont-smashing machine--so the friends must use the resources of the summer maker program at the library to stop this monster, and perhaps even solve the mystery of who is leaving monster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CUMCummings, Troy
Summary: It has been several months since monsters last plagued the town of Stermont, and frankly Alexander Bopp (leader of the Super Secret Monster Patrol) is bored, and misses his friends Rip (immersed in video games) and Nikki (soccer camp), so when his fathersigns him up for a summer maker program at the library he is happy to go--but soon he starts finding weird old-timey objects, and monster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CUMMcQuinn, Anna
Summary: Every Tuesday, Lola and her mother go to the library to borrow new books for Mom to read to her before bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MCQHuber, John J.
Summary: From the publisher: In the years since John Huber’s trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking—that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers—on its head. These libraries have proven that by streamlining and improving customer services,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association 2015
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: OFR 020 HUBOrlean, Susan
Summary: "On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018