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International Product Fact Sheet • Reviews & Awards • Both |
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| Imprint: Libraries Unlimited |
| Publication Date: 11/2009 |
| Pages: 348 |
| Volumes:
1 |
| Size:
8 1/2x11 |
| Format | | Price | | ISBN-13 | | Print | | £34.95 | | 978-1-59158-678-4 |
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On the Road with Outreach
Mobile Library Services
Jeannie Dilger-Hill and Erica MacCreaigh, Editors
This "how-to" manual is a thorough compilation of essays detailing the start-up, maintenance, management, and evaluation of mobile, public library outreach services, promising to become the "bible" of public library outreach.
Sixty percent of preschool age children are in some form of out-of-home care and many have no access to library books and programs. At the same time, some 21 million people in America speak little or no English and library staff regularly work across this language barrier. These are just two of the many factors that compel the modern library to take its show on the road, bringing its services directly to patrons.
Today mobile outreach is more vital and diverse than ever, with librarians taking it to the streets for senior citizens, childcare organizations, immigrants and low-literate populations, urban and rural communities, prisoners, low-income populations, and other traditionally underserved public library populations.
The first book of its kind in more than two decades, On the Road with Outreach: Mobile Library Services provides step-by-step guidance for those wishing to initiate or improve outreach services in their communities. The essays collected here come from some of the best-known movers and shakers in the mobile outreach field—all of them subject experts and active outreach practitioners. Focusing on the practicalities of establishing and maintaining service to various populations, the book covers everything from design, purchase, maintenance, and automation of bookmobiles to planning and promotion and serving specific populations. Anecdotes, as well as sample service agreements, contracts, applications, staff schedules, and other working documents enhance the text.
Features
• Includes the Association of Bookmobiles and Outreach Services guidelines, sample marketing materials, sample letters and policy statements, a complete set of bookmobile specifications, checklists, and sample service schedules
• Subject-specific bibliographies suggest further reading on bookmobiles, library services to immigrants, senior citizens, children, and prisoners, strategic planning, and staffing
• A glossary of mobile automation terms explains satellite, cellular, and radio connectivity
Highlights
• Collects practical advice on every aspect of library outreach in one volume
• Provides in-depth coverage of bookmobile design, compiling vehicle specifications (including a complete sample specifications document), and maximizing vehicle lifespan through proper maintenance
• Spotlights 21st-century library outreach in light of swiftly changing demographics and advancing mobile communications technologies
• Offers specific and detailed advice on how to serve nine distinct groups of outreach patrons: the homebound, seniors in assisted living/nursing home, preschoolers, school-age children, rural residents, urban and suburban residents, incarcerated juveniles, incarcerated adults, and immigrants
Jeannie Dilger-Hill is director of the La Grange (IL) Public Library, a suburban Chicago library serving 15,000 residents. Dilger-Hill holds an MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been long been active in various state library associations, and is a past-president of the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services.
Erica MacCreaigh is a senior consultant with the Colorado State Library and oversees operations at nine state prison libraries serving more than 5,000 inmate patrons. Her published works include Libraries Unlimited's Library Services to the Incarcerated: Applying the Public Library Model in Correctional Facility Libraries. She holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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