Overview
The Essential OPL: 1998-2004 gives you the very best of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management. It covers the first seven years of OPL under the editorial direction of Judith Siess. If you work in a library as the only person or professional, you will find simple, practical, and low-cost ideas to provide outstanding service to your clients, impress your management with your value to the organization, and make your life easier. Included are articles on advocacy, finances, change management, planning or moving a library, technology, time management and prioritization, networking, collection development, reference, knowledge management, quick tips, pithy quotes, and some of Siess's ""Thinking About..."" editorials. In short, it is ""everything you ever wanted to know about one-person librarianship, but didn't know where to look.""
Full Product Details
Author: Judith A. Siess ,
Jonathan Lorig
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Imprint: Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.30cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 20.80cm
Weight: 0.367kg
ISBN: 9780810854291
ISBN 10: 0810854295
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 October 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
This highly informative book is complete with a table of contents and index. Solo librarians should buy this book...as this collection will prepare them to meet just about any challenge encountered in a one-person library. * Medical Reference Services Quarterly * Siess, publisher and editor of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management, collects the best of the newsletter. Articles on areas such as advocacy, finance, change management, technology, and collection development are peppered with quick tips and pithy quotes, and offer simple, low-cost ideas for providing service and impressing management with the value of the one-person library. Lorig is the digital librarian at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. * Reference and Research Book News * This is recommended for the novice solo librarian and those interested in the one-person library. The book would also be of interest to the library workers who relish discussions about the practicalities of librarianship. * Australian Library Journal * This highly informative book is complete with a table of contents and index. Solo librarians should buy this book...as this collection will prepare them to meet just about any challenge encountered in a one-person library. Medical Reference Services Quarterly Siess, publisher and editor of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management, collects the best of the newsletter. Articles on areas such as advocacy, finance, change management, technology, and collection development are peppered with quick tips and pithy quotes, and offer simple, low-cost ideas for providing service and impressing management with the value of the one-person library. Lorig is the digital librarian at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Reference and Research Book News This is recommended for the novice solo librarian and those interested in the one-person library. The book would also be of interest to the library workers who relish discussions about the practicalities of librarianship. Australian Library Journal
Siess, publisher and editor of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management, collects the best of the newsletter. Articles on areas such as advocacy, finance, change management, technology, and collection development are peppered with quick tips and pithy quotes, and offer simple, low-cost ideas for providing service and impressing management with the value of the one-person library. Lorig is the digital librarian at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Reference and Research Book News This highly informative book is complete with a table of contents and index. Solo librarians should buy this book...as this collection will prepare them to meet just about any challenge encountered in a one-person library. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter 2006) This is recommended for the novice solo librarian and those interested in the one-person library. The book would also be of interest to the library workers who relish discussions about the practicalities of librarianship. Australian Library Journal, Vol. 56 No. 1 (February 2007)
This highly informative book is complete with a table of contents and index. Solo librarians should buy this book...as this collection will prepare them to meet just about any challenge encountered in a one-person library. Medical Reference Services Quarterly Siess, publisher and editor of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management, collects the best of the newsletter. Articles on areas such as advocacy, finance, change management, technology, and collection development are peppered with quick tips and pithy quotes, and offer simple, low-cost ideas for providing service and impressing management with the value of the one-person library. Lorig is the digital librarian at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Reference and Research Book News This is recommended for the novice solo librarian and those interested in the one-person library. The book would also be of interest to the library workers who relish discussions about the practicalities of librarianship. Australian Library Journal
Author Information
Judith Siess is the publisher and editor of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management. She served as the first chair of the Solo Librarians Division of the Special Library Association. She is the author of four other titles, including Time Management, Planning and Prioritization for Librarians (Scarecrow, 2002). Jonathan Lorig is the digital librarian at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He guides the development of a digital image repository for GSFC engineers and scientists.
