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Meeting Community Needs With Job and Career Services (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)

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Joan C. Durrance

Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1994

Justification for Library Services for Children and Youth
This book consists of 12 well-written accounts by various authors about successful library services and programs for children and youth. The authors of each of the articles provide facts and examples of the differences that libraries have made for the people in the areas they serve. Read this book for two reasons: for the examples of positive contributions to cite whenever libraries and their ...

How Libraries and Librarians Help: A Guide to Identifying User-Centered Outcomes

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Joan C. Durrance

American Library Association, 2004

How libraries contribute to individuals and the community
How Libraries And Librarians Help: A Guide To Identifying User-Centered Outcomes is a resource written by experts in the field of library and information science, offering a step-by-step approach that library professionals may use to measure and predict the success of library programs and services. In a day and age when the value of library services must increasingly be proven to earn grants and ...

Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library

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Joan C. Durrance, Karen E. Pettigrew

American Library Association, 2002

Setting up and managing an Internet community network
The collaboration of Joan C. Durrance (Professor, University of Michigan School of Information) and Karen E. Pettigrew (Assistant Professor, Information School of the University of Washington), Online Community Information: Creating A Nexus At Your Library is dedicated to helping librarians better serve the needs of their patrons in the 21st century. Individual chapters clearly spell out ...

Serving Job Seekers and Career Changers: A Planning Manual for Public Libraries
Joan C. Durrance, Kathleen M. Savage

Public Library Association American Library A, 1993

Nationwide, scarcely a community remains unaffected by unemployment. Consequently, public libraries now face an ever-increasing demand for services and materials designed to aid patrons seeking employment. Many have responded fully to this challenge by opening Education and Job Information Centres (EJICs), state-of-the-art full service centres that encourage libraries to rethink conventional approaches to providing services. Designed to provide ...