The NEKLS Professional Collection will soon be infused with new titles. Each year, we set aside funds in the Materials budget to purchase books requested by member libraries, along with titles selected through good, old-fashioned collection development. Including dozens of die cuts for the Ellison machine, we have added 146 items to the collection so far this year. The collection has a mix of resources for public, school and academic librarians, including training materials such as the FISH and Give ‘em the Pickle videos.
Each member library has a NExpress card that can be used to put any item in this collection on hold, including restricted items. Of course, most of the collection is open to anyone with a NExpress card. Give us a call if you need a refresher on how to use your library’s NExpress account.
As you look through the NExpress Shared Catalog at books labeled “Professional Collection” you may notice that along with Atchison, Tonganoxie and Ottawa, the Linwood Community Library has a robust collection. According to Director Sue Peavy, Linwood receives donations from a local patron who works as an editor for the Libraries Unlimited publishing house. Whatever titles she feels are outside the scope of her collection, she send on to NEKLS for ours.
As you find books that you feel would benefit your colleagues, please share them with us!
A sample of professional titles added in 2009:
- The accidental librarian
- Convergence and collaboration of campus information services
- The thriving library : successful strategies for challenging times
- Library partnerships : making connections between school and public libraries
- The designful company : how to build a culture of nonstop innovation : a whiteboard overview
- Structures of image collections : from Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc to Flickr
- Academic librarians as emotionally intelligent leaders
- The future of the Internet and how to stop it
- Setting the table : the transforming power of hospitality in business
- Youth participation for public and school libraries
- After-school treats : a program manual of after-school activities for children in 2nd through 6th grades
- Measuring your library’s value : how to do a cost-benefit analysis for your public library
- Countdown to a new library : managing the building project
Coming in October (or sooner):
- The Customer-Focused Library: Re-Inventing the Public Library From the Outside-In
- Project Management: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
- Administration of the Public Library
- Hosting a Library Mystery: A Programming Guide
- Fundamentals of School Library Media Management: A How-To-Do-It Manual
- Serving Young Teens and ‘Tweens
- The Evaluation and Measurement of Library Services
- Library 101: A Handbook for the School Library Media Specialist
- So You Want To Be a Librarian
- The PLA Reader for Public Library Directors and Managers
