“Assessing information needs: managing transformative library services” by Robert Grover, Roger Greer, and John Agada, former ESU SLIM faculty
“Cognitive Surplus: creativity and generosity in a connected age” by Clay Shirky
- Cognitive Surplus visualized
- TED Talk video: Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
“In pursuit of elegance: why the best ideas have something missing” by Matthew May
In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing, Matthew May illuminates what makes many great ideas work: simplification and thus, elegance. However, simplifying isn’t the same thing as simple, and often, the best ideas are those that make extremely complex systems easier to understand or comprehend, but they do so without stripping away the complexity or content. May argues that ideas, concepts or elements that are truly elegant share 4, sometimes competing attributes: symmetry, seduction, subtraction and sustainability. This is a fabulous book for anyone looking to improve or enhance their professional or personal lives. Often, it’s not what we start doing or adding, but what we stop doing or omitting that is ground-breaking and elucidating. –Erica Reynolds, Information Technology Manager, Johnson County Library
“Technology in libraries : essays in honor of Anne Grodzins Lipow” edited by Roy Tennant. Electronic book accessed through the catalog record.
Three projectors available for checkout (you must have a NEKLS NExpress card to put a hold on one of these or call Teri).
“Winning grants: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians with multimedia tutorials and grant development tools” by Pamela MacKellar & Stephanie Gerding
- Book website
- Book includes a multimedia training disc
- Library grants blog maintained by the authors
Latest additions to our collection can always be found here. If you are at a NEKLS member library but not a member of the NExpress shared catalog, you can still get a NEKLS NExpress library card to directly check out materials from the NEKLS collection. Contact Teri Nelson for more information about getting a card. More information about the NEKLS professional collection can be accessed on our website.
Heather Braum is the Technology Librarian at NEKLS. She can be reached by phone, by email (hbraum (at) nekls.org), or through several online chat services (look Heather up by her email address). Visit the 
