The Solo Librarian
A Practical Handbook
- 1st Edition - June 18, 2024
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Author: Lucy Roper
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 7 9 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 8 6 6 - 1
Actively diversifying the content to increase its relevance to an international audience, this practical handbook provides a one-stop-shop with accompanying time-saving te… Read more
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Request a sales quoteActively diversifying the content to increase its relevance to an international audience, this practical handbook provides a one-stop-shop with accompanying time-saving templates that can be easily adapted to help aid the daily activities and processes often faced by those working in information, knowledge, libraries and related disciplines.
The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook provides an internationally applicable and practical handbook that shows a timeline of key activities that happen throughout, in this example, an academic year. Sections provide examples on Acquisitions, cataloguing, updating library guidance (before academic year start - September), Student and Staff Inductions (September/October), Quarterly Business Review to review updates and library usage (Oct – Dec), Library cover over student/staff holiday period (Dec), Quarterly Business Review (Jan – Mar), Quality standard(s) re-accreditation (April), Research methods/study skills webinars (April), Library cover over student holiday period (April), Quarterly Business Review (April –June), and much more.
The idea behind this practical handbook is to provide guidance and templates to cover responsibilities, challenges, benchmarking, acquisitions, classification, archiving, copyright management, and so much more.
- Becoming a solo librarian can be a daunting prospect. This book relays, as a solo librarian practitioner, the lessons the author has learnt, whilst creating and sharing guidance that assists others finding themselves in a similar role and/or a small team with limited help but with a mandate to connect to global trends and progress in the field of librarianship and information science
- This Internationally applicable and practical handbook, however, provides a logical process of creating library provision and the services involved
- The solo librarian yearly planner and timeline of activities, supporting guidance and templates provided will be downloadable (via the eBook version) and can be adapted and utilised further to help aid the daily activities and processes often faced by library and information service(s) staff that include those working in information, knowledge, libraries and related disciplines in the UK and internationally
Solo Librarians, Librarians in small teams with limited help, Library Graduates, Subject Librarians, Trainee Librarians, Library Assistants, Library and Information Studies Students
1.Introduction
2.Reviewing the Literature
a.A solo librarian and what does this mean
b.Roles and Responsibilities of Library, Knowledge and Information Professionals
3.Library and information services
a.Definitions of Libraries – Physical and Online/Digital/e-Libraries
b.Structuring Libraries (collections incl. Archives)
c.Library mission statement
4.Lucy the Librarian Top Tips for Successful Solo Librarianship
5.Research and benchmarking
a.Understanding library user needs
6.International Case Studies
7.Access and identity management
8.Future of Libraries and Library developments
a.Moving with the times and adapting to change
b.Improved and ever-changing technologies – AI, Virtual Reality
c.Monitoring success
d.Getting your voice heard at a strategic level
9.Accessibility
10.Copyright and Licensing (Note: Where legislation is covered there will be designated sections providing an International perspective.)
11.Marketing and communications
12.Conclusion
Appendices that include useful templates
Appendix 1 –Gannt chart / Library yearly timeline
Appendix 2 – Lucy the Librarian top tips for successful solo librarianship
Appendix 3 - Job Specification examples
Appendix 4 – Structure: the sections that make up the library
Appendix 5 – Library guidance note example
Appendix 6 – Resource Request Form
Appendix 7 – Library Resources: Operational processes
Appendix 8 – Library Resources: Financial Management
Appendix 9 – Accessibility Statement for the e-Library
Appendix 10 – Copyright Request Permission Form(s)
Appendix 11 – Copyright Coversheet(s)
Appendix 12 – Copyright Process Flowchart
Appendix 13 – Copyright Audit requirements (manual process)
Appendix 14 – Dewey Decimal Classification (DCC) System
Appendix 15 – Intellectual Property Policy example
Appendix 16 – e-Library tailor-made research report example
Appendix 17 – e-Library reading list example (literature searching)
Appendix 18 - Marketing and promotion example
Appendix 19 – Library developments (Padlet noticeboard)
Appendix 20 – Data Retention and Disposal Schedule
Appendix 20 - Key organisations for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals in the UK and Internationally
Appendix 21 – Glossary of Library Identity and Access Management Terms
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 18, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 674
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443157950
- eBook ISBN: 9780443288661
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Lucy Roper
Lucy Roper is Information Governance Manager, University College of Estate Management (UCEM) in the UK.
Affiliations and expertise
BSc (Hons), PG CHEM, MCLIP, AFHEA. ORCID: 0009-0008-3176-2266Read The Solo Librarian on ScienceDirect