D. Kinds of programs or user needs supported (research, instructional, recreational, general information, reference, etc.)
The library offers a weekly storytime for babies to age 5 and one after school program a month for school age children between 5 and 10 years old. A Saturday afternoon book club and one after school program a month is offered for Tweens (ages 10-12). Two after school programs a month are offered for Teens ages 12 - 18. The public library staff visit all schools within the Ellsmore community once a month during lunch time to promote library programs. A Homeschool program occurs twice a month for all school age students (K - 12) not attending traditional classes. The library hosts two game nights a month with the program
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E. General subject boundaries of the collection:
The libraries collection includes print, non-print and electronic resources for children, young adults (YA) and adults. The majority of the collection is composed of nonfiction, biographies, fiction, graphic novels, large print, mystery, picture books, science fiction, and westerns with periodicals and audio visual materials being smaller sections. The size of the Ellsmore Public Library collection consists of approximately 80,000 items starting at the preschool level through adult.
Patrons may request items for purchase by completing a form with item specific information including the title, author’s name, ISBN and date of release. The patron will be contacted regarding their request for additional details and to notify them if the purchase can be made or not.
The local schools maintain their own library collections and, while the public library works together with the school media centers to support the needs of their students, the public library does not collect or maintain textbooks.
II. General Priorities and Limitations Governing Selection
Forms of materials to be collected or excluded.
The Library will collect materials in a variety of formats divided into three main types: print (hardcover books, paperback books, large-print books, graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, etc.), non-print (CDs, DVDs, and miscellaneous objects in the Library of Things), and electronic resources (online databases,
Identify with an individual the resources, support and assistance required to access and use selected services and facilities
content and is considered to be on a fifth grade reading level, curiosity of Barnes and Nobles
The majority of books and other materials selected have been reviewed and recommended by professional librarians or reviewers. The selection is an process, in which librarians look for materials that will provide a broad range of viewpoints and topics. This means that while library collections have thousands of items families want, like and need, they also will have materials that some parents may find offensive to them or inappropriate for their children. Because an item is selected does not mean the librarian accepts or promotes it. He or she is simply helping the library to fulfill its mission of providing information from all points of view. The ALA organization provides a standard in which librarians follow. These standards are sometimes recognized as the librarian bill of rights. these ALA rights state that:
Metadata will include access management, preservation, administrative, descriptive, technical and structural data. Much of the metadata will have to be created. The original volumes had no table of contents, index, or other description of the records. Additionally, volumes were arranged chronologically with no attention paid to document type, source, or content. In addition to author, title, publisher, and date, descriptive metadata will be expanded include keywords regarding subjects, individuals, locations, or events referenced in the document, as well as any related documents. This will be a time consuming and costly effort, but it required to maximize the value of the online data to researchers, students, teachers, etc. An index for all volumes was completed after the fact in 1909 and that index will be incorporated into a referential database behind the web page front end, rather than in the metadata itself. A complete list of metadata elements are provided in Appendix
include four-year public college libraries, four-year private college libraries, university libraries, and two-year community college libraries.
* To support service users to ensure that their physical, social, emotional and intellectual needs are met.
Just like any library, ancient special libraries, also known as archives, where created to preserve and keep records of specific materials, such as business documents that were written on clay tablets at that time or papyrus scrolls that were about personal or business matters. At first, general libraries were mainly focused on providing educational materials for the adult population; however, libraries have gone through great transformations. Now-a-days, the libraries’ purpose has widened and now they focus on providing any needed information, educational or leisure materials to people of all ages and types of their communities (Rowland, Collection). Also, now public libraries have partnerships with school libraries and academic
9. Identify sources of information and support or services to enable more effective communication (3.3.4)
Then the Adult section has its own way of providing to the adult community of Hoover by providing them with access to all the newest and latest books that are from different bestsellers lists. Plus, they welcome the adult patrons to discuss certain books through book clubs and book chats. Now another great thing that the collections provide is a wide range of access to a variety of items to assist patrons in tackling projects, papers, research, and business affairs. This library even goes out of its way to provide services and resources guides if patrons do not know what they want or how to go about answering a question they have. Collections in all libraries are essentially one of the main parts that goes into a library, and Hoover Public Library has it set up to thread through all the different needs and stitch them together to add good collection items and
Printed ,Books / Newspapers / Magazines / analytical and research, you can register and save information.
For libraries, Sections 215 and 505 of the PATRIOT Act are particularly pertinent. Section 215 allows FBI agents to present a library with an order issued ex parte (from one party) by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) "requiring the production of any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."1 Under such an order, a library may be required to
Most of the kids here at Sheyenne are mature enough to where they can have those types of books in the library. For the most part, the students
C. a web site that provides a forum for discussion and provides ongoing initiatives information
There are three hundred and seventy-nine young adult titles in this collection. There are 345 books, 29 graphic novels, 4 CD’s and 1 MP3. The most popular subject areas are ‘Adventurer and adventures’, ‘Supernatural’ and ‘Interpersonal relations’ which seems like subject matter relevant to the age group. The print items in this collection are written in the English language. The client group for which this collection is designed is 13-18 years (Australian Library and Information Association, 2016, p. 23). The Young Adult collection is easy to find as it has sufficient overhead signage. However, the collection is deliberately housed behind partitioning and is furnished with comfortable seating
This summer I spent hours on the library’s third floor, a large area used for storage since the 1970’s; no air conditioning but lots of dust. I sorted through 177 boxes of books that were donated to the library. Library staff are not following the current donation policy and all donated books are given to the Friends Book Sale. Many books in my Adult Fiction section are in well-loved condition with water damage, broken spines and torn pages. Sorting through the boxes led to the addition of 300 adult fiction titles not owed by the library, example added a new copy of Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. The donation books were used to replace 450 “loved books” with newer copies, example replaced a water damaged, broken spine copy of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah with a brand new copy.