Research Catalog

Title

Government information essentials / edited by Susanne Caro.

Publication

• Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Caro, Susanne, 1980-

Description

xiv, 240 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Government documents, both physical and electronic, constitute a rich and varied resource that calls for special attention. And because government information is useful and pervasive in nearly every kind of library, more and more librarians of all types need to know how to work effectively with federal, state, and international resources. This volume gathers the expertise of experienced government information librarians from across the country. Providing real-world insight into the work, collections, and interests of this discipline, the contributors survey the wide variety of government information and the people who use it; discuss what it is like to be a government documents librarian, from the first day on the job through taking on a management role; address networking, training, and other essential tools for collaboration and learning; cover space planning, streamlining, disaster preparedness and response, the increasing prevalence of digital information, and other key collection issues; offer best practices for connecting library users with government information; look at research guides, workshops, and other teaching and training topics; and explore advocating for transparency and access to information, promoting government documents to library users, and using exhibits as community outreach.

Subjects

• Government publications
• Federal Depository Library Program
• Depository libraries > United States > Administration
• United States
• Handbooks and manuals
• Libraries > Special collections > Government publications
• Libraries > United States > Special collections > Government publications
• Documents librarians > United States
• Government publications > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Depository libraries > Administration
• Documents libraries > United States > Administration

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Advice for the new document professional -- Networking and training : essential tools for collaboration and learning / Hayley Johnson -- Experience of a new government documents librarian / Andrew Lopez and Lori Looney -- Middle management : strategies for success / Jill Vassilakos-Long -- Part 2. Collection management -- Visualizing space : your depository library as place / Aimée C. Quinn -- Space planning : weeding, moving and providing access to government information / Julia Stewart -- Streamlining collections : disasters, consolidation, and the digital landscape / Vickie Mix -- Growth and maintenance of digital collections / Susanne Caro -- Part 3. Working with collections -- The hunt for the elusive : finding and utilizing the history in government documents / Paula L. Webb and Leasha E. Martin -- Federal maps and the depository library / Valery King -- Help! I'm new here and I speak Spanish : government information for Spanish speakers / Jane Canfield -- Part 4. Teaching and training -- Teaching with library guides : using collections with government information / Latanya N. Jenkins -- Creating more powerful library guides / David Dillard -- Documents to the students / Susanne Caro -- Navigating government information : working with midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy / Antoinette W. Satterfield -- Part 5. Advocacy and events -- Advocating for transparency and access to information / Shari Laster -- A cupcake, an eagle, and a war : promoting government documents / Lisa Pritchard -- Exhibits and community outreach / Susanne Caro -- Appendix 1. General resources -- Appendix 2. Sample project plan -- Appendix 3. Sources for space planning : best practices -- Appendix 4. Map resources -- Appendix 5. Spanish-language resources -- Appendix 6. Library guide resources.

Call Number

Z675.D63

ISBN

• 9780838915974
• 0838915973
• 9780838916070 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780838916087 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780838916094 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017024225

OCLC

992689010

Title

Government information essentials / edited by Susanne Caro.

Publisher

Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Caro, Susanne, 1980- editor.

Research Call Number

DESK-USLHG Z675.D63 G65 2018

Pub. Cat. Z675.D63 G65 2018