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Open Access and Libraries More Detail
Open Access and Libraries By Walt Crawford
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Essays from Cites & Insights, 2001-2009. The complete, unaltered text of more than 30 essays related to open access and library access to scholarship, with a brief introduction. No index.
Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader More Detail
Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader By Walt Crawford
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This Cites & Insights Reader combines five essays on Library 2.0 that appeared between 2006 and 2011, with no textual changes from the original essays but arranged for easy reading and with an... More > index added.< Less
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Open Access and Libraries By Walt Crawford
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Essays from Cites & Insights, 2001-2009. The complete, unaltered text of more than 30 essays related to open access and library access to scholarship, with a brief introduction. No index.
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) More Detail
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) By Walt Crawford
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Your public library is in competition with a lot of other agencies–city, county, district, even state–for money. You want your library to sustain its current services and expand them in... More > the future. You know you get a lot of bang for your buck, but how do you show that to the people who hold the purse strings? One way is to use the data in Give Us a Dollar and We’ll Give You Back Four. Walt Crawford has compiled, analyzed, and organized library funding and service data from all around the United States. Give Us a Dollar will let you compare your services to those of other similar libraries at a glance and will help give you the data you need to show your funders how much you already stretch their dollars–and how much more you could provide with even a few dollars more. This 2012-2013 edition is based on the FY10 IMLS Public Library dataset.< Less
Graphing Public Library Benefits More Detail
Graphing Public Library Benefits By Walt Crawford
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Graphing Public Library Benefits is an experimental supplement to Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13), consisting of 588 graphs intended to illustrate the tables in Chapters 1-19... More > (and one state from Chapter 20) of Give Us a Dollar. The book is experimental. You are encouraged to send copies to people who you think might have an opinion on it; they are encouraged to buy their own copies (or at least Give Us a Dollar...) if they find it useful. If you want a print copy, let me know (waltcrawford@gmail.com): It will take two people committing to buy it, at $60, before it becomes available. (Why so high? Most graphs are multicolor, and that costs a lot more at Lulu.)< Less
Cites & Insights 12: 2012 More Detail
Cites & Insights 12: 2012 By Walt Crawford
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Volume 12 of Cites & Insights, calendar year 2012, includes 12 issues. Features include an investigation of public library closures (or, rather, non-closures), a two-part essay on fair use, a... More > three-year roundup on the failed Google Book settlement, a two-parter on blogging, and sections related to Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13), a study of public library benefits.< Less
Cites & Insights 11: 2011 More Detail
Cites & Insights 11: 2011 By Walt Crawford
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Cites & Insights, Volume 11, 2011: Starting strong, ending with a hiatus. A quick-and-dirty cover for a peculiar volume.
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) More Detail
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) By Walt Crawford
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Your public library is in competition with a lot of other agencies–city, county, district, even state–for money. You want your library to sustain its current services and expand them in... More > the future. You know you get a lot of bang for your buck, but how do you show that to the people who hold the purse strings? One way is to use the data in Give Us a Dollar and We’ll Give You Back Four. Walt Crawford has compiled, analyzed, and organized library funding and service data from all around the United States. Give Us a Dollar will let you compare your services to those of other similar libraries at a glance and will help give you the data you need to show your funders how much you already stretch their dollars–and how much more you could provide with even a few dollars more. This 2012-2013 edition is based on the FY10 IMLS Public Library dataset.< Less
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) More Detail
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) By Walt Crawford
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Your public library is in competition with a lot of other agencies–city, county, district, even state–for money. You want your library to sustain its current services and expand them in... More > the future. You know you get a lot of bang for your buck, but how do you show that to the people who hold the purse strings? One way is to use the data in Give Us a Dollar and We’ll Give You Back Four. Walt Crawford has compiled, analyzed, and organized library funding and service data from all around the United States. Give Us a Dollar will let you compare your services to those of other similar libraries at a glance and will help give you the data you need to show your funders how much you already stretch their dollars–and how much more you could provide with even a few dollars more. This 2012-2013 edition is based on the FY10 IMLS Public Library dataset.< Less
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change More Detail
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change By Walt Crawford
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A library system that stands still is unbalanced and headed for trouble. A library staff obsessed with Hot New Things and aiming for new users at the expense of familiar services and existing patrons... More > is unbalanced and headed for trouble. Very few libraries fall into either extreme, but sometimes it seems as though we’re urged toward one extreme. This book grew, indirectly, out of discussions surrounding and emanating from “Library 2.0”—the ideas, the set of initiatives and the term itself. I believe those discussions have shifted toward more balanced approaches. This book aims to develop and continue those discussions. It is divided into three sections, not including the first and last two chapters. Three chapters discuss the library and its community. Four chapters discuss barriers to change. The remainder of the book discusses positive aspects of change.< Less