Carol Smallwood received her MLS from Western Michigan University and her MA in history from Eastern Michigan University. She is the author or editor of numerous books for Scarecrow, McFarland, Libraries Unlimited, Pudding House Publications, Peter Lang, and others. Some other credits include The Writer's Chronicle, Journal of Formal Poetry, Detroit News, Instructor, English Journal, and Michigan Feminist Studies. Her novel, Lily's Odyssey, appeared in 2010; she coedited the anthology Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages (2009), and she has a short story in Best New Writing 2010. A 2009 National Federation of State Poetry Societies Award Winner and a finalist for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for prose, she has experience in school, public, and special libraries and has served as a library consultant. Smallwood appears in Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in America, and is a member of the American Library Association.
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Fewer employees, shorter hours, diminished collection budgets, reduced programs and services—all at a time of record library usage. Don't fret and fritter away scarce resources. Be frugal! In this book, library expert Carol Smallwood demonstrates that despite the obvious downsides, the necessity of doing business differently can be positive, leading to partnering, sharing, and innovating. This collection speaks to universal concerns, presenting creative and resourceful solutions from dozens of librarians representing a wide variety of institutions. The Frugal Librarian helps library professionals
- Find supplementary funding sources, including grants
- Save money by sharing resources, using tiered staffing for technical services, and implementing green IT
- Tap into grassroots movements to save neighborhood libraries
- Preserve and enhance important library functions like programming, outreach, and staff development, despite a tight budget
This book offers plenty of ideas that can be implemented immediately.
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Helping Patrons Job Search
1. Knowledge-Based Job Hunting and Interview Preparation
Michael A. Germano
2. Start Your Job Search Here
Jason Kuhl
Part II: Librarian Survival
3. Entrepreneurs in the Library: How an Entrepreneurial Spirit Expanded the Patron Base and Elevated Its Political Standing
James Lund
4. Laid Off? Here's One Way to Land on Your Feet
J. James Mancuso
5. Low- and No-Cost Development Opportunities for Librarians
Colleen S. Harris
6. Online Resources in Michigan: A School Librarian Survives Hard Times
Margaret Lincoln
Part III: Grants
7. Grant Proposals for the Working Librarian: From Idea to Implementation
Lois Stickell and Lisa Nickel
8. Tools for Grant Searching
Victoria Lynn Packard
9. Writing Grant Proposals for Diverse Populations
Vandella Brown
Part IV: Programming
10. Creating and Sustaining Community-Focused Programs
Wayne Finley and Joanna Kluever
11. Nothing to Lose: Creative Programming for the Frugal Librarian
Lisa A. Forrest
Part V: Sharing
12. Increasing Resources in Tough Times: A New Funding Model for the Purdue University Career Wiki
George Bergstrom and Mary Dugan
13. Innovating and Saving with Joint-Use Libraries
Emily Dill
14. Multitype Regional Library Responses to the Economic Crisis
Tom Taylor
15. Museum Passes: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Partnership
Rebecca Tuck and Lisa Fraser
16. Saving by Sharing: Using Open-Source and Shared Catalogs to Do More with Less
John Helling
Part VI: Management
17. Bringing the Outside Back In: Creative and Cost-Effective Outreach Strategies
Kacy Vega and Kim Becnel
18. Cost Factors in Digital Projects: A Model Useful in Other Applications
Lisa L. Crane
19. Data-Driven Cancellation Decisions
Leslie Farison
20. Green Information Technology Saves Money, Saves Resources
Sarah Passonneau
21. Managing Staff Stress during Budget Crises: Lessons for Library Managers
Colleen S. Harris and Mary Chimato
22. Student Assistants: Maximize Effectiveness through Coordinated Training
Ken Johnson and Sue Hisle
Part VII: On-the-Job Success
23. Bidding Service Contracts in Public Libraries
Tom Cooper
24. Digital Projects on a Shoestring
Emily Asch
25. Developing Partnerships for Added Value
Aline Soules and Sarah Nielsen
26. Organizing in the Streets and in the Stacks: A Grassroots Movement Saves Neighborhood Libraries
Edgar C. Bailey Jr.
27. Turning Gifts and Discards into Gold
Robert Holley
28. A Small School Library Meets the Economic Challenge
Colleen Driscoll
Part VIII: Staffing
29. Leveraging Internal Resources to Fill Library Staff Shortages Temporarily
Marwin Britto
30. Making Good by Making Do: Using Student Staff to Drive Library Technology Innovation
Gwen Evans
31. Tiered Staffing for Technical Services
Mary S. Laskowski and Fang Huang Gao
32. We're All in This Together: Solutions for Creative Staffing
Heidi Blackburn and Erin Davis
Part IX: Professional Development
33. Building Sustainable Professional Development Opportunities in Technology Literacy
Marwin Britto
34. $40 A Day, or Attending Library Conferences on the Cheap
Regina Koury
Contributors
Index
"A useful, sensibly priced collection."
--The Australian Library Journal
"I recommend the book for providing good suggestions and generating ideas for different libraries in different settings. It also provides a very good overview of challenges in library work for newer professionals."
--Library Resources & Technical Services
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