Front-Line Librarianship

1. By Popular Demand: Various Genres and Tastes

• Mystery Madness: Understanding the Demand for Crime Fiction in Libraries

• Reaching the Outer Limits: Science Fiction in the Library

• Life Enjoyed: The Appeal of Biography Collections

• Blankets will not protect you! An overview of Horror fiction

• Making the Penguins Fly: Classics Collections in Public Libraries

•　Travel collections: Off the shelf, on the road

• Reading in season: How the yearly cycle affects your choice of books

• First love, printed and bound

　

2. Social Studies

• Circulation counter service in public and academic libraries: Dealing face-to-face with patrons

• Keeping Up Appearances: Looking like a librarian in an age of paranoia

•　Moonlight Sonata: Librarians discuss their work after work

•　Life at the Cellular Level: Dealing with wireless communications in libraries

•　Alternative librarianship: Voices from the field

•　What care ye for raiment? Dress codes and styles in our libraries

• Manual matters: Developing successful guidelines and losing precious boredom

　

• What goes down: Library experiences of the urban poor

•　Keynoting: An honest overview

•　Who’s next door? Living with your library’s neighbours

• Worldwide weeding: When books no longer furnish a room

•　For your eyes only: Love and disorder in domestic libraries

•　Surviving hard times: How libraries can deal with recessions

•　Quote us freely: British librarians speak out about recent cutbacks

　

3. Visiting the Library: People and Programs

•　Serving the solitary: Librarians demonstrate ‘in-reach’

•　Here’s looking at you, kid: What special visitors want when they tour your library

•　Feeling the warmth: Global warming and its effects on library operations

•　Abroad in your library: What tourists want, what they get

•　"It’s Not Just the Books!" Wheelchair patrons speak out

•　What’s cooking at your library: A special event

• Cat care programs in public libraries: Providing essential information to owners

•　Discover your Inner Elf: Christmas programs for public libraries

• Boo! Halloween in our libraries

• November memories: Librarians and patrons observe Remembrance Day

•　Gone astray: An exploration of library lost-and-founds

•　Confessions of a library Santa

•　Thanks for your recommendations: Front-line readers’ advisory services

• Gold, frankincense, and murder mysteries: Developing a corporate gift-giving program

　

　

4. Senior Moments

•　Leisure reading for seniors: Sorting out tastes and topics

•　Finance, felines, and figuring it all out: Utilitarian reading for seniors

•　Seniors: What they want and what they get in Canada’s public libraries

• It’s never too late to Tolstoy: Reading clubs for seniors

• ‘Tis the season: Christmas programs for seniors

　

V. Library Technicians

•　File under Tango: Lifelong learning for library technicians

•　Just What Is ... A library technician? A look at current library technician training

　

　

VI. For the Record

•　Records management for office managers: A special librarian’s Clip ’N Share

•　CIA for beginners: Records management training for library technicians

• Paper crazy no more: Records management for library chaos junkies

•　In retrospect: Developing a library history file at your public library

　

　

VII. Rare Books and Other Rubbish

•　One for the books: Lectures on collecting from coast to coast

•　Gold in the garbage: Making the most from the treasure in your trash

•　Edition, printing, state: Serving book collectors at your public library

　

　

　

　

VIII. English Hours

•　Here Be dragons: Continuing education in library history

•　Spirited business: Styles of bookselling in Piccadilly

•　Under the bridge with Margaret and Charles: Browsing at London’s Waterloo Book Fair

•　A librarian’s London: Visiting the city of readers

•　Finding Mr. Perfect: WH Smith in Paddington

• Visiting Oxford: Lifelong memories from one day on the move

　

　

IX. Corporate concerns

　

•　Maintaining IT security on the road

•　E-pest alert

• The info-thief

　

Index