How to thrive as a solo librarian / edited by Carol Smallwood, Melissa J. Clapp. - Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012. - xiv, 300 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Solo librarians as jugglers / Roxanne Myers Spencer -- Survive and thrive as a solo librarian / Barbara Fiehn -- Building partnerships / Julie A. Evener -- A guide to recruiting and retaining volunteers of all ages / Tatum Preston -- Simple programing strategies to enhance libraries / Cassandra Jackson-Ifie -- The solo school librarian : creating a constellation of community support / Jess deCourcy Hinds -- Teen volunteers to the rescue! / Cindy Welch -- Advertise the library? Horrors! / Laurie Selwyn -- Public relations : promoting yourself and library resources when no one else will / Andrea Wilcox Brooks -- Public relations as relationship : saying yes! / Rhonda Taylor -- Customer service tips for solo librarians : dealing with patron problems / Sandra O. Stubbs -- Continuing professional development / Eva Hornung -- Professional growth for the solo librarian / Kimberly Mitchell -- Double your staff with instructional videos / Claudia J. Dold -- The new Coconino Community College Library : a librarian, collaborative library services, and an online library / Estelle Pope -- No budget? No problem! / Eileen Boswell -- From solo librarian to super librarian / Jenny Ryun Foster -- Oh, those dreaded annual reports / Virginia L. Eldridge -- Security tips for the solo librarian / Jonathan Frater -- Supervision made simple : running a school library alone / Rebecca Marcum Parker -- Placing one foot in front of the other : learning how to assess the collection / Stephanie Renne -- The lonely librarian : a guide to solo weeding / Lara Frater -- Moving a library / Holly Lakatos -- Making a career-college library relevant / David Castelli -- The one-man band : the solo librarian supervising circulation, cataloging, collection development, reference, and equipment / Lois Kuyper-Rushing -- Working as a solo librarian in a large organization : running the Labriola National American Indian Data Center / Joyce Martin.

9780810882133 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780810882140 (ebook)

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Small libraries--Administration.

Z675.S57 / H69 2012

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