In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries' best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused technology planning, picture book arrangement with patrons in mind, Web 2.0 tools to connect users with the library, establishing good service delivery chains, and making your library fantastic for homeschoolers. As past Public Library Association President Audra Caplan writes in her…mehr
In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries' best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused technology planning, picture book arrangement with patrons in mind, Web 2.0 tools to connect users with the library, establishing good service delivery chains, and making your library fantastic for homeschoolers. As past Public Library Association President Audra Caplan writes in her introduction to this book, "There is nothing magical about providing excellent customer service; it just takes the right people, the right philosophy and the passion to make it a reality." If you've got all that, here are the best practices to make stellar customer service a reality for your library's users.
Charles Harmon is an Executive Editor for the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. His background includes work in special, public, and school libraries. Michael Messina is a reference librarian at the State University of New York's Maritime College. He has also worked as a researcher at The Brooklyn Academy of Music Archives. The former publisher of Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Limelight Editions, he is a coeditor of Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays (Northwestern University Press).
Inhaltsangabe
. Introduction by Audra Caplan Former President of the Public Library Association . "STARS: Launching a Customer-Service Model in Riverside County" by Mark Smith Riverside County CA Library System . "Technically Speaking" by Karen C. Knox Orion Township Public Library MI . "Reader Advisory at Darien Library" by Alan Kirk Gray Darien Library CT . "The Darien Library's Picture Book Reorganization: A Collection Designed with Patrons in Mind" by Kiera Parrott Darien Library CT . "Service Delivery Chains as a Strategy for Improving Library Customer Service" by John J. Huber J. Huber & Associates Tulsa OK . "The Collaborative Conversation: Connecting Libraries and Readers using Web 2.0 Tools" by Judi Repman Georgia Southern University Statesboro . "Improving Customer Service by Utilizing an Existing Technology Innovatively" by Adriana Gonzalez Texas A & M University Libraries College Station . "Service is Personal: The Howard County Library System Customer Service Program" by Lewis Belfont Howard County Library System MD . "The Buzz on Patron Service" by Shannon Hodgens Halikias Lisle Library District IL . "Make Your Library Fantastic for Homeschoolers" by Abby Johnson New Albany-Floyd County Public Library IN
. Introduction by Audra Caplan Former President of the Public Library Association . "STARS: Launching a Customer-Service Model in Riverside County" by Mark Smith Riverside County CA Library System . "Technically Speaking" by Karen C. Knox Orion Township Public Library MI . "Reader Advisory at Darien Library" by Alan Kirk Gray Darien Library CT . "The Darien Library's Picture Book Reorganization: A Collection Designed with Patrons in Mind" by Kiera Parrott Darien Library CT . "Service Delivery Chains as a Strategy for Improving Library Customer Service" by John J. Huber J. Huber & Associates Tulsa OK . "The Collaborative Conversation: Connecting Libraries and Readers using Web 2.0 Tools" by Judi Repman Georgia Southern University Statesboro . "Improving Customer Service by Utilizing an Existing Technology Innovatively" by Adriana Gonzalez Texas A & M University Libraries College Station . "Service is Personal: The Howard County Library System Customer Service Program" by Lewis Belfont Howard County Library System MD . "The Buzz on Patron Service" by Shannon Hodgens Halikias Lisle Library District IL . "Make Your Library Fantastic for Homeschoolers" by Abby Johnson New Albany-Floyd County Public Library IN
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