 | Category: Metadata and Collections Member discount: 10% Collection development for any subject can be a challenging task; anthropology, with its many subfields, may exceed the typical challenge. Whether you are brand new to anthropology, or well-versed in many of its facets, Sudden Selector’s Guide to Anthropology is designed to provide you with an access point to the diverse realms of the field and the resources that will allow you to build and maintain strong collections to serve your community, no matter where their research interests lie. This guide is designed to facilitate collection development processes in two ways: it is a bibliography of resources and can be used as a mini-course in anthropology librarianship. |
 | Category: Access and Equity ⋅ Assessment ⋅ Buildings and Operations ⋅ Digital Libraries & Electronic Resources ⋅ Guidelines and Standards ⋅ Leadership and Management ⋅ Technology Member discount: 10% Open Access has evolved into the most complex challenge of the scholarly publishing landscape and something libraries grapple with on a regular basis. But although librarians hold increasingly positive perceptions about OA, including its richness of unique content and immediacy of access, many lack the understanding, training, documentation, and knowledge of best practices that would allow them to engage with it confidently. This book helps to fill that gap, using a holistic approach that walks readers through the steps of integrating OA resources into library collections and supporting OA initiatives irrespective of budget, institution type, collection size, and staffing. |
 | Category: Assessment ⋅ Buildings and Operations ⋅ Digital Libraries & Electronic Resources ⋅ Guidelines and Standards ⋅ Leadership and Management ⋅ Technology Member discount: 20% Building from a framework drawn in the overlap of design thinking with best practices in emerging technology and library practice, this book is a go-to guide for the active library practitioner and LIS student alike. From the 3D printers and laser cutters of today’s library makerspace to collection development and library outreach, this primer offers clear examples that illustrate the practical and collaborative approach that ensures alignment and increases the likelihood of success. Written as a textbook for LIS students in the crossover areas of emerging technology, design thinking, and library management, the book will also meet the needs of the active library practitioner in public, academic, and special libraries, both those new to the field and seasoned professionals. |
 | Category: Assessment ⋅ Buildings and Operations ⋅ Leadership and Management ⋅ Technology Member discount: 10% Project management, as both a skill set and a discipline, offers structure and a path forward for continual improvement and change management within libraries. Most importantly for technical services, project management creates processes that can fairly and transparently indicate how resources are allocated and guide technical services departments as they prioritize needs. Helping staff build their own project management toolkit, this book will allow readers to pick and choose which practices work best for their own situation. |
 | Category: Assessment ⋅ Buildings and Operations ⋅ Digital Libraries & Electronic Resources ⋅ Guidelines and Standards ⋅ Leadership and Management ⋅ Metadata and Collections ⋅ Technology Member discount: 10% Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services professionals and paraprofessionals keep up with evolving best practices for the work they do. Fortunately, libraries can adopt methods such as Training Within Industry (TWI), lean management, and instructional design methodologies to develop a learning culture that continuously improves service delivery. Using case studies, this collection showcases a variety of creative and practical training development and organizational strategies that libraries and consortia have used to tackle issues related to skills gaps, remote work, student worker turnover, reorganizations, technology migrations, and more. |
 | Category: Assessment ⋅ Digital Libraries & Electronic Resources ⋅ Guidelines and Standards ⋅ Leadership and Management ⋅ Metadata and Collections ⋅ Technology Member discount: 10% An important resource for scholarly research, grey literature is relevant to every discipline. It’s also often more current than commercial publications. Unfortunately, though it provides a richness of content, this type of scholarly resource is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections. Using this guide, collection managers and acquisitions librarians, preservation librarians, catalogers, and library managers will understand how to utilize the technical services workflow to process and showcase this unique material. |
 | Category: Leadership and Management ⋅ Metadata and Collections Member discount: 10% In this volume of the Sudden Selector’s Guide series, Emily Keller and Laura Wimberley share strategies, tools, and resources for developing user-centered collections that are responsive to the needs of faculty and students in political science. The major subdisciplines, types of research questions being asked, and the information cycle for political scientists are outlined to give librarians an introduction to the field. |
 | Category: Leadership and Management ⋅ Metadata and Collections Member discount: 10% Mathematics is a rich and varied discipline that can be both fascinating and intimidating. This volume demystifies the field for “sudden” mathematics selectors and provides a solid foundation for librarians engaged in math collection development, outreach, and instruction. Through a comprehensive overview of the most important resources, publishers, and professional organizations, readers receive knowledge and tools to help them effectively manage collections and engage with mathematics faculty and students. |
 | Category: Assessment ⋅ Metadata and Collections Member discount: 10% Featuring contributions from leaders in the intersection between zines and libraries, including Katrin Abel, Jeremy Brett, Ann (A'misa) Matsushima Chiu, Marta Chudolinska, Jenna Freedman, Joan Jocson-Singh, Mica Johnson, Lauren Kehoe, Joshua Lupkin, Meg Metcalf, and Ziba Perez, this book presents an in-depth look at adding these unique materials successfully to a library collection. |
 | Collection Management in the Cloud: A Guide for Using Cloud Computing Technologies in Libraries (2021) Category: Access and Equity ⋅ Assessment ⋅ Digital Libraries & Electronic Resources ⋅ Leadership and Management ⋅ Metadata and Collections ⋅ Technology Member discount: 20% As remote work has become routine, cloud-based technology tools have become increasingly necessary to communicate with other library staff and with faculty and staff to continue providing seamless and uninterrupted access to library resources and collections for our campus community. This guide discusses the benefits of using these powerful cloud-based and little to no additional cost technology tools through the lens of a particular area in librarianship such as documentation, data and project management, communication, data storage, and data visualization. |