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Title Government information essentials / edited by Susanne Caro.
Publication Info. Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2018.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  025.28 GOV    Checked Out
Description xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Advice for the new document professional -- Networking and training : essential tools for collaboration and learning / Hayley Johnson -- Experience of a new government documents librarian / Andrew Lopez and Lori Looney -- Middle management : strategies for success / Jill Vassilakos-Long -- Part II. Collection management -- Visualizing space : your depository library as place / Aimée C. Quinn -- Space planning : weeding, moving and providing access to government information / Julia Stewart -- Streamlining collections : disasters, consolidation, and the digital landscape / Vickie Mix -- Growth and maintenance of digital collections / Susanne Caro -- Part III. Working with collections -- The hunt for the elusive : finding and utilizing the history in government documents / Paula L. Webb and EiaLeasha Martin -- Federal maps and the depository library / Valery King -- Help! I'm new here and I speak Spanish : government information for Spanish speakers / Jane Canfield -- Part IV. Teaching and training -- Teaching with library guides / Latanya N. Jenkins -- Creating more powerful research guides / David Dillard and Antoinette W. Satterfield -- Documents to the students / Susanne Caro -- Navigating government information : working with midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy / Antoinette W. Satterfield -- Part V. Advocacy and events -- Advocating for transparency and access to information / Shari Laster -- Cupcake, an eagle, and a war : promoting government documents / Lisa Pritchard -- Exhibits and community outreach / Susanne Caro -- Appendix I. General resources -- Appendix II. Sample project plan -- Appendix III. Sources for space planning : best practices -- Appendix IV. Map resources -- Appendix V. Spanish language resources -- Appendix VI. Library guide resources.
Subject Federal Depository Library Program.
Documents libraries -- United States -- Administration.
Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Government publications.
Government publications -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Depository libraries -- United States -- Administration.
Documents librarians -- United States.
Added Author Caro, Susanne, 1980- editor.
ISBN 9780838915974 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $67.50
0838915973 (pbk. : alk. paper)