NetGalley is a free website for librarians to request and download digital review copies and audiobooks, while connecting with publishers and staying up to date with upcoming releases. The service is quick, efficient, secure, and always free for library staff. Learn how to get started (registration, filling in your Profile, and requesting your first book or audiobook), helpful features and tools, and ways NetGalley can specifically help librarians with collection development and readers’ advisory.
Date Recorded: 6/29/22
Format: Archived YouTube Video
Presenters: Tarah Theoret – Senior Director of Community Experience and Hallie Fields – Social Media Assistant Manager / NetGalley
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In this panel, four librarians will share their experience with a variety of challenges. Book, display, and program challenges, as well as experience with book banning groups will be discussed. Cheri Harris, from the Indiana State Library, will also go over a summary of key legal points to remember when dealing with challenges.
Almost all libraries have materials for users with print disabilities, such as large print books and audiobooks, but are those collections being given the attention they deserve and are they serving as many users as possible? According to two recent studies, large print collections are a still vital part of library services, and their usage has not diminished in the age of electronic resources. Learn what users with print disabilities need and want, and how best to create and maintain vibrant print disabled-friendly collections, no matter how small or large.
We’ll investigate good places to network and ways to curate all the great resources you encounter. This will include a crowd-sourced AISLE document of resources, and tools such as Symbaloo, diigo, Google Keep, Wakelet, and more.
Tips and tricks for obtaining materials to fill up your library shelves without draining your library’s collection budget.
Diversity has been a major issue in pop culture lately. The demand to include traditionally marginalized voices in comics, movies, TV, and gaming has led to an explosion of material in the past few years. Join two fellow librarians (who also happen to be geeks) as they explore this issue and help you navigate all the content available with collection development recommendations that can work in your local library.
Jim Corridan, commissioner for Indiana Archives and Records Administration, presents on records retention and the tasks of archives and records administration.