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Library Instruction Round Table; Library Research; Library Support Staff Interests Round Table; Map and Geospatial Information; New Members Round Table; Rainbow Round Table [90] Retired Members Round Table; Social Responsibilities Round Table – est. 1969. [91] Task forces: *Feminist Task Force [92] Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty Task Force
Library instruction, also called bibliographic instruction, user education and library orientation, is the process where librarians teach their patrons how to access information in libraries. It often involves instruction about research and organizational tools and methods. [ 1 ]
The Library History Round Table encourages research and publication on library history and promotes awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship. It "exists to facilitate communication among scholars and students of library history, to support research in library history, and to be active in issues, such as preservation, that concern library historians."
The Library History Round Table official peer-reviewed journal is Libraries: Culture, History, and Society. [2] LHRT News and Notes is the blog of the Library History Round Table. [3] The Library History Round Table publishes the "Bibliography of Library History" database. [4] The Library History Round Table, was established in 1947.
The Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is an American Library Association membership group that provides a forum for discussing issues and sharing ideas around government information. [1] GODORT began as the Task Force of Government Publications of the Social Responsibilities Round Table.
The ALA Rainbow Book List is an annual list of "books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender content, and which are aimed at youth, birth through age 18" produced by the American Library Association's (ALA's) Rainbow Project, which is run by the ALA's Rainbow Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table.
Librarian, Ballard Carnegie Library, Seattle, Washington c. 1907 The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.
That building was renamed to the Harold B. Lee Library in 1974. [4] The library was significantly expanded in the 1990s, providing new individual and group study rooms and a special vault area for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library. In 2016, the library contained over 4.7 million books, 10.6 million total materials, and served over ...