understand the service community’s interests
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Keys: Meet practical needs. Find common purposes. Use local organizations. Combine passions.
Brad House • Community

public library to a community is $4 or more for every dollar the community expends on the library.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
But what Joan is calling for is this notion that the more you get close to how human beings are relating and how human beings are understanding, the harder it is to replace all of that with a fancy algorithm. And one thing about librarians is they know their local context and they understand the different constituencies that are involved. All of th... See more