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Rachel Alter, Linda Walling, Susan Beck, Kathleen Garland, Ardis Hanson, and Walter Metz

This document was developed by the ASCLA Standards Review Subcommittee not only to endorse librarians in their efforts to establish very detailed crisis management procedures for their workplaces, but also to endorse librarians' efforts to develop the expertise to avert crises and arrive at successful library experiences for people with mental illnesses. Although public and school libraries are more likely to provide daily service to individuals who have mental illnesses, all librarians should be aware of the information needs of these patrons and be prepared to meet them.

48p. 2007. $22. ASCLA Members, $19.80. ISBN: 0-8389-8410-X

Revised Standards and Guidelines of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Revised for 2005, this publication presents standards and guidelines of service for people who are blind or physically handicapped. Detailed explanations of the standards provide a useful tool for assessing the status of making library services accessible.

84p. 2006. $18. ASCLA members, $16.20. ISBN: 0-8389-8328-6.

Library Services to the Sandwich Generation and Serial Caregivers

Linda Lucas Walling, compiler. 2001. ISBN: 0-8389-8139-9. 56p. $20. ASCLA member: $18.

Just when the late middle aged working folks are ready to retire and be released from heavy family responsibilities, they often find themselves caring for their elderly, impaired parents at the same time their adult children are returning home for economic or other reasons, often brining the grandchildren along. Members of the sandwich generation often find that at various periods throughout their lifetimes, they are caring for children, grandchildren, spouses, siblings, parents, and grandparents. Sometimes, they care for, or are cared for by, friends of their own or a different generation.

There are many issues that face the sandwich generation and serial caregivers. Libraries must plan to serve their needs. These services do not require major funding rather awareness, an allocation resources, and a networking effort.

This guide provides librarians with resources to assist multigenerational caregivers. Suggestions on library activities and projects that can be provided to older adults are included. Graphs and tables that profile demographics specifically race; age, and geography are contained. The list of professional organizations, web sites, and other materials are handy. The inclusion of resources on home modification is extremely useful.

This fourth addition to the Changing Horizons series is an excellent resource for libraries, caregivers, and community groups that provide services to seniors.

Planning for Library Services to People with Disabilities

Rhea Joyce Rubin. 2001. ISBN: 0-8389-8168-2. 108p. $30. ASCLA members: $27.

In response to two of the 1990 American Disabilities Act’s (ADA) mandates; any public library must provide equal services to any person requesting them, regardless of disability and that no qualified individual with a disability shall be excluded from participation or be denied services or be subjected to discrimination. Rubin has created a planning process to ensure that libraries consider all of the issues necessary to comply with the law. This method has been designed to work in conjunction with an already existing library plan. Libraries that complete this process will:

• ensure that all parts of the larger plan are inclusive,
  
• develop objectives and activities of special interest to people with disabilities are based on identified issues,
  
• guarantee that library services are available on an equal basis to all members of the community,
  
• attract people with disabilities to use the library, and
  
• position the library as an information access point for people with disabilities, their relatives, and their services providers.
  

The ten-points include gathering information, convening an advisory committee, identifying issues, analyzing the library’s current plan, drafting goals and objectives, determining available resources, finalizing goals and objectives, drafting the plan, finalizing the plan and evaluating the plan.

ASCLA’s Changing Horizons Series now includes an insightful resource for libraries committed to responding to the law and to expanding library services to all members of their community.

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Just like Letterman’s Top Ten List, this book is a wonderful list of issues that multitype library networks need to know in order to succeed in the new decade. The chapters have been written by library leaders: Gregory Pronevitz, David Simmons, Sondra Vandermark, Connie Paul, Jeanette Smithee, Peter Hamon, Nancy Bolt, Karen Hyman, Ethel Himmel and Bill Wilson, and Ellen Miller. The subjects covered include electronic information, restructuring, distance education, buying clubs and cooperatives, skilled workers, diversifying funding, collaboration, one-stop shopping, accountability, and extraordinary service.

Network boards, members, and staff can use this book as an example of a process for collecting trends and using them to initiate discussions about the future. The book can also be used as a ready–made list for use by networks (or others) in planning. A collection of case studies is included that shows how networks are already addressing trends that can stimulate creative thinking. Each chapter includes substantial references to trend literature for those who wish to read more.

This book successfully builds upon the shared characteristics and concerns of all multitype networks to provide a precise and concise overview to network administrators and decision makers concerning the future of their organizations.

In the end, the book speaks for itself! The process of environmental scanning is customer-centered and future–oriented. The trends are thought provoking. The chapters are well written, interesting, and informative. The top ten trends of network initiatives make good reading.

The Functions and Roles of State Library Agencies. Compiled by Ethel E. Himmel and William J. Wilson. GraceAnne A. DeCandido,ed. 2000. ISBN: 0-8389-8105-4 66p. paperback, $20 ($19 for ASCLA members)

While there are certainly commonalities among state library agencies, there are also great differences. The Functions and Roles of State Library Agencies examines both the common and uncommon services that state library agencies provide and illuminates emerging trends in state library practice.

Compilers Ethel E. Himmel and William J. Wilson surveyed state library agencies and share their findings in this new publication. They provide an overview of state library agencies and discuss services provided to the public, government and libraries. In the section on roles of state library agencies, experts including Barratt Wilkins, Nancy Bolt, Amy Owen and Sara Parker contribute essays on the art of state librarianship, roles in an electronic age and recent developments in evaluation and measurement.

The compilers include charts with the descriptions of state library agencies; collections administered by state library agencies; and library services, functions and operations. Although The Functions and Roles of State Library Agencies replaces Standards for Library Functions at the State Level (3rd ed.) published by the American Library Association in 1985, Nancy Bolt explains in her foreword, "it is different both in its form and function." Bolt writes, "Like local libraries, state library agencies serve diverse audiences. No one set of standards is appropriate or applicable for all fifty state library agencies plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories."

ADA and Special Populations

Guidelines for Library and Information Services for the American Deaf Community. Library Service to the Deaf Forum/ASCLA. 1996. ISBN: 0-8389-7807-X. 20p. $9. ASCLA members, $8. These guidelines are based upon Guidelines for Library Services to Deaf People (a 1991 publication of the International Federation of Library Associations).

Guidelines for Library Services for People with Mental Retardation. Standards Committee Subcommittee to Develop Guidelines for Library Services at Institutions for People with Mental Retardation. 1999. ISBN: 0-8389-8000-7. 24p. $14. ASCLA members, $12.00.

Correctional Institutions

Library Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions 1992. Prepared by ASCLA, a division of ALA. 1992. ISBN: 0-8389-7583-6. 47p. $15. ASCLA members, $13

Library Standards for Juvenile Correctional Facilities. 1999. ISBN: 0-8389-7988-2. 36p. $18. ASCLA members, $16.20.

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