Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities
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9781440834332
MLA
LeMire, Sarah and Mulvihill, Kristen. Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities. Libraries Unlimited, 2017. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440834332.
Chicago Manual of Style
LeMire, Sarah, and Kristen Mulvihill. Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities. Libraries Unlimited, 2017. http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440834332
APA
LeMire, S. & Mulvihill, K. (2017). Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities. Retrieved from http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440834332
- Description
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Practical advice on how best to serve veterans, service members, and their families in your community, including effective ways to develop new outreach partnerships and collaborations.
• The first guidebook of its kind, intended to support librarians, administrators, and library employees of all types better serve the veteran and military communities• Presents insights from authors who are both Army veterans as well as professional librarians engaged in working with the veteran and military communities in libraries
• Explains how to estimate the number of veterans, service members, and their families in your library community and provides an overview of the types of issues and questions they may have
• Provides recommendations to help librarians coordinate their efforts with existing military and veterans' organizations in order to provide the best, most efficient programs and services for veterans, service members, and their families
• Offers concrete ideas and suggestions related to outreach, programming, services, and collection development for the veteran and military communities
- Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities
Author(s): LeMire, Sarah; Mulvihill, Kristen;Contributors: LeMire, Sarah; Mulvihill, Kristen;Abstract:Practical advice on how best to serve veterans, service members, and their families in your community, including effective ways to develop new outreach partnerships and collaborations.
• The first guidebook of its kind, intended to support librarians, administrators, and library employees of all types better serve the veteran and military communities• Presents insights from authors who are both Army veterans as well as professional librarians engaged in working with the veteran and military communities in libraries
• Explains how to estimate the number of veterans, service members, and their families in your library community and provides an overview of the types of issues and questions they may have
• Provides recommendations to help librarians coordinate their efforts with existing military and veterans' organizations in order to provide the best, most efficient programs and services for veterans, service members, and their families
• Offers concrete ideas and suggestions related to outreach, programming, services, and collection development for the veteran and military communities
SortTitle: serving those who served: librarian's guide to working with veteran and military communitiesAuthor Info:Sarah LeMireauthorKristen J. MulvihillauthoreISBN-13: 9781440834332Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440834332.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440834325Imprint: Libraries UnlimitedPages: 200Publication Date: 20170228- Cover Cover11
- Title iii4
- Contents vii8
- Acknowledgments xi12
- Introduction xiii14
- Chapter 1. Who Are Veterans and Military Service Members? 118
- Veterans and Service Members by the Numbers: Methodology 320
- Veterans and Service Members by the Numbers: Current Picture 522
- Veterans and Service Members of Different Eras 623
- Special Populations 825
- Understanding Veterans and Service Members 1734
- Veterans’ and Service Members’ Needs on the Rise 2340
- References 2441
- Chapter 2. What All Librarians Should Know about the Veteran and Military Communities 2946
- Chapter 3. Public Libraries and the Veteran and Military Communities 5572
- Building Connections with Outreach 5673
- Getting Started: Four Key Resources 5774
- Tips for Approaching Veteran and Military Organizations 6077
- Library Outreach and Programming for Veteran and Military Communities 6683
- Dos and Don’ts for Working with Veterans and Military Populations 8097
- Collection Development and Readers’ Advisory 83100
- Conclusion 85102
- References 85102
- Chapter 4. Veteran and Military Communities on College and University Campuses 89106
- Who Are Veteran and Military-Affiliated College Students? 90107
- The Number of Veterans and Service Members on College Campuses 90107
- Educational Benefits for Veterans and Service Members 93110
- GI Bill 94111
- Tuition Assistance 95112
- Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 96113
- Green to Gold, Seaman to Admiral-21, and Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Educational Program 96113
- Advanced Civil Schooling, Performance-Based Graduate School Incentive Program, and CSAF Captains Prestigious PhD Program 96113
- State Veterans’ Education Benefits 96113
- Private Scholarships 97114
- Characteristics of the Veteran and Military Communities in Higher Education 97114
- College and University Support for Veterans and Service Members 106123
- Library Services for Student Veterans and Service Members 112129
- Library Outreach to Student Veterans and Service Members 120137
- Collaborations and Partnerships 122139
- Conclusion 124141
- References 124141
- Chapter 5. School and Special Libraries and the Veteran and Military Communities 129146
- Conclusion 163180
- Glossary 165182
- Index 173190
- About the Authors 183200