The Solo Librarian

The Solo Librarian: A Practical Handbook provides an internationally applicable and practical handbook that shows a timeline of key activities that happen throughout, in this example, an academic year. Sections provide examples on Acquisitions, cataloguing, updating library guidance (before academic year start - September), Student and Staff Inductions (September/October), Quarterly Business Review to review updates and library usage (Oct – Dec), Library cover over student/staff holiday period (Dec), Quarterly Business Review (Jan – Mar), Quality standard(s) re-accreditation (April), Research methods/study skills webinars (April), Library cover over student holiday period (April), Quarterly Business Review (April –June), and much more. The idea behind this practical handbook is to provide guidance and templates to cover responsibilities, challenges, benchmarking, acquisitions, classification, archiving, copyright management, and so much more. Relays the lessons the author has learned while creating and sharing guidance that will assist others finding themselves in a similar role and/or a small teamProvides a logical process for creating library provision and the services involvedIncludes a timeline of activities, guidance, and templates that can be downloadable (via the eBook version) and can be adapted and utilized further to help aid daily activities and processes