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Informationen zum Autor Julie Todaro is the dean of Austin Community College (ACC) Library Services. Her professional career includes academic library manager; library educator (management, public libraries,) and public librarian. She manages 200 employees at ACC who provide library resources and services throughout eleven campus libraries in 8 counties. Todaro is the author of the 2020 2nd edition of Emergency Preparedness for Libraries , the 2015 Mentoring A-Z , and the 2014 Library Management for the Digital Age: A New Paradigm . She co-authored the 2006 Training Library Staff and Volunteers to Provide Extraordinary Customer Service . Todaro is frequent presenter on a variety of topics and across all types of libraries, library settings and non-profit management, including three 2020 national webinars on libraries and the pandemic. She is a library consultant and in her practice serves as an advisor and project lead with expertise in all aspects of management, leadership, library facilities and operations. Todaro’s association activities and leadership focus on all types of libraries and librarians. On the national leadership level Julie was the 2016-2017 president of the American Library Association (ALA) with an initiative focus on librarians titled Libraries Transform: the Expert in the Library and was the 2007-2008 past-president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL.) On the state leadership level, Julie was the 2000-2001 president of the Texas Library Association (TLA). Todaro earned her DLS from Columbia University’s School of Library Service, a MLS from The University of Texas at Austin ISchool (with a school librarian all-level lifetime certification). She was TLA’s 1996 Librarian of the Year award-winner, received TLA’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and recently was awarded TLA’s 2019 Distinguished Service Award. Klappentext Library Roles in Achieving Financial Literacy among its Patrons is a collection of articles from 25 librarians in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, each contributing 3,000-4,000 words: concise chapters with sidebars, bullets, and headers. Contributors were selected for the creative potential in their topics, those that can be used in various types of libraries and that demonstrate a command of financial literacy and are able to communicate what they know to aiding users solve their financial information problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I Overview of Financial Literacy Chapter 1. Academic Libraries and Financial Literacy Programs Lauren Reiter Chapter 2. Developing Services on Community Needs Lisa Fraser Chapter 3. Financial Literacy in Libraries: Free and Dependable Resources for Patrons of All Backgrounds Sonnet Ireland Chapter 4. Financial Literacy is a Lifetime Skill Joanne Kuster, Maryann Mori Chapter 5. Financial Literacy: Meeting the Need Kit Keller, Mary Jo Ryan Chapter 6. Information Has Value: Financial Literacy Meets Information Literacy Shana Gass, Joyce Garczynski Chapter 7. Library Employee Education Programs Jennifer Townes, Jacquelyn Daniel, Tanji N. Gibson Chapter 8. Myths and Realities of Consumer Credit Jenny Brewer Chapter 9. The Public Library as Financial Promoter and Provider Maryann Mori Chapter 10. What is Financial Literacy and Why Should We Care? Shin Freedman, Marcia Dursi Chapter 11. Why Financial Literacy Matters Ashley E. Faulkner Part II Library Resources Chapter 12. Asking for Help: Finding Partners for Your Financial Classes Kate Moody Chapter 13. Best Practices to Implement Financial Literacy in a Large Public Library Melissa Jeter Chapter 14. Career Information Literacy at the Academic Reference Desk Frans Albarillo Chapter l5. Developing a Personal Finance Collection for a Public Library
