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District Professional Collection

The District maintains a collection of books dedicating to improving library services and nonprofit organizational strength.
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You can also find more items not listed below in our Libby e-collection.

BOARD

  • Advisory Councils (Nancy R. Axelrod)
  • The Handbook of Nonprofit Governance (BoardSource)
  • The Nonprofit Board Answer Book: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives (BoardSource)
  • The Source 12: Twelve Principles of Governance that Power Exceptional Boards (BoardSource)
  • Transforming Board Structure: Strategies for Committees and Task Forces (Marla J. Bobowick)
  • Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards (Richards Chait)
  • Structures and Practices of Nonprofit Boards (Charles F. Dambach)
  • The Nonprofit Board’s Role in Mission, Planning, and Evaluation (Kay Sprinkel Grace)
  • Legal Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards (Bruce R. Hopkins)
  • Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards (Richard T. Ingram)
  • Trouble at the Top: The Nonprofit Board’s Guide to Managing an Imperfect Chief Executive (Katha Kissman)
  • The Board Building Cycle: Nine Steps to Finding, Recruiting, and Engaging Nonprofit Board Members (Berit M. Lakey)
  • Financial Committees (Thamas A. McLaughlin)
  • The Nonprofit Chief Executive’s Ten Basic Responsibilities (Richard L. Moyers)
  • Better Bylaws: Creating Effective Rules for Your Nonprofit Boards (D. Benson Tesdahl)
  • Govern More, Manage Less: Harnessing the Power of Your Nonprofit Board (Cathy A. Trower)

COLLECTIONS

  • Book Repair: A How-To-Do-It Manual (Kenneth Lavender, rev. Artemis BonaDea)
  • How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia & Genealogy Records (Denise May Levenick)
  • Local History Collections in Libraries (Faye Phillips)
  • Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA, resource description & access: Explaining and Illustrating RDA: resource description & access Using MARC21 (Robert L. Maxwell)

  FUNDRAISING

  • The Fundraiser’s Guide to Irresistible Communications: Real-World, Field-Testing Strategies for Raising More Money (Jeff Brooks)
  • Beyond Book Sales: The Complete Guide to Raising Real Money for Your Library (ed. Susan Dowd)
  • Asking Styles: Harness Your Personal Fundraising Power (Andrea Kihlstedt)
  • Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money: A Cookbook of Easy-to-Use Fundraising Exercises (Andrea Kihlstedt)
  • The Generosity Network: New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising (Jennifer McCrea)
  • Ask Without Fear!: A Simple Guide to Connecting Donors with What Matters to Them Most (Marc A. Pitman)
  • The Good, The Great, and the Unfriendly: A Librarian’s Guide to Working with Friends Groups (Sally Gardner Reed)

 GRANT

  •  The ALA Book of Library Grant Money (2014)
  •  Winning Library Grants: A Game Plan (Herbert B. Landau)

 LAW

  •  How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (Anthony Mancuso)
  •  Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide (Peri Pakroo)

 LIBRARIANSHIP

  • Intellectual Freedom Manual (ALA)
  • Resilience (Rebekkah Smith Aldrich)
  • Sustainable Thinking: Ensuring Your Library’s Future in an Uncertain World (Rebekkah Smith Aldrich)
  • Design Thinking (Rachel Ivy Clarke)
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t (James C. Collins)
  • Say It With Data: A Concise Guide to Making Your Case and Getting Results (Priscille Dando)
  • White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)
  • New Routes to Library Success: 100+ Ideas from Outside the Stacks (Elisabeth Doucett)
  • The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness (Ryan Dowd)
  • Resonate (Nancy Duarte)
  • Transforming Libraries, Building Communities (Julie Biando Edwards)
  • Crash Course in Contemporary Reference (Francisca Goldsmith)
  • The Black Belt Librarian: Real-World Safety & Security (Warren Davis Graham)
  • Five Steps of Outcome-Based Planning and Evaluation for Public Libraries (Melissa Gross)
  • Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World (Devorah Heitner)
  • Supporting Trans People in Libraries (Stephen G. Krueger)
  • The New Librarianship Field Guide (R. David Lankes)
  • The Atlas of New Librarianship (R. David Lankes)
  • Anonymity (Alison Macrina and Talya Cooper)
  • Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Michael Michalko)
  • Planning Optimal Library Spaces (David R. Moore)
  • Beyond Banned Books (Kristin Pekoll)
  • Checklist of Library Building Design Considerations (William W. Sannwald)
  • The Practical Handbook of Library Architecture (Frederick A. Schlipf)
  • Useful, Usable, Desirable: Applying User Experience Design to Your Library (Aaron Schmidt)
  • Creating the Sustainable Public Library (Gary L. Shaffer)
  • The Art of Relevance (Nina Simon)
  • Basics of Genealogy Reference (Jack Simpson)
  • Data Points (Nathan Yau)

 MANAGEMENT

  • Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement (Buster Benson)
  • The Book of Beautiful Questions (Warren Berger)
  • The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150+ Ways to Teach It Quick and Make It Stick! (Sharon Bowman)
  • Dare to Lead (Brené Brown)
  • Mission Critical Meetings: 81 Practical Facilitation Techniques (Ava S. Butler)
  • Management Basics for Information Professionals (G. Edward Evans)
  • 101 Tough Conversations to have with Employees (Paul Falcone)
  • Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership (Joan Garry)
  • The Dysfunctional Library: Challenges and Solutions to Workplace Relationships (Jo Henry, Joe Eshleman, and Richard Moniz)
  • Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews (Douglas Max)
  • The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer (Jonathan R. McKee and Thomas W. McKee)
  • Map It (Cathy Moore)
  • The Mediation Process (Christopher W. Moore)
  • Small Public Library Management (Jane Pearlmutter)
  • Nine Minutes on Monday (James Robbins)
  • Financial Management for Libraries (William W. Sannwald)
  • The Skilled Facilitator (Roger M. Schwarz)
  • Effective Difficult Conversations (Catherine B. Soehner and Ann Darling)
  • The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (Michael Bungay Stanier)
  • The Third Side (William Ury)
  • Go Long (Dennis Carey)
  • The Leader’s Checklist (Michael Useem)
  • Breaking Bad Habits (Freek Vermeulen)
  • The Secrets of Facilitation (Michael Wilkinson)

 PR/MARKETING

  • So You Want to Make a Difference (Nancy Amidei)
  • Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library (Ben Bizzle)
  • How to Build and Mobilize a Social Media Community for Your Nonprofit in 90 Days (JUlia Campbell)
  • The Little Book of Likes: Social Media for Small (and Very Small) Nonprofits (Erik Hanberg)
  • Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited (Steve Krug)
  • UX for Beginners (Joel Marsh)
  • Create Your Website the Easy Way: The Complete Guide to Getting You or Your Business Online (Alannah Moore)
  • Road Map for Revolutionaries (Elisa Camahort Page)
  • The Librarian’s Nitty-Gritty Guide to Content Marketing (Laura Solomon)
  • Right to Petition (Nicole Tisdale)
  • The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice (Robin Williams)

 PROGRAMMING – ALL

  • Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Mattes (Kylene Beers)
  • Hacking Project Based Learning (Ross Cooper)
  • The Big Book of Makerspace Projects (Colleen Graves)
  • Escape Rooms and Other Immersive Experience in the Library (Ellyssa Kroski)
  • The Art of Gathering (Priya Parker)
  • Literacies in Action (Pennsylvania Library Association)
  • Groups, Troops, Clubs, & Classrooms: The Essential Handbook for Working with Youth (Susan Ragsdale and Ann Saylor)
  • The Art of Community (Charles H. Vogl)
  • Young Activists and the Public Library (Virginia A. Walter)

PROGRAMMING – ADULTS

  • A Year of Programs for Millennials and More (Amy Alessio)
  • Book Club Reboot (Sarah Ostman)

PROGRAMMING – CHILDREN

  • Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library (ASLC)
  • Baby Steps to STEM (Jean Barbre)
  • Gardening Labs for Kids (Renata Fossen Brown)
  • Big Science for Little People: 52 Activities to Help You & Your Child Discover the Wonders of Science (Lynn Brunelle)
  • Supercharged Storytimes (Kathleen Campana)
  • Maker Lab Outdoors: 25 Super Cool Projects (Jack Challoner)
  • Brain Lab for Kids: 52 Mind-Blowing Experiments, Models, and Activities to Explore Neuroscience (Eric H. Chudler)
  • 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids (Asia Citro)
  • Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children (Lisa Daly)
  • Loose Parts 2 (Lisa Daly)
  • Mother Goose on the Loose: Updated (Betsy Diamant-Cohen)
  • Mother Goose on the Loose: Here, There, and Everywhere (Betsy Diamant-Cohen)
  • Books in Motion (Julie Dietzel-Glair)
  • Nonfiction in Motion (Julie Dietzel-Glair)
  • Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors (Rachelle Doorley)
  • The Movie Making Book: Skills & Projects to Learn & Share (Dan Farrell)
  • Becoming a Media Mentor (Claudia Haines)
  • Creative Block Play (Rosanne Regan Hansel)
  • Wonder Art Workshop (Sally Haughey)
  • Energy Lab for Kids: 40 Exciting Experiments to Explore, Create, Harness, and Unleash Energy (Emily Hawbaker)
  • Playful Learning Lab for Kids (Claire Heffron and Lauren Drobnjak)
  • STEAM Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Hands-On Projects for Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (Liz Lee Heinecke)
  • Making and Tinkering with STEM (Cate Heroman)
  • Artsy Toddler Storytimes (Carol Garnett Hopkins)
  • 36 Workshops to Get Kids Writing: from Aliens to Zebras (AnnMarie Hurtado)
  • Where’s the Math? (Mary Hynes-Berry)
  • Ultimate Slime (Alyssa Jagan)
  • Cool Creations in 35 Pieces (Lego) (Sean KEnney)
  • 25 Projects for Art Explorers (Christine Kirker)
  • 25 Projects for Global Explorers (Christine Kirker)
  • Engaging Babies in the Library (Debra Knoll)
  • Seamless Youth Services for Every Age and Stage (Karis Loop)
  • Baby Storytime Magic (Kathy MacMillan)
  • What’s the BIG Idea? Making Math and Science Come Alive for Children and Families in Your Library (Mother Goose on the Loose)
  • More than Counting: Standards-Based Math Activities for Young Thinkers in Preschool and Kindergarten (Sally Moomaw)
  • More than Magnets: Science Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten (Sally Moomaw)
  • Even More Fizzle, Bubble, Pop & Wow! (Lisa Murphy)
  • Lisa Murphy on Play: The Foundation of Children’s Learning (Lisa Murphy – the Ooey Gooey Lady)
  • Diversity Programming for Digital Youth: Promoting Cultural Competence in the Children’s Library (Jamie Campbell Naidoo)
  • Show Me a Story: 40 Craft Projects and Activities to Spark Children’s Storytelling (Emily Neuberger)
  • Picture Science: Using Digital Photography to Teach Young Children (Carla Neumann-Hinds)
  • Math Labs for Kids (Rebecca Rapoport and J.A. Yoder)
  • Lifelong Kindergarten (Mitchel Resnick)
  • After-School Clubs for Kids: Thematic Programming to Encourage Reading (Lisa M. Shaia)
  • STEAM Kids (Anne Carey)
  • Family Math (Jean Kerr Stenmark)
  • The Power of Play; Designing Early Learning Spaces (Dorothy Stoltz)
  • Engaging Young Engineers (Angela Stone-MacDonald)
  • Art Workshops for Children (Herve Tullet)
  • Wordplay for Kids (Tim Wadham)
  • The Ramped-Up Read Aloud (Maria P. Walther)
  • Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture and Preventing Bias in Early Childhood (Stacey York)

PROGRAMMING – TEENS

  • 50+ Fandom Programs: Planning Festivals and Events for Tweens, Teens, and Adults (Amy Alessio)
  • Club Programs for Teens (Amy J. Alessio and Heather Booth)
  • The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services (Heather Booth)
  • Putting Teens First in Library Services (Linda W. Braun and Shannon Peterson, ed.)
  • LGTBQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for All (Christina H. Dorr and Liz Deskins)
  • Family Math, the Middle School Years (Virginia H. Thompson)
  • Mental Health First Aid USA: For Adults Assisting Young People (Youth Mental Health First Aid)