A new updated edition of this popular guide to conservation education, concentrating largely on techniques and discussing why, when, and how to develop education materials and implement effective programs.

In Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration, Peggy Keeran and Carrie Forbes bring together a variety of ways academic libraries are engaging with their communities through outreach, with creativity and the spirit of collaboration as major themes throughout. As a compendium of best practices, it serves as a resource for academic librarians to discover new programming ideas, to learn principles of effective marketing, and to help them think strategically and programmatically about outreach activities of all types. Topics are presented in four sections: Strategic Vision and Planning Developing and Implementing Successful Programs Community Outreach: The Academic Library in the Community Broadening Library Outreach Audiences Practitioners designing outreach programs and activities will benefit from learning about a diverse set of outreach practices from libraries.

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 448: State Department of Transportation Small Business Programs identifies successful strategies that maximize Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program achievements through race-neutral measures." -- Publisher's description.

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