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1992
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- Managing the One Person Library in Rural Northeastern Arizona. Rothlisberg, Allen P. Community Colleges Course Descriptions Library Administration Library Education Library Personnel Rural Areas Textbooks Two Year Colleges Northland Community College, which serves rurally isolated northeastern Arizona, offers a three-credit course for persons who are operating one-person libraries located throughout the area. Part of the library/media technology curriculum, the course covers: (1) library organization (duties and responsibilities of the library board and the librarian, library facilities, financing and budgeting, legal issues, insurance needs, library policies and procedures, self-management and time management techniques, and automation and networking strategies); (2) small library record keeping; (3) achieving success; (4) promoting the one-person library; and (5) types of small libraries (church, church music, law, business firm, medical, small historical museum or local historical society, and small public libraries). The course serves as a springboard for students to enter the program to work toward their Certificate of Applied Science or Associate of Applied Science degree in library/media technology. The two textbooks used provide practical down to earth suggestions for operating a one person library and class discussions and activities provide peer support in a variety of ways. (KRN)