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Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges andAuthor: Adrianne Hartsell-GundyPublisher: Assoc of College & Research LibrariesPublished: 03/01/2015Pages: 287Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9780838987674Review Citation(s): Library Journal 06/15/2015 pg. 101Choice 02/01/2016This title is only available via back order
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Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work TogetherThis excellent volume examines the relationship between archives and libraries and how archivists and librarians can work together. It surveys basic archival concepts, policies, and best practices for librarians and library directors, in addition to how archivists working in libraries can describe their work...
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Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and InclusionThe impulse to create archives is rooted in the very human need to leave one's mark on the world. Whether through letters, diaries, reports, photographs, films, or a teenager's simple need to scrawl "I was here" on a subway wall, there's a deep desire...
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Financial Management for LibrariesPresenting financial management principles and best practices applicable to both public and academic libraries, this comprehensive text elucidates a broad array of issues crucial for those entering a managerial position. Both thorough and straightforward, Sannwald's treatment gives readers a solid grounding in the basics...
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Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Principles and PracticeToday's emphasis on metrics and personalization make evidence-based instruction an imperative. In this practice-based handbook, the authors draw on the research of the humanistic psychologist and educator Carl Rogers to present an empathetic approach to information literacy sessions, reference service, and outreach. With an...
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Moving Your Library: Getting the Collection from Here to ThereAuthor and experienced mover Steven Carl Fortriede has everything you need to get the job done quickly and efficiently with step-by-step directions, diagrams, spreadsheets, and photos.Author: Steven Carl FortriedePublisher: ALA EditionsPublished: 10/12/2009Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.50dISBN: 9780838909942Review Citation(s): Reference...
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Small Public Library ManagementThose at the helm of a small public library know that every little detail counts. But juggling the responsibilities that are part and parcel of the job is far from easy. Finally, here's a handbook that includes everything administrators need to keep a handle...
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Complete Copyright for K-12 Librarians and EducatorsSchool librarians and educators have specific copyright questions that are often glossed over in larger books on the subject. Now, thanks to best-selling copyright authority Carrie Russell, there's a resource just for them, offering clear guidance for providing materials to students while carefully observing...
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Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries and LibrarianshipLibrarianship as a calling is a powerful perspective. Many librarians sense the deeper meaning and higher purpose in their work, yet rarely have time to contemplate it. Maxwell's down-to-earth candor combined with scholarly insight is designed to inspire and enlighten her library peers and...
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The Library's Guide to Graphic NovelsThe circ stats say it all: graphic novels' popularity among library users keeps growing, with more being published (and acquired by libraries) each year. The unique challenges of developing and managing a graphics novels collection have led the Association of Library Collections and Technical...
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Serving Patrons with Disabilities: Perspectives and Insights from People with DisabilitiesEnsuring accessibility is more important than ever; however, answering questions of what needs to be done and why to make a library accessible can be an uncomfortable and daunting hurdle to true inclusion. This book is a safe, nonjudgmental tool for overcoming this awkwardness,...
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Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of CommunicationWhat signals are you sending when you share the gospel? The importance of signs for communicating truth has been recognized throughout the ages. Crystal L. Downing traces this awareness from biblical texts, through figures from church history like John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to...
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Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the ClauseThis second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced in...
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Writing about Nature: A Creative GuideOriginally published by the Sierra Club in 1995, this handbook has already helped thousands of aspiring writers, scholars, and students share their experiences with nature and the outdoors. Using exercises and examples, John Murray covers genres, techniques, and publication issues. He uses examples from...
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Perspectives on Teaching Connected Speech to Second Language SpeakersA collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL and Japanese.Author: James Dean BrownPublisher: University of Hawaii PressPublished: 12/01/2006Pages: 291Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.79h x 7.04w x 0.67dISBN: 9780824831363
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Integrated Korean: Advanced Intermediate 1Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in MP3 format at http: //www.kleartextbook.com. A CD is also available for purchase. The Advanced Intermediate Level texts are the third of a five-level series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists...
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Standardization Essentials: Principles and PracticeThis ready reference surveys the discipline of standards and standardization, defining common terms, clarifying descriptions, describing how standards could be used to restrain trade, and explaining how international trade is stimulated by the due process provisions of standards writing organizations. Containing real-world examples provided...
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Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas AquinasIn Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by...
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Tasteful Domesticity: Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a...
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Available Means: An Anthology Of Women'S Rhetoric(s)"I say that even later someone will remember us."-Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho's writing...
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