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From master storyteller and storytimes creator Reid comes this delightful assortment of activities ready for use by children's librarians, elementary-level media specialists, and early childhood instructors. Reid's bountiful compendium of his "greatest...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881804244Author Patricia Hoerth BatchelderFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Assessing Learners unpacks a complex and critical area of school library instruction aligned to the National School Library Standards. Readers will be able to appropriately select or design assessment tools to measure learner understanding and growth. As...

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Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies. But can their opposition be justified? Or is it just a way to detract attention from serious shortcomings in reference service? How can government documents...

This book is an exploration of, not an explanation of, information (in its recorded form), and the keepers of those records, the librarians. It presents a model of the way in which recorded messages are generated by and used by people, and it discusses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorllisch /f Jean /i B.Book InformationISBN 9780837173344Format HardbackPage Count 349Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorre /f DanielBook InformationISBN 9780837198811Author Daniel GoreFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

By placing its professional expertise in the service of maintaining the democratic values of free expression and pluralism, American librarianship not only defended its professional autonomy in the area of book selection, but also developed an ideology...

The Cordell Collection of Dictionaries is the world's largest, with over 5100 pre-1901 titles and several thousand more from the twentieth century. A short-title catalog and a compilation of English-language holdings for the pre-1901 materials have been...

Since the early 20th century, American academic libraries have collected and championed rare and unique non-circulating materials now referred to as special collections. Because of the rarity and value of these materials, they are handled differently...

Access Services departments in libraries have become highly complex organizations responsible for a broad range of functions, often including circulation, reserves, interlibrary lending and borrowing, document delivery, stacks maintenance, building...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 5.6 million people are seeking for new job opportunities since April 2024. Libraries can play an important role in supporting job seekers through several ways. Career Services and Workforce...

Persuasive attacks have captured public interest for centuries. Public attacks uniquely span the range from high level politics to celebrity antics. Each context highlights totally different harmful behaviors, yet key strategies are employed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610678230Author Heather AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Kane/Miller Book PublishersPublisher Kane/Miller Book PublishersWeight(grams)...

The demand to decolonise the curriculum has moved from a protest movement at the margins to the centre of many institutions, as reflected by its inclusion in policies and strategies and numerous initiatives in libraries and archives that have responded...

Straightforward and practical guidance for library and information workers in all sectors who are involved in training users, colleagues or other groups. In order to make an impact with their customers, library staff must be well trained and up-to-date...

Drawing on the authors' experience gained from library projects around the world, this book charts a readable path through everything from the planning of a new library, major refurbishment, or a remodelling of a current library. It clearly explains...

Debora Hammond's The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five...

Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan, academic librarians have been inundated with requests from faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313219900Author John RizzoFormat HardbackPage Count 339Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The importance of records in modern society is explored by re-examining some of the historical antecedents for critical functions in the modern records professions. The motivation for writing this book comes from a conviction of the importance of records...

From 1876 to 1924-a period of free immigration-the mission of the American public library in its work with immigrants was to Americanize the immigrants by teaching them English and preparing them for citizenship. From 1924 to 1948-a period of restricted...

The free exchange of ideas is central to any democracy, and libraries are central to the free exchange of ideas. Hafner examines many of the issues at the heart of the library's role in a democratic society and demonstrates the practical importance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPeter Hernon is professor of library and information science at Simmons College, Boston, MA. He is the author of 50 books, including Library Unlimited's Viewing...

. . . frustrated philosophers everywhere-especially epistemologists-will enjoy this work. It is written by someone who appreciates the occasional nuances afforded by languages other than English. Moreover, it has a handy list of references, a serviceable...

This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, ^IReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In^R. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the status of the field and then by raising questions for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893915896Author Rao AluriFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Service quality is an issue separate from internal observations of effectiveness and efficiency, and cannot adequately be conveyed by output and performance measures. Considerations of service quality require librarians to regard management and the...

This is the first booklength study of women in library education. The authors set out to examine the dynamic social processes and significant relationships--such as mentioning--that have shaped the aspirations and career goals of women faculty in library...

At the end of the 20th century, college and university libraries face enormous challenges and opportunities. As campuses move into the information age, the mission and role of the library is being redefined. While the amount of information libraries need...

This book provides a general discussion beneficial to librarians and library school students, and demonstrates the steps of the research process, decisions made in the selection of a statistical technique, how to program a computer to perform number...

^I a work that provides such a comprehensive reassessment of Information Retrieval (IR) theory, with regards to the user-oriented model. - Journal of the American Society for Information ScienceBook InformationISBN 9781567503050Author Carol A. HertFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567501223Author Holly G. WillettFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book provides an overview of organizational decision making and the use of information in the process. In addition, it draws on original empirical work to establish general principles for design of information systems, which are tuned to the way...

Evaluation, which is a critical component of the planning process, assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of library programs and services in the context of stated goals and objectives. This book views evaluation as a type of research study in which...

The organizational world today has been characterized in various terms - turmoil, chaos, the age of paradox and unreason. Common to all these characterizations is that the conventional wisdom fails in responding to novel challenges triggered by the...

This book is directed toward graduate students who are preparing to become, or already serving as, school library media specialists. It reflects the rapidly changing questions being asked in school library media research, as well as the methods of...

This book chronicles the attitudes of librarians toward technological innovations that took place between 1860 and 1960. These years saw the invention and subsequent diffusion of electricity, photography, the telephone, the phonograph, motion pictures,...