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This guide provides the historical background of traditional and modern libraries and librarianship in India. It focuses, chapter by chapter, on various types of libraries including national libraries, academic libraries, school libraries, and special...

This book explores the impact of the nativist movement on public library usage among Latino and Asian immigrants. The activism of concerned librarians within the California Library Association to defend the rights of immigrant library users after the...

This study effectively addresses the question: What was the involvement of the American public library community in The Great War? A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of public library history prior to World War I, touching on such topics...

Today's rapidly evolving information-based society demands that public libraries implement planned, proactive, and innovative change to meet patron needs. Rapid, widespread, and substantive change and innovation in public librarianship depends on the...

This book consists of Buhler's lectures on the theory, objectives, and methods of bibliography. It is an important contribution to a formulation of acceptable bibliographic standards.Book InformationISBN 9780837167961Author Curt Ferdinand BuhlerFormat...

This comprehensive reference provides citations for more than 700 resources essential for planning, funding, initiating, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating a broad range of formal and informal older adult education programs. The work includes...

This volume is specifically designed to assist the library media specialist in developing skills for project proposal writing. Blanche Woolls meticulously covers all steps, from developing an idea, finding a source of funding, writing and submitting a...

Contributions from leading rare book curators concerning the different needs and problems companion to rare book collections.Book InformationISBN 9780313232268Author Horace Richard ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Praeger Publishers...

This volume presents a perspective on programs and policies designed to enhance the development of local and regional economics. The primary purpose is to provide an overview to assist economic development organizations in implementing competitive...

"A publication of The Book report & Library talk professional growth series."Book InformationISBN 9780938865841Author Christine AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Linworth Publishing, IncorporatedPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book contains 20 themes that relate directly to literature, social studies, science, math, art, and music curriculum. Each theme recommends activities and books for further study. 14 focus picture books include summaries of books and ideas and...

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Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book ^IDouble Fold^R, by destroying traditional books, newspapers, and other paper-based collections. Baker's powerful and persuasive book is wrong and...

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Librarians develop myths to explain themselves to society and to generate support for their profession. Since the last quarter of the 19th century, the prevailing myth has been the myth of the library as place. Confronted with social change, librarians...

The purpose of this book is to examine the library and the librarian as they communicate with their raison d'etre, the user. Drawing from several literatures--those of communication, information theory, philosophy and linguistics--John M. Budd furthers...

Veit, a veteran university librarian and authority in information science, presents a brief descriptive account of the historical development and current state of presidential libraries and collections in the US. Not intended as a piece of original...

This thought-provoking book identifies the limits of the field of information science, and thus raises very real problems of the discipline in the context of people using, misusing, and abusing information. S. D. Neill provides many examples of the uses...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313213984Author Charles R. McClureFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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...

The first edition of Ellis Mount's University Science and Engineering Libraries pioneered in this specialized branch of library service. This new edition covers all aspects of science and technical libraries at both colleges and universities. Problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorr /f J. /i M.Book InformationISBN 9780837189369Author J. OrrFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837151618Author Robert E. CoughlinFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837185873Author Daniel GoreFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMont /f Rosemary /i RuhigBook InformationISBN 9780837195407Author Rosemary R. DumontFormat HardbackPage Count 153Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorchen /f ManfredBook InformationISBN 9780837163840Author Manfred KochenFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

With easy-to-follow tutorial guides, this book is your one-stop-shop for implementing creative activities for all ages on social bookmarking tools. Focusing on ways social bookmarking can impact academic and public libraries and increase collaborations...

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Pascal Programming for Libraries is a practical introduction to computer programming designed specifically for library and information center applications. A graded text, this book provides detailed examples of straightforward programs, each fully...

This selected bibliography is a compilation of the professional literature of children's services librarianship from 1876 to 1976. It explores the evolution of children's work and of the major developments, trends, innovations, and practices that evolved...

The purpose of this book is to help librarians overcome the problem of stereotypes by explaining how such stereotypes are created and perpetuated, and how they can be defused. Author Pauline Wilson begins with an overview of stereotyping in general, and...

Searching through a resource collection for a particular type of visual image yields little more than frustration if the user lacks the knowledge of the specialized concepts that are the key to the collection's system of classification. With Karen...

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Includes learning concepts that meet national standards for media literacy information overload! With the increased access to all kinds of information, processing it can be overwhelming. This book goes beyond basic reading and writing skills and promotes...

Bring new visibility to your school library media program and promote its strengths to all its constituencies. Learn how to teach video production as a communications tool. Use video-making to encourage reading, writing, and research and for school news...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313207228Author Charles B. OsburnFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163406Author Vernon E. PalmourFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586831486Author Claire MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 47Imprint Linworth Publishing, IncorporatedPublisher ABC-CLIO