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“marylaine block”

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  • The Thriving Library: Successful Strategies for Challenging Times

    by Marylaine Block ...
    Here is a highly readable guide to strategies and projects that have helped more than 100 public libraries gain community support and funding during challenging times. Marylaine Block integrates survey responses from innovative library directors with her research, analysis, and extended interviews to showcase hundreds of winning programs and services. The result is a rich source of ideas and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quintessential Searcher

    The Wit and Wisdom of Barbara Quint

    Edited by Marylaine Block ...
    Searcher magazine editor Barbara Quint (bq) is not only one of the world's most famous online searchers, but the most creative and controversial writer, editor, and speaker to emerge from the information industry in the last two decades. bq is a guru of librarians and database professionals the world over, and, as her readers, publishers, and "quarry" know, when it comes to barbed wit she is in a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Net Effects

    How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet

    Edited by Marylaine Block ...
    The Internet is a mixed blessing for libraries and librarians. On the one hand, it provides opportunities to add services and expand collections; on the other, it has increased user expectations and contributed to techno stress. Today, the Net is challenging librarians ability to select, threatening the survival of the book, necessitating continuous retraining, presenting new problems of access ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Feeding the Mind

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  • The Librarian's Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud

    by Steven Ovadia ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research. The Librarian's Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud is a practical guide to using cloud services from a librarian's point of view. As well as discussing how to use various cloud-based services, the title considers the various privacy and data portability issues associated with web-based services. This book helps readers ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Introduction to Scientific Publishing

    Backgrounds, Concepts, Strategies

    by Andreas Öchsner ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
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  • Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists

    Using Open Source Software

    Edited by Martin Wegmann, Benjamin Leutner, Stefan Dech ...
    Series series Data in the Wild
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  • Distributed Learning

    Pedagogy and Technology in Online Information Literacy Instruction

    Edited by Tasha Maddison, Maha Kumaran ...
    The field of distributed learning is constantly evolving. Online technology provides instructors with the flexibility to offer meaningful instruction to students who are at a distance or in some cases right on campus, but still unable to be physically present in the classroom. This dynamic environment challenges librarians to monitor, learn, adapt, collaborate, and use new technological advances ... Read more

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  • Information Pathways

    A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy

    by Crystal Fulton ...
    With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital to the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as in public administration and private enterprise. Information Pathways: A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy is designed to serve as a textbook for courses that address the need of college students to develop a basic knowledge of the ... Read more

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  • Fractional Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization

    Applications and Evaluation of an Evolutionary Algorithm

    by Micael Couceiro, Pedram Ghamisi ...
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  • Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries

    by Ellis Mount ...
    Required reading for any librarian who has been asked to identify standards and specifications, this unique new book highlights the importance of standards in many sci-tech libraries. Collections of standards in sci-tech libraries encompass a great variety--from the most narrow subject fields, to those covering many, and from collections of American standards only, to those with an international ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD