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The Library

A Fragile History

by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen ...

A history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.**“Engaging [and] ambitious” —**The Washington PostFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children’s drawings—the history of the library is rich, ... Read more

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A history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.**“Engaging [and] ambitious” —**The Washington PostFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children’s drawings—the history of the library is rich,
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Reference and Information Services

An Introduction

Edited by Melissa A. Wong, Laura Saunders ...

Series series Library and Information Science Text Series
Written as a textbook for LIS students taking reference courses, this fully updated and revised seventh edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction also serves as a helpful handbook for practitioners to refamiliarize themselves with particular types and formats of sources and to refresh their knowledge on specific service topics.The first section grounds the rest of the textbook ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Written as a textbook for LIS students taking reference courses, this fully updated and revised seventh edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction also serves as a helpful handbook for practitioners to refamiliarize themselves with particular types and formats of sources and to refresh their knowledge on specific service topics.The first section grounds the rest of the textbook
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Constructing Grounded Theory

by Kathy Charmaz ...

Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
This is the definitive guide to doing constructivist grounded theory.From gathering rich data and conducting interviews, to undertaking coding and writing up your study, this down-to-earth book guides you through all the steps you need to do grounded theory research.This revised third edition:Showcases 9 new case studies of grounded theory research in action from scholars across the globe, ... Read more

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This is the definitive guide to doing constructivist grounded theory.From gathering rich data and conducting interviews, to undertaking coding and writing up your study, this down-to-earth book guides you through all the steps you need to do grounded theory research.This revised third edition:Showcases 9 new case studies of grounded theory research in action from scholars across the globe,
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The Black Librarian in America

Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening

Edited by Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Nichelle M. Hayes, Ana Ndumu, Shaundra Walker ...

The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black Librarian in America volumes.While previous editions we organized around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic sections”:A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian HistoryCelebrating Collective and Individual IdentityBlack Librarians across SettingsMoving Forward: ... Read more

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The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black Librarian in America volumes.While previous editions we organized around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic sections”:A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian HistoryCelebrating Collective and Individual IdentityBlack Librarians across SettingsMoving Forward:
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Swarna/स्वर्णा

Swarna/स्वर्णा

by Rajgopal/राजगोपाल Verma/वर्मा ...

स्वर्णा या “न’दीदी” यानि स्वर्णकुमारी देवी, जीवनपर्यंत साहित्यिक और सामाजिक प्रतिबद्धताओं के प्रति समर्पित रहीं। उन्होंने उपन्यास, कहानियाँ, व्यंग्य, नाटक, वैज्ञानिक लेख जैसी विविध विधाओं में लिखा। यह जीवनी ऐसी विलक्षण महिला के कार्यकलापों को जानने, चुनौतीपूर्ण समय में उनके रचनात्मक योगदानों को रेखाँकित कर, भारतीय समाज में, विशेषकर महिलाओं के उत्थान की गतिविधियों को सामने लाने का एक प्रयास है।स्त ... Read more

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स्वर्णा या “न’दीदी” यानि स्वर्णकुमारी देवी, जीवनपर्यंत साहित्यिक और सामाजिक प्रतिबद्धताओं के प्रति समर्पित रहीं। उन्होंने उपन्यास, कहानियाँ, व्यंग्य, नाटक, वैज्ञानिक लेख जैसी विविध विधाओं में लिखा। यह जीवनी ऐसी विलक्षण महिला के कार्यकलापों को जानने, चुनौतीपूर्ण समय में उनके रचनात्मक योगदानों को रेखाँकित कर, भारतीय समाज में, विशेषकर महिलाओं के उत्थान की गतिविधियों को सामने लाने का एक प्रयास है।स्त
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The Kind Librarian

Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries

by Helen Rimmer ...

The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries is a pioneering guide that addresses the critical need to foster kindness and wellbeing within library workplaces and promoting a more supportive and understanding working environment. In it, the author expertly blends the principles of positive psychology with practical strategies, making a compelling case for the ... Read more

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The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries is a pioneering guide that addresses the critical need to foster kindness and wellbeing within library workplaces and promoting a more supportive and understanding working environment. In it, the author expertly blends the principles of positive psychology with practical strategies, making a compelling case for the
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Library Services for Multicultural Patrons

Strategies to Encourage Library Use

Edited by Carol Smallwood, Kim Becnel ...

Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library types—school, public and academic. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons is by and for all libraries that are striving to provide multicultural services to match the growing diversity in the cultural background ... Read more

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Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library types—school, public and academic. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons is by and for all libraries that are striving to provide multicultural services to match the growing diversity in the cultural background
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Reference and Information Services

An Introduction, Fifth Edition

by Kay Ann Cassell, Uma Hiremath ...

From the ongoing flood of misinformation to the swift changes occasioned by the pandemic, a myriad of factors is spurring our profession to rethink reference services. Luckily, this classic text is back in a newly overhauled edition that thoughtfully addresses the evolving reference landscape. Designed to complement every introductory library reference course, Cassell and Hiremath's book also ... Read more

$43.99 USD

From the ongoing flood of misinformation to the swift changes occasioned by the pandemic, a myriad of factors is spurring our profession to rethink reference services. Luckily, this classic text is back in a newly overhauled edition that thoughtfully addresses the evolving reference landscape. Designed to complement every introductory library reference course, Cassell and Hiremath's book also
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Museum Space

Where Architecture Meets Museology

by Kali Tzortzi ...

Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can
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Freedom Libraries

The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South

by Mike Selby ...

Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South.As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water ... Read more

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Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South.As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water
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Doing digital history

A beginner’s guide to working with text as data

by Jonathan Blaney, Jane Winters, Sarah Milligan, Martin Steer ...

Series Book 4 - IHR Research Guides
This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how to approach data visualisation.Doing digital history covers the entire life-cycle of a digital project, from conception to digital outputs. It ... Read more

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This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how to approach data visualisation.Doing digital history covers the entire life-cycle of a digital project, from conception to digital outputs. It
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Teaching Online

A Practical Guide

by Susan Ko ...

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs ... Read more

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Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs
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Duchamp Is My Lawyer

The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb

by Kenneth Goldsmith ...

In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively obscure literary movement grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. Visitors around the world now have access to both ... Read more

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In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively obscure literary movement grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. Visitors around the world now have access to both
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From Library Volunteer to Library Advocate

Tapping into the Power of Community Engagement

by Carla Campbell Lehn ...

This guide will show you how to reinvigorate your library's volunteer program using your community as a resource.Volunteers are essential to a library's well-being, but running a volunteer program is a complicated task that could often be done so as to bring more benefit to your library. This book draws on the author's decades of experience in public libraries and the nonprofit arena, and on ... Read more

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This guide will show you how to reinvigorate your library's volunteer program using your community as a resource.Volunteers are essential to a library's well-being, but running a volunteer program is a complicated task that could often be done so as to bring more benefit to your library. This book draws on the author's decades of experience in public libraries and the nonprofit arena, and on
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Six Skills by Age Six

Launching Early Literacy at the Library

by Anna Foote, Bradley Debrick ...

This one-stop guide to nurturing six core early literacy skills at your library also offers practical tips for sharing these skills with parents, teachers, and other caregivers so they can institute them in playgroups, in school, or at home.Though libraries have been presenting early literacy activities for decades, library staff may lack an in-depth understanding of early literacy skills and ... Read more

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This one-stop guide to nurturing six core early literacy skills at your library also offers practical tips for sharing these skills with parents, teachers, and other caregivers so they can institute them in playgroups, in school, or at home.Though libraries have been presenting early literacy activities for decades, library staff may lack an in-depth understanding of early literacy skills and
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Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

by Christopher C. Brown ...

Updates the premier textbook for students and librarians needing to know the landscape of current databases and how to search them.Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of fee-based and freely available databases and explains how to teach them ... Read more

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Updates the premier textbook for students and librarians needing to know the landscape of current databases and how to search them.Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of fee-based and freely available databases and explains how to teach them
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Introduction to Information Science

by David Bawden, David Bawden, Lyn Robinson, Lyn Robinson ...

The second edition of this definitive text gives a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the subject, bringing it up-to-date with analysis of the changes in the information environment, now largely digital, and their implication for the discipline and professions. Its approach is rooted in the philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual foundations of the subject and in particular in Floridi's ... Read more

$59.99 USD

The second edition of this definitive text gives a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the subject, bringing it up-to-date with analysis of the changes in the information environment, now largely digital, and their implication for the discipline and professions. Its approach is rooted in the philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual foundations of the subject and in particular in Floridi's
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Library Marketing Basics

by Mark Aaron Polger ...

Here is an accessible, step-by-step, easy to understand, and hands-on resource for any librarian who is interested in learning basic marketing tips to raise the profile of their library. While other books on library marketing are dense and assume that the library has a full-time marketing staff person, a publicist, a graphic designer, and a big fat budget., this book offers tips and tricks (often ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Here is an accessible, step-by-step, easy to understand, and hands-on resource for any librarian who is interested in learning basic marketing tips to raise the profile of their library. While other books on library marketing are dense and assume that the library has a full-time marketing staff person, a publicist, a graphic designer, and a big fat budget., this book offers tips and tricks (often
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Young Adult Literature in Action

A Librarian's Guide

by Rose Brock ...

Series series Library and Information Science Text Series
Taking a genre approach, this overview of young adult literature shows new librarians and library science students the criteria to use for selecting quality books, including recommended titles.This third edition of Young Adult Literature in Action draws on the success of the previous two editions authored by Rosemary Chance, updating and expanding on them to meet the needs of today's librarians ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Taking a genre approach, this overview of young adult literature shows new librarians and library science students the criteria to use for selecting quality books, including recommended titles.This third edition of Young Adult Literature in Action draws on the success of the previous two editions authored by Rosemary Chance, updating and expanding on them to meet the needs of today's librarians
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Digital Archetypes

Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

by Sambit Datta, David Beynon ...

Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into
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Managing Knowledge in Project Environments

by Judy Payne, Eileen Roden, Steve Simister ...

Series series Fundamentals of Project Management
Managing Knowledge in Project Environments illustrates how knowledge management (KM) contributes to successful project work. KM is widely practised in project environments, but managers don’t always recognise the knowledge aspects of their work and tend to treat KM as a series of specific activities rather than a way of making project work produce better outcomes in different contexts.To overcome ... Read more

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Managing Knowledge in Project Environments illustrates how knowledge management (KM) contributes to successful project work. KM is widely practised in project environments, but managers don’t always recognise the knowledge aspects of their work and tend to treat KM as a series of specific activities rather than a way of making project work produce better outcomes in different contexts.To overcome
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Curating Access

Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Edited by Amanda Cachia ...

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and ... Read more

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and
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Information Services Today

An Introduction

Edited by Sandra Hirsh ...

This third edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services today and the need to re-evaluate curriculum, competency training, professional development, and lifelong learning in order to stay abreast of current trends and issues, and more significantly, remain competent to address the changing user needs of information ... Read more

$60.99 USD

This third edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services today and the need to re-evaluate curriculum, competency training, professional development, and lifelong learning in order to stay abreast of current trends and issues, and more significantly, remain competent to address the changing user needs of information
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Library: An Unquiet History

An Unquiet History

by Matthew Battles ...

"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore SunOn the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray ... Read more

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"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore SunOn the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray
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