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  • The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America

    by Kim Becnel ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, however, it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques, reconceived ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • 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

    $89.99 USD

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    The New Social Operating System

    by Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman ...
    How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Foundations of Library and Information Science

    by Richard E. Rubin, Rachel G. Rubin ...
    Richard E. Rubin’s book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the myriad societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting our users and institutions and transforming our discipline. Rubin teams up with his daughter, Rachel G. Rubin, a rising star in the library ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ask, Listen, Empower

    Grounding Your Library Work in Community Engagement

    Edited by Mary Davis Fournier, Ostman Sarah ...
    Foreword by Tracie D. HallCommunity engagement isn’t simply an important component of a successful library—it’s the foundation upon which every service, offering, and initiative rests. Working collaboratively with community members—be they library customers, residents, faculty, students or partner organizations— ensures that the library works, period. This important resource from ALA’s Public ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Social Media

    Usage and Impact

    Edited by Hana S. Noor Al-Deen, John Allen Hendricks ...
    Within the past ten years, social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and others have grown at a tremendous rate, enlisting an astronomical number of users. Social media have inevitably become an integral part of the contemporary classroom, of advertising and public relations industries, of political campaigning, and of numerous other aspects of our daily existence.Social ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Facebook Democracy

    The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life

    by José Marichal ...
    In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little ... Read more

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  • Education and Social Media

    Toward a Digital Future

    Edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, Colin Agur ...
    Series series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
    Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The War on Learning

    Gaining Ground in the Digital University

    by Elizabeth Losh ...
    An examination of technology-based education initiatives—from MOOCs to virtual worlds—that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process.Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The New College Classroom

    by Cathy N. Davidson, Christina Katopodis ...
    Frederic W. Ness Book Award, American Association of Colleges and UniversitiesA Forbes Best Higher Education Book“A practical guide to more effective and engaged college teaching.”—Forbes“Everyone who teaches (or hopes to teach) college will find this book a provocative and stimulating source of ideas about how to make our classrooms more equitable, participatory and interactive.”—Steven Mintz, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • International Students and Academic Libraries

    A Survey of Issues and Annotated Bibliography

    by Diane E. Peters ...
    The growing emphasis on globalization in the context of higher education has resulted in changes in academic curricula, increasing numbers of global partnerships, and in more concentrated efforts to recruit international students at North American universities. This book focuses on the impact of these efforts on academic libraries. The introductory essay addresses issues faced by both ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Strategies from Library Leaders

    by Gwen Meyer Gregory ...
    The role of academic librarian is far from cut-and-dried. For starters, there are the numerous job classifications: staff or professional employment, full faculty status, various forms of tenure, continuing contract, and/or promotion through academic ranks. While every academic librarian works to meet the research needs of an institutions faculty and students, many are expected to assume other ... Read more

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