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How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online

de Mike Caulfield, Sam Wineburg ...

An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump to thinking too fast, without taking a few moments to verify the source before engaging with a claim or viral piece of media. Information literacy expert Mike Caulfield and educational researcher Sam ... Leer más

$10.79 USD

An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump to thinking too fast, without taking a few moments to verify the source before engaging with a claim or viral piece of media. Information literacy expert Mike Caulfield and educational researcher Sam
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Online Searching

A Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and Effectively

de Karen Markey ...

Online Searching prepares students in library and information science programs to assist information seekers at all levels, from university faculty to elementary school students. Included in the third edition are interviews with librarians and other information professionals whose words of wisdom broaden graduate students’ perspectives regarding online searching in a variety of work settings ... Leer más

$49.99 USD

Online Searching prepares students in library and information science programs to assist information seekers at all levels, from university faculty to elementary school students. Included in the third edition are interviews with librarians and other information professionals whose words of wisdom broaden graduate students’ perspectives regarding online searching in a variety of work settings
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Collection Management Basics

de Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro, John Novak, G. Edward Evans ...

Series series Library and Information Science Text Series
This eighth edition offers students and working professionals the tools to manage the complex process of creating appropriate collections of resources for all types of libraries.Managing collections in today's environment is a challenging process. This eighth edition of the classic text on collection management covers all aspects of the management cycle from selection through deselection and ... Leer más

$55.99 USD

This eighth edition offers students and working professionals the tools to manage the complex process of creating appropriate collections of resources for all types of libraries.Managing collections in today's environment is a challenging process. This eighth edition of the classic text on collection management covers all aspects of the management cycle from selection through deselection and
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The Black Librarian in America

Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening

Edición de 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: ... Leer más

$42.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$2.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$53.99 USD

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

Edición de 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 ... Leer más

$89.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$43.19 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

de 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 ... Leer más

$55.99 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

de 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 ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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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Collins Rhyming Dictionary

de Rosalind Fergusson ...

If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a ... Leer más

$8.99 USD

If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a
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Teaching Online

A Practical Guide

de 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 ... Leer más

$63.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$46.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$42.09 USD

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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Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record

de Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, Juliya Ziskina ...

In today's digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history.The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of disappearing ... Leer más

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In today's digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history.The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of disappearing
... Leer más
Library Marketing Basics

de 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 ... Leer más

$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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Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library

Graphic Novels, Manga, and More

de Jack Phoenix ...

This unique guide offers fresh insights on how graphic novels and comics differ from traditional books and require different treatment in the library-from purchasing, shelving, and cataloging to readers' advisory services, programs, and curriculum.Challenging librarians to rethink some of their traditional practices, Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library provides creative and proven ... Leer más

$50.99 USD

This unique guide offers fresh insights on how graphic novels and comics differ from traditional books and require different treatment in the library-from purchasing, shelving, and cataloging to readers' advisory services, programs, and curriculum.Challenging librarians to rethink some of their traditional practices, Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library provides creative and proven
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Young Adult Literature in Action

A Librarian's Guide

de 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 ... Leer más

$55.09 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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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

de 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 ... Leer más

$41.99 USD

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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Media Smart

Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and other Information Professionals

de Joanna M. Burkhardt ...

Information has become one of the most crucial commodities in today’s world. From multinational corporations to single individuals, we all make critical decisions based on the information available to us. However, modern ease of access to information does not often guarantee access to good information. In this digital age, where facts can be easily manipulated to align with political, social or ... Leer más

$64.99 USD

Information has become one of the most crucial commodities in today’s world. From multinational corporations to single individuals, we all make critical decisions based on the information available to us. However, modern ease of access to information does not often guarantee access to good information. In this digital age, where facts can be easily manipulated to align with political, social or
... Leer más
Curating Access

Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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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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Library: An Unquiet History

An Unquiet History

de 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 ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

"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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