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Scottish castles and Tower Houses evolved as fortified dwellings that were erected in an environment of weak royal authority and feuding between rival clans. This book examines these castles and Tower Houses, focusing on their distinctive style that flourished in Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Fidel Castro's triumphant march into Havana on January 8, 1959 signaled the end to Cuba's old order and the beginning of a new era. This one-stop guide to the Cuban revolution analyzes Castro's drive to oust Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

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This work, part of the "German Library" series, contains translations of two major works by Gunter Grass: "Cat and Mouse" and "The Meeting at Telgte". The book also includes a political essay by Grass.

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The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. This book describes the fighting at the Catalaunian Fields and reveals the broader campaign of Hunnic incursion that led up to it.

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Whether you're a practicing cataloger looking for a short text to update you on the application of RDA to cataloging records or a school librarian who needs a quick resource to answer cataloging questions, this guide is for you.

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A short title catalog and a compflation of English-language holdings for the pre-1901 materials have been published previously, but here, for the first time, is an extensive conflated listing which interfiles foreign and English-language materials, and gives access to holdings through a date index, a language index, and a subject guide.

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An extensive list of works cited is followed by five indexes providing access to the material in the catalog by first line of text, Billings's anthem titles, text sources, musical form (tune types), and musical incipits.

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This exploration and comparison of the approaches of America's RLIN and Israel's ALEPH bibliographic networks closes with an analysis of the potential for exchanging Hebrew bibliographic data and a forecast of the implication of automation for the future of Hebrew cataloging worldwide.

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Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction, Second Edition will instruct library support staff to become proficient catalogers. This revised text is aimed specifically for library support staff and purposefully aligned with the ALA Library Support Staff Certification competency standards for Cataloging and Classification.

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Cataloging Library Resources: An Introduction, Second Edition will instruct library support staff to become proficient catalogers. This revised text is aimed specifically for library support staff and purposefully aligned with the ALA Library Support Staff Certification competency standards for Cataloging and Classification.

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Provides a variety of exercises on MARC cataloging, Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR), authority control, subject headings (LCSH and Sears List of Subject Headings), classification (Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal), and nonbook cataloging (computer files, sound recordings, video recordings, maps, and kits).

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Not surprisingly, such materials constitute an increasingly vital part of any library's collection, and a particular and ongoing challenge to its catalogers.

For over two decades, Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials and Other Special Materials has served as the place to go for catalogers of nonprint materials around the world.

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Offers solutions to the problems of recruiting and training cataloguing librarians. Topics discussed include training strategies, the impact of library computer systems and the librarian's response to changing methods of organization in order to create good library service.

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Overall, this catalogue contains more than five times as many entries of different English translations as two other Bible bibliographies, those by Hill and Herbert, combined.

The entries are grouped in 151 categories, and within each category entries are listed in chronological order.

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Compiled as a tool for re-educating the population of the three western zones of Occupation, this catalog lists 395 features, feature-length documentaries, and short films that were forbidden for public exhibition.

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The Rotterdam City Library contains the world's largest collection of works by and about Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536), perhaps Rotterdam's most famous son.

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Catalyst for Change contains reflections of veteran educators who write about the evolution, successes and challenges, and lessons theyve faced for current educators to tackle current educational challenges.

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Catalyst for Change contains reflections of veteran educators who write about the evolution, successes and challenges, and lessons theyve faced for current educators to tackle current educational challenges.

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Examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the UNs most important human rights mechanisms - the collection of independent experts known as special procedures - as they negotiate the rocky terrain where rights meet reality. This book provides concrete evidence of why the system works and ways it can be improved.