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Learn about the world of today's teens and how to communicate with this very important segment of your library's audience. The essential elements of building teen collection and reader's advisory services are presented with ideas for creating a teen friendly library.

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Weeding is a perennial challenge for librarians. This book will help you rise to the task by offering you basic instructions, including information on new formats and digital collections.

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Learn how to improve teen services in public libraries by better understanding teen development and having positive interactions with teens to provide appropriate and interesting collections and services.

A library can be a tremendous resource for teensone that helps them to learn about themselves and the world they live in.

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Here is a practical handbook for school librarians who seek to create an active, energetic, and imaginative school environment with literacy as its focus.

Creating a Culture of Literacy: Programming Ideas for Elementary School Librarians is an essential guide for elementary school librarians.

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This guide contains all the information the network novice needs to plan, fund, create, and maintain a LAN in the media center.

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As prices of traditional library materials increase, and space to house them shrinks, savvy school library media specialists are creating cyber libraries, or school libraries on the Internet.

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Using this guide, teachers and media specialists can help their students increase their visual literacy, particularly media literacy and information literacy.

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A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.

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This book shows you how, even with a tight budget and limited space, you can foster "maker mentality" in your library and help patrons reap the learning benefits of makingwith or without a makerspace.

Just because your library is small or limited on funds doesn't mean you can't be part of the maker movement.

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In order for libraries to respond to this challenge they must become agile in their adaptation of new technologies to meet the ever-changing needs and expectations of their users.

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Presents an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes This book asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, and whether 'globalized' culture is dumbing down societies everywhere.

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This book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to public engagement and research communication. -- .

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Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on tests-they must be creative thinkers and problem solvers. The tools in this book will help teachers and parents start students on the path to becoming innovative, successful individuals in the 21st century workforce.

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Chapters devoted to crimes against the elderly focus on criminal justice issues, criminal victimization of the elderly, the fear of crime on the part of the elderly, the abuse and neglect of the elderly, crime prevention, and victim assistance.

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The scarcity of statistical data for earlier historical periods and the relative inaccessibility of widely scattered source materials have created difficulties for scholars attempting to focus on the patterns of American crime.

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Classified under eight broad subject headings, materials cover the criminal justice system, crime and criminals, law enforcement, the courts, corrections, juvenile justice, security, and special resources.

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Constant developments in information technology are creating fundamental changes in librarianship. Chapters in this section consider such topics as the neutrality of technology, information technology and censorship, the role of computers in education, and the sometimes critical views of scientists on technology.