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Obtaining funding to maintain and grow library services and resources has always been a challenge. Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices brings together a wealth of information from public, academic, special, and school libraries who share their successful approaches to raising funds through traditional and non-traditional methods.

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This book provides the tools necessary to put together successful summer reading programs for each of four different age groups. It also helps librarians to simplify their summer reading programs in order to minimize preparation time and maximize patron enjoyment.

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Energize your library summer reading program with this new approach that involves all ages, and rekindles the desire for children and families to read together for recreation, pleasure, and their own curiosity.

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This book will help Library Support Staff (LSS) understand, support, and apply the basic principles of library supervision and management in their work on the topics of regulations and bylaws hiring, staff performance expectations, leadership and professional learning.

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This book will help Library Support Staff (LSS) understand, support, and apply the basic principles of library supervision and management in their work on the topics of regulations and bylaws hiring, staff performance expectations, leadership and professional learning.

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This book examines the cultural, political, and social implications of surfing and street skateboarding by drawing on critical cultural studies, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, urban sociology, and poststructuralist theory to analyze and render everyday performances as critical theoretical gestures.

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A guide to the survey research literature of the 1990s, with 617 annotations averaging over 200 words each, and with a 20-page subject index. Annotations include examples from business, criminology, education, health and medicine, law, social work, mass media, psychology, and more.

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A major international collaboration between artists, art historians, curators and policy makers, this collection shows how visual art can play a crucial role in forging a more sustainable community for the Caribbean and its diaspora. -- .

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Sustainable development has been approached from many viewpoints over the past 15 years without a concise or precise definition of what sustainable development really stands for.

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Primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review, which has the advantage over the traditional narrative review in its ability to identify all the available evidence in a systematic and replicable manner. This book describes the key steps to undertaking a systematic review.

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Rational and methodical, systems analysis has been used successfully by business, industry, and research organizations. This new edition employs basic elements from the business world to show users how to apply systems analysis effectively to any library setting.

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Systems Thinking in Museums explores the practical implication of systems thinking using real-life museum examples to illuminate stages of implementation and the challenges and opportunities. It suggests ways to incorporate systems thinking based on reflective questions and steps to encourage museum professionals to employ it in their own museum.

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Systems Thinking in Museums explores the practical implication of systems thinking using real-life museum examples to illuminate stages of implementation and the challenges and opportunities. It suggests ways to incorporate systems thinking based on reflective questions and steps to encourage museum professionals to employ it in their own museum.

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In five decades, Taiwan has shifted from an authoritarian regime to a multi-party democracy, has moved steadily toward modernization, and has become an economically affluent, socially pluralistic society.

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Library professionals teach every day in the sense that they show patrons where to find books or how to use computers. Increasingly, however, library users just don't have the time to attend face-to-face workshops in advance of needs that they may have. They want to know the...

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This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inherited.