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Developing Librarian Competencies for the Digital Age identifies specific digital skills needed for success, ways of developing those skills, and ways of assessing them. This book identifies the crux of what it means to a librarian in the 21st century for library professionals at any stage in their career in any library setting.

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Developing Librarian Competencies for the Digital Age identifies specific digital skills needed for success, ways of developing those skills, and ways of assessing them. This book identifies the crux of what it means to a librarian in the 21st century for library professionals at any stage in their career in any library setting.

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This book uses shared experiences of women in academia to enrich the existing body of work on women and academic leadership with a focus on enhanced communication strategies. The focused and sustained leadership development discussed in this book can greatly benefit both experienced and inexperienced women in academia.

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This book uses shared experiences of women in academia to enrich the existing body of work on women and academic leadership with a focus on enhanced communication strategies. The focused and sustained leadership development discussed in this book can greatly benefit both experienced and inexperienced women in academia.

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From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic.

In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States.

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The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.

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The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.

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Distinguished experts on African development offer their considerable knowledge and background to the coming crisis in Africa. They examine not only development but also related factors such as foreign trade, politics, indigenous traditions, and international relations in order to understand development problems on the continent.

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An essential for technical services departments in all libraries, and has been updated to cover the changes introduced by the new edition of the DDC, which was published in August 2003. The study manual is used as a reference for the application of Dewey and is also suitable as a course text in Dewey.

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This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited.

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This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited.

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What began in 1994 as a five-page handout, the Dictionary of Library and Information Science soon was expanded and converted to electronic format for installation on the Western Connecticut State University Library Web site, where it is in high demand by library professionals, scholars, and students, and has won international praise.

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What began in 1994 as a five-page handout, the Dictionary of Library and Information Science soon was expanded and converted to electronic format for installation on the Western Connecticut State University Library Web site, where it is in high demand by library professionals, scholars, and students, and has won international praise.

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

This second supplement to DALB, the Dictionary of American Library Biography (1978), adds 77 notable, deceased members of the library and archival communities to the 302 entries in the main volume and the 51 entries in the first supplement (1990).

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Trying to identify abbreviated titles of journals and standard bibliographic works is a major difficulty facing researchers and librarians in the field of Classical Studies. Part One consists of an alphabetical listing of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines.

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This work is a compilation of about four thousand quotations on reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as related topics of advertising, business, computers, education, film, journalism, language, photography, public relations, rhetoric, television, and world communications.

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Joining the debate on gender differences, this book presents a cross-section of current research in communication, language, and gender studies. Examining what researchers mean by gender differences and values implicit in the term is critical to understanding current trends in gender studies.

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For the modern museum, managing growing digital collections is as essential as the stewardship of physical collections. This practical guide to the fundamentals of digital asset management (DAM) is intended to help museum practitioners meet their institutions unique DAM needs.

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Today's libraries are taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies such as flat panel displays using touch, sound, and hands-free motions to design amazing exhibits using everything from simple computer hardware to advanced technologies such as the Microsoft Kinect. Librarie...