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The United States is increasingly faced with the challenge of absorbing new immigrant groups and creating a tolerance for a plurality of cultures. This work argues that, as plurality grows, libraries need to be truly representative of the pluralistic populations that they serve.

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Learn how to use rotating multimedia learning stations, employing databases, websites, education apps, videos, audio podcasts, online games, books, and more to build a strong, collaborative library program that helps you strengthen student understanding of the research process.

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Pioneered by M A K Halliday, social semiotic theory sees meaning as created through the interaction of texts (including writing, images, sound and space) within a given context. Divided into five sections, this title features contributors who use social semiotic theory to analyse a range of contexts, including the classroom, museum, and cinema.

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An overview of the new developments and applications of social semiotic theory, pioneered by M.A.K Halliday.

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Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for racial studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains than first meets the eye.

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Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars interested in studying the mundane. -- .

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Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars interested in studying the mundane. -- .

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Wondering what a museum director actually does About to start your first director's job Looking for guidance in starting up a museum or working with a museum director Hugh Genoways, Lynne Ireland, and Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko have taken the mystery out and replaced it with e...

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Wondering what a museum director actually does About to start your first director's job Looking for guidance in starting up a museum or working with a museum director Hugh Genoways, Lynne Ireland, and Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko have taken the mystery out and replaced it with e...

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Museum and Historic Site Management utilizes the classic business case study approach to help museum and public history professionals think through different scenarios and understand/anticipate different points of view in resolving issues. The thirty case study topics include ...

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Museum and Historic Site Management utilizes the classic business case study approach to help museum and public history professionals think through different scenarios and understand/anticipate different points of view in resolving issues. The thirty case study topics include ...

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Branding a museum helps it stand out from the crowd by giving it an image and personality with which visitors and supporters can identify, increasing their emotional attachment and encouraging them to return. In Museum Branding, Wallace offers clear, practical advice on how to...

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Branding a museum helps it stand out from the crowd by giving it an image and personality with which visitors and supporters can identify, increasing their emotional attachment and encouraging them to return. In Museum Branding, Wallace offers clear, practical advice on how to...

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The primary purposes of the volume are to stimulate thinking about museum careers and training, to describe the various museum positions and training programs available, and to provide guidance to those considering or pursuing formal or informal training opportunities.

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Museum Flack is a how-to guide that gives insider tips, tactics and tools to get positive media coverage, as well as strategies to deal with crisiscommunications.

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Museum Operations: A Handbook of Tools, Templates, and Models contains 19 research and analytical tools, templates, and models giving museum professionals processes and procedures for analyzing information and making decisions that are easily explainable to staff, board members, donors, patrons, and other stakeholders.

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Wish you were able to have one of the worlds leading museum consultants spend a couple of days with you, talking you through how to start a museum, how museums work, how to set up an exhibit, and more If so, Museums 101 is the answer to your wishes.

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This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto the diverse array of...

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Music Preservation and Archiving Today moves beyond the how-to and assembles the work currently being done to preserve music and "scenes" via essays, case studies, and overviews of work by academic archives as well as communitydriven preservation projects.

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Celebrated author Nancy Polette offers a complete mystery literature guide for primary, intermediate, and middle school mysteries.

Librarians and teachers alike will find this engaging title from popular author Nancy Polette a joy to use, and the information it offers is a sure way to engage students in literature.