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Filled with tips and tricks gathered from years of experience this conversational, practical guide can be used for self-study, reference, or as a course text. Examples, checklists as well as opportunities to apply the knowledge gained abound! All these elements combine to let you develop your skills as an expert searcher.

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Filled with tips and tricks gathered from years of experience this conversational, practical guide can be used for self-study, reference, or as a course text. Examples, checklists as well as opportunities to apply the knowledge gained abound! All these elements combine to let you develop your skills as an expert searcher.

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Drawing on a delightfully broad base of intellectual resourcesfrom information theory and classic literature to Beethoven and MTVthe author considers the basic question of how we can index and abstract our information so that the user can actually find it.

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Designing teen library services based on preconceptions leaves many teens outfrom home-schooled and gifted teens to pregnant teens, immigrants, juvenile delinquents, homeless teens, and many others.

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Plan, design, and build the library of your dreams! This step-by-step guide offers all the technological and practical information needed to make a functional, enduring, and accommodating library for the future. Includes checklists, forms, and timelines to guide you in your library planning journey.

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A collection of fairy tales converted to readers theatre scripts, allowing students to play the parts as they develop their literacy skills.

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A book that acts both as library and exhibition space, selecting, arranging, and housing texts and images, aligning itself with printed matter in the process.

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While The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is perhaps the best known bibliographic control system in existence, it is cumbersome and not always user friendly.

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Shavit's book is an implementation analysis of the impact of federal aid on the organization and administration of state library agencies. Finally, he proposes recommendations for future policy regarding federal aid to public libraries and the role of state library agencies in relation to such aid.

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. . . the editors prevail upon students, scholars, information professionals and policy makers to study the issues further in order to deepen the understanding of government information and positively affect policy decisions. - Journal of Government Information

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This comprehensive, spirited, and often laugh-out-loud funny handbook will help you start, maintain, or enhance a science fiction and fantasy book group.

Bring fantasy and science fiction readers together for scintillating discussions with Fellowship in a Ring: A Guide for Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Groups.

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Beginning with general guides, dictionaries and encyclopedias, the book then turns to filmographies, filmmakers, and filmmaking respectively. Filmographies lists films and television shows in the categories of national cinema and genre, made by studios or filmmakers, or featuring various groups of people.

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Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums guides you on how to: Incorporate as a tax-exempt organization Find and apply for historic property designation Understand contributed income opportunities Create sustainable earned income opportunities Understand basic accounting and financial planning.

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Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums guides you on how to: Incorporate as a tax-exempt organization Find and apply for historic property designation Understand contributed income opportunities Create sustainable earned income opportunities Understand basic accounting and financial planning.

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Covering everything from auditing and budgeting to contracts, revenue and expenditures, forecasting, and ethics in financial management, this book addresses the full spectrum of topics and skills needed by today's library managers.

Many library managers learn financial management on the job, within the framework of a specific organization.

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This guide to the fundamentals of information discovery can be used as a textbook in undergraduate and graduate online searching courses and as a manual for anyone who wants to move beyond keyword searching on the web. Whether you need to make a decision, solve a problem, answ...

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This work covers both tangible and digital information produced by the US Federal Government in order to offer an overview of the subject and provide a subject-based ready-reference for the types of government information sources that can answer many questions commonly encountered by reference librarians.

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Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth uses stories or "information adventures" to illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in a rapidly changing digita...

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Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth uses stories or "information adventures" to illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in a rapidly changing digita...

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Through carefully selected books, journals and multi-media resources, Lynne and Herman Sutter provide teachers and librarians with a broad collection of subjects to guide a student's research and broaden a child's interest base.