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What do you do when you are offered any number of gifts including but not limited to artifacts, letters, historical documents, collections of pictures, postcards, arrowheads

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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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An examination of how and why certain books have become the most widely used reference works in American libraries. From "Who's Who" and "World Book" to "Turabian's Manual", it explores the origins, influence and possible future for each of these works.

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This easy-to-use, comprehensive guide shows how to establish a floating collection in any libraryregardless of type or size.

Despite its increasing popularity, there are few published works about floating and floating collections.

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At long last, here is the definitive practical guide to sexuality materials in libraries and an annotated bibliography of nearly 600 recommended books for school and public libraries.

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Gain the administrative support you need for your media center and library programs with this practical and enlightening guide.

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Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide.

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This ultimate guide to collecting and using graphic novels in a school library is written by an elementary librarian out of her experience as a teacher librarian who uses graphic novels in her library media center for instruction and to advance pleasure reading.

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Designed to assist librarians with collection development, this work identifies, describes, and evaluates more than 800 significant bibliographies of children's and young adult materials. Emphasis is on print and nonprint works published from 1986 through 1996, with some earlier but still useful publications listed.

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Intended to enhance collection development in school, public, and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985 through 1993, with some earlier but still useful publications.

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An indispensable tool for librarians who do reference or collection management, this work is a pioneering offering of expertly selected print and electronic reference tools for East Asian Studies (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).

(Paperback, 7th Revised edition)

This standard reference source updates and expands on the previous edition (Slide Buyers' Guide), with information on 50 digital image providers in addition to more than 300 slide providers.

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The range of patron needs and changing data makes managing business collections a complex responsibility. This guide provides information to assist librarians, with chapters covering issues such as planning, facilities management and the provision of access.

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Providing the basics for working with spatial-data collections in libraries, this book describes in detail the processes and procedures of map selection, acquisition, classification, cataloging, everyday storage, care, preservation, reference, public relations, and education.

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This valuable guide advises teachers and librarians how to use novels in verse in functional, hands-on ways with teens, including reluctant readers.

Novels in verse are popular and have recently won some important awards.

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Contributions from leading rare book curators concerning the different needs and problems companion to rare book collections.

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Organized across appeal features, this comprehensive listing of stories, biographies, and fiction is the first and only guide to sports literature for adult and teen readers.

Sports literature spans multiple genresfrom fast-paced adventures, to biographies of sports heroes, to tales of underdogs overcoming the odds among others.

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