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Comprised of fifteen chapters written by experienced consumer health librarians, The Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer and Patient Health Information is designed for library and information science graduate students as well as librarians new to health a...

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Comprised of fifteen chapters written by experienced consumer health librarians, The Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer and Patient Health Information is designed for library and information science graduate students as well as librarians new to health a...

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The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence.

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Examines the assumptions and values of the "myth" of the electronic library, compares them with the previous "myth" of the library as place, and explores alternatives to the information society, the role of the librarian in a therapeutic society and the politics of librarianship.

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How librarians can be radical positive change agents in their communities, dedicated to learning and making a difference.

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This book treats academic librarianship as a professional culture, and traces its historical development in relation to the transformation of American higher education from the early 19th Century into the age of the university. It also gives a broad understanding of the status and role of today's academic librarian.

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This book offers 101 passive programming ideas that are extendable, adaptable, customizable, and above all, stealableso your passive programming never runs dry.

Passive programming is a cheap, quick, fun way to make all library customers feel like part of the community.

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Nine of the best-selling books of all time are nonfiction, and countless readers turn to nonfiction when reading for pleasure today.

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This simple new approach to teaching information skills takes students beyond mere fact-finding to designing and recording search strategies.

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Focusing on U.S. academic libraries, Rewiring the Academic Library begins by providing a concise history of the traditional role and function of academic libraries from their earliest times up to the dawn of Digital Age and the spread of digital technology into all aspects of academic research and scholarly communication.

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Based on educational research, this book will help school librarians create an environment that supports resilience in their school library media center.

Resilience is the capacity of children to grow up successful, content, and competent even though they are faced with adversities like poverty, violence, illness, or neglect.

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A simple keyword search in Library Literature and Information Index, a primary electronic index of library and information science research literature, retrieves over 6,500 items related to the Internet.

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This volume examining key factors related to successful reference service practices provides librarians with an important and significantly different perspective on the reference process.

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As one of the only books to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the multifaceted role of school librarians in student success, this instructional guide offers everything you'll need to develop, align, and evaluate curriculum with your library collection in mind.

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Using concrete examples, The School Librarians Technology Playbook offers strategies for school librarians to initiate and support innovative practices throughout their school community.

The role of school librarians has evolved: no longer do they primarily support teachers with reading and literacy resources.

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This inspiring guide shows how to implement the principles of the Slow Book movement in college campus libraries as well as public and high school libraries, with the ultimate goals of encouraging pensive reading habits and creating a lifelong enjoyment of books.

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Journal of Academic Librarianship

The Smaller Academic Library, which is a collection of thirty essays by diverse hands on the management of libraries in colleges of up to about 7,500 students, should help practitioners build that kind of leadership and sense of mission.

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This work provides an overview of the role of state government with respect to academic libraries, analyses the impact of state government on significant functions within the academic library, and provides examples of how academic libraries can interact with the state.

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Explores the ways in which records of human experience are collected. This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria, which was lost to us in stages over many years), the Baghdad of Harun-al-Rashid, and medieval and Renaissance Europe.

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This volume, one in the Undergraduate Companion series, focuses on American and British writers for children and young adults and is addressed to students in both English and Education classes. This volume will address their needs by providing pathfinders to works by, about, and related to key writers of children's and young adult fiction.

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