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Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations.

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In view of the challenges facing higher education, academic librarians need to take an expanded campus leadership role. This book shows the way.

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School library media specialists know that a close collaboration between the school principal and themselves is critical in the development of an exemplary school library media program, but they are often unsure of how to establish and build on that collaboration.

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Leading the 21st Century Academic Library: Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures will explore the new roles and directions academic libraries are taking in the 21st century as a consequence of visionary leadership in exploring diverse futures.

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Leading the 21st Century Academic Library: Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures will explore the new roles and directions academic libraries are taking in the 21st century as a consequence of visionary leadership in exploring diverse futures.

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Defining both the Common Core Standards and the school librarian's role in their implementation, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans and other tools for grades K-5 and identifies opportunities for collaborative teaching.

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This guide provides the historical background of traditional and modern libraries and librarianship in India. It focuses, chapter by chapter, on various types of libraries including national libraries, academic libraries, school libraries, and special libraries.

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This reference work traces the development of traditional and modern libraries and librarianship in Japan and describes what they have become in modern times. It considers the evolution of particular types of libraries and the role of computers.

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This book is the first informative, comprehensive guide to the topic.

The volume describes the present state of library development and library services available at the various types of libraries in the Republic of Korea, along with the historical backgrounds of the country and librarianship.

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This is the first book-length study of prison libraries to provide a comprehensive overview of their history and to analyze their development in terms of the goals of correctional agencies and the values and traditions of librarianship.

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This book examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and communities to successfully participate in the information society.

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From 1876 to 1924a period of free immigrationthe mission of the American public library in its work with immigrants was to Americanize the immigrants by teaching them English and preparing them for citizenship.

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This professional primer provides the blueprint to help you create a school library program, covering all aspects of library management such as budgeting, eBook use, purchasing, and teacher collaboration. Advice and strategies from experts in the field will help you master collection development, library administration, recruitment, and staffing.

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Answering the call for a standard of bibliographic control and a critical analysis of the literature of library and information science, the work features reviews of English-language library science monographs, reference books, and selected library and information science periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.

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Written specifically to address the library's role in education, this book provides guidance on performing assessment at academic institutions that will serve to improve teaching effectiveness and prove your library's impact on student learning outcomes-and thereby demonstrate your library's value.

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Based on the author's experiences, this handy guide offers the kind of information not found in standard texts. Pithy, practical, and full of useful ideas, this is one book every librarian considering or involved in a construction project should read. Floor plans and elevations included.

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Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services. Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with dire...

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Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services. Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with dire...

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