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This comprehensive handbook offers thoroughly annotated lists of 2009's best children's books, plus lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources.

The book that has itself been a winner for the past five years is backand more chock full of useful information than ever!

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This standard professional handbook offers comprehensive, thoroughly annotated lists of the best children's books of 2010, plus lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources.

The WINNERS!

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Traces the public librarian author's inspiring story as a Mormon youth with Tourette's Syndrome who after a sequence of radical and ineffective treatments overcame nightmarish tics through education, military service, and strength training.

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This book examines how academic librarians think about or approach instruction as a part of their work. Through explicating this metacognitive process, this book helps both academic librarians and librarians-to-be to more intentionally consider their teaching practices and professional identities.

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This book examines how academic librarians think about or approach instruction as a part of their work. Through explicating this metacognitive process, this book helps both academic librarians and librarians-to-be to more intentionally consider their teaching practices and professional identities.

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Transforming Medical Library Staff for the Twenty-First Century focuses on how the medical library can redeploy its staff to support these new services through actively engaging and empowering them in the process. It shares best practices in developing and motivating staff to accept and welcome the changing priorities of medical libraries.

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Through her unique perspective the author provides insight into the many different areas of expertise that are required in a good manager. These include how to handle cliques, how to handle the perceived or real excellence of the previous manager, how to handle difficult subordinates, and many others.

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Translating Expertise: The Librarians Role in Translational Research provides background and context on the CTSA program. Case studies detail routes to librarian involvement in translational research, including collection development, relationships with researchers and administrators, instruction and training, data management, and team science.

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This edited volume looks at the history and theories of trigger warnings, the ethics of use, and presents case studies from instructors and students describing instances when trigger warnings were and were not used. By exploring the issue through scholarly lenses and examples, Trigger Warnings provides rigorous analysis of the controversy.

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This practical and research-based volume focuses on how libraries can meet the needs of underserved patrons in college and university libraries, with an emphasis on those facing trauma, abuse, and discrimination.

While university libraries strive to meet the needs of all students, some groups have traditionally been overlooked.

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Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies. But can their opposition be justified This work considers the thorny question of why so many librarians have such negative attitudes towards these studies.

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Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies. But can their opposition be justified This work considers the thorny question of why so many librarians have such negative attitudes towards these studies.

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It includes chapters written by full-time professional library consultants, information specialists, and library administrators who have had extensive experience in using consultants to solve a range or problems in information service.

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Online scholarly publishing is revolutionizing scholarly communication, and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is among those protocols leading the way in the transformation process.

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Using Twitter to Build Communities: A Primer for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a quick-and-easy guide for libraries, archives, and museums looking to use Twitter as far more than a broadcasting tool. It condenses years of research for launching or reviving your organizations Twitter presence into an impactful medium in your community.

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Using Twitter to Build Communities: A Primer for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a quick-and-easy guide for libraries, archives, and museums looking to use Twitter as far more than a broadcasting tool. It condenses years of research for launching or reviving your organizations Twitter presence into an impactful medium in your community.

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Library computer users are often novices and may not be aware that even seemingly innocuous information supplied to Web sites can be mined by government agencies, unscrupulous businesses, and criminals.

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Chapters cover building-level mission statements and evaluation, library management and operations, resources (human, material, and computer), public relations, and fund-raising. A cost-effective investment for school libraries, small libraries, library schools, and library administrators.

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Whole Person Librarianship guides librarians through the practical process of facilitating connections among libraries, social workers, and social services;

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An up to date comprehensive text that responds to the needs of those serving young adults in public libraries.

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Using case studies and examples, this book helps archivists understand the different ways trauma can present in archival workers, patrons, and donors.

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Explore how GLAM institutions are navigating new leadership styles and organizational frameworks to help meet the challenges posed by a digital society.

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This book provides a foundation in the law to support a risk-management approach for archivists to use in assessing their own collections and institutional circumstances.