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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Author : Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612507581
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow written by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributors—historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars—the editors provide a comprehensive view of a community’s experience with desegregation and economic development. Here we see resegregation through the lens of Charlotte, North Carolina, once a national model of successful desegregation, and home of the landmark Swann desegregation case, which gave rise to school busing. This book recounts the last forty years of Charlotte’s desegregation and resegregation, putting education reform in political and economic context. Within a decade of the Swanncase, the district had developed one of the nation’s most successful desegregation plans, measured by racial balance and improved academic outcomes for both black and white students. However, beginning in the 1990s, this plan was gradually dismantled. Today, the level of resegregation in Charlotte has almost returned to what it was prior to 1971. At the core of Charlotte’s story is the relationship between social structure and human agency, with an emphasis on how yesterday’s decisions and actions define today’s choices.

Double Fold

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400033047
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Fold written by Nicholson Baker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

A Chronology of Librarianship, 1960-2000

Author : Jeffrey M. Wilhite
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869071
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Chronology of Librarianship, 1960-2000 written by Jeffrey M. Wilhite and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chronology of Librarianship, 1960-2000 continues the work of Josephine Smith in her original Chronology of Librarianship (Scarecrow, 1968). It updates and completes her work up to 2000, paying special attention to the progress made on technological and international fronts that have significantly altered the role and function of the librarian, especially the rise of the internet in the 1990s. The ramifications of this new level of global connectedness and of the new role of the librarian are of primary concern for author Jeffrey M. Wilhite. This book covers all areas of library literature that inform the history of librarianship and ranges over multiple continents. Its broad scope lends itself to wide use by scholars and students of library history and library literature. The chronology is presented in a dictionary format and separated into decades. It is complemented by a comprehensive bibliography and name index.

International Dictionary of Library Histories

Author : David H. Stam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136777849
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book International Dictionary of Library Histories written by David H. Stam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the format of Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places and International Dictionary of University Histories, the International Dictionary of Library Histories provides basic information for each institution - location and holdings - followed by an extensive (1,000-5,000 word) essay on its history as well as a Further Reading list. In addition, the dictionary includes introductory articles on the history of various types of libraries and a library history in various regions of the world. The dictionary profiles more than 200 institutions from around the world, including the world's most important research libraries and other libraries with globally or regionally notable collections, innovative traditions, and significant and interesting histories. The essays take advantage of the growing scholarship of library history to provide insightful overviews of each institution, including not only the traditional values of these libraries but their innovations as well, such as developments in automated systems and electronic delivery. The profiles will emphasize the unique materials of research in these institutions - archives, manuscripts, personal and institutional papers. The introductory articles on types of libraries include topics ranging from theological libraries to prison libraries, from the ancient to the digital. An international team of more than 200 leading scholars in the field have contributed essays to the project.

What Happened to Me

Author : David H. Stam
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491861487
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book What Happened to Me written by David H. Stam and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Happened to Me: My Life with Books, Research Libraries, and Performing Arts is a personal memoir, providing insight into the world of research libraries and particularly colorful librarians in the U.S. from the 1960s through the 1990s. It focuses largely on the authors own experiences in leadership positions at Marlboro College, The Newberry Library, The Johns Hopkins University, The New York Public Library, and Syracuse University. Told partly as an exploration of predestination and free will, the story begins with the authors childhood in a Christian fundamentalist environment, and goes on to recount frankly his distinctly secular coming-of-age experiences through the Navy, the arts world in New York City, the Vermont scene of the 1960s, his many years of involvementsurprising to himin some rarified academic and research circles, the philanthropic world of New York, and the integration in later years of personal interests in music, local community, family, and classical music and musicians.

Creating the Academic Commons

Author : Thomas H. P. Gould
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810881098
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Creating the Academic Commons written by Thomas H. P. Gould and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been labeled variously but they all share a commonality: the empowerment of students and teachers. In Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research, Thomas Gould gives a detailed outline of the various roles and activities that take place in commons located within the administrative umbrella of the library. Gould provides a roadmap for libraries seeking to establish their own Academic Commons, complete with suggestions regarding physical structure and software/hardware options. And to ensure new ideas are examined, evaluated, and adopted broadly, Gould shows how the Millennial Librarian can be at the center of this evolutionary library. Including information regarding the latest technological advances, this book will be an invaluable guide for librarians.

Historical Dictionary of Librarianship

Author : Mary Ellen Quinn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810875454
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Librarianship written by Mary Ellen Quinn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-19th century, the history of libraries is much older, and people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for many thousands of years. This book traces librarianship from its origins in ancient times through its development in response to the need to control the flood of information in the modern world to the profound transformations brought about by the new technologies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Historical Dictionary of Librarianship focuses on librarianship as a modern, organized profession, emphasizing the period beginning in the mid-19th century. Author Mary Ellen Quinn relates the history of this profession through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, libraries around the world, and notable organizations and associations. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about librarianship.

Managing Change in Academic Libraries

Author : Joseph Branin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135838798
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Managing Change in Academic Libraries written by Joseph Branin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Change in Academic Libraries helps academic librarians plan, implement, and manage changes to the fundamental structure of their organizations. It shows readers that in academic libraries the two driving forces behind most change are economics and technology. Declines in funding for education and in the purchasing power of libraries have made it impossible to maintain the status quo, let alone realize growth, in traditional information services and collection development. Add to this downward trend in library economics, the explosion of new information technology and its potential for radically altering communications and knowledge management, and one has the ingredients for some amazing changes in libraries. To help manage these many changes, chapters in Managing Change in Academic Libraries approach change with a mixture of radical and rational ideas. Readers learn academic librarians’views on dealing with change as they read about: an environmental scan which identifies both internal and external forces that are increasing the amount and scope of change in academic libraries technological change and its impact in academic libraries the academic library director’s role as an agent of change how two large library systems managed to change in some very fundamental ways when faced with serious economic and political challenges difficult personnel issues faced by academic libraries as they move into new organizational structures and adopt new management styles the future of traditional reference services in light of rapid developments in computing and networking how to change bibliographic control to better serve the changing expectations and needs of user communities conducting a restructuring study and recommendations for organizational change in a large research library system Each chapter shows academic librarians how they can respond imaginatively and nimbly to economic, political, and technological change that envelopes their professional work life. Academic librarians will refer to Managing Change in Academic Libraries again and again as a survival tool as they meet with challenging and unpredictable changes.

Supporting Research in Area Studies

Author : Lesley Pitman
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780634714
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Supporting Research in Area Studies written by Lesley Pitman and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting Research in Area Studies: A Guide for Academic Libraries focuses on the study of other countries or regions of the world, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and social sciences. The book provides a comprehensive guide for academic libraries supporting communities of researchers, exploring the specialist requirements of these researchers in information resources, resource discovery tools, information skills, and the challenges of working with materials in multiple languages. The book makes the case that adapting systems and procedures to meet these needs will help academic libraries be better placed to support their institutions' international agenda. Early chapters cover the academic landscape, its history, area studies, librarianship, and acquisitions. Subsequent chapters discuss collections management, digital products, and the digital humanities, and their role in academic projects, with final sections exploring information skills and the various disciplinary skills that facilitate the needs of researchers during their careers. - Describes the nature of area studies research and the traditional strengths of area studies librarianship in supporting inter- and trans-disciplinary research - Applies the latest thinking in research support in university libraries to the specific needs of the area studies research community in the United Kingdom and United States - Explores how internationalizing systems and processes can bring broader benefits to the university as a whole - Analyzes the particular issues caused by working with content and systems in multiple languages

Information Services Today

Author : Sandra Hirsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144223959X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Information Services Today written by Sandra Hirsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential overview of what it means to be a library and information professional today provides a broad overview of the transformation of libraries as information organizations, why these organizations are more important today than ever before, the technological influence on how we provide information resources and services in today’s digital and global environment, and the various career opportunities available for information professionals. The book begins with a historical overview of libraries and their transformation as information and technology hubs within their communities. It also covers the various specializations within the field emphasizing the exciting yet complex roles and opportunities for information professionals. With that foundation in place, it presents how libraries serve different kinds of communities, highlighting the unique needs of users across all ages and how libraries fulfill those needs through a variety of services, and addresses key issues facing information organizations as they meet user needs in the Digital Age. The book then concludes with career management strategies to guide library and information science professionals in building not only vibrant careers but vibrant information organizations for the future as well.

University Libraries and Space in the Digital World

Author : Graham Walton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317004299
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book University Libraries and Space in the Digital World written by Graham Walton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book addresses physical space in university libraries in the digital age. It considers the history of the use of space, integrates case studies from around the world with theoretical perspectives, explores recent developments including new build and refurbishment. With users at the forefront, chapters cover different aspects of learning and research support provision, shared services, and evaluation of space initiatives. Library staff requirements and green issues are outlined. The book also looks to the future, identifying the key strategic issues and trends that will influence and shape future library spaces. The authors are international, senior university library managers and academics who provide a range of views and approaches and experience of individual projects and initiatives.

Access Versus Assets

Author : Barbra Buckner Higginbotham
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 9780838906071
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Access Versus Assets written by Barbra Buckner Higginbotham and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1- Introduction. 2- A Point of Embarkation: "What's Past Is Prologue". 3- Cooperative Relationships: "We Band of Brothers". 4- Reciprocal Agreements: "He That Runs May Read". 5- Interlending: "Friends Share All Things". 6- Commercial Document Suppliers: " For All We Take We Must Pay, But the Price Is Cruel High". 7- Approaches to Documents Delivery: Deliberate Speed, Majestic Instancy". 8- Making Decisions for Access: "A Mighty Maze! But Not without a Plan". 9- Shaping Our Future: "Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On". Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

Global Perspectives on Sustainable Library Practices

Author : Okojie, Victoria
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668459655
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Sustainable Library Practices written by Okojie, Victoria and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries as social and service-based institutions are constantly seeking innovative and effective ways to meet the needs of their users and maintain relevance amidst alternative information sources. They are constantly adjusting to meet the needs of users, contribute to the personal development of users, and alight with national development. All of these have placed a burden on libraries to engage in sustainable practices both to increase their capacity to drive current developmental endeavors and to sustain future relevance. Global Perspectives on Sustainable Library Practices provides a rich and robust knowledge resource that brings together diverse sustainable library practices that will revamp library operations towards optimally meeting the current objectives of libraries as a developmental institution as well as sustaining value for future operations and service transactions. Covering topics such as access efficacy, green space development, and library service delivery, this premier reference source is an essential resource for librarians, library administrators, educators and administration of both K-12 and higher education, students of library sciences, pre-service teachers, researchers, and academicians.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Author : Sophia Loren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147114075X
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow written by Sophia Loren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is Sophia Loren's definitive autobiography, revealing her personal journey from the hardship of her childhood in Naples to her life as a screen legend, sharing stories of work, love, and family. Each chapter begins with a letter, a document, a photograph, or object that prompts her reminiscences. In her own words, these memoirs originated as, "Unpublished memories, curious anecdotes, tiny secrets told, all of which spring from a box found by chance, a precious treasure trove filled with emotions, experiences, adventures." In her incredible life story, Loren vividly recounts her difficult childhood in Naples during World War II, remembers her parents and their tempestuous relationship, and reveals the pain of growing up in her grandparents' house with her single, unmarried mother and younger sister. She tells how she got her start by winning a beauty pageant ("La regina del mare") and how her ambition drove her success in cinema before revealing the influence of the producer Carlo Ponti, who cast her in her early roles and later became her husband. Loren takes us behind the scenes of the movies, her early stardom and move to Hollywood revealing intimate and never before shared stories of her famed costars: Brando, Newman, Burton, Peck, Heston, and many more. With emotional honesty, Loren goes on to discuss her long desire to become a mother and the disappointments she suffered on that path, the ultimate joy she felt at having her two sons, and scenes from her life as a mother and grandmother.

Development of Digital Libraries

Author : Deanna B. Marcum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313075107
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Development of Digital Libraries written by Deanna B. Marcum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, leading librarians, scholars, and administrators from the United States are invited to give papers on important library-related topics at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology's Roundtable. From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic. In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States. Insight into the policy, legal, and technical frameworks of digital libraries is given, while honest views of problems encountered in trying to integrate digital and traditional libraries are given. Finally, some of the essays explore how users are affected by digital library services.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999: Public witnesses for natural resource programs

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999: Public witnesses for natural resource programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development

Author : Edward Shreeves
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317955250
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development written by Edward Shreeves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading collection development experts share their experience and expertise! This book examines emerging and prospective models for cooperation in providing information resources. With case examples and cutting-edge perspectives, The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development will enhance your understanding of collection development theory and provide you with insight into the issues facing information science professionals who seek cooperative solutions to collection development challenges. The contributors—some of the best thinkers and practitioners in the field today—discuss current projects and programs that show how cooperative work can effectively (and productively) take place. With The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development you’ll explore: the state of international collection development in North America the agreements and contracts that underpin cooperative agreements cooperation, competition, collection management, and knowledge management the evolution of the Association for Research Libraries Global Resources Program the funding issues that underlie a multi-campus shared digital collection—how to determine costs and user preferences, campus perspectives on the collaborative environment, and the co-investment models used to fund shared collections and cover the expenses of university-wide participation the birth of the Text Creation Partnership for Early English Books Online (EEBO) a new cooperative model for the dissemination of information about rural sociology a bibliometric study of OCLC’s WorldCat—and the problems it uncovers a successful collaboration between OhioLINK libraries and YBP Library Services that expanded the monographic resources available in Ohio The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development will bring you up to date on cooperative collection development—evaluation, risk management, economics, and more; the digitization of scientific literature; knowledge management; new developments in scholarly publishing; the ins and outs of digital collections; collection analysis; emerging possibilities for library consortia; and current issues related to international publications and international cooperation. Strengthen your hold on the leading edge of the field. Make this important book a part of your professional collection today!