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Book Synopsis Careers in Information Science by : Louise Schultz
Download or read book Careers in Information Science written by Louise Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents copy for use as a reference brochure and a 7iveaway sheet to be distributed to guidance counselors to help them direct young people into the growing field of Information Science. Sets forth that Information Science is concerned with the properties, behavior, and flow of information. Describes how it is used, both by individuals and in large systems. Discusses the opportunities in Information Science and outlines three relatively different career areas: (1) Special Librarianship; (2) Licerature Analysis; and (3) Information System Design. Details an educational program appropriate 6or participation in these career areas. Concludes that Information Science is a new but rapidly growing field pushing the frontiers of human knowledge and, thus, 3ontributing to human wellbeing and progress. (Author).
Book Synopsis Everyday Sociology Reader by : Karen Sternheimer
Download or read book Everyday Sociology Reader written by Karen Sternheimer and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.
Book Synopsis After the Book by : George Stachokas
Download or read book After the Book written by George Stachokas and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries and librarians have been defined by the book throughout modern history. What happens when society increasingly lets print go in favour of storing, retrieving and manipulating electronic information? What happens after the book? After the Book explores how the academic library of the 21st Century is first and foremost a provider of electronic information services. Contemporary users expect today’s library to provide information as quickly and efficiently as other online information resources. The book argues that librarians need to change what they know, how they work, and how they are perceived in order to succeed according to the terms of this new paradigm. This title is structured into eight chapters. An introduction defines the challenge of electronic resources and makes the case for finding solutions, and following chapters cover diversions and half measures and the problem for libraries in the 21st century. Later chapters discuss solving problems through professional identity and preparation, before final chapters cover reorganizing libraries to serve users, adapting to scarcity, and the ‘digital divide’. Describes how electronic resources constitute both a challenge and an opportunity for libraries Argues that librarians can re-define themselves Puts the case that libraries can be reorganized to optimize electronic resource management and information services based on contemporary technology and user needs
Book Synopsis It's Perfectly Normal by : Robie H. Harris
Download or read book It's Perfectly Normal written by Robie H. Harris and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully and fearlessly updated, this vital new edition of the acclaimed book on sex, sexuality, bodies, and puberty deserves a spot in every family’s library. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, It’s Perfectly Normal has been a trusted resource on sexuality for more than twenty-five years. Rigorously vetted by experts, this is the most ambitiously updated edition yet, featuring to-the-minute information and language accompanied by new and refreshed art. Updates include: * A shift to gender-neutral vocabulary throughout * An expansion on LGBTQIA topics, gender identity, sex, and sexuality—making this a sexual health book for all readers * Coverage of recent advances in methods of sexual safety and contraception with corresponding illustrations * A revised section on abortion, including developments in the shifting politics and legislation as well as an accurate, honest overview * A sensitive and detailed expansion on the topics of sexual abuse, the importance of consent, and destigmatizing HIV/AIDS * A modern understanding of social media and the internet that tackles rapidly changing technology to highlight its benefits and pitfalls and ways to stay safe online Inclusive and accessible, this newest edition of It’s Perfectly Normal provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities in order to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.
Book Synopsis The Freedom to Read by : American Library Association
Download or read book The Freedom to Read written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping by : Elizabeth Hale Gilman
Download or read book The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping written by Elizabeth Hale Gilman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping is a book by Elizabeth Hale Gilman. It covers the basics of housekeeping including care of fittings and furniture, the kitchen, cooking and washing and ironing.
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society by : Various
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 3181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 12-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1934 and 1995. An eclectic mix of titles, this collection draws from anthropology, economics, ethics, politics, psychology and sociology. Exploring security in both war and peacetime it includes volumes looking at: the causes of war and its effect on society as a whole; the soldiers themselves and their place in society; the portrayal of war in the press, both in words and photographs and the politics behind them.
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum by : Various
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 8745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1994, this collection includes books which offer a broad spectrum of views on curriculum, both within individual schools and the wider issues around curriculum development, reform and implementation. Some cover the debate surrounding the establishment of the national curriculum in the UK while others are a more international in scope. Many of these books go beyond theory to discuss practical issues of real curriculum changes at primary or secondary level. The Set includes books on cross-curricular topics such as citizenship and environment, and also guidance, careers, life skills and pastoral care in schools. A fantastic collection of education history with much still relevant today.
Book Synopsis Helping the Difficult Library Patron by : Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah
Download or read book Helping the Difficult Library Patron written by Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A problem patron is not one with difficult requests or obscure interests, but one who displays behavior that is deemed destructive, criminal, bothersome, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate. Librarians look at the nature of the problem in academic and public libraries, the impact of such technologies as the Internet and cell phones, and solutions from other professions as well as from the experience of librarians.
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Peace Studies by : Various
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Peace Studies written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 3612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Peace Studies (12 Volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1928 and 1985. Looking at peace movements and the people involved in them around the world, who seek to learn lessons from war and find solutions to a peaceful existence. It includes titles from a number of well-known pacifists, both pre- and post-war who have influenced ideas and policy throughout the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The Changing Role of Book Repair in ARL Libraries by :
Download or read book The Changing Role of Book Repair in ARL Libraries written by and published by Association of Research Libr. This book was released on 1993 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Select Circulating Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries by : Valerie Nye
Download or read book True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries written by Valerie Nye and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those facing censorship challenges can find support and inspiration in this book, which compiles dozens of stories from library front lines.
Book Synopsis Special Libraries by : James M. Matarazzo Ph.D.
Download or read book Special Libraries written by James M. Matarazzo Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic timesand how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship. Special Libraries: A Survival Guide analyzes what has happenedand is still continuing to happento corporate libraries in order to identify the strategies that must be taken to protect their staff's survival. Through a careful examination of a series of case studies of corporate library reductions and closures, authors James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein suggest key strategies, tactics, and survival tools that all types of special library managers can use to minimize their chances of becoming a victim. The book underscores the importance of collecting data as a survival tool. Additionally, it identifies what needs to be taught to students currently enrolled in library and information science (LIS) programs to give them a leg up in careers. This advocacy book is essential reading for staff at special/corporate libraries in the English-speaking world who wish to retain their positions, but it also contains information applicable to today's academic, public, and even school libraries. It is appropriate for students in the field of library and information science, LIS faculty, and corporate executives responsible for the management of the information function.
Book Synopsis Demostration of Public Library Service. Hearings on H.R. 2465 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Download or read book Demostration of Public Library Service. Hearings on H.R. 2465 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Libraries without Limits: Changing Needs — Changing Roles by : Suzanne Bakker
Download or read book Libraries without Limits: Changing Needs — Changing Roles written by Suzanne Bakker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Utrecht, 22-27 June 1998
Book Synopsis Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change by : Liz Greenhalgh
Download or read book Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change written by Liz Greenhalgh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of libraries and the role they play in both inner city areas and dispersed rural communities. It examines the library as a cultural institution, considering its spatial and symbolic presence and exploring its public service remit. The book is intended for undergraduates and postgraduates on library and information science courses and as supplementary reading for cultural and communications studies, tourism and recreation, human geography and sociology - as well as for public and academic librarians.
