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Understanding Community Librarianship

Author : Alistair Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351877046
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Community Librarianship written by Alistair Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the information society, is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its communities through an examination of the rise and decline of ’community’ librarianship over the last three decades. The authors consider key models of community based library service and argue that bland assertions of community prevalence mask a complex and problematic relationship between a highly traditional public service bureaucracy and its users. The resulting uncertainty of purpose, they claim, explains much of the current ’crisis’ of the public library movement. Drawing on recent social science theory and empirical work in the field, this book offers a new and critical perspective on the current public library debate. It is essential reading for librarians, students of information and library science and all who have a stake in the future of the public library. As a case study of community, public service and the local state it should also be of value to those with an interest in community development, cultural policy and local government.

Building Library Collections

Author : Arthur Curley
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810817760
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Building Library Collections written by Arthur Curley and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic. Topics include resource-sharing networks, the importance of nonbook formats, the greater complexity of censorship challenges, and the expansion of the library's informational role.

Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

Author : Lara Atkin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303020426X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere by : Lara Atkin

Download or read book Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere written by Lara Atkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.

Teach Your Children Well

Author : Madeline Levine, PhD
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062196685
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Teach Your Children Well written by Madeline Levine, PhD and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. Parents, educators, and the media wring their hands about the plight of America's children and teens—soaring rates of emotional problems, limited coping skills, disengagement from learning and yet there are ways to reverse these disheartening trends. Teach Your Children Well acknowledges that every parent wants successful children. However, until we are clearer about our core values and the parenting choices that are most likely to lead to authentic, and not superficial, success, we will continue to raise exhausted, externally driven, impaired children who believe they are only as good as their last performance. Real success is always an inside job, argues Levine, and is measured not by today's report card but by the people our children become fifteen or twenty years down the line. Refusing to be diverted by manufactured controversies such as "tiger moms versus coddling moms," Levine confronts the real issues behind the way we push some of our kids to the breaking point while dismissing the talents and interests of many others. She shows us how to shift our focus from the excesses of hyperparenting and the unhealthy reliance on our children for status and meaning to a parenting style that concentrates on both enabling academic success as well as developing a sense of purpose, well-being, connection, and meaning in our children's lives. Teach Your Children Well is a call to action. And while it takes courage to make the changes we believe in, the time has come, says Levine, to return our overwrought families to a healthier and saner version of themselves.

Making Digital Cultures

Author : Martin Hand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317102487
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Making Digital Cultures written by Martin Hand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological objects, processes and practices. It asks how relations between 'analogue' and 'digital' are conceptualized and configured both in theory and inside the public library, the business organization and the archive. With its direct engagement with new media theory, science and technology studies, and cultural sociology, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of media and communication and science and technology studies.

Wisconsin Library Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Author : Martin Gurri
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953344
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)

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Book Synopsis The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by : Martin Gurri

Download or read book The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium written by Martin Gurri and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.

ROLE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VELLORE DISTRICT

Author : Aariefa Basheer
Publisher : Laxmi Book Publication
ISBN 13 : 1312390875
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book ROLE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VELLORE DISTRICT written by Aariefa Basheer and published by Laxmi Book Publication. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Library is aptly called as Common Men University and serves to the public to enlight them on the principal of democracy. The roles of the public libraries are highly appreciated since they are serving to all walks of life where as the other types of libraries are serving to heterogeneous groups for instance, a university library is work for the academics and researchers of its parent university. The public library as a social institution, it is an instrumental for social developments and as well as supplemental to the informal educational system of the society.

Subject Guide to Communication, Informatics and Librarianship in India

Author : S. P. Agrawal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170224952
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)

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Book Synopsis Subject Guide to Communication, Informatics and Librarianship in India by : S. P. Agrawal

Download or read book Subject Guide to Communication, Informatics and Librarianship in India written by S. P. Agrawal and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Expect More

Author : R. David Lankes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522957805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Expect More written by R. David Lankes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity. In an ever more digital and connected world do we still need places of books in our towns, colleges, or schools? If libraries aren't about books, what are they about?In Expect More, David Lankes, winner of the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, walks you through what to expect out of your library. Lankes argues that communities need libraries that go beyond bricks and mortar and beyond books. We need to expect more out of our libraries. They should be places of learning and advocates for our communities in terms of learning, privacy, intellectual property, and economic development.Expect More is a rallying call to communities to raise the bar, and their expectations, for great libraries.

Developing Community-Led Public Libraries

Author : John Pateman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151909
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Developing Community-Led Public Libraries written by John Pateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book examines the potential for a new community led service model in public libraries. Using theoretical approaches to working with socially excluded community members, with a direct application of those approaches in Canadian public libraries, the authors offer a powerful and persuasive case for adopting the community led approach in libraries worldwide. The book showcases good practice and outlines the challenges to community development work. With public libraries facing budget cuts, this book offers an alternative way forward based on a community led approach to developing needs based library services. This book makes a unique contribution to public library thinking and policy, synthesising the outcomes of research and best practice at the cutting edge of library service delivery, and will be essential reading for all those researching and working in the public library sector.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding

Author : Patrick “PC” Sweeney
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838915566
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding by : Patrick “PC” Sweeney

Download or read book Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding written by Patrick “PC” Sweeney and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the saying goes, all politics is local. And 90% of funding for public libraries comes from the will of local politicians and, in turn, from local voters. So it's urgent that librarians, library supporters, and anyone interested in running an election or campaign for a library understand the strategies, resources, and tactics necessary for positive political action. Whether election day is four months away or four years away, there are immediate steps library leaders and local library ballot committees should take to help secure a successful ballot initiative later. Written by two experienced library campaigners, this action-driven manual for anyone running a political campaign for libraries dives into proven successful campaigning techniques for rural, suburban, and urban settings;expert analysis on how political perceptions are formed, how political power works, and ways libraries can reach funding or political goals;starting the discussion internally;the right approach to setting up the committee structure, and identifying the core leadership team for the committee;tips on networking, cultivating good relationships with the power players in the community, and building a winning coalition;canvassing and direct voter contact;responding effectively to opposition, including voters who habitually resist taxes or library funding increases;the differences between paid media and earned media; andbest practices for marketing and message development, fundraising, volunteer engagement, and other key areas. Filled with easy to follow strategies, this book will guide ballot committees, librarians, trustees, and library advocates through the process of winning an election for funding their library. LIS students will also benefit from the early exposure to political literacy skills provided by this book.

Rural Leadership

Author : Patricia La Caille John
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Rural Leadership written by Patricia La Caille John and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quick Bibliography Series

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Quick Bibliography Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invisible Librarian

Author : Aoife Lawton
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0081001746
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Librarian written by Aoife Lawton and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as "do they feel invisible?" and "How many times have they heard somebody say 'but everything is on the Internet'?" If you are a librarian struggling to find the best strategy for the future of the profession in a rapidly changing information environment, this book is for you. People don't realize that librarians make information available and not just by search engine. This book will make people think differently about librarians, making a case for their value and impact that is compelling, convincing, and credible. Given their versatility and knowledge, now is the time for librarians to become champions of the information age as they improve the visibility and impact of libraries to readers, to stakeholders, and in society. By the end of the book, librarians will have a Visibility Improvement Plan to guarantee future success. - Provides strategies that librarians can use to raise their visibility - Presents how successful librarians have made a positive impact - Covers new techniques that measure current visibility amongst readers and key stakeholders - Includes key guidance on how to implement a 10-step Visibility Improvement Plan

Organizational Adaptation by Public Libraries

Author : Snunith Shoham
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Adaptation by Public Libraries written by Snunith Shoham and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-12-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because organizations constantly interact with their environments, they respond to environmental pressures through an adaptation process that matches environmental exigencies with organizational capabilities. Snunith Shoham conducted an empirical study of the ways in which six California public libraries responded to changes in available resources and the composition of the populations they served during the 1970s. The author discusses the various techniques the libraries employed to influence their environment and the internal changes they made to adjust to a changed environment. Finally, Shoham suggests that the library director determines the library's response to change, the services it will provide, and its future goals and direction.