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Author : William Warner Bishop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book The Backs of Books, and Other Essays in Librarianship written by William Warner Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Warner Bishop
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Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book The Backs of Books and Other Essays in Librarianship, by William Warner Bishop, ... written by William Warner Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Warner Bishop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Backs of Books and Other Essay in Librarianship written by William Warner Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Warner BISHOP (Librarian of the University of Michigan.)
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Backs of Books, and Other Essays in Librarianship written by William Warner BISHOP (Librarian of the University of Michigan.) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory A. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413294
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Christian Librarianship written by Gregory A. Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the current library literature assumes that professional library service is necessarily neutral-detached from the librarian's philosophical or religious views. By contrast, contributors to this collection assert that librarianship is best practiced as an outworking of spiritual conviction. Accordingly, they discuss principles for integrating Christian faith and librarianship within various contexts, and reflect on professional issues from biblical and theological perspectives. This text will prove beneficial to Christians working in all types of libraries, whether religious or secular. This compilation of 16 essays is divided into two main parts, the first on theory and the second on practice. The first part includes chapters such as A Rationale for Integrating Christian Faith and Librarianship, The Master We Serve: The Call of the Christian Librarian to the Secular Workplace; and The Impact of the Christian Faith on Library Service. Chapters in the second part include Library Encounters Culture, A Christian Approach to Intellectual Freedom in Libraries and Keeping Sunday Special in the Contemporary Workplace Culture. Contributors include William Fraher Abernathy, Rod Badams, Donald G. Davis, Jr., John Allen Delivuk, Kenneth D. Gill, Graham Hedges, D. Elizabeth Irish, James R. Johnson, Roger W. Phillips, Gregory A. Smith, Stanford Terhune, John B. Trotti, John Mark Tucker and Geoff Warren.
Author : Martin K. Wallace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486112
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Generation X Librarian written by Martin K. Wallace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation X includes individuals born roughly between 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced major advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays highlights the special challenges that face Generation X librarians. Topics covered include management and leadership, rapidly changing technology, social attitudes and stereotypes within popular culture, and how Generation X librarians have responded to or developed in response to those themes. This work fills many of the gaps present in the professional literature on librarianship and our younger generations.
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476740194
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Library Book written by Susan Orlean and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book The Booklist Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains general literature, fiction, children's books, technical books.
Author : Jesse Hauk Shera
Publisher : Cleveland : Press of Case Western Reserve University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book "The Compleat Librarian" written by Jesse Hauk Shera and published by Cleveland : Press of Case Western Reserve University. This book was released on 1971 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesse Shera's essays on books, reading, and libraries are witty, often philosophical pieces whose essential message, hinted at rather than repetitously stated, is that librarianship is an art, not a trade or a technology. These fifty-one essays...are concerned with the librarian, his problems and experiences, the place he works, the tools he uses, the books he puts on his shelves, the public he serves, and what his future holds"--Dust jacket.
Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040886136
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography written by Richard Garnett and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence W. Towner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226810423
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Past Imperfect written by Lawrence W. Towner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays and talks gathered in Past Imperfect cover a broad range of topics of continuing relevance to the humanities and to scholarship in general. Part I collects Towner's historical essays on the indentured servants, apprentices, and slaves of colonial New England that are standards of the "new social history." The pieces in Part II express his vision of the library as an institution for research and education; here he discusses the rationale for the creation of research centers, the Newberry's pioneering policies for conservation and preservation, and the ways in which collections were built. In Part III Towner writes revealingly of his co-workers and mentors. Part IV assembles his statements as "spokesman for the humanities," addressing questions of national priorities in funding, and of so-called elitist scholarship versus public programs.
Author : Alison Lewis
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1936117266
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Questioning Library Neutrality written by Alison Lewis and published by Library Juice Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian presents essays that relate to neutrality in librarianship in a philosophical or practical sense, and sometimes both. They are a selection of essays originally published in Progressive Librarian, the journal of the Progressive Librarians Guild, presented in the chronological order of their appearance there. These essays, some by academics and some by passionate practitioners, offer a set of critiques of the notion of neutrality as it governs professional activity, focusing on the importance of meaningful engagement in the social sphere.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
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Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616893273
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Public Library written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more. Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in America also function as de facto community centers offering free access to the internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter. And yet, across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or curtailing their hours of operation. Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds of these endangered institutions. The Public Library presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs— from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America's most celebrated writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey of a treasured American institution.
Author : Richard Garnett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230227061
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography written by Richard Garnett and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THEIR CATALOGUES1 "at the laundress's at the Hole in the Wall, Cursitor's Alley, up three pairs of stairs, the author of my Church History--you may also speak to the gentleman who lies by him in the flock bed--my index-maker." Thus Mr. Edmund Curll, apud Dean Swift, and the direction certainly does not convey an exalted idea of the social status of the gentleman who shared the hole of the ecclesiastical historian. It is gratifying to remark the augmented consideration, in our day, of this despised fraternity. There is no omission for which an author of serious pretensions is now more frequently taken to task than that of an index; and if on the one hand it is unsatisfactory that the offence should be so frequent, it is on the other encouraging that its obnoxiousness should be so generally recognised. "Every author," sententiously observes an American sage, "every author should write his own index. Anybody can write the book." Without going quite to this length, very many are disposed to affirm of a book without an index what the Rev. Dr. Folliott, in "Crotchet Castle," affirms of a book without matter for a quotation, namely, that it is no book at all. Now, what Mr. Curll's index-maker was to Mr. Curll, librarians are to the general republic of letters. Every visitor to the Reading Room of the British Museum who is guided by the mere light of nature persists in styling the catalogue "the index " their promotion in public consideration has accordingly kept pace with that of their humbler allies, or rather exceeded it, for if not starting originally from a point quite so depressed, they have attained one much more exalted. The cause, however, is the same in both cases--the enormous increase of knowledge, the need of a...
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Eris
ISBN 13 : 9781912475841
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Unpacking My Library written by Walter Benjamin and published by Eris. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust." Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners. Witty, erudite and often moving, this book will resonate with bibliophiles of all kinds. Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.
