ilość książek w kategorii: 272
Read On... Sports: Reading Lists for Every Taste
ISBN: 9781610693578 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sports literature spans multiple genres--from fast-paced adventures, to biographies of sports heroes, to tales of underdogs overcoming the odds among others. Libraries and readers alike can benefit from a resource that organizes fiction and nonfiction titles according to their primary appeal features. This useful reference features reading lists of sports-oriented titles written by talented authors that are cataloged by character, story, setting, mood, and language. The lists are perfect for advising readers, creating thematic reading lists for library websites, and as plans for those who... Sports literature spans multiple genres--from fast-paced adventures, to biographies of sports heroes, to tales of underdogs overcoming the odds amo... |
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186,66 zł |
Rethinking Collection Development and Management
ISBN: 9781610693059 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rethinking Collection Development and Management adds a new and important perspective to the literature on collection development and management for 21st-century library professionals. The work reveals how dramatically collection development is changing, and has already changed; supplies practical suggestions on how librarians might respond to these advancements; and reflects on what librarians can expect in the future. This volume is a perfect complement for textbooks that take a more traditional approach, offering a broad, forward-thinking perspective that will benefit students in... Rethinking Collection Development and Management adds a new and important perspective to the literature on collection development and manage... |
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274,58 zł |
Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-To-Do-It Manual
ISBN: 9781555707460 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More and more libraries, archives, and museums are creating online collections of digitized resources. Where can those charged with organizing these new collections turn for guidance on the actual practice of metadata design and creation? To Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-To-Do-It Manual. This practical, hands-on volume will make it easy for readers to acquire the knowledge and skills they need, whether they use the book on the job or in a classroom. Author Steven Miller introduces readers to fundamental concepts and practices in a style accessible to beginners and LIS students, as...
More and more libraries, archives, and museums are creating online collections of digitized resources. Where can those charged with organizing these n...
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491,99 zł |
The Art of People Management in Libraries : Tips for Managing your Most Vital Resource
ISBN: 9781843344230 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libraries, especially academic and research libraries. It lays out a set of the most pressing HR management issues facing senior library leaders in the context of continuous organisational change in the 21st century and offers library practitioners effective tips for people management.
This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libra...
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307,74 zł |
Building and Managing E-Book Collections: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
ISBN: 9781856048378 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an overview and analysis of current and emerging trends of the use and development of the e-book. Readers will learn best practices to guide them in developing library policies and procedures involving the acquisition, purchase, collection development, cataloguing and retention of e-books. Additionally, readers will be able to understand the impact of e-books on the publishing industry, scholarly communication and its integration into future technologies and social media.
This book provides an overview and analysis of current and emerging trends of the use and development of the e-book. Readers will learn best practices...
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338,84 zł |
The Patron-Driven Library : A Practical Guide for Managing Collections and Services in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9781843347361 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections to services, placing the reader at the center of library activities. The book reveals the way library users are changing, and how social networking, web delivery of information, and the uncertain landscape of e-print has energized librarians to adopt technology to meet a different model of the...
Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focu...
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307,74 zł |
Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Surefire Winners for Middle and High School Readers
ISBN: 9780810888081 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction...
Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for n...
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473,77 zł |
The Care of Prints and Drawings
ISBN: 9781442239715 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2nd edition of The Care of Prints and Drawings provides practical, straightforward advice to those responsible for the preservation of works on paper, ranging from curators, facility managers, conservators, registrars, collection care specialists, private collectors, artists, or students of museum studies, visual arts, art history, or conservation. A greater emphasis is placed on preventive conservation, a trend among collecting institutions, which reflects the growing recognition that scarce resources are best expended on preventing deterioration, rather than on less effective measures...
The 2nd edition of The Care of Prints and Drawings provides practical, straightforward advice to those responsible for the preservation of works on pa...
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263,59 zł |
Annals of the Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781904799641 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from the foundation of Cobham's Library in 1367, Richard de Bury's library at Durham College, Duke Humphrey's Library, Sir Thomas Bodley's bequest and on to the late nineteenth century. Macray's scholarly work abounds with fascinating detail and draws not only on the Bodleian's official archives but also many diaries and gossipy anecdotes. It comes as something of a shock to discover that one of Bodley's friends accused him of being 'so drunk with applause and vanitie of his librarie' that he...
This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from the foundation of Cobham's Library in 1367, Richard de...
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195,14 zł |
Read on ... Romance: Reading Lists for Every Taste
ISBN: 9781610694001 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As romance publishing continues to flourish, readers and readers' advisors are faced with increasingly complex reading choices. This book helps adult and teen readers quickly find the books they love to read, identifies other titles with shared qualities for more reading suggestions, and provides librarians with carefully reviewed read-alike lists that they can use with confidence. Featuring romance novels published from 2000 to the present day, this useful guide offers you hundreds of reading suggestions covering a wide variety of themes from the most popular to the more... As romance publishing continues to flourish, readers and readers' advisors are faced with increasingly complex reading choices. This book helps adu... |
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186,66 zł |
The Collection's at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and Stem
ISBN: 9781610695046 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and careers in these fields; STEM helps ensure that future generations include inventive and critical thinkers. Digital resources offer a current, exciting direction to involve school librarians with their STEM teachers. With its specific focus on open digital multimedia learning resources, this book will enable school librarians to take advantage of this opportunity and evaluate, build, and maintain their STEM collections. The book... Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and... |
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214,17 zł |
Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers
ISBN: 9781557536969 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportunity for librarians and other information professionals, developing educational programs that introduce graduate students to the knowledge and skills needed to work with research data. The term "data...
Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with resear...
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188,13 zł |
Pop Culture: A Guide to Getting Teens & Tweens to Read Through Movies, TV Shows, and Video Games
ISBN: 9780615858593 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Movies, TV Shows and Video Games oh my Teens and Tweens are into so many things and reading can be nothing more than a second thought, which can make it hard to find the right book they might like to read. In Pop Culture A Guide to Getting Teens & Tweens to Read Through Movies, TV Shows, and Video Games the author explores using these mediums to put books into their hands. The author shows you how he uses pop culture to find books his teen and tweens might like with read-a-likes. What books might read like: The Legend of Zelda Pacific Rim Doctor Who Warm Bodies
Movies, TV Shows and Video Games oh my Teens and Tweens are into so many things and reading can be nothing more than a second thought, which can make...
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45,49 zł |
Resource Sharing Today: A Practical Guide to Interlibrary Loan, Consortial Circulation, and Global Cooperation
ISBN: 9780810888036 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Budget constraints challenge collection development in unprecedented ways. Collection development has increasingly become a cooperative effort among libraries in geographic proximity. When their own library doesn't have certain books or journals, users turn to interlibrary loan to obtain the resources they need. However, many library science degree programs don't cover interlibrary loan. Resource Sharing Today is a practical guide to resource sharing starting with the library across town and ending with libraries on the other side of the globe. Chapters cover everything from the ALA's...
Budget constraints challenge collection development in unprecedented ways. Collection development has increasingly become a cooperative effort among l...
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411,86 zł |
Resource Sharing Today: A Practical Guide to Interlibrary Loan, Consortial Circulation, and Global Cooperation
ISBN: 9780810893160 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Budget constraints challenge collection development in unprecedented ways. Collection development has increasingly become a cooperative effort among libraries in geographic proximity. When their own library doesn't have certain books or journals, users turn to interlibrary loan to obtain the resources they need. However, many library science degree programs don't cover interlibrary loan. Resource Sharing Today is a practical guide to resource sharing starting with the library across town and ending with libraries on the other side of the globe. Chapters cover everything from the ALA's...
Budget constraints challenge collection development in unprecedented ways. Collection development has increasingly become a cooperative effort among l...
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708,40 zł |
Too Much Is Not Enough!: Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2013
ISBN: 9781941269008 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost one hundred presentations from the thirty-third annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 6-9, 2013) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included open access publishing, demand-driven acquisition, the future of university presses, and data-driven decision making. While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that this conference is now one of the major venues for leaders in the publishing and library communities...
Almost one hundred presentations from the thirty-third annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 6-9, 2013) are included in this annual proc...
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400,92 zł |
Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library
ISBN: 9780810884557 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using vendor licensing and fair use guidelines, library collections can contain thousands of online videos either purchased or through in-house digitization. In this book, the authors share their knowledge developed in building and maintaining a streaming video collection. Highlights include key information and tips, as well as recommended best practices, for the licensing and acquisitions processes, providing access, promoting the collection, and evaluating the library and vendor collections. The authors cover the options for acquiring streaming video titles and options for hosting videos....
Using vendor licensing and fair use guidelines, library collections can contain thousands of online videos either purchased or through in-house digiti...
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483,25 zł |
Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library
ISBN: 9780810893184 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using vendor licensing and fair use guidelines, library collections can contain thousands of online videos either purchased or through in-house digitization. In this book, the authors share their knowledge developed in building and maintaining a streaming video collection. Highlights include key information and tips, as well as recommended best practices, for the licensing and acquisitions processes, providing access, promoting the collection, and evaluating the library and vendor collections. The authors cover the options for acquiring streaming video titles and options for hosting videos....
Using vendor licensing and fair use guidelines, library collections can contain thousands of online videos either purchased or through in-house digiti...
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230,64 zł |
Customer-based Collection Development: An Overview
ISBN: 9781856049313 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential guide to customer-based/patron-driven collection development will allow librarians to navigate the rapid changes in what users expect of libraries. The traditional top down approach to collection development definitely has its drawbacks: even after spending a good deal of time, energy, and resources, librarians are sometimes frustrated to find that their library's collection is not being used as they anticipated. But there's another strategy that's gaining momentum. This book gathers together the best practitioners in the emerging field of customer-based collection development...
This essential guide to customer-based/patron-driven collection development will allow librarians to navigate the rapid changes in what users expect o...
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312,75 zł |
Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities
ISBN: 9781440834325 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether you work in a public library, an academic library, a school library, or any other type of library, you are likely to encounter members of the veteran and military communities. This book is a starting point to help librarians, library administrators, and all library employees understand how veterans, service members, and their families can be different from other patrons, recognize important elements of military and veteran culture, and identify strategies for effectively serving the veteran and military communities. In this book, you find tips to help you determine the... Whether you work in a public library, an academic library, a school library, or any other type of library, you are likely to encounter members of t... |
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258,10 zł |