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Publisher
American Library Association
Language
English
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The first of its kind, this readable, hands-on book will help you to see your library and the staff that runs it in a new, more strategic way. Experienced librarian and coach Ruth Metz outlines a focused and results-oriented game plan for achieving performance excellence from all staff members, from top to bottom, through a coaching style of management.
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English
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This volume is not an elementary handbook ... On the contrary, through the essays ... (the author) sets forth the essential nature of science as he conceives it, and shows how the problems of the modern library as an important social institution may be studied in accord with its spirit and methods. Foreword, p. vii.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Description
This book offers readers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term--more than 1,300--that could be used in booksellers' catalogers, library records, and collectors' descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary.
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English
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This book is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichés and stereotyping of librarians. Here are bloggers, radicals and visionaries who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need--From publisher description.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Although librarianship as an organized profession dates back only as far as the mid-19th century, the history of libraries is much older; people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for thousands of years. This book traces librarianship from its origins in ancient times through its development to control the flood of information in the modern world to its profound transformation in response to the new technologies of the...
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English
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Whether a reader's passions fall in library science, genealogy, history, writing, or research, he or she will find something of interest in this extensive career guide. There are many, many career options under the broad scope of the fields of writing and research, and many of them don't require higher education. This guide breaks down these options, offering a long list of online and off-line resources for the determined career seeker and several...
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Publisher
American Library Association
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Here's a practical and comprehensive manual that guides you through grant fundamentals. The author's game plan will help you find relevant funders by analyzing eligibility criteria, write and prepare grant applications, and increase your chances for success by using additional tactics, such as pre- and post-submission marketing to "sell" your institution to a funder.--[book cover]