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Knowledge Management: An Introduction - Paperback

$144.00

by Kevin C. Desouza (Author), Scott Paquette (Author)Knowledge management as a discipline has matured over the last decade. It has moved from being a mere buzzword to an inherently fundamental concept. Simply put, the knowledge-based assets of the organization are the only source of sustainable competitive advantage in today's marketplace. Traditional resources such as land, labor, and capital, while important, are no longer sufficient for survival in today's fiercely competitive marketplace....

The Essential Lapsit Guide: An Multimedia How-To-Do-It Manual and Programming Guide for Stimulating Literacy Development from 12 to 24 Months - Paperback

$126.00

by Linda L. Ernst (Author)This innovative, comprehensive resource will help you stimulate the minds of your youngest patrons with rhumes, songs, books, and other creative activities. Storytims, rhymes, songs, fingerplays, and other activities in this text and companion multimedia DVD offer the intellectual stimulation that young toddlers need to grow into future library lovers. Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.6 x 10.9 x 8.4 IN Publication Date: December 02, 2013

Writing Successful Technology Grant Proposals: A Lita Guide - Paperback

$126.00

by Pamela H. Mackellar (Author)When you win a grant, you help your community by providing great technology-driven services. Technology grants provide the crucial funding to implement the latest technology projects so you can meet your community's needs. But how can you write a successful grant proposal? How can you be sure that your technology grant will be approved? Here is the only book that covers technology grants for libraries. This comprehensive book on grants for libraries focuses on t...

Academic Archives:: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections - Paperback

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by Aaron D. Purcell (Author)Today, the field of academic archives is more expansive and complex than ever before. In addition to college and university archives, academic archives encompass records management programs, special collections departments, and other campus archival repositories. This new definition of academic archives programs has redefined the role, and training, of academic archivists. This book gives you the tools to fill that role, including collection strategies, a managemen...

Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year's Worth of Ready-To-Go Programming - Paperback

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by Carol Garnett Hopkins (Author)Here are 52 ready-to-go storytimes with a difference - art activities - for use with toddlers ages 1 to 3 years old. Each plan is based around a theme familiar to children including bears, bugs, springtime, community workers, clothing and hats, flowers and gardens, weather, music, pets, transportation, pirates, and many more. Art activities for toddlers are hard to find but important for developing impulse control, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor dexteri...

Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population - Paperback

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by Patrick Ragains (Editor)Information literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library's mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasingly diverse student body and an increasingly varied spectrum of majors? In this updated, expanded edition, over twenty library instructors share their best practices for reaching out to today's unique users. Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college stud...

Enhancing Teaching and Learning: A Leadership Guide for School Librarians - Paperback

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by Jean Donham (Author)This new edition of a classic shows how to take a proactive role in shaping instruction by learning how to develop and implement a library media program and integrate it into the total educational experience. Revised and updated, Donham's third edition covers all aspects of the school system: students, curriculum and instruction, principals, district administration, and the community. It demonstrates how to interact and collaborate in order to integrate the school libra...

Management Basics for Information Professionals - Paperback

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by G. Edward Evans (Author), Camila Alire (Author)The expanded text that reflects the rapidly changing sphere of information services makes this bestselling, comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries even more valuable. Building the basic skills good library managers must exercise throughout, this third edition includes a completely new chapter on management ethics. Evans and new co-author Alire pay close attention to management in "new normal" straitened economic conditions a...

Library as Safe Haven: Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery; A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians - Paperback

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by Deborah D. Halsted (Author), Shari C. Clifton (Author), Daniel T. Wilson (Author)Libraries have always played a special role in times of disaster by continuing to provide information services. The Stafford Act of 2011 designates libraries as among the temporary facilities delivering essential services, so the federal government directive for a Continuity of Operations Plan for all its agencies is a planning imperative for libraries. Peppered with engaging first-person narratives from libra...

Records and Information Management - Paperback

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by Patricia C. Franks (Author)Students and professionals alike can benefit from the information in this book, which offers insights into a range of topics in the field. For instructors, and undergraduate and graduate level students, it will serve as an introduction to records and information management in archives, records and information management programs. Experienced archives and records professionals, as well as supervisors and managers charged with oversight will get a new perspective o...

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by Marcia Lei Zeng (Author), Jian Qin (Author)Metadata remains the solution for describing the explosively growing, complex world of digital information, and continues to be of paramount importance for information professionals. Providing a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, Zeng and Qin's thorough revision of their benchmark text offers a comprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of library and information science an...

Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison - Paperback

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by Richard Moniz (Author), Jo Henry (Author), Joe Eshleman (Author)The changing higher education environment requires a new kind of relationship among faculty, academic liaisons, and students. A core resource for any LIS student or academic librarian serving as a liaison, this handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline, helping librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library. Readers will learn about connecting and a...

Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners - Paperback

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by Thomas P. Mackey (Author), Trudi E. Jacobson (Author)Today's learners communicate, create, and share information using a range of information technologies such as social media, blogs, microblogs, wikis, mobile devices and apps, virtual worlds, and MOOCs. In Metaliteracy, respected information literacy experts Mackey and Jacobson present a comprehensive structure for information literacy theory that builds on decades of practice while recognizing the knowledge required for an expansive and ...

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by Sam H. Ham (Author)In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two decades. Ham draws on recent advances in communication research to unveil a fresh and invigorating perspective that will lead interpreters to new and insightful pathways for making a difference on purpose through their work.Author BiographySam H. Ham, PhD, is Professor Emeritus and former director...

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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit - Paperback

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by Brenda Ueland (Author), Andrei Codrescu (Introduction by)But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good and the grand, the true and the beautiful. In her ninety-three remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell...

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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot - Paperback

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by Charles Baxter (Author)Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to...

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The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye - Paperback

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by Donald Revell (Author)The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they already know but don't really know. Donald Revell argues passionately for t...

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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again - Paperback

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by Sven Birkerts (Author)The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners. In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic and memoirist Sve...

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The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes - Paperback

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by Joan Silber (Author)Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a...

The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song - Paperback

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by Ellen Bryant Voigt (Author)With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. This structure--this architecture--is the essential drama of the poem's composition, she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by on...

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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction - Paperback

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by Dean Young (Author)In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity, beyond craft? "Poetry is not a discipline," Young writes. "It is a hunger, a revolt, a drive, a mash note, a fright, a tantrum, a grief, a hoax, a debacle, an applicati...

The Art of Description: World Into Word - Paperback

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by Mark Doty (Author)It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . . Doty finds refuge in the sensory experience found in poems by Blake, Whitman, Bishop, and others. The Art of Description is an invaluable book by one of America's most revered writers and t...

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The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between - Paperback

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by Stacey D'Erasmo (Author)The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below"What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships not only between two lovers but also between friends, family members, acquaintances, and enemies in fi...

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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination - Paperback

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by Carl Phillips (Author)The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qualities of the imagination by rea...

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The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction and Nonfiction - Paperback

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by Christopher Bram (Author), Charles Baxter (Editor)One has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up by Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical events and figures into a shapely narrative is no simple task. The acclaimed novelist Christopher Bram examines how writers as disparate as Gabriel Garc a M rquez, David McCullough, Toni Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, and many others have employed hist...

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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story - Paperback

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by Edwidge Danticat (Author)A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses," Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing...

Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation - Paperback

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by Eva C. Karpinski (Author) Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and pos...

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by Noah Webster (Author)Considered to be the third-best selling book of all time in America. With its distinctive blue cover, it earned the nickname "the blue-backed speller" and was used over the span of nearly a century. This is an exact reproduction of the 1824 edition. Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.62 x 6.98 x 4.25 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 01, 1999

Greek Rhetoric Under Christian Emperors - Paperback

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by George Alexander Kennedy (Author)""Kennedy's exposition is lucid and elegant, his enthusiasm for his subject infectious. Accordingly, the reader approaching that subject for the first time will be frequently enlightened, but never bored: indeed he will probably be stimulated to turn to the author's earlier works for further enlightenment."" --From the review of the original printing by J. D. Frendo in The Classical Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 1984, pp. 204-5: George A. Kennedy is Paddison Prof...

Library of Small Catastrophes - Paperback

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by Alison Rollins (Author)Alison Rollins, a librarian by trade, disrupts the canon by re-cataloging language, culture, and history in her debut collection.Author BiographyAlison C. Rollins, a Cave Canem fellow, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: April 23, 2019

A Grammar of Sochiapan Chinantec: Studies in Chinantec Language 6 - Paperback

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by David Paul Foris (Author)David Foris gathered the data for this volume during the sixteen years he lived in the northwest part of Oaxaca in Mexico. He settled in the Chinantla, a Mexican term meaning 'an enclosed place', a region boxed in by high mountain ridges and difficult to reach. Foris makes available the knowledge he has acquired about the fascinating Sochiapan Chinantec language. It is an isolated language that exhibits a complex system of verbal inflection. Speakers of the languag...

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How to Write Your Own Life Story: The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer - Paperback

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by Lois Daniel (Author)Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or histo...