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| Author | : Valerie Freeman |
| Publisher | : Chandos Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-11-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0081012985 |
Creating a New Library: Recipes for Transformation offers ways to make your library group space into one conducive to transformational learning. The book is structured as a cookbook with an introduction to the idea, then directions on its execution. Next, the book gives tips on how to adapt each 'recipe' to fit other specific needs, including other kinds of libraries. The layout follows three strands: space, community, and outreach. Each section includes five elements critical to transforming spaces:, fun, stimulation, safety, freedom, and personal. From providing coffee in the morning, to a full Personal Librarian program, this book presents useful and engaging ideas for transformational learning. - Enables and encourage transformational learning in academic and research libraries - Presents practical ideas in the style of a cookbook, recipes that can be readily applied to a variety of sites and situations - Gives useful insight and ideas relevant to different kinds of libraries, including academic and research libraries - Suggests fun, quirky, and practical ideas for your library
| Author | : Kirby Porter |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2003-10-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 178063062X |
This book is intended as a guide for those people who have been charged with establishing a library or information service in their organisation. It is a practical guide to the steps that need to be taken, the people that will need to be dealt with and the procedures that will have to be adopted in order to bring the venture to a successful conclusion. The book contains many practical tips and hints from the author, based upon his 'hands-on', practical experience of setting up many new information services. - Deals with the whole process – from start to finish - Based on sound principles that have worked in practice - Easy to follow as a step-by-step guide
| Author | : Petra Hauke |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 2021-06-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110679728 |
This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design.
| Author | : Marian Koren |
| Publisher | : NBD Biblion Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Library architecture |
| ISBN | : 9789054835707 |
Result of a conference organised by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Netherlands Public Library Association, on the occasion of the Dutch presidency of the Council of Europe on the 18th and 19th of March 2004 in The Hague and Apeldoorn. New functions and forms of public libraries in the 21st century were the central theme about which more than 150 participants of over 35 countries discussed. It was an expert meeting of governmental policy makers as well as professionals from the library field, and it includes library building and city planning, new public library concepts and its reflection in attractive and sustainable design and public library building. Consists of lectures, recommendations to the Council of Europe, seminar, survey reports on the situation of public libraries in European countries.
| Author | : Julie Biando Edwards |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2013-05-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0810891824 |
This book is for those moving their library beyond places to find information. Written by practicing public librarians and an academic librarian with an interest in public libraries, the book focuses on how public libraries can become more community centered and, by doing so, how they can transform both themselves and their communities. The authors argue that focusing on building community through innovative and responsive services and programs will be the best way for the public library to reposition itself in the years to come.
| Author | : Andrew Douglas Pitonyak |
| Publisher | : Hentzenwerke |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business |
| ISBN | : 9781930919518 |
This book provides an introduction to the creation and management of macros in OpenOffice. Numerous examples and explanations demonstrate proper techniques and discuss known problems and solutions. The underlying data structure is discussed and techniques are introduced to evaluate OpenOffice objects, facilitating the use of returned objects in the absence of sufficient documentation.
| Author | : David Pogue |
| Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
| Total Pages | : 640 |
| Release | : 2014-05-13 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1491948418 |
This new edition covers iPhoto 9.5 for Mac and iPhoto 2.0 for iOS 7. (iPhoto is not available in iOS 8.) Whether you’re on a Mac or iOS 7 device, iPhoto now makes it easier than ever to organize, edit, publish, print, and share your photos—but neither version of the program offers a manual to help you get going. Fortunately, David Pogue and Lesa Snider offer a clear and objective guide to iPhoto in this witty, authoritative book. The important stuff you need to know Organize your collection. Group your pictures by events, albums, people, or places. Sharpen your editing skills. Use all of iPhoto’s editing options, whether you’re on a Mac or on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 7. Dive into new features. Learn about the enhanced mapping system, new slideshow themes, and streamlined printing. Compare your photos. View multiple shots side by side to determine which is best. Share your shots online. Post photos on iCloud or Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, and other social sites. Keep web journals. Create snazzy, customizable online scrapbook pages. Create projects. Have fun building slideshows, gift books, calendars, and cards.
| Author | : Milton T. Wolf |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2013-10-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1317951956 |
Ensure the success of your library’s cooperative collection development plan! This solidly researched book brings a fresh perspective to the practical problems of library resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers shrewd advice and creative thinking on the political and administrative issues that often present obstacles. It will help you assess your library’s situation, identify new opportunities, and find powerful new ways to perform the essential tasks of archiving, preservation, and digitization. By making wise use of new technologies, local libraries can offer international resources and services unimaginable just a few decades ago. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world, including the US, Eastern Europe, the UK, the nations of the Pacific Rim, and South Asia. It examines the costs and benefits of regional, national, and international cooperatives and debates the varying uses of centered and decentralized models of resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles, including: lengthy approval processes fixation on volume count instead of quality faculty and commercial resistance to reforming scholarly communications publishing monopolies and rising prices Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development defines the issues that need to be addressed by the library community to foster the advancement of cooperative collection development and suggests a series of steps that can be taken to ensure its future success and continued growth. It is an essential guide to the world of resource sharing.
| Author | : Samuel T. Huang |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781560244585 |
A dozen articles suggest a variety of ways for libraries to enhance their daily reference service and the image of librarianship, and to bring in more users. They emphasize the interaction of both the staff and the clients with new technology. Also published as The Reference Librarian, no. 39, 1993. No index. The paper edition has the same ISBN. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Wyoma van Duinkerken |
| Publisher | : Chandos Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-08-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0081027559 |
Library Storage Facilities: From Planning to Construction to Operation examines high-density library storage facilities, considering how such facilities are changing the nature of collection management. The book discusses the types of storage facilities and explores how institutions can collaborate and embrace cost saving options through opening shared off-site storage facilities, addressing common needs, and maximizing value and space in on-campus libraries. Considering a unique partnership between the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System, the book highlights best practice and lessons learned during implementation. Topics covered include storage strategies, geometric efficiency, systems integration, environmental control, and more. - Provides insights on the importance of high-density library storage facilities - Lays out the process for funding, planning and building collaborations around storage facilities - Shows how to prepare a storage facility for operation in terms of staffing, workflow and equipment - Considers repurposing existing structures as a way of building a storage facility - Presents how to incorporate a storage facility into services and operations
