Subjects: “…Public libraries -- United States -- Pictorial works.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Standards.…”
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Table of Contents: “…An abbreviated history -- Different strengths, common goals -- Everyday practice : a how-to guide -- Grants -- Sharing resources -- Research and the process of discovery -- School services at the public library -- A day in the life -- At the potter's wheel.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Moore Library of Lexington, Michigan -- Those commission ideas : the Rhinelander Public Library of Rhinelander, Wisconsin -- Literature suitable for a small public library : Main Street public library collections -- Epilogue : agent of social harmony.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Great Britain.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Administration.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- United States -- History.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Standards.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Technological innovations.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Public libraries : the people's library -- Establishing the library -- Building the team -- Securing library financing -- Shaping the organization -- Taking care of business -- Planning for the long term -- Participating in cooperative arrangements -- Building the perfect library -- Furnishing and equipping a public library -- Developing the collection -- Planning and developing services -- Promoting the library.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Germany.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Planning.…”
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Table of Contents: “…For 'Plain People': The American Public Library,1854-1876 -- 3. 'The Best Reading for the Greatest Number at the least Cost': 1876-1893 -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction to cost-benefit analysis for public libraries -- Fundamentals of cost-benefit analysis -- Important considerations before commissioning a CBA study -- Preparing to measure benefits -- Measuring library benefits : identifying and sampling library users -- Measuring library benefits : preparing the survey instruments -- Measuring library costs -- Measuring return to taxpayer and donor investment in your library -- Wrapping up your study : communicating your CBA findings -- Conclusions : evaluating what your CBA study accomplished.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- United States.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Collection development -- United States.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The early years -- The making of a librarian : 1892-1900 -- Moving spirits in the French library movement -- Morel and library education -- Morel and children's libraries -- Advocacy of public libraries -- Morel and legal deposit in France.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The culture of print in a context of racism -- Carnegie public libraries for African Americans -- Solidifying segregation -- Faltering systems -- Change and continuity -- Erecting libraries, constructing race -- Books for black readers -- Reading the race-based library -- Opening access.…”
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Subjects: “…Craighead County and Jonesboro Public Library (Ark.)…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Information technology.…”
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Subjects: “…Adult services in public libraries -- United States.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- Collection development -- United States.…”
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Subjects: “…Adult services in public libraries -- United States.…”
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Subjects: “…Muncie Public Library -- History -- 19th century.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 -- Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York -- Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age -- Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era -- Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics -- Works Cited -- Notes.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Manheimer and Miwako Kidahashi -- Reconsidering age : the emerging role of cultural institutions / Diantha Dow Schull and Selma Thomas -- Reclaiming the "public" library : engaging immigrants, building democracy / Nan Kari and David Scheie -- The library as place in an aging society / Diantha Dow Schull -- Conversations and the true knowledge of generations / R. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Public libraries and consumer health: a historic perspective -- Health information provision in public libraries -- Health programming in public libraries -- Reaching out to the community: opportunities for wider engagement -- Looking ahead: future opportunities -- Onward and upward.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Read-In Movement: Desegregating Alabama's -- Public Libraries, 1960-1963 -- Mobile, I96I -- Montgomery, 1962 -- Huntsville, 1962 -- Birmingham, 1963 -- Anniston, I963 -- 5. …”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- United States -- Administration.…”
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Subjects: “…Adult services in public libraries -- United States.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- United States -- History -- 20th century.…”
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Subjects: “…Public libraries -- United States -- History -- 20th century.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Enlightenment: a brief introduction -- Academic libraries and the philosophical Enlightenment -- Public libraries and the political Enlightenment -- Universal libraries : dream and reality.…”
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Subjects: “…Libraries -- Special collections -- Sacramento Public Library.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The employment crisis hits the public library -- An operations manual for getting started -- How-tos for providing hands-on help -- Resources and reference : think beyond the bookshelves -- Partnerships : you'll never work alone -- Best practices : what libraries are doing right.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The urgent need to tell the library story more effectively -- Outcomes : an approach that shows the value of libraries -- The "How Libraries and Librarians Help" outcome model : applying contextual approaches to outcome evaluation -- Step one, getting started : preparing to conduct an outcomes study -- Step two, collecting data for outcomes : approaches and tools -- Step three, analyzing outcomes data -- Step four, maximizing the results of your outcomes study -- Predicting outcomes : outcome measures as a planning tool / Rhea Joyce Rubin -- Ripples of impact : Washtenaw Literacy Program outcomes / Maria Serapiglia and Sarah Wooden -- Empowering youth : outcomes of public libraries' youth technology -- Strengthening community : outcomes of community information services -- Putting the pieces together : an outcome study of the Ypsilanti District Library's Senior Deposit Collection Program / Dana Walker and Jeanie Fisher.…”
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“…Competencies for librarians serving children in public libraries.…”
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Subjects: “…Carroll County Public Library.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Gray and Candelaria Mendoza -- Inviting police to read at your library / Linda Schwartz -- Children of incarcerated parents : public libraries reaching out / Shelley Quezada -- ReadsinMA.org : statewide summer reading program goes online / Maureen Ambrosino -- BLAST school outreach program / Georgene DeFilippo -- Braille that stands out in more ways than one / Deborah J. …”
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Table of Contents: “…/ Kirsten Drotner -- A children's public library in Muscat, Oman / James R. Keller -- Building excellent libraries with and for children / Inci Önal -- Programme : Jacksonville Public Library Children's and Teens' Libraries / Alex Lamis and Barbara A.B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Et in arcadia ego, 1941-1945 -- London, 1946-1947 -- On the move, 1948-1952 -- Finchley Catholic Grammar School, 1952-1957 -- Hampstead Public Library, 1957-1960 -- Paris and afterwards, 1960-1962 -- Marriage, Ealing Public Library, and library school, 1962-1966 -- BNB, children, cataloguing, and a crisis, 1966-1969 -- BNB, the British Library, 1970-1974 -- Illinois, 1974-1975 -- Back to England, the University of Illinois Library, 1975-1978 -- The Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 1968-1978.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--How men have formed libraries.--How to buy.--Public libraries.--Private libraries.--General bibliographies.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Agosto -- Urban teens and their use of public libraries / Denise E. Agosto -- Public library websites and urban teenagers' health information needs / Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Dana Hanson-Baldauf -- Spacing out with young adults: translating YA space concepts into practice / Anthony Bernier -- Youth development and evaluation: lessons from "Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development" / Elaine Meyers -- The loft at Imaginon: a new-generation library for urban teens / Michele Gorman, Amy Wyckoff, and Rebecca L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Día now and in the future -- Cultural competencies -- Reaching the community -- Programming : celebrating Día in public libraries -- Programming : celebrating Día in schools.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Troublesome womanhood and new childhood -- Protecting books : Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and the public library -- Selling books : bookshops, the WEIU, and Bertha Everett Mahony -- Making books : children's book publishing and Louise Hunting Seaman -- Becoming experts and friends -- Building professional culture -- Triumph and transition.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Mediterranean origins -- Toward the Boston Public Library, 1881-92 -- The success of the Guastavino Company, 1893-1908 -- Rafael Guastavino Jr. and the mature company, 1909-29 -- Reasons for success -- The decline of Guastavino vaulting, 1930-62 -- The legacy of the Guastavino Company -- Appendices: list of extant buildings with Guastavino tile vaulting.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Defining embedded librarianship -- Push and pull : the forces driving embedded librarianship -- Embedded librarians in higher education -- Embedded librarians in the health sciences -- Embedded librarians in corporations, nonprofits, and government -- Embedded librarians in schools and public libraries -- Assessing your readiness -- Getting started with embedded librarianship -- Sustaining your embedded role -- Evaluating your success.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Palm Canyon residence -- School of the Arts Plaza, University of California, Irvine -- Scenario Lane residence -- Santa Monica Public Library -- Red Tail Ranch -- Industrial complex -- Recent work. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Jewish public culture -- The Jews of this world -- Libraries: from the study hall to the public library -- Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time -- Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture -- Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word -- Theater: the professionalization of performance -- Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences -- The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past -- Public history: imagining Russian Jews -- Conclusion: this world and the next.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Jankowska -- Building on green : sustainable thinking goes beyond green to unite library space and community / by Audry Barbakoff and Brett Barbakoff -- The public library's role in the Transition Towns movement / by Monika Antonelli.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Long Museum -- Eatonton-Putnam County Library -- Marble Valley historical Society -- Miller County Public Library -- Gilmer County Public Library -- Agnes Scott College -- Etowah Valley Historical Society.…”
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Table of Contents: “…(1992) -- Returning a stare : people's struggles for political and social inclusion (2000) -- The professional is political : redefining the social role of public libraries (2004, SD-ES) -- The role of the Library Association (2007) -- Never be silent : launch, Nairobi (2006) -- Communications for liberation : launch of Never be silent, London (2006) -- Trade union movement in Kenya & their communications system (2006) -- Politics of information & knowledge in Africa (2007) -- Setting the scene (4) : need for active involvement -- Explaining the stand -- Three questions from bis (2001) -- Interview with Shiraz Durrani, 11th May 2004 (Anna Goulding) -- Breaking the culture of silence (2006) -- Three questions from bis (2006) -- Information activism -- Library Association motions on race and class (1996) -- Comprehensive and efficient : standards for modern public libraries, a response (2000) -- Progressive librarians & activists campaign to save CRE Library (2004) -- Study, teaching and learning -- The educational role of public libraries in combating racism and xenophobia (1999) -- Incorporating reflective learning-- in information management (2007) -- Learning by doing : lifelong learning through innovations projects at DASS (2007) -- Changing course content to meet changing needs (2007) -- Ideas into action -- The facts behind the Three Continents Liberation Collection (1993) -- The Black and Minority Ethnic Stock Group in Hackney libraries (1999) -- Young people in control (SD-DB, 2004) -- Quality Leaders Project-Youth : a search for a relevant information service (2005-06) -- Progressive librarianship in Africa : the PALIAct story (2006) -- Quality Leaders Project (Youth) : report 4 to PHF (2006) -- QLP-Y on a journey of a thousand kilometres (2007) -- Filling the youth shaped hole (2007) -- Book reviews -- Sturges, Paul and Neill, Richard (1990) : The quiet struggle. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Live: CC01 House ; Catskills House ; VVE House ; Chelsea Penthouse ; Cedarhurst Spiral Housing ; Nassau Street Lobby -- Work: Mixed Greens Gallery ; Stockholm Public Library Addition ; Les Migrateurs Furniture Showroom ; EMR Printing Plant -- Show: Site Lines/Line Weights ; Piranese as designer ; Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran -- City: Filter parking ; Chicago Filter Park ; Greenwich Street Park Apartments ; Spaces between the hills: Ramallah/Jerusalem/Bethlehem -- Wetland City: New Orleans East Urban Proposal.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Doherty -- The professional is political : redefining the social role of public libraries / by Shiraz Durrani and Elizabeth Smallwood -- The hottest place in hell : the crisis of neutrality in contemporary librarianship / by Joseph Good.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Where there once was none / Lucy Bellamy -- Well-intentioned censorship is still censorship : the challenge of public library employees / Ron Critchfield and David M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Where there once was none / Lucy Bellamy -- Well-intentioned censorship is still censorship : the challenge of public library employees / Ron Critchfield and David M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Libraries for the Caesars Ewen Bowie; 14. Public libraries in the cities of the Roman Empire Matthew Nicholls; 15. …”
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Table of Contents: “…: key aspects of library -- A new wave of library architecture -- Developing the brief and establishing a project management team -- Places and partners -- Programme and people : the changing library programme -- A vital space for children and young people -- Public library case studies : Barcelona; Bournemouth; Brighton; Canada Water; Cardiff; Dagenham; Ewell; Glasgow Bridge; Hook; Huntingdon; Newcastle; Norwich; Whitechapel; Winchester -- Academic library case studies : Aberdeen University; Cranfield University; Sheffield University, Commons; Sheffield University, Western Library; Surrey University -- Lessons from the case studies and post-occupancy evaluation -- 21st century libraries : changing forms, changing functions.…”
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