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Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowledge engineer." And some in the field are already taking a proactive ap...

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Focus on the library's role in 'going green'. It examines collection development, disposal, and recycling issues; green equipment, technology, and facilities; programming ideas and supporting tables and figures; and ways to get the community invol...

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In the almost fifteen years since Our Enduring Values was published, there has been a sea change in the way much of the world thinks about and uses libraries. Young librarians and seasoned LIS professionals alike are experiencing increasing pressu...

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The birthdays of celebrated men and women as well as holy days, holidays, and special events throughout the year are listed.

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Provides an overview of the major issues and literature on the nuclear arms race, covering the historical background and possible consequences of the arms race, and lists key texts and relevant sources in literature on the arms race.

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Provides an annotated list of recommended videos on psychology, religion, social science, language, science, the arts, literature, history, and travel.

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Zvirin, an editor on the staff of ""Booklist"", sets out to gather the finest of the recent ""self-help"" genre in a guide for teachers, librarians, and parents in search of material to help teenagers cope w...

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Gives essential data about more than 100 different software items.

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This text provides a selection of African-American voices, describing written works, oral history, photographs and moving images. Sources from 1883 to the 1990s are annotated and discussed, and are aimed at showing more of the African-American exp...

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This is a practical travel guide to locating significant places in African American history and culture, organised by region. The work includes numerous photographs.

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This text aims to show that in place of futuristic dreaming and madness, libraries can embrace advanced technologies while retaining their role as service-oriented repositories of all formats of organized information and knowledge.

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This guide presents information on planning and managing microfilming projects, incorporating co-operative programmes, service bureaux and the impact of automation for library staff with deteriorating collections.

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A practical guide to serials management for both novice and experienced serials librarians, library mangers and supervisors. This text offers flexible serials management methods that work from beginning (acquisitions) to end (circulation and recor...

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Countless innovative ideas using film, music, crafts, puppetry, magic, and more.

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This edition tackles changes and updates in interlibrary loan management, including new technologies, copyright matters, international lending, the 1988 ILL form, the revised National ILL code, document delivery and new resources.

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This is a consolidated edition of the American Library Association's reference tool for librarians and researchers. The 11th edition of the ""Guide to Reference Books"" brings together most useful research sources from early pr...

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Drawing from rare archival materials researched over a period of 15 years, preeminent Dewey historian Wayne Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System and scores of ot...

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Bringing together self-help resources to which young adults ages 10-18 can turn when trying to cope with their increasingly complicated lives, this source offers reviews of 405 nonfiction and fiction titles, and a selection of 86 recommended videos.

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The new technologies that libraries now use have not only recreated the library, but are also redefining the traditional library budget. It is essential that a library budget reflects the increasing use of technology to provide information for pat...

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What basic hardware and software is needed for technical services workstations? What cataloguing are available on the Internet? How can a workstation be planned that will improve cataloguers' productivity? The answers to these and other questions ...

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This text provides ideas for choosing stories, poems and plays to perform with puppets and props in order to lead children to literature. Training, preparation and costs are kept to a minimum and recommendations are given for further reading.

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When patrons use a library catalogue, they seek information without regard to the library's cataloguing technology. It is crucial then that bibliographic records provide complete, detailed information on ""each"" item no matter...

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Aimed at children's librarians, this text demonstrates how to use puppets and storytelling to enthuse young audiences. This revised edition pays particular attention to literature-based instruction and multicultural themes. Techniques include open...

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While the Internet has been called ""the world's library"" for its enormous store of information, its maze of material can keep researchers from gaining quick and easy results. This guide aims to give tips for quick reference. ...

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This is a compilation of 150 thoughts about library work, written by a librarian. It is intended as a soothing volume, presented in a meditations format, reminding librarians why they chose their craft, and reinforcing the importance of their work.

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For those tired of techno-hotshots running virtual circles around them in cyberspace comes this practical crash course primer, a book that offers skill-building concepts and instructions specifically for library ""newbies"". Wr...

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This resource explains the benefits of creating a special collection of children's literature for a library. It points out the publicity to be generated by unique titles in a collection, and highlights many aspects of maintaining a collection, fro...

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This reference is a guide to locating fundamental reference sources for developing and maintaining a small-but-strong reference collection. It also identifies titles to add to enhance and update the collection, organized according to Dewey and cro...

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This text offers a practical programme to position and market the library as the choice information provider to all of its customers. Author of ""Customer Service Excellence: A Concise Guide for Librarians"" (1996), Darlene Wei...

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What is a systems librarian? Both history and practice indicate a wide variation in the field, strong commitments to local arrangements and a lack of functional standards. Library administrators and managers struggle with the broad requirements of...

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