Author: Sarah Marie DavidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An Annotated Bibliography of Five Outstanding Collections of Americana in the United States
Author: Sarah Marie DavidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An Annotated Bibliography of Marines in the American Revolution
Author: Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities
Author: Linda S KatzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317951565
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities is a one-of-a-kind guide on the procedures, approaches, and principles needed to make sound decisions in acquiring materials in various areas of the humanities. It gives you an inside look at managerial concerns in documentary delivery, changing budgetary needs, and fluctuations in journal prices and helps you address many of the important questions in acquisitions and collection development within both traditional and technological environments.As contributing author Dennis Dillon puts it, the ultimate goal of humanities librarians “is not to acquire information bytes and bits, but to promote integrity: integrity of texts, integrity of selection, the integrity of the collection, and the integrity of the library and its ultimate purpose.” This objective underlies this multifaceted and comprehensive collection of articles, as the authors address many interesting issues, developments, and challenges in the field, including: selecting candidates for digitization and producing e-texts collecting in areas that don’t have immediate utility or that may be unpopular what librarians need to know about the humanities as a discipline in order to effectively meet the informational and technological needs of their constituencies online discussion groups as useful sources of webliographic information cooperative collection building the importance of maintaining a high degree of local ownership for materials the principles, criteria, and tools needed to develop a Native American studies collection document-driven and use-driven approaches to collecting acquiring and preserving records that chronicle the role played by African Americans in the United States’developmentAcquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities can help professional librarians, graduate school faculty, and students in information and library science acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for building a broadly based and academically responsive collection. It will certainly help you keep up with changes in the information environment and show you how the tools you’ve developed for selecting traditional library materials will be useful as you grapple with electronic texts, “spider” search mechanisms on the Web, becoming a webliographer, and budget shortfalls.
American Library Resources
Author: Robert Bingham DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: History of U.S. Federal and State Governments' Work with Soybeans (1862-2017)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko AoyagiPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3583
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 362 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books
Teaching Peace through Transformative Literature and Metaethics
Author: Maryann P. DiEdwardoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527515125
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This book is about content driven lectures, panels, round tables, seminars and workshops aiming to improve learning communities and academic literature skills. It advocates teaching peace through transformative literary works; DiEdwardo gives her readers her original poetry, critiques of fiction and film, as well as an exploration of peace studies to facilitate a concentration on curiosity, solitude, and self-development through writing.
Humanities
Author: African Perspectives in American Higher Education
Author: Festus E. ObiakorPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590336830
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
African Perspectives in American Higher Education - Invisible Voices
American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1785-1900)
Author: Joachim Wolschke-BulmahnPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022534
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR