Author: Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1803824352
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a “backbone support organization” for collective impact initiatives.
How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century
Author: Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1803824352
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a “backbone support organization” for collective impact initiatives.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1803824352
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Public libraries, through their mission, vision, and position in the community, play a significant part in building community sustainability and are already positioned to serve as a “backbone support organization” for collective impact initiatives.
Transforming Libraries, Building Communities
Author: Julie Biando Edwards
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810891824
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810891824
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Sustainable Thinking
Author: Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838916953
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book will show you how to harness sustainable thinking to move forward with confidence into the unknown.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838916953
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book will show you how to harness sustainable thinking to move forward with confidence into the unknown.
Better Library Design
Author: Rebecca T. Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442239611
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Few librarians build more than one library in their careers and renovating or building a whole new library is a very expensive investment. Thus, new or refurbished structures need to be fresh and up to date. While some librarians have the means to visit exemplary buildings as they develop their own library’s master plan, most library leaders and stakeholders won’t actually see the full range of potential projects. Hence, this unique book is both a resource and a brainstorm prompt. It helps library leaders and key stakeholders surface the ideal programmatic aspects that drive exciting design, and offer recent design solutions that have been effectively implemented. Better Library Design: Ideas from Library Journalidentifies and celebrates the top trends in library design, capturing current state and provides an authoritative overview for those planning their own projects. This is a colorful, high content survey of dynamic library building projects completed in the last five years, in both public and academic settings. Anchored by Library Journal’s New Landmark Libraries competition, here is the nation’s best examples of innovative, functional, appealing design --- all in glorious full-color so you’ll be both inspired and informed as you make important design choices.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442239611
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Few librarians build more than one library in their careers and renovating or building a whole new library is a very expensive investment. Thus, new or refurbished structures need to be fresh and up to date. While some librarians have the means to visit exemplary buildings as they develop their own library’s master plan, most library leaders and stakeholders won’t actually see the full range of potential projects. Hence, this unique book is both a resource and a brainstorm prompt. It helps library leaders and key stakeholders surface the ideal programmatic aspects that drive exciting design, and offer recent design solutions that have been effectively implemented. Better Library Design: Ideas from Library Journalidentifies and celebrates the top trends in library design, capturing current state and provides an authoritative overview for those planning their own projects. This is a colorful, high content survey of dynamic library building projects completed in the last five years, in both public and academic settings. Anchored by Library Journal’s New Landmark Libraries competition, here is the nation’s best examples of innovative, functional, appealing design --- all in glorious full-color so you’ll be both inspired and informed as you make important design choices.
Library Tracts
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
CONTENTS.--no. 1. Why do we need a public library? 1900.--no. 2. Wire, G.E. How to start a public library. 1900.--no. 3. Hutchins, F.A. Traveling libraries. 1900.--no. 4. Soule, C.C. Library rooms and buildings. 1902.--no. 5. Cutter, C.A. Notes from the art section of a library. 1905.--no. 6. Stearns, L.E. Essentials in library administration. 1905.--no. 7. Hitchler, T. Cataloguing for small libraries. 1905.--no. 8. Tarbell, M.A. A village library in Massachusetts. 1905.--no. 9. Training for librarianship. 1907.--no. 10. Hadley, C. Material for a public library campaign. 1907.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
CONTENTS.--no. 1. Why do we need a public library? 1900.--no. 2. Wire, G.E. How to start a public library. 1900.--no. 3. Hutchins, F.A. Traveling libraries. 1900.--no. 4. Soule, C.C. Library rooms and buildings. 1902.--no. 5. Cutter, C.A. Notes from the art section of a library. 1905.--no. 6. Stearns, L.E. Essentials in library administration. 1905.--no. 7. Hitchler, T. Cataloguing for small libraries. 1905.--no. 8. Tarbell, M.A. A village library in Massachusetts. 1905.--no. 9. Training for librarianship. 1907.--no. 10. Hadley, C. Material for a public library campaign. 1907.
100 Inspiring Rafflesians, 1823-2003
Author: Guan Heng Tan
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812779469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
100 years after its first publication, the twelfth edition of this world-famous bestseller gives the most up-to-date picture of the English language today. The original 1911 edition, revolutionary at the time for its focus on current English and its use of illustrative examples, combined a succinct yet approachable style with coverage of everyday as well as specialist terms. This centenary edition continues this ground-breaking tradition, giving you rich authoritative coverage of Englishas it is used today. The CD-ROM version of the dictionary offers full-text search functionality, instant look-up from WindowsRG documents, including email and the internet, and high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, making it ideal for family use, as well as for home, work, and school use. The CD-ROM is both WindowsRG and Mac compatible.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812779469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
100 years after its first publication, the twelfth edition of this world-famous bestseller gives the most up-to-date picture of the English language today. The original 1911 edition, revolutionary at the time for its focus on current English and its use of illustrative examples, combined a succinct yet approachable style with coverage of everyday as well as specialist terms. This centenary edition continues this ground-breaking tradition, giving you rich authoritative coverage of Englishas it is used today. The CD-ROM version of the dictionary offers full-text search functionality, instant look-up from WindowsRG documents, including email and the internet, and high-quality spoken pronunciations for thousands of words, making it ideal for family use, as well as for home, work, and school use. The CD-ROM is both WindowsRG and Mac compatible.
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Libraries in the early 21st century, volume 1
Author: Ravindra N. Sharma
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110270633
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This unique volume gives a truly international overview over the modern history and development of libraries and library technology in selected countries of the world. The careful selection of countries achieves good representation of library work on all continents, covering examples of both the developed and the developing world. A further volume with further national profiles is planned for 2012. This multivolume work represents an excellent contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative studies both at graduate and professional level. Many of the contributors are well-known authors; closely involved in the work of IFLA or their own national library associations.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110270633
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This unique volume gives a truly international overview over the modern history and development of libraries and library technology in selected countries of the world. The careful selection of countries achieves good representation of library work on all continents, covering examples of both the developed and the developing world. A further volume with further national profiles is planned for 2012. This multivolume work represents an excellent contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative studies both at graduate and professional level. Many of the contributors are well-known authors; closely involved in the work of IFLA or their own national library associations.
Proceedings
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description