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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Proposed Amendments to Constitution, Referendum Measures and Proposed Law ...
Author: Ideology and Libraries
Author: Michael K. BucklandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538143151
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School (Scarecrow Press, 1999). Subsequent research into initiatives to improve library services during the Allied occupation has revealed surprising discoveries and human interest of the lives of very diverse individuals. A central role was played by a librarian, Philip Keeney, who later became well-known as an alleged communist spy. A national plan, designed for Japan’s libraries, was based directly on the county library system developed by progressive thinkers in California, itself a dramatic story. The School of Librarianship at the University of California and its founding director, Sydney Mitchell, was found to have deeply influenced key figures. The story also requires an appreciation of the deployment of American libraries abroad as tools of foreign policy, as cultural diplomacy. Meanwhile, library services in Japan were seriously underdeveloped, despite Japan’s extraordinarily high literacy rate, very well-developed publishing and book retail industries, and librarians who were far from backward. The difference in library development lay in the huge divergence between the ethos of the American public library (dominated by support for individual self-development and Western liberal democracy) and the evolving political ideology of Japanese governments after the Meiji Restoration (1868). After absorbing authoritarian French and German administrative practices Japan became a militarist dictatorship from the 1920s onwards until surrender in 1945. The literature on the Allied Occupation of Japan is vast, but library services have received very little attention beyond the creation of the National Diet Library in 1948. The story of initiatives to improve library services in occupied Japan, the role of libraries as cultural diplomacy, the dramatic development of free public library services in California have remained unknown or little known – until now.
Beverage Literature
Author: A. W. NolingPublisher: Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Bibliography of literature about drinks and drinking, primarily English-language titles in the Hurty-Peck Library of Beverage Literature. Over 5000 citations are alphabetically arranged by author. Includes topical subject list, short-title list, list of libraries with beverage collections.
Preservation and Archiving
Author: Joyce McIntoshPublisher: Apple Academic Press
ISBN: 9781926692753
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Preservation and Archiving covers the many issues involved in preserving historical documents and archiving important materials. The book addresses digitization, storage and retrieval systems, collection security issues, preservation of printed materials, salvaging damaged and jeopardized materials, and much more. Readers gain an understanding of the broad range of challenges libraries face in preserving and archiving materials for future generations.
University Library
Author: University of California (1868-1952). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools
Author: Faye OngPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Provides vision for strong school library programs, including identification of the skills and knowledge essential for students to be information literate. Includes recommended baseline staffing, access, and resources for school library services at each grade level.
Library Collection Development Policy
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Innovating
Author: Luis Perez-BrevaPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Discover the MIT-developed, “doer’s approach” to innovation with this guide that reveals you don’t need an earth-shattering idea to create a standout product, service, or business—just a hunch that you can scale up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there’s very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach—a doer’s approach developed over a decade at MIT and internationally in workshops, classes, and companies. He shows that innovating doesn’t require an earth-shattering idea; all it takes is a hunch. Anyone can do it. By prototyping a problem and learning by being wrong, innovating can be scaled up to make an impact. As Perez-Breva demonstrates, “nothing is new” at the outset of what we only later celebrate as innovation. In Innovating, the process—illustrated by unique and dynamic artwork—is shown to be empirical, experimental, nonlinear, and incremental. You give your hunch the structure of a problem. Anything can be a part. Your innovating accrues other people’s knowledge and skills. Perez-Breva describes how to create a kit for innovating, and outlines questions that will help you think in new ways. Finally, he shows how to systematize what you’ve learned: to advocate, communicate, scale up, manage innovating continuously, and document—“you need a notebook to converse with yourself,” he advises. Everyone interested in innovating also needs to read this book.
The University of California: Creating, Nurturing, and Maintaining Academic Quality in a Public University Setting
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Category : Public universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At 150 years following its founding in 1868, the University of California is regarded by many as the most successful and highly respected public research university in the world. This book is an analysis of the structural, policy, operational, and environmental matters that have contributed to the success of the University of California, what makes UC tick and what approaches have made it tick best. The book can also serve as a reference work, and for that reason many cross-references among chapters have been included, along with a substantial index and many citations in footnotes.--Back cover.
Collection Development Policy for the University Library, University of California, Irvine
Author: University of California, Irvine. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description