Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Pennsylvania Library and Museum Notes
Author: Pennsylvania Library and Museum Notes
Author: Pennsylvania Library Notes
Author: Pennsylvania Library and Museum Notes
Author: Boy @ the Window
Author: Donald Earl CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780989256131
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.
Circulation of Power
Author: Michael M. WiddersheimPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111013405
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
What is the public sphere, how is it best described, and what role does it play in modern life? These questions have attracted considerable attention within library and information science circles over several decades, especially regarding public libraries. Circulation of Power contributes to this discussion by proposing a new research framework and new methods for analyzing public sphere communication. Using extensive data gathered from an urban public library infrastructure, this historical case study demonstrates how public sphere communication shaped the infrastructure’s development over time, producing both changes and continuities across the case’s nine periods. Two new conceptual tools—circuits and decisions cycles—form the study’s research framework, and a new explanatory theory—RLCr, or "Releaser," theory—accounts for why the infrastructure developed as it did. Consideration of competing theories reveals that public sphere communication remains the best explanation for infrastructural development. This book’s meticulous historical narrative of the greater Pittsburgh case, supplemented by its groundbreaking theory and innovative mixed methods design, is of interest to practitioners, academics, and general readers alike.
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
Author: Allen KentPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824720216
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."
The First White House Library
Author: Catherine M. ParisianPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103713X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The First White House Library is the first book to consider the history of books and reading in the Executive Mansion.
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Classified List of 4800 Serials
Author: Dorothy Hale LitchfieldPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803766
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A listing of periodicals, serials, and continuation publications subscribed to by four leading American educational institutions, arranged in thirty-one classified subjects, elaborately indexed and provided with cross-references.