Libraries Traditions And Innovations

Author : Melanie A. Kimball
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110448564
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libraries - Traditions and Innovations written by Melanie A. Kimball and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many consider libraries to be immutable institutions, deeply entrenched in the past, full of dusty tomes and musty staff. In truth, libraries are and historically have been sites of innovation and disruption. Originally presented at the Library History Seminar XII: Libraries: Traditions and Innovations, this collection of essays offers examples of the enduring and evolving aspects of libraries and librarianship. Whether belonging to a Caliph in 10th-century Spain, built for 19th-century mechanics, or intended for the segregated Southern United States, libraries serve as both a reflection and a contestation of their context. These essays illustrate that libraries are places of turmoil, where real social and cultural controversies are explored and resolved, where invention takes place, and where identities are challenged and defined, reinforcing tradition and commanding innovation.

Author : United States
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libraries at Large written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries
Publisher : New York : Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libraries at Large written by United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1969 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Megan Lotts
Publisher : ALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780838949474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries written by Megan Lotts and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows academic and public libraries the many benefits of nurturing a culture of creativity, offering hands-on guidance on encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration, launching active-learning events that highlight collections and services, fostering goodwill and trust-building, and forming partnerships that promote library visibility.

Author : Douglas M. Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libraries at Large written by Douglas M. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
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Download or read book Libraries at Large written by United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wyoma vanDuinkerken
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838913172
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Libraries written by Wyoma vanDuinkerken and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable resource gathers the principles and best practices of leadership, and points the way towards creating a service culture that makes every staff member a library leader.

Author : B. Venkat Mani
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823273423
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recoding World Literature written by B. Venkat Mani and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies. From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy”—the physical and virtual movement of books—Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation’s relationship with print culture—a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification. Shifting current scholarship’s focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged.

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libraries at Large. Tradition, Innovation, and the National Interest. Edited by Douglas M. Knight and E. Shepley Nourse. (The Resource Book Based on the Materials of the National Advisory Commission on Libraries.). written by United States. National Advisory Commission on Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynda M. Duke
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838911161
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Libraries and Student Culture written by Lynda M. Duke and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that question. The resulting ongoing study has already yielded some eye-opening results. The findings suggest changes ranging from simple adjustments in service and resources to modifying the physical layout of the library. In this book Duke and Asher, two anthropological researchers involved with the project since the beginning, Summarize the study's history, including its goals, parameters, and methodology Offer a comprehensive discussion of the research findings, touching on issues such as website design, library instruction for faculty, and meeting the needs of commuter and minority students Detail a number of service reforms which have already been implemented at the participating institutions This important book deepens our understanding of how academic libraries can better serve students’ needs, and also serves as a model for other researchers interested in a user-centered approach to evaluating library services.