If your customers don't sleep, why should your reference service? Online library reference services available 24/7 are offered in a growing number of institutions. With many models to choose from and more details to be worked out, it is a critical time for librarians to assess their patrons' needs and market their services to address these needs. Collecting and documenting what thousands of virtual reference librarians have learned over the past few years, this comprehensive guide provides a needed overview to help new and aspiring virtual reference library departments - and their directors and administrators, reference librarians, and project managers - to understand the entire process and its ramifications. Here are the basics of designing, implementing, operating, and marketing a virtual reference service from the ground up. In a text supplemented with checklists so no key element is forgotten, this reference offers the real-world answers from leading experts to the most common questions: Where has Web-based library reference come from and where is it going? What is the best digital reference software to address specific needs? Who should staff the virtual reference desktop? How do they get hired and trained? When and how does a library market such a radical new service? Why are evaluations and system enhancements critical to the future of digital reference? With a look into the costs, and a look into the future, supplemented with the most comprehensive bibliography available on the topic, Going Live is a one-stop resource for getting started in digital reference services.

Going Live: Starting and Running a Virtual Reference Service

Coffman, Steve

Reference

ALA Editions

Health care is important. Staying healthy is so important. Now there is a better way to stay healthy. It comes from a new source of information few people know about. It is easy to read and begs to be explored. It's a fresh and exciting treasure trove of information for dynamic health and the confidence of powerful knowledge. With over 100 M.D. and Ph.D. references, it's all right here-in Ezekiel's Medicine!

Ezekiel's Medicine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thorncrown

FOUNDERS v. BUSH is a comparison in quotations of the policies and politics of the Founding Fathers and those of George W. Bush; a sourced compilation in their own words on issues of War &amp; Peace, Religion &amp; Liberty, Taxes &amp; Debt, Honesty &amp; Responsibility ---a tragicomic juxtaposition of mind-numbing NewSpeak and timeless eloquence. This book contrasts the statements of George W. Bush and his advisors with relevant words from Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton. While it is not a book of Bush gaffes and malapropisms, it is hardly possible to compare Bush’s simplistic pre-chewed garble to the elegance, wit and erudition of our defining spokesmen without wincing in dismay. However, the purpose here is not to portray Bush as a clown prince. “Bushisms” tend to deflect us from the issues and, in fact, many of the dopey statements and malapropisms most often attributed to Bush are fakes, or were actually said by Dan Quayle, or were spoutings of some late-night comedian or splenetic Anon. As to George W. Bush, I don’t purport to know anything about him beyond his public image and pronouncements. I don’t know if he truly eschews open-minded discussion, ignores undesirable evidence and reasoning or if he is a master actor who has created a convincing persona of the “artificial aristocrat” that Jefferson warned us of; I don’t know if he is ignorant and uncurious or merely master poseur---but that he is a smug demagogue and prodigious liar is beyond all doubt.

Founders v. Bush: a Comparison in Quotations of the Policies and Politics of the Founding Fathers and George W. Bush

Quotations

One World Studios Limited

Country Living welcomes back Steven Coffman's celebrated collection of essays about life on the farm. Hailed by Library Journal as amusing, exuberant, and poignant,” it now includes three entirely new and thoroughly delightful articles to enjoy.
Our first country spring was in mid-renaissance. Everywhere life was bourgeoning! First had come the early-returning flocks of robins and red-winged blackbirdsThen antediluvian opossums wobbling out of time-warp hibernation, groundhogs popping up on roadsides like chubby heraldsan explosion of baby bunnies.”
What happens when two hippies with virtually no knowledge of country life decide to set up house on a 129-acre farm in Upstate New York? That's what Steven Coffman and his wife Bobbie did in the late summer of 1972, and in Back to the Farm he tells the whole story of their grand undertaking with great humor, pathos, and wit. It's all about the many animals--pigs, ducks, cows, horses, cats, dogs, and other country creatures--who share their lives, as well as about learning the ways of the land, getting in tune with nature's cycles, and raising a family. Coffman, who will become a Country Living columnist this year, centers his pieces around the animals that make up his new rural world, capturing the stubborn recalcitrance of a pig, the pony that steps into the living room, and the magical migration of magnificent Monarch butterflies.
 a lively, zany tale of country life”--Bookwatch.
 Bemused, informative and breezywill give a nudge to those who only dream of escaping the urban life.”--Publishers Weekly.

Chicken Justice: And Other Unexpected Lessons in Country Living

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Hearst

A basic guide to collecting glass insulators. Rather than offerer a detailed guide to glass insulator collecting, this is an attempt to offer a fundamentally basic guide to glass insulator collecting, with sufficient information to allow a new glass insulator collector to start collecting and learning more information at their own pace. Written by an experienced collector for people who know little to nothing about glass insulators, this book will enable you to start collecting right away, and to find more advanced information.

A Simple Guide to Glass Insulator Collecting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Independently published

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