With both conceptual and step-by-step lessons, this title teaches students the strategies and skills required to use the Internet as a valuable research tool.

Internet Research-Illustrated

Computers & Technology

Barker, Donald I.

Schroëder, Robert

Networking & Cloud Computing

Course Technology

Book by Barker, Donald I., Schroeder, Robert

Course Guide: Internet Research-Illustrated BASIC

As political polarization has continued to grow within and beyond the United States in past decades, the challenges of engaging in open and constructive dialogue have become increasingly apparent. The effects of this tension are evident in numerous aspects of library work, including interactions and relationships in our local contexts and in our larger professional community, as well as all areas of the library classrooms, collections, technology, management, programming, LIS programs, and library spaces. Reflective dialogue asks us to pause before reacting, to ground ourselves in a sense of compassion for ourselves and others, and to use that grounding to open a space to listen and to speak with the goal of recognizing a shared humanity and appreciating difference. In four sections, Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization explores the various ways in which librarians experience and respond to political polarization and its effects, both in our everyday work and in our professional communities: <ul>
<li>Libraries as Dialogic Spaces: Limits and Possibilities</li> <li>Dialogue amid Polarization and Extreme Skepticism: Challenges and Opportunities</li> <li>Special Collections and Archives: Past and Present in Conversation</li> <li>The Information Literacy Classroom: Uneasy Questions, Creative Responses</li> </ul>
Divisive times can spark positive social change with more intentional reflection, listening, and empathy across social groups and identities. Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization can be a catalyst and a resource for reflective and constructive dialogue, and a prompt for asking hard and sometimes uncomfortable questions about what reflective dialogue is, what forms it might take and in what contexts, who it does or does not include, and what its possibilities and limitations are.

Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue In A Time Of Political

Politics & Social Sciences

Stern Cahoy, Ellysa

Social Sciences

Assoc of College & Research Libraries

Autoethnography is a type of research that uses writing and self-examination to explore far-ranging cultural, political, and social issues through personal experience. It is a qualitative, reflexive, ethnographic method where the researcher is also the subject of inquiry. Using autoethnography as their research method, the 21 academic librarian authors of The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship investigate aspects of what it means to be a librarian. Starting with a reflective examination of themselves, they each investigate questions of culture, values, and identity. The Self as Subject presents a collection of reflective narratives that, taken together, explore the varied dimensions of librarianship in the present moment. It also examines autoethnography's potential to help librarians answer questions that cannot be answered by traditional, empirical research methods and to reveal voices that are obscured by aggregations of data. All of the pieces in this volume share some characteristics: Each one is the result of a rigorous examination of the self and lived experience, and each one moves between the subjective and the cultural in its analysis. How the authors do this, however, varies widely—from a graphic novel to speculative fiction to rigorous academic analysis. The Self as Subject provides an opportunity to expand our understanding of rigor and the practice of research in LIS, and explores what it means to be a librarian in this age of disruptive change, and how the various identities and experiences we bring to our practice shape our experience of librarianship. The Self as Subject is for any librarian interested in research and research methods; the use of literary genres in research; alternatives to large empirical studies; questions of identity and social justice; and those looking to step out of their comfort zone and approach learning from a new and challenging vantage point.

The Self As Subject: Autoethnographic Research Into

Deitering, AnneMarie

A book about my life before and after I became paralyzed.

Wipe away the tear

Biographies & Memoirs

Independently published

A compelling and sometimes disturbing look into more than 50 mysterious cults, complete with stories from ex-members and profiles of their often-enigmatic leaders. With a decline in organized religion and an explosion in social-media followers and factions, our interest in cults, sects, and radical religions continues unabated. While groups such as the Moonies or the Children of God have been dismissed as harmless, the mass suicides, atrocities, attacks, extremist rhetoric, and spiraling wealth and power of some of the more recent movements suggest a darker side. Robert Schroëder places 50 ancient and modern cults—from Osiris and the Knights Templar to the Branch Davidian, Hellfire Clubs, Manson “family,” Jonestown, Concerned Christians, Jesus Army, Rajneeshis, and The Apotheosis of Elvis—in historical and cultural context, tracing their existence back to the earliest days of mankind. Investigating the essence of their continued appeal through the experiences of ex-members and explorations of their leaders, he provides compelling and sometimes disturbing insight into these shadowy societies. This edition is fully updated to reflect the aftermath of the millennium, the rise of extremism, and the influence of the internet age.

The History of Cults: From Satanic Sects to the Manson Family

Carlton Books

Charting the rise of religious cults and sinister sectsa disturbing phenomenon of the twentieth centurythis exploration discusses the essence of a cult's appeal and the experiences of those who were once cult members. Profiles of all major cults are also included, from ancient sects to recently-emerged ones, such as the FDLS and the Islamic fundamentalist groups Al us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah and Tablighi Jamaat. The Warren Jeffs, the Exclusive Brethren’s alleged political lobbying tactics in the NZ elections, and the anniversaries of Waco, Jonestown, and Heaven’s Gate are all touched upon as well. The collection is rounded off with detailed information on organizations such as Opus Dei and Scientology that are renowned both for their secrecy and their celebrity membership.

Cults: Secret Sects and Radical Religions

Religion & Spirituality

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

A growing number of librarians are engaged with critical theories such as critical pedagogy, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, or post-colonialism. Because librarians have backgrounds in all disciplines and inhabit a uniquely central space in our culture, they are combining these theories in unique ways. By remixing ideas from Foucault, Freire, hooks, and Habermas, new and creative practices are emerging. In this book you will hear the story of fourteen librarians and how they each came to be engaged in a critical practice. In each chapter a different academic or public librarian will be interviewed. Interviewees will include instruction librarians, catalogers, archivists, administrators, and library school professors. Discover what these librarians find inspirational about critical theories, how they work to create a critical practice in their professional lives, and how they see critical practices growing in our profession. Hear these librarians reflect on their own critical practices of librarianship and perhaps become inspired to begin a critical journey of your own.

Critical Journeys: How 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice

Library Juice Press

Jammie's Journey: Diving Into School

Children's Books

353, COMM

Hudson, Brennen

King, Diamon

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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