The classic guide to filing catalog cards using the basic order of alphabetical, word-by-word filing.

ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards

Politics & Social Sciences

American Library Association

Social Sciences

ALA Editions

Ideal for both beginners and more experienced storytellers, this exhaustive primer includes everything adults need to start sharing the wonder of stories with children, from babies to tweens. The lively text imparts easy-to-follow guidelines and practical advice on how, when, where, and why to tell stories. Each chapter incorporates a wealth of delectable folktales to read and tell, plus the authors hand-selected, annotated lists containing hundreds of classic and cutting edge children s books, professional books, and relevant websites. Demonstrating the joy of stories and storytelling, this book
<ul>
<li>Provides an overview of the history and types of storytelling</li>
<li>Shows how to select, learn, prepare, and tell stories</li>
<li>Begins with more than two dozen easy-to-learn stories that adults can read today and tell to children tomorrow</li>
<li>Looks at the major types of folk and fairy tales, including many sample stories and booklists</li>
<li>Offers a comprehensive list of stories reworked, reimagined, reinvented, parodied, satirized or recreated from folk and fairy tales</li>
<li>Includes Favorite Stories to Tell, a compendium of more than 500 suggested tales, easily accessible by subject and theme, from which tellers can find the perfect stories to fit every occasion and begin to build their own repertoire of wonderful tales to tell</li>
<li>Provides tips for publicizing and promoting storytelling programs</li>
</ul>This handbook instructs, inspires, and entertains like no other resource of its kind.

Handbook for Storytellers

Caroline Feller Bauer

Literature & Fiction

Books, Babies, and Libraries: Serving Infants, Toddlers, Their Parents & Caregivers

Covers child development, beginning readers, children's collections, parenting materials, program planning, networking, and service evaluation

Books, Babies, and Libraries: Serving Infants, Toddlers, Their Parents and Caregivers

Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World [Paperback]

Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World

Children's Books

An annotated sourcebook of classic and modern resources, including encyclopedias, traveling exhibits, photographic collections, and video, for the study of African-American history. Outlines biography and genealogy sources, historical surveys, and documentary histories, and lists sources by chronological period from slavery to the present. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Voices of the Spirit: Sources for Interpreting the African-American Experience

History

Africa

Explains the basics of copyright law and discusses its application to photocopying, music, videocassettes, and computer software

The Copyright Primer: For Librarians and Educators

Reference

Named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book, " this comprehensive guide locates and offers detailed information about significant places and points of reference in African American history.

Black Heritage Sites: An African-American Odyssey and Finder's Guide

Curtis, Nancy C.

Future Libraries offers an authoritative counter argument to the technolust of technovandals, as the authors describe the worst of the virtualists. Far from being technophobic, Crawford and Gorman are respected authors and leaders in library automation. They find much of the virtual library vision to be virtual nonsense and devastating to the cultural mission of libraries.
In place of futuristic dreaming and madness, they show how libraries can embrace advanced technologies while retaining their role as service-oriented repositories of all formats of organized information and knowledge―a role that compliments the values that community library buildings and user-friendly librarians deliver best. The authors target the electronic publishing industry, among others, and fantasies associated with it; offer a "survival guide to the serials crisis;" and analyze the economics of collections and access. A bibliography is included.

Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and Reality

Computers & Technology

The "seamless approach" is the best strategy for planning additions to existing academic library buildings.Additions to existing library buildings are becoming a fact of life at many colleges and universities. Space considerations, the need for proximity to existing space, and the desire for a unified appearance usually preclude designing a totally new structure in many cases. So adding on to existing space is not only the best option for many academic libraries; it's the only one. The Catch-22 is that there is usually little to be gained by attempting to impose a too-modern structure on existing buildings. The solution is a seamless approach that incorporates and enhances the features of existing structures. The result is usually a functional and appealing addition, rather than a design that meets space needs but looks like an afterthought.Using case studies, Planning Additions to Academic Library Buildings profiles three academic libraries that went through expansion. The editors and authors clearly describe both the challenges and the opportunities for planning seamless and successful additions to existing buildings. Photos and architectural plans and layouts effectively illustrate how the challenges of adding on to existing structures were met in three different situations.Planning library additions can be a daunting proposition for many librarians, who are forced to become space planners and architects. This readable and well-illustrated book clearly and cleverly outlines the steps and the success stories of those who have lived the experience of designing a seamless library addition.

Planning Additions to Academic Library Buildings: A Seamless Approach (Occasional Papers Library Administration and Management Association)

This guide presents information on planning and managing microfilming projects, incorporating co-operative programmes, service bureaux and the impact of automation for library staff with deteriorating collections.

Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists

Association of Research Libraries

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