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1) Revenge of the librarians

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"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism...

2) The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata: Making Sense of IFLA LRM, RDA, Linked Data and BIBFRAME

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The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata is a comprehensive and accessible guide to creating accurate, consistent, complete, user-centred and quality metadata that supports the user tasks of finding, identifying, selecting, obtaining and exploring information resources. Based on the author's many years of academic research and work as a cataloguing and metadata librarian, it shows readers how they can configure, create,

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3) Combating Online Health Misinformation: A Professional's Guide to Helping the Public

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Danger of health misinformation online, long a concern of medical and public health professionals, has come to the forefront of societal concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of their motives, creators and sharers of misinformation promote non-evidence-based health advice and treatment recommendations, and often deny health methods, measures, and approaches that are supported by the best evidence of the time. Unfortunately, many infrastructural,

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4) A handbook of library appliances: The technical equipment of libraries: fittings, furniture, charging systems, forms, recipes, etc

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Brown, James Duff

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"A handbook of library appliances" by James Duff Brown. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to...

5) Building Community Engagement and Outreach in Libraries, Volume 43

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Moore Crowe, Kathryn

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Libraries seeking to grow or enhance community outreach will welcome Building Community Engagement and Outreach in Libraries to assist them in planning and executing engagement programs.

Eight chapters offer a variety of methods and strategies that library managers can employ to broaden and enhance their libraries' community engagement activities.The volume includes both theoretical frameworks and strategic case studies.Readers will learn

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6) The Repurposed Library: 33 Craft Projects That Give Old Books New Life

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Occhipinti, Lisa

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"How-to instructions on crafting with books . . . will inspire you to think about creative ways to make new treasures out of old things" (The Virginian-Pilot).
We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with thirty-three projects to make—quite literally—out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated...

7) Crafting with digital cutting machines: machines, materials, designs, and projects

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Ashcraft, Libby

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Ashcraft explains the components and features of a variety of models of digital cutting machines., as well as the blades, tools, mats, and other accessories used. She details common materials and a variety of crafting techniques before presenting six step-by-step projects that will teach you how to work with fabrics on your digital cutting machine. With helpful tips and tricks to ensure success, Ashcraft will help you see all the creative possibilities...

8) School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing

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Merga, Margaret K

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Student literacy is a perennial concern in and across nations, with measurement and accountability continually ramped up at both individual student and school levels. Debates about literacy and how it can best be improved are never far from media headlines. However, relatively little consideration is given to the role that school libraries and their staff play in building and maintaining student literacy, despite research linking school libraries

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9) Work without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization's Work Operating System

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Jesuthasan, Ravin

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In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work.
Work is traditionally understood as a “job,” and workers as “jobholders.” Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking...

10) Using Digital Information Services in the Library Workplace: An Introduction for Support Staff

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Shaw, Marie Keen

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Library collections have rapidly evolved from a predominance of print books and journals to an ever growing mix of digital and print resources. Support staff are expected to know how to help patrons select and use digital information services such as databases, digital collections, digital archives, ebooks, steaming video, discovery search products, the Internet and user-focused library interfaces and applications. Yet most library support staff

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11) tech for all moving beyond the digital divide

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12) Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

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Fritz, Angela I

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For most academic libraries, archives and museums, digital content management is increasingly occurring on a holistic enterprise level. As most institutions contemplate an enterprise digital content strategy for a growing number of digitized surrogates and born-digital assets, libraries, archives, and museums understand that these expanding needs can only be met by more flexible approaches offered by a multicomponent digital asset management ecosystem

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13) The Special Collections Handbook

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Cullingford, Alison

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The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive desk reference providing the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting and covering all aspects of special collections work: preservation; developing collections; understanding objects; emergency planning; security; legal and ethical concerns; cataloguing; digitisation; marketing; outreach; teaching; impact; advocacy, and fundraising.

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14) The Public Relations Handbook

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Dilenschneider, Robert L

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To be a successful public relations professional, it’s no longer enough to be great at writing press releases and establishing media contacts. You must also expertly navigate the digital world and be prepared to dovetail your skills with those of other professionals.
The Public Relations Handbook is a comprehensive and invaluable guide for public relations practitioners in the 2020s and beyond,...

15) The Post-Pandemic Library Handbook

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The Post-Pandemic Library Handbook provides an approach for re-opening, re-engineering and redesigning library facilities, resources, services and staff.

American Library Association Past-President Julie Todaro developed this Handbook to provide a path forward for all types and sizes of libraries.

She uses narrative and technical writing (with dozens of checklists, examples, recommendations and 30+ tables) to take a detailed

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16) Open Source Library Systems: A Guide

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Open source software and applications are all around us, and it's no different in today's libraries. Knowing about the open source alternative to integrated library system and being able to make accurate comparisons can save a library tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while more closely matching the library's functional needs.

The fact is that the foundational software in place in nearly every industry is being built with open

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17) Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and other Information Professionals

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Burkhardt, Joanna M

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Information has become one of the most crucial commodities in today's world. From multinational corporations to single individuals, we all make critical decisions based on the information available to us. However, modern ease of access to information does not often guarantee access to good information. In this digital age, where facts can be easily manipulated to align with political, social or monetary aims, media literacy has become an essential

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18) Makerspace and Collaborative Technologies: A LITA Guide

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Thomsett-Scott, Beth

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So, what are library patrons doing with makerspaces and other innovative technology? This book explores how patrons are using innovative technologies utilizing real-life case studies from a variety of academic institutions. Authors were selected based on the technology provided and their expertise in establishing and marketing this technology. Readers will discover:

which pieces of technology get the most use

if patrons tend to use

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19) Library Technology Planning for Today and Tomorrow: A LITA Guide

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Silveira, Diana

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Technology is a crucial part of libraries today. But when it comes to figuring out the most effective technologies for their library or to planning for future technology needs, many librarians don't know where to begin.
Library Technology Planning for Today and Tomorrow is the place to start. This practical guide will be of special value to those in small- and medium-size libraries, especially those new to the planning process who have not previously...

20) Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide

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Caputo, Christina Giovannelli

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Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide will help librarians understand and serve their homeschooling community.

Chapter 1 covers the early history of homeschooling and how compulsory education changed how our children were schooled. Chapter 2 explores the homeschool revolution, when parents began to take back the education of their children. Chapter 3 looks at homeschooling today and the way laws, advocacy groups, and COVID-19

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