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  • Public Libraries and Their Communities

    An Introduction

    Public Libraries and Their Communities: An Introduction provide an overview of public librarianship today.It covers library organization, policy development, staffing, fiscal organization including funding sources and budgets, the legal framework, relationships with local and state governments, advocacy, services and service development for different age groups and for different groups of users, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Museum Space

    Where Architecture Meets Museology

    by Kali Tzortzi ...
    Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Teaching Online

    A Practical Guide

    Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Needlework

    by Julia Watts ...
    ***"Great Reads from Great Places" selection by State of Tennessee for Library of Congress National Book Festival***Honorable Mention, Foreword Indies award for Young Adult Fiction***Lambda Literary Recommended LGBTQ+ Young Adult FictionIn rural Kentucky, 16-year-old Kody loves quilting, cooking, and Dolly Parton and helps his grandma with the challenges of his mother's opioid addiction, until the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Gestión de documentos en la e-administración

    Estamos en el siglo de la información y el avance hacia lo digital es imparable, tanto en las empresas como en las administraciones públicas. Acabar con el papel supone uno de los grandes retos de la administración electrónica. Para pasar de gestionar electrónicamente documentos a gestionar documentos electrónicos nacidos digitalmente es imprescindible una aplicación sistemática de la gestión ... Read more

    $6.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building the Agile Enterprise

    With SOA, BPM and MBM

    Series series The MK/OMG Press
    In the last ten years IT has brought fundamental changes to the way the world works. Not only has it increased the speed of operations and communications, but it has also undermined basic assumptions of traditional business models and increased the number of variables. Today, the survival of major corporations is challenged by a world-wide marketplace, international operations, outsourcing, global ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Archives for the Lay Person

    A Guide to Managing Cultural Collections

    by Lois Hamill ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    For volunteers or staff at small organizations, collections management can be a daunting task. Archives for the Lay Person is a guidebook for people who care for historical records, photographs, and collections but do not have the appropriate professional training. Lois Hamill provides practical, step-by-step guidance for managing all facets of archival collections, from acquisition, arrangement, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Story Smart

    Using the Science of Story to Persuade, Influence, Inspire, and Teach

    by Kendall Haven ...
    This one-of-a-kind book reveals the secrets of a story's power to persuade, inspire, influence, and to teach.Our brains have been evolutionarily hardwired to think, to make sense, and to understand in simple—but hidden—story terms. You'll discover the Neural Story Net, the Make Sense Mandate, Motive Matching, and the Story Influence Line—and understand how these powerful concepts control listener ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Thinking in Systems

    A Primer

    In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Library: An Unquiet History

    "Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore SunOn the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rise and Development of FinTech

    Accounts of Disruption from Sweden and Beyond

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This comprehensive guide serves to illuminate the rise and development of FinTech in Sweden, with the Internet as the key underlying driver. The multiple case studies examine topics such as: the adoption of online banking in Sweden; the identification and classification of different FinTech categories; process innovation developments within the traditional banking industry; and the Venture Capital ... Read more

    Free

  • The Library

    An Illustrated History

    Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished—and the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day. The Library invites you to enter the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and modern-day America, and speaks to the book lover in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Wodehouse Collection

    P.G. Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Wodehouse worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words. After the scenario was complete he would write the story. Early in his career he would produce a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Archives

    A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

    On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Card Catalog

    Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures

    From the archives of the Library of Congress: “An irresistible treasury for book and library lovers.” —Booklist (starred review)The Library of Congress brings book lovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than two hundred full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Oldies' Book Club

    The feel-good novel from USA Today Bestseller Judy Leigh

    by Judy Leigh ...
    Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe Pomeroy village library hosts a monthly book club.Ruth the librarian fears she’s too old to find love, but a discussion about Lady Chatterley’s Lover makes her think again.Aurora doesn’t feel seventy-two and longs to relive the excitement of her youth, while Verity is getting increasingly tired of her husband Mark’s grumpiness and wonders if their son’s ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Know the Past, Find the Future

    The New York Public Library at 100

    by Various ...
    From Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jones—more than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite public library.Marking the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, now called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Know the Past, Find the Future harnesses the ... Read more

    Free

  • Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor

    by Glyn Moody ...
    Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers get locked up.Walled Culture is the first book providing a compact, non-technical history ... Read more

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  • Systems Thinking For Social Change

    A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results

    "David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of facing our toughest problems."—Peter Senge, author of The Fifth DisciplineConcrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • GCHQ

    As we become ever-more aware of how our governments “eavesdrop” on our conversations, here is a gripping exploration of this unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. During the war, it ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Accidental Taxonomist

    The Accidental Taxonomist is the most comprehensive guide available to the art and science of building information taxonomies. Heather Hedden—a leading taxonomy expert and instructor—walks readers through the process, displaying her trademark ability to present highly technical information in straightforward, comprehensible English. In this fully revised second edition, Hedden provides updates on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Belong Together

    The perfect heartwarming, feel-good read

    by Beth Moran ...
    'Every day is a perfect day to read this.’ Shari LowEleanor Sharpley has been living a lie...Needing to escape her London life quickly, Eleanor throws her things into the back of her car, and heads to her erstwhile best friend Charlie’s family farm.But Charlie isn’t there. Instead she finds Charlie’s grieving brother Daniel, her eight-month old daughter Hope (a daughter Eleanor had known nothing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foundations of Library and Information Science

    Richard E. Rubin's book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the myriad societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting our users and institutions and transforming our discipline. Rubin teams up with his daughter, Rachel G. Rubin, a rising star in the library ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Visualización de la información

    La visualización de la información es un disciplina realmente fascinante cuyo interés no ha hecho más que despegar. Si por ejemplo buscamos infographics o data visualization en internet podremos comprobar que el interés crece día a día. Mires donde mires hay información visual que reclama tu atención. La comunicación efectiva e inmediata a través de una simple y fácil visualización prima frente a ... Read more

    $6.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus