Teaching resiliency is the next step in the character education movement. Author, Mary Humphrey presents recommendations for teaching this important skill based on lessons she has taught and perfected in her elementary school library.Featuring in depth lesson plans using picture books and intermediate novels for each of the five coping skills: Work on a Talent, Look Within, Find a Champion, Rescue Yourself, and Help Others, this book is immediately usable in the elementary classroom or school li...
This book provides a practical guide to key strategic, technical and economic aspects of New Product Development (NPD) systems and what determines success or failure in terms of reducing time to market. It is based on detailed analysis of New Product Development projects and the experience of leading organizations in the Silicon Valley, and how this can be applied elsewhere.This book integrates a methodology to understand techniques for managing effectively the knowledge obtained in the NPD proc...
Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education
by Wei Wei
Stay on top with the latest developments in scientific and technical journal publications! In Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education, experts in the academic community propose cost-effective alternatives to commercial publications in the face of increased journal prices and reduced budgets. This book discusses recent technological innovations that can maintain the needs of researchers who need to stay on the cutting edge of science and technology as we...
Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works
by Pauline Rafferty and Rob Hidderley
Indexing and information retrieval work properly only if language and interpretation are shared by creator and user. This is more complex for non-verbal media. The authors of Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works explore these challenges against a background of different theories of language and communication, particularly semiotics, questioning the possibility of ideal multimedia indexing. After surveying traditional approaches to information retrieval (IR) and organization in relation to iss...
Bulletin Boards and 3-D Showcases That Capture Them with Pizzazz, Volume 2 (Non-Series)
by Karen Hawthorne and Jane E Gibson
Need ideas to stimulate student interest in reading and library usage? Try one of the 98 bulletin board and showcase ideas featured in this eagerly awaited sequel to the best-selling first volume of this title, and you will be amazed how easy it can be to motivate readers to use the library! Each of the chapter provides detailed directions that allow for effortless reproduction of some of the most innovative and exciting bulletin boards and showcases you have ever seen.Following the same format...
Corporate Community Involvement (Corporate Social Responsibility)
by Bilge Uyan-Atay
There has been tremendous growth in Corporate Community Involvement (CCI) projects of all sizes in recent years. This has been encouraged by organisations such as Business in the Community in the UK, which provides information designed to motivate businesses and government to engage in CCI. In fact, the projects incorporated into some companies' strategy implementation are now so extensive that they are having a profound impact on community development. Corporate Community Involvement examines...
"Der ganze Verlag ist einfach eine Bonbonniere" (Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens - Studien, #10)
Nach grossen Erfolgen im Pressegeschaft profilierte sich der Ullstein Verlag ab 1903 in strategisch geschickter Mehrfachverwertung seiner Produkte auch mit einem facettenreichen literarischen Unterhaltungsprogramm und popularen Sachbuchern. Der Band betrachtet aus interdisziplinarer Perspektive die inhaltliche, programmatische und mediale Vielfalt des Verlags im Kontext kultureller, gesellschaftlicher und medialer Rahmenbedingungen der Zeit.
Teaching Information Literacy Skills
by Patricia Iannuzzi, Stephen S. Strichart, and Charles T. Mangrum
According to the American Library Association (ALA), an information literate person is able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.
Guide to County Records in North Carolina State Archives
Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective. The essential thesis of the book is that well-being is a collective action. The book utilises the Five Ways to Well-being as a model: Connect, Be Active, Keep Learning, Give, Take Notice. Each of these Ways are explored through a specific museum object illustrating the important role collections can play in museum well-being...
Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology (Surf/EU-Driver)
by Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen
Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology serves as a technology watch on the rapidly evolving world of digital publication. It provides an up-to-date overview of technical issues, underlying the development of universally accessible publications, their elemental components and linked information. More specifically it deals with questions as how to bring together the communities of the Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) and the Common European Research Infor...
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Learn to allocate scarce library resources to meet learning, research, and service goals!How can you buy more books and journals with less money, while also installing the latest software and hardware, paying staff to train faculty and students in its use, offering the new round-the-clock information services users demand, and redefining the traditional collection-centered model of the library? It sounds impossible, but these are the conflicting imperatives every collections librarian faces at t...
Intercultural Memories (Critical Intercultural Communication Studies, #25)
Chaos & Complexity Research Compendium
This book presents leading-edge research on artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, cognition, complexity theory, synchronisation, fractals, genetic algorithms, information systems, metaphors, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, parallel computation and synergetics. The unifying feature of this research is the tie to chaos and complexity.