Regionale Verbundsysteme in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bibliotheks- Und Informationspraxis, #34)
by Traute Braun
Houghton Library at 75 (Houghton Library Publications (HUP)) (Houghton Library Publications)
by Heather Cole
Houghton Library-the primary repository for Harvard University's rare books, manuscripts, and much more-celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2017. Houghton's holdings span nearly the entire history of the written word, from papyrus to the laptop. This anniversary volume presents a snapshot of the unique items that fill the library's shelves.From miniature books composed by a teenage Charlotte Bronte to a massive medieval manuscript hymnbook; from the plays of Shakespeare to costume designs for Sta...
Social Networks in China (Chandos Publishing Social Media)
by Xianhui Che and Barry Ip
Social Networks in China provides an in-depth guide to Chinese social networks, covering behaviors, usage, key issues, and future developments. Chinese scholarship and cultural idiosyncrasies in technology remain a relatively under-researched area. While such issues may be sporadically reported in popular media, it is often difficult to obtain a true understanding of authentic Chinese behaviors and practices. One such study area delves into whether Chinese users utilize technology to socialize i...
This book looks at how Europe's refugee crisis has provoked different political and humanitarian responses, all similarly driven by technology. The author first explores the transformation of Europe into an increasingly militarised space, where technologies are mainly used to exercise surveillance and to distinguish between citizens and unwanted migrants. She then shifts the attention to refugees' practices of connectivity by looking at how technologies are used by refugees to communicate, perfo...
This book gathers new empirical findings fostering advances in the areas of digital and communication design, web, multimedia and motion design, graphic design, branding, and related ones. It includes original contributions by authoritative authors based on the best papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Digital Design and Communication, Digicom 2020, together with some invited chapters written by leading international researchers. They report on innovative design strategies sup...
Praise for the previous edition: 'Gives an excellent insight into the main issues of creating a website and offers a good foundation of knowledge.' – i.net Producing for Web 2.0 is a clear and practical guide to the planning, set up and management of a website in web 2.0. It gives readers an overview of the current technologies available for online communications and shows how to use them for maximum effect when planning a website. Producing for Web 2.0 sets out the practical toolkit needed f...
Donna Jo Napoli (Studies in Young Adult Literature, #39) (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)
by Hilary S Crew
Digital Methods for Complex Datasets (International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Special Issues)
Seeking to challenge the focus on 'big data' by understanding it outside of the computational power required to process it, this volume explores the role of digital methods in the future of digital humanities research. The essays are united by the theme of complexity - but manifest that complexity across an unusual spectrum. The methods included rise out of fields of study including library and information science, informatics, literary studies, English, and computer science. Sources explored in...
During his years of living and teaching in Oamaru, New Zealand, James Barnes became intimately involved in the Maori culture. Through extensive research of the mythology of Polynesia, Barnes succeeded in collecting stories passed on by ancient storytellers. His variation of these 26 stories and folktales is included, along with readers theatre interpretation and suggested presentation.
Developing Learning Skills through Children's Literature
by Terri Parker Street and Letty S. Watt
This is not a revision but an entirely updated volume of selected high-quality literature published from 1986 to 1993. Volume 2 shows how to create a literature-based program--either thematic or across the curriculum--based on quality contemporary and classic literature. The authors explain how to select the most appropriate books and how to use them in the classroom to encourage learning through literature. Each volume contains six chapters arranged by grade level and divided into units coverin...
Take advantage of the appeal and power of Caldecott award literature to extend and promote learning across the curriculum. In these three volumes the author demonstrates how to use award-winning books as springboards to science, social studies learning, and language arts in the library and classroom-and to expand student awareness and appreciation of illustration techniques. For each Caldecott title there is background information on the illustrations, curriculum connections, lesson plans, and...
The last several years have seen mass uprisings and dynamic social movements across the globe, from the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011, to the Black Lives Matter movement following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. There is no doubt that social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter accelerated and facilitated these uprisings, providing a way for people to organize and express themselves despite government repression. From Tahrir Square to Ferguson: Social Networks as...
The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding (Islamic Manuscripts and Books)
by Karin Scheper
Encourage literacy with twenty original songs by musician and educator Al Balkin! Children's and school librarians will welcome ""Tune Up to Literacy"", a handy package of music and activities that musically introduces and reinforces crucial literacy concepts such as the alphabet, vowels, consonants, nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence construction, punctuation, sequence, rhyming, and much, much more. The book includes: 20 original songs to encourage children's development of literacy; rhyme-a-to...
Using real-world examples, this book makes communicating library value with data achievable for busy librarians by detailing various assessment methods, illuminating the difference between marketing your library and communicating its value, and describing tools for building relationships with stakeholders. In theory, librarians understand that they need to be able to demonstrate the value of their library to stakeholders. In practice, librarians may be unsure about what they need to do, what da...
Developed by a panel of distinguished educators and librarians, The Young Adult Reader's Adviser recommends an extensive, representative, and useful list of the finest books--modern and classic, hardcover and paperback. Patterned after the Bowker classic, The Reader's Adviser, this two-volume resource features 17,000 bibliographic entries and over 850 biographical profiles. Each volume of The Young Adult Reader's Adviser is divided into two major sections. Volume One is devoted to Literature and...
Die Chinesische Dichtkunst. Von Den Anfangen Bis Zum Ende Der Kaiserzeit
by Wolfgang Kubin
China blickt auf etwa 9.000 Jahre Zivilisation zuruck, davon sind fast 4.000 Jahre durch Schrift-zeugnisse belegt. Die Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur, die bislang umfassendste Darstellung der etwa 3.000-jahrigen chinesischen Literaturgeschichte, stellt jedes literarische Genre in seiner historischen Entwicklung von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart vor. Namhafte Fachgelehrte entwerfen ein Panorama der langsten lebendigen literarischen Tradition der Menschheit. Sieben Bande widmen sich einzel...
Windows on the World: International Books for Elementary and Middle Grade Readers
by Rosanne J Blass
More than 65 lesson plans and illustrated activity sheets will involve students in books and the library. Included are diagnostic pretests and materials on book care, library behavior, the Dewey Decimal System, book reports, and more.
Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material...
A close reading of Wikipedia’s article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and far. Wikipedia bills itself as an encyclopedia built on neutrality, authority, and crowd-sourced consensus. Platforms like Google and digital assistants like Siri distribute Wikipedia’s facts widely, further burnishing its veneer of impartiality. But as Heather Ford demonstrates in Writing the Revolution, the fa...