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Author
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Guided by a national advisory board of educators and practitioners, this thoroughly updated text expertly keeps up with new technologies and practices while remaining grounded in the basics of reference work. Chapters on fundamental concepts, major reference sources, and special topics provide a solid foundation; the text also offers fresh insight on core issues, including ethics, readers' advisory, information literacy, selecting and evaluating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathryn Cope
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whether you are a member of a reading group, or simply reading A Gentleman in Moscow for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to Amor Towles' acclaimed new novel A Gentleman in Moscow, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary and historical context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses
...Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
©2003-©2004
Language
English
Description
"This is a revised and updated edition of one of the most authoritative and comprehensive sources on the world's animals. Similar to the first edition written by noted zoologist Bernard Grzimek and published in 1972, the second edition covers all types of animals in geographic areas around the world. It includes high-quality photographs and illustrations and a comprehensive index to all volumes."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American...
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"This reference classic has approximately doubled in size since its last publication 20 years ago, and the expansion involves more than the thorough revision and addition of articles about music of the past. More articles about 20th-century composers and composer-performers have been added, as well as topical articles about the gender-related, multicultural, and interdisciplinary ways that music is now being studied. Add to these changes that New...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn the stages of a reference interview and the behaviors necessary to conduct a successful reference interview. Produced with a content committee of reference librarians and trainers. The program also discusses the unique challenges of online reference interviews. "Although an online reference interview is a lot like that done in-person, the librarian needs to be also be able to emulate the unseen visual cues while conveying a sense of personality,"...
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Language
English
Description
"The first edition, published in 1971, served for the past three decades as the most comprehensive reference source on education. The revised version proves a worthy successor. Its eight volumes contain over 850 articles written or reworked by more than 1,000 contributors. Nearly every article has been completely rewritten, with many new topics added. The six appendixes include information on achievement tests, state departments of education, legislation...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Over 10 years in the making, American National Biography is a fascinating study of the people who have shaped the United States. Why replace the Dictionary of American Biography instead of merely updating it through supplements? Because the editors include new scholarship and people who were missed in the original, especially women and ethnic minorities. Numbering 24 volumes and containing 17,500 entries, the work offers readable, informative, and...
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Contains essays that provide historical and contemporary data on over two hundred Native American groups in Canada and the United States, listed alphabetically within ten culture groups; and includes illustrations, maps, a bibliography, glossary, and an index.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Use the appeal characteristics to help your patrons find the book that is most appropriate for them. You will also learn how to use the "Quick Dip" in order to learn about a book without reading it. “People love to talk about the books that they read,” according to this excellent readers - advisory instructional. Recommended for professional library collections.”- Booklist.
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
In this work, the author "collects slang used in the United States since 1945, recording and celebrating the language of beats, hipsters, hippies, pimps and hookers, druggies, surfers, Valley Girls, dudes, truck drivers, computer hackers, punks, ravers, soldiers, gay men and lesbians, prisoners, sex dancers, and more. Citations from popular literature bring entries to life, illustrating the social fabric from which the slang emerges."--
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"Exciting and fascinating, this reference work succeeds in its goal of bringing "joy as well as enlightenment" about all forms of dance in all countries of the world. An extremely useful synoptic outline of contents" with nine sections (including "Ritual and Religion" and "Popular Entertainment") enables the user to explore dance in its cultural and social aspects, while topical essays complement the 2,000-plus entries. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The range of subjects covered here is breath-taking - everything from the domestication of the camel, to Egyptian hieroglyphics, to luminescence dating, to the Mayan calendar, to Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge. Readers will find extensive essays that illuminate the full history of archaeology - from the discovery of Herculaneum in 1783, to the recent finding of the "Ice Man," and the ancient city of Uruk - and engaging biographies of the great figures...
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