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Language
English
Description
"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to the public library: the unmistakable, slightly musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly-discovered books. Today's libraries also function as de facto community centers, and offer free access to the Internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter along with the endless possibilities that spark your imagination the moment you open the cover of a book. There...
Author
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This reworked guidebook shares how to build a digital collection from scratch, or simply understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library. It demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. It demystifies core technologies and workflows and covers a range of aspects from planning to implementation...
45) Paper and fire
Author
Series
Great Library volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Ink and Bone, author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library--and rewrite history ... With an iron fist, the Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion and in the name of the greater good forbidding the personal ownership of books. Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to...
Author
Publisher
ALA editions, An imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Storytelling in the library and school setting can take many forms. Del Negro encourages you to explore the folktales on your shelves and tailor them for the various age groups, involving the children in the storytelling as a way to learn through play, and letting them express the tales in their own words and ways. Includes folktales recommended for telling by the author and a bibliography of additional folktales for each age group.
Author
Publisher
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Linda Ernst has created programming based on the most important findings in babies' brain development. This new resource is full of activities that stimulate infants and toddlers' cognitive, physical, and emotional growth. In this versatile book and CD-ROM package, you'll find book ideas, rhymes, songs and music, props, and more that can be combined to form hundreds of hours of quality programming that will wow parents, educators, and caregivers....
Author
Series
Kit the wizard volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's a new school year for Kit, Alita, and Josh. The three friends learn that their school is getting a brand-new library-and a brand-new baby dragon to help the library grow. They're overjoyed to look after the precious dragon egg until it hatches--it's like all their Christmases and Diwalis and birthdays have come at once! But when the egg is stolen, Kit and her friends are faced with a group of evil wizards who want to change the magical world...
51) Library
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Library takes emergent readers on a trip to the library while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience.
52) Our library
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
54) Pumpkin Cat
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
One stormy night just before Halloween a ginger cat finds shelter and kind people at a library, but at night, all alone, she recognizes that the library cannot be a real home because something is missing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
Author
Series
Library volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When supernatural phenomenon start following Marcus O'Mara around, he discovers a key that leads to The Library, a place where all the stories of the living and dead are kept that will help him and his friends solve a terrifying mystery"--
Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This resource provides guidance, tools, and case studies on how libraries can effectively engage with the public to address a range of issues for the betterment of their community, whether it is a city, neighborhood, campus, or something else. Featuring contributions by leaders active in library-led community engagement, it's designed to be equally useful as a teaching text for LIS students and a handbook for current programming, adult services, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. But what can she do? The local elections are coming up but she's just a kid. She can't even vote! Still, Yasmin has friends -- her best friend, Reeni, and Anil, who even has a...
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