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Offers a study of the famous home of Henry Clay Frick, which houses the Frick Collection in New York City. This work examines the history of the house and how it influenced the collection itself.
Author : Colin B. Bailey
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
Offers a study of the famous home of Henry Clay Frick, which houses the Frick Collection in New York City. This work examines the history of the house and how it influenced the collection itself.
Author : Willem R. H. Koops
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111514544
Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1633699307
If you aren't working with a strategy, you're wasting your time. Strategy isn't just a set of plans handed down from the C-suite. To grow as a leader, you need to understand your company's strategy and align your thinking, projects, and team with organizational goals and vision. Master these abilities with the HBR Guides to Building Your Strategic Skills Collection. This three-book set, which includes the HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically, the HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives, and the HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy, will help you change the way you think about your work, manage your most important priorities, and craft a strategy for long-term growth. You'll learn how to: Understand what strategy is--and what it isn't Define a clear strategy, whether you're in a start-up or in an established business Manage a portfolio of strategic projects Embed strategic thinking into your daily tasks and decision making Align your team around key objectives Let go of work that doesn’t add value Communicate strategy throughout your organization Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Author : Julie Bartel
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838908860
Libraries eager to serve the underserved teen-to-twenty-year-old market can make the library a cool place to hang out. All it takes are zines, according to the author, young adult librarian Julie Bartel. Zines and alternative press materials provide a unique bridge to appeal to disenfranchised youth, alienated by current collections. For librarians unfamiliar with the territory, or anxious to broaden their collection, veteran zinester Bartel establishes the context, history, and philosophy of zines, then ushers readers through an easy, do-it-yourself guide to creating a zine collection, including both print and electronic zines. While zines have their unique culture, they are also important within broader discussions of intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights. Teen and young adult librarians, high school media specialists, and academic, reference, and adult services librarians will uncover answers to questions aboutthis new and growing literary genre: What is a zine and how does a library zine collection work? What are the pros and cons of having a zine collection in the library? When promoting zines, what appeals to patrons and non-library users alike? What is the best way to catalog and display? Where can libraries get zines and how much do they cost? Bartel shares these lessons and more from a major urban library zine collection, as well as a comprehensive directory of zine resources in this one-stop, one-of-a-kind guide.
Author : Donald Cumberland
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
ISBN :
Author : Chi Wang
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810885492
In this collection of essays written by the former head of the Library of Congress Chinese Collection, Chi Wang chronicles the modest beginnings of the Chinese Collection at the Library of Congress and his crusade to transform it into the largest collection and Chinese cultural presence outside Asia. For anyone who has ever wondered what goes on inside the marble walls of one of the country’s oldest federal institutions, Wang relates an insider’s account of the major milestones and changes to the administration of the Collection over the years. Readers will be surprised not only to learn about some of the rare and priceless books that have found their way to the Library of Congress but also by the candor with which Wang shares his story about serving under three different Librarians of Congress, each with a different mandate and mark they wanted to leave behind. Building a Better Chinese Collection for the Library of Congress has value as American library history but also serves as a useful introduction to Chinese historical archives and libraries. Select writings discuss publication and personnel exchanges with Chinese academic libraries, Chinese character encoding and library automation, and publishing activities in China.
Author : George Perkins Merrill
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Building stones
ISBN :
Author : Christopher P. Semtner
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781634990363
Recounts the mysterious history of Edgar Allan Poe's life, work, and the museum preserving his artifacts, founded by devoted but troubled collectors. Although he is one of the world's most popular authors who continues to thrill and chill readers of all ages, Edgar Allan Poe's life is as enigmatic as his sudden, unexplained death. In a quest for solutions to the mysteries surrounding the poet's life and work, a group of Poe devotees founded the Poe Shrine in 1922. This body included the world's most prolific Poe collector, a psychiatrist who believed Poe was clairvoyant, and the grandson of Poe's worst enemy. Within four years of the Shrine's opening, one of the founders had committed suicide, another was committed to a mental hospital, and a third had been banned from ever entering the Shrine again. Somehow, over the course of 95 years, their museum has managed to assemble to world's finest collection of Poe artifacts and memorabilia featuring the author's boyhood bed, clothing, walking stick, and hair clipped from his head after his death. Drawing on the museum's archives, The Poe Shrine tells the story of these coveted objects, the people who collected them, and the institution that serves as their repository.
Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Dr. Harrison Sachs
Publisher : The Epic Books Of Dr. Harrison Sachs
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2024-07-19
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This essay sheds light on how to build a LEGO set collection, demystifies the best way to build a LEGO set collection, reveals the best type of LEGO sets for LEGO set collectors to collect for building a LEGO set collection, and delineates the benefits of building a LEGO set collection. The advent of the internet has rendered it a seamless process for a LEGO set collector to be able to expeditiously build a LEGO set collection. Prior to the advent of the internet, a LEGO set collector was pigeonholed into buying LEGO sets via brick-and-mortar retail stores. It can be eminently cumbersome to find LEGO sets to purchase at the locales of garage sales, the locales of flea markets, and the locales of estate sales since they are uncommon items at most garage sales, flea markets, and estate sales. Even though the locales of garage sales, the locales of flea markets, and the locales of estate sales are often devoid of LEGO sets, LEGO set collectors still nonetheless often visit these locales for the prospect of stumbling upon LEGO sets for sale at these locales. Buying LEGO sets at the venues of LEGO conventions from vendors at LEGO conventions is also not a viable way to build a LEGO set collection since it is expensive to attend LEGO conventions. Furthermore, the vendors at LEGO conventions sell their LEGO sets at steep premium prices that often exceed their secondhand market values. If you purchase LEGO sets via LEGO conventions, then you can expect to concede to paying the highest possible secondhand market prices for LEGO sets since the vendors at LEGO conventions are resellers who buy LEGO sets solely with the intention of reselling them at top dollar. Vendors at LEGO conventions sell their LEGO sets at enormous markups that are often significantly above their retail prices and secondhand market values. If you are keen on building a LEGO set collection, then buying LEGO sets at retail stores is often an inefficacious way to build a LEGO set collection, especially if you are highly selective about the LEGO sets that you purchase. Retail stores are typically sold out of highly desirable LEGO sets. Retailers often never restock most of the highly desirable LEGO sets that they are sold out of. When retailers receive shipments of highly desirable LEGO sets, then they not only arrive at retail stores in egregiously low quantities, but also immediately get sold out by scalpers post being stocked onto store shelves. Once the scalpers have purchased all of the highly desirable LEGO sets from the retail stores, they will then often subsequently proceed to resell them at lofty markups that are at least 50%-1000% above their retail prices. It can be ineffably cumbersome to find any highly desirable LEGO sets at retail stores since they are purchased by scalpers immediately after they are stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities. Retailers will often never restock most of the highly desirable LEGO sets that get immediately sold out by scalpers shortly after they are stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities even though there is tremendous pent-up customer demand for these highly desirable LEGO sets that remains eminently unsatisfied. It can be a highly time-consuming and expensive pursuit to drive to ample distant brick-and-mortar retail stores just to not be able to find a single desirable LEGO set that you have been eager to purchase. Frequenting distant brick-and-mortar retail stores is often deemed to be a sheer and utter depletion of precious time for most LEGO sets collectors since they are often sold out of all of the desirable LEGO sets that they have been eager to purchase. Being able to buy highly desirable LEGO sets from the retail stores at the “manufacturer’s suggested retail price” is not an option for most LEGO set collectors since the highly desirable LEGO sets immediately get sold out by scalpers post being stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities. Scalpers are able to immensely benefit from supply shortages of highly desirable LEGO sets since it allows them to be able to have full purview over the pricing of highly desirable LEGO sets on the secondhand market. Scalpers have full purview over the pricing of highly desirable LEGO sets on the secondhand market that customers have been unable to purchase in the retail stores due to them becoming sold out shortly after being stocked onto store shelves in egregiously low quantities.