Book Description
A spirited exploration of libraries' evolution from fusty brick-and-mortar institutions to fluid virtual environments.
Author : Marilyn Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061431605
A spirited exploration of libraries' evolution from fusty brick-and-mortar institutions to fluid virtual environments.
Author : Amanda Oliver
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1641605340
"One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America's public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book lovers." —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth When Amanda Oliver began work as a school librarian, fueled by a lifelong love of books and a desire to help, she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and arms of state surveillance. Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at Northwest One, the DC Public Library branch where she would ultimately end her library career. Through her experience at this branch, Oliver highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded, troublingly at odds with the common romanticization of the library as a shining beacon of equality: racism, segregation, and economic oppression. These fundamental American problems manifest today as police violence, the opioid epidemic, widespread inaccessibility of affordable housing, and a lack of mental health care nationwide—all of which come to a head in public library spaces. Can public librarians continue to play the many roles they are tasked with? Can American society sustain one of its most noble institutions? Libraries will not save us, but Oliver helps us imagine what might be possible if we stop expecting them to.
Author : Julie Steimle
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3743857154
One curse down, a billion to go... Residents of Middleton Village, Massachusetts believed their town was under an ancient curse. No one could move in and no one could move out without deadly consequences. Witches worked in the shadows. And werewolves lived in the nearby forest. But the curse on the old public library that had snatched young boys had finally been lifted - or had it? The few that had escaped the curse discover that some scars don't heal. But that isn't the bad thing, especially since that scar warns them of the unusual influx of magical creatures coming to their town. No, teh bad thing is that those creatures are searching for them to take revenge. But the seven teenagers are not going to go down without a fight - even if they are the biggest geeks at Middleton High.
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence Bernstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2005-10-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0471696919
A benchmark text on software development and quantitative software engineering "We all trust software. All too frequently, this trust is misplaced. Larry Bernstein has created and applied quantitative techniques to develop trustworthy software systems. He and C. M. Yuhas have organized this quantitative experience into a book of great value to make software trustworthy for all of us." -Barry Boehm Trustworthy Systems Through Quantitative Software Engineering proposes a novel, reliability-driven software engineering approach, and discusses human factors in software engineering and how these affect team dynamics. This practical approach gives software engineering students and professionals a solid foundation in problem analysis, allowing them to meet customers' changing needs by tailoring their projects to meet specific challenges, and complete projects on schedule and within budget. Specifically, it helps developers identify customer requirements, develop software designs, manage a software development team, and evaluate software products to customer specifications. Students learn "magic numbers of software engineering," rules of thumb that show how to simplify architecture, design, and implementation. Case histories and exercises clearly present successful software engineers' experiences and illustrate potential problems, results, and trade-offs. Also featuring an accompanying Web site with additional and related material, Trustworthy Systems Through Quantitative Software Engineering is a hands-on, project-oriented resource for upper-level software and computer science students, engineers, professional developers, managers, and professionals involved in software engineering projects. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department. An Instructor Support FTP site is also available.
Author :
Publisher : Academic Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9788187504153
Author : New York State Library
Publisher :
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Library schools
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Susan Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136128603
In this trenchant work, Susan Bennett examines the authority of the past in modern cultural experience and the parameters for the reproduction of the plays. She addresses these issues from both the viewpoints of literary theory and theatre studies, shifting Shakespeare out of straightforward performance studies in order to address questions about his plays and to consider them in the context of current theoretical debates on historiography, post-colonialism and canonicity.
Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501156772
Four novellas about horror in the late night hours.