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1	Developing Library and Information Center Collections more books like this by G. Edward Evans add to wishlist A guide to developing library and information centre collections. Emphasizing collection development in general rather than the process in any particular institutional setting, the author provides a discussion of information needs assessment, policies of collection development, and the selection process itself. The volume is part of the "Library ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Library Lion more books like this by Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator) add to wishlist When a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There are no rules about lions in the library. When something terrible happens, the lion quickly comes to the rescue in the only way he knows how. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Library at Night more books like this by Alberto Manguel add to wishlist Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $11.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries more books like this by Caroline Seebohm (Editor), Christopher Simon Sykes (Illustrator), Estelle Ellis (Editor) add to wishlist From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a simple apartment library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, this guide showcases 40 libraries and offers professional advice on editing and categorizing, caring for books, restoring and storing rare books, finding out-of-print books, and more. 350 color photos. see all copies from $14.74! new only from $36.72! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog more books like this by William B Badke add to wishlist Do the demands of carrying out research in today's high-tech environment leave you baffled? Did the grade on your last term paper leave you doubting that getting an education was worth the effort? As a student in higher education, do you long for a simple, comprehensive guide to research? Here it is. Now in its third edition, extensively revised ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.43! \| SVS
6	The Well of Lost Plots more books like this by Jasper Fforde add to wishlist Jasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel finds his heroine pregnant and working for Miss Havisham in the department of Jurisfiction. The legal stuff is getting her down, and a temporary assignment at the Well of Lost Plots, subbing for a vacationing character in a truly awful unpublished detective novel, sounds like more fun. But the crime, vice, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Bats at the Library more books like this by Brian Lies (Illustrator) add to wishlist Those joyful critters from the "New York Times" bestseller "Bats at the Beach" are back. Youngsters can join in the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats, whose nocturnal celebration cast library visits in a new light. Full color. see all copies from $3.47! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Beatrice Doesn't Want to more books like this by Laura Joffe Numeroff add to wishlist Basset hound Beatrice has no use for books, but she's forced to accompany her older brother to the library since he's looking after her and has to work on a paper for school. Beatrice continuously pesters her beleaguered brother to leave, but they both must suffer through the arrangement. He notices an announcement for a storytime room and drops ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Book of Answers: The New York Public Library Telephone Reference Service's Most Unusual and Enter more books like this by Barbara Berliner, Melinda Corey add to wishlist The dedicated and quick-witted staff of librarians from the New York Public Library Telephone Reference Service has compiled some of its strangest and most-asked questions into this delightfully readable book. Subjects range from history and culture to language and science, and a special section on trick questions and popular delusions in also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Legend of Spud Murphy more books like this by Eoin Colfer, Glenn McCoy (Illustrator) add to wishlist Brothers Will and Marty live in fear of their local children's librarian--a fierce woman known as Spud Murphy. Spud is so protective of the books in her library that she insists that all young people stay only in the children's section of the building, which is, sadly, only one bookshelf. In search of more reading material, Will decides to break ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Library: An Unquiet History more books like this by Matthew Battles add to wishlist This history of libraries by a rare-book librarian analyzes, among other things, famous book-burnings and book-bannings, and casts often surprising light on the mixed fates of books and their storage and preservation through the ages. see all copies from $5.58! new only from $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction more books like this by Kay Ann Cassell add to wishlist This innovative text features an all-new approach that will change the way you think about reference service. The only reference text to identify the top resources in major subject areas and genres, it shows students how to approach the reference query by matching specific types of questions to the most appropriate format (when answering questions ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $22.05!
13 view cover	Libraries in the Ancient World more books like this by Professor Lionel Casson add to wishlist Casson, a professor of Classics at NYU, discusses the archiving practices from a time when the mere act of writing was novel. He provides the first world history of ancient libraries--the libraries of the Near East, Greece and Rome, and the noted stacks of the Christian monastic tradition. Casson also makes important commentary on education and ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $8.32! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper more books like this by Nicholson Baker add to wishlist Novelist Nicholson Baker attacks the archiving practices of libraries. His witty, passionate, persuasive, and highly informed polemic argues that the urgency with which librarians convert newspapers and brittle books into microfilm, and dispose of original textual works, stinks of specious cost-cutting agendas--and results in the loss of valuable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	100% Information Literacy Success more books like this by Quantum Intergrations, Quantum Integrations, Terry Taylor add to wishlist "100 per cent Information Literacy Success" is the fourth text in the "100 per cent Success" series, and serves as a guide to the information literacy standards as described by the American Library Association. This text instructs students and professionals on developing crucial information skills to succeed in today's academic and professional ... see all copies from $14.92! new only from $33.97! \| SVS
16 view cover	Reference and Information Services: An Introduction more books like this by Richard E Bopp (Editor), Linda C Smith (Editor) add to wishlist Thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect current developments in the field, this text is designed to provide the beginning student of library and information science with an overview of the most important tools for general reference work and the concepts and theory behind today's reference services. The 21 chapters are divided into two parts. ... see all copies from $6.73! new only from $26.32! \| SVS
17 view cover	Read All about It! more books like this by Mrs. Laura Bush, Jenna Bush, Denise Brunkus (Illustrator) add to wishlist First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter, Jenna, team with illustrator Denise Brunkus for this story, in which a young boy and his friends are swept up in a mysterious adventure that lands them in a most unexpected place. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Library Dragon more books like this by Carmen Agra Deedy, Michael P. White (Illustrator) add to wishlist Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Patience & Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go about the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy more books like this by Nicholas A Basbanes add to wishlist Nicholas Basbanes's A Gentle Madness focused on the obsessive lives of book collectors. Now, in Patience And Fortitude, he considers the more comprehensive concept of book culture - and the continual relevance of books in our lives. Patience And Fortitude considers the evolving form of the book over the centuries, preservation efforts, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found more books like this by S Nickerson add to wishlist With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a 12-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Information Power more books like this by Association for Educational Communications and Technology, American Association of School Librarians add to wishlist This volume aims to help readers respond proactively and help to lead the way to collaborative learning in schools. The American Library Association has been instrumental in shaping and publishing guidelines for school libraries for 75 years. This book incorporates the standards that should help students become skillful producers and consumers of ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $44.52! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Goin' Someplace Special more books like this by Patricia C McKissack, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) add to wishlist In this story set in the American South of the 1950s, a young African-American girl named 'Tricia Ann is proud when she is allowed to go downtown by herself for the first time on her way to "some place special." Throughout her journey 'Tricia Ann encounters the racism associated with the Jim Crow laws common in the south during those years, but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Library Mouse more books like this by Daniel Kirk add to wishlist Sam is a mouse who lives in a library. He loves to read all kinds of books. He learns that he also loves to make up and write his own stories, just like the books he finds in the library. He begins to leave his stories (that he also illustrates) in different parts of the library - the mystery he writes he places alongside the other mysteries; the ... see all copies from $3.70! new only from $9.04! \| SVS
24 view cover	Miss Zukas and the Library Murders more books like this by Jo Dereske add to wishlist When a dead body turns up right in the mid le of the fiction stacks, the police are baffled. But Helma Zukas, who never fails to make note of the slightest deviation from the norm of everyday life, is tracking some baffling questions of her own. With the help of her not-so-proper best friend, Ruth, a six-foot-tall bohemian artist with a nose for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Collection Program in Schools: Concepts, Practices, and Information Sources more books like this by Kay Bishop add to wishlist This is a new, revised and updated edition of a classic for novice and veteran school librarians who must choose from the vast array of resources available in today's marketplace. This new edition provides an updated overview of the processes and procedures associated with developing, maintaining, and evaluating a library collection at the ... see all copies from $37.39! new only from $53.00!

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