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Thinking Outside the Book
Professionals in all areas of librarianship will find inspiration in the essays collected here--each of them innovative tips for increasing circulation, enhancing collections, and improving flexibility. With extensive experience in the nation's top libraries and media centers, the 73 contributors describe what really works based on their real-world experiences. Organized by subject, the essays offer succinct and practical guidelines for dozens of tasks. Topics include preparing and delivering distinctive presentations; forming a successful grant proposal; hosting a traveling multimedia exhibition; organizing effective community partnerships; writing blogs; hosting authors; creating cybertorials; preserving local culture--and many others.
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The World Wide Web and Databases
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the World Wide Web and Databases, WebDB 2000, held in Dallas, Texas, USA in May 2000. The 16 revised full papers presented together with one invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected after two rounds of reviewing and revision from a total of 69 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information gathering, caching, querying in XML, XML structuring and versioning, web modling, query processing, and classification and retrieval.
Book Publishing in Communist China
A general study was made of the organization of the book publishing industry in Communist China. First the paper reviews briefly the private industry of publishing in pre-Communist China. Next the Communist nationalization of the publishing enterprise is described. Then the author discusses the publishing of the following categories of books: works of Mao Tse-tung and other Chinese Communist leaders, belles lettres (modern and classical), history and economics, science and technology, dictionaries, popular reading materials, children's readers and specially designed books for the minority races in China. The author also discusses briefly China's translation of books from foreign countries, especially the Soviet Union and China's export of books to foreign lands. Finally the author discusses the general reading preferences among the Chinese public today and notes the popularity of classical literature. (Author).
The Art of the Printmaker
This beautifully illustrated book looks at printmaking from 1550 to the last days before mechanization in the 1860s, explaining the process and technique involved and the fantastic results achieved by early printers.
