Friday 8 January 2016

Defining Relevancy Managing the New Academic Library by Janet McNeil Hurlbert

Defining Relevancy

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Defining Relevancy
Defining Relevancy

I. Analyzing Our Users: Making the Connection

1. Chapter 1: Changing Demographics: Meet the Students and Faculty of the Future
2. Chapter 2: Social Software, Web 2.0, and Libraries

II. The Integration of Form and Function: Buildings and Services

3. Chapter 3: Place Planning for Libraries: The Space Near the Heart of the College
4. Chapter 4: The New 3R’s: Revolution, Reorganization, and Renovation
5. Chapter 5: A Future Place for Us: Results of a Survey on the Academic Library “As a Place”

III. Collaboration for Learning: Managing Information Literacy

6. Chapter 6: Rhetoric versus Reality: A Faculty Perspective on Information Literacy Instruction
7. Chapter 7: Faculty and Information Literacy Case Study
8. Chapter 8: Through the Information Literacy Lens: Managing the College Library in the Twenty-First Century
IV. Promoting the Library: Competition and Collaboration
9. Chapter 9: Campus Partnership in Small Academic Libraries: Challenges and Rewards
10. Chapter 10: Collaboration in Small and Medium-Sized Academic Libraries

V. Integration of Staff, Services, and Assessment: What Is Needed? How Will We Know? Who Will Do It?

11. Chapter 11: Managing to Keep Academic Reference Service
12. Chapter 12: Community College Library Staffing: Evolution and Revolution
13. Chapter 13: From Slide Rules to Scorecards: Service Environment Factors Affecting the Future of Assessment in Academic Libraries
14. Chapter 14: Big Growth Is Not a Small Strategy
15. Chapter 15: From Predictability to Managed Chaos: The Change from Print Serials to Electronic Resource Management—Indiana
16. Chapter 16: Is There a Future for Technical Services?

VI. Connections for College Archives: Taking on New Missions

17. Chapter 17: Opportunities for Small and Medium-Sized College Archives in the Digital Age

VII. Issues and Challenges for the Future: A Bibliographic Essay

18. Chapter 18: 18. The Academic Library: Issues and Challenges for the Future
Index

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Tuesday 5 January 2016

Powerful Public Relations by RASHELLE S. KARP

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A How-To Guide for Libraries 

FOR THE

Library Administration and Management Association


Powerful Public Relations by RASHELLE S. KARP
Powerful Public Relations by RASHELLE S. KARP

1. Chapter 1: Synergy in Library Public Relations, Marketing, and Development Activities
2. Chapter 2: News Releases, Photo Releases, Public Service Announcements
3. Chapter 3: Library Publications
4. Chapter 4: Web-Based Public Relations
5. Chapter 5: Exhibits
6. Chapter 6: Interactive Multimedia Programs via Touch Screen Kiosks and CD-ROMs
7. Chapter 7: Planning Special Events
8. Chapter 8: Desktop Publishing and Image
9. Chapter 9: Public Relations Lessons: Selected Annotated Bibliography
10. Chapter 10: INDEX


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Sunday 3 January 2016

Koha 3 Library Management System

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1. Chapter 1: Installing the Software Stack
2. Chapter 2: Configuring the Apache2 Web Server
3. Chapter 3: Installing Koha's Zebra Search Engine
4. Chapter 4: Koha's Web Installer, Crontab, and Other Server Configurations
5. Chapter 5: Configuring the Cataloguing Module
6. Chapter 6: Configuring the Circulation Module
7. Chapter 7: Configuring Other System Preferences
8. Chapter 8: Test Driving Your Koha Installation
9. Chapter 9: Migrating Catalog Data
10. Chapter 10: Troubleshooting
11. Chapter 11: Updating Software
12. Chapter 12: Customizing Koha Software
13. Chapter 13: Advanced Topics
14. Index


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Saturday 2 January 2016

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN URBAN AND METROPOLITAN AREAS By Gerard B. McCabe

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN URBAN AND METROPOLITAN AREAS By Gerard B. McCabe 

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN URBAN AND METROPOLITAN AREAS

PART I: THE MISSION OF THE URBAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY

1. Chapter 1: Defining the Mission of the Urban University and Its Library: The Beginnings of a Typology
2. Chapter 2: Conflict of Mission: The Mid-size Private University in an Urban Environment

PART II: SERVICES TO EXTERNAL POPULATION GROUPS

3. Chapter 3: External User Access to Academic Libraries in Urban/Metropolitan Areas
4. Chapter 4: General Circulation Policies for Private Citizens: The Practices of Publicly Supported Academic Libraries
5. Chapter 5: Urban University Library Services to Business and Industry
6. Chapter 6: High School Students and Libraries in Public Universities
7. Chapter 7: Cooperation: Private Academic and High School Libraries

PART III: SERVICES TO INTERNAL POPULATION GROUPS

8. Chapter 8: Reference and Information Service
9. Chapter 9: Local Information in Federal Sources
10. Chapter 10: Audiovisual Services: Strategic Planning
11. Chapter 11: Library Services for Faculty in the Urban University
12. Chapter 12: Bibliographic Instruction for Students

PART IV: EXTENDED CAMPUS CONSIDERATIONS

13. Chapter 13: Extended Campus Library Services
14. Chapter 14: The Perception of Distance: Networking Among Libraries
15. Chapter 15: Joint-Use Library Services at Distant Campuses: Building Cooperation Between a Community College and a University

PART V: SECURITY, SAFETY, AND PRESERVATION

16. Chapter 16: Legal and Practical Aspects of Securing the General Collection in Academic Libraries
17. Chapter 17: Security and Safety of People in Urban Academic Libraries
18. Chapter 18: Preservation and Environmental Control Issues in the Urban/Metropolitan Academic Library

PART VI: MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVES

19. Chapter 19: Personnel Management in the Urban Academic Library
20. Chapter 20: Acculturation of the International Student Employee in Urban University Libraries
21. Chapter 21: Space: The Physical Environment of the Urban Academic Library
22. Chapter 22: The Future Results of Using New Technology
23. Chapter 23: Index

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Friday 1 January 2016

Advanced Analysis and Design for Fire Safety of Steel Structures by Guoqiang Li Peijun Wang

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1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Fire in Buildings
3. Chapter 3: Properties of Steel at Elevated Temperatures
4. Chapter 4: Temperature Elevations of Structural Steel Components Exposed to Fire
5. Chapter 5: Fire-Resistance of Isolated Flexural Structural Components
6. Chapter 6: Fire-Resistance of Isolated Compressed Steel Components
7. Chapter 7: Fire-Resistance of Restrained Flexural Steel Components
8. Chapter 8: Fire-Resistance of Restrained Steel Columns
9. Chapter 9: Fire-Resistance of Composite Concrete Slabs
10. Chapter 10: Analysis of Steel Moment-Resistant Frames Subjected to a Fire
11. Chapter 11: Analysis and Design of Large Space Steel Structure Buildings Subjected to a Fire
12. Appendix A: Parameters for Calculating the Smoke Temperature in Large Space Building Fire
13. Appendix B: Stiffness Matrices of Beam-Column Elements
14. Appendix C: Height of the Flame
15. Appendix D: Critical Temperatures of Composite Beams
16. Appendix E: Critical Temperatures of a Steel Column Subjected to Combined Axial Force and Bending Moment
17. Appendix F: Maximum Fire Power at Which a Grid Structure Does not Need Fire Protection

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