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The Social Weaving of a Reading Atmosphere
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Sequeiros, Paula – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This paper discusses how public library readers in Almeida Garrett, Porto, create a reading atmosphere, focusing on meanings associated with aural conditions. Through a qualitative, single case study, ethnographic and interview techniques were applied. Readers' actual practices and discourses, through a theoretical sample, and those of managers,…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Reading, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
Assessment within the Augustana Model of Undergraduate Discipline-Specific Information Literacy Credit Courses
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Goebel, Nancy; Neff, Paul; Mandeville, Angie – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
Augustana (located in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, and formerly known as Augustana University College) is an undergraduate liberal arts and sciences faculty of the University of Alberta with an enrollment of approximately 1,100 students. The fall of 2001 marked the inception of for-credit discipline-specific information literacy (IL) course offerings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Instructional Development, Curriculum Implementation
Library Facility Siting and Location Handbook. The Greenwood Library Management Collection.
Koontz, Christine M. – 1997
This handbook is a guide to the complex process of library facility siting and location. It includes relevant research and professionals' siting experiences, as well as actual case studies of closures, openings, mergers, and relocations of library facilities. While the bulk of the volume provides practical information, the work also presents an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Facility Planning, Facility Utilization Research
Library Fundraising: Models for Success.
Burlingame, Dwight F., Ed. – 1995
This book is a compilation of advice on library fundraising through the presentation of real-life case studies. Contributors offer both recommendations and caveats based on their firsthand fundraising experiences in public and college libraries. Libraries of varying size and financial scale are represented in discussions of pursuing grants,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Libraries, Endowment Funds, Fund Raising
The Microcomputerization of Business Schools. Part I: General Strategies, Lessons, and Issues. Part II: A Case Study of the UCLA Graduate School of Management.
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Frand, Jason L. – 1987
Part I (General Strategies, Lessons and Issues) of this two-part analysis of the microcomputerization process describes strategies schools have followed in their microcomputerization efforts and the lessons and issues that have emerged. Part I covers the following: strategies for introducing microcomputers into the curriculum (the saturation,…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Budgeting, Business Administration Education, College Faculty
Developing an Information Literacy Program K-12. A How-To-Do-It Manual and CD-ROM Package. How-To-Do-It Manuals for Librarians, Number 85.
Langhorne, Mary Jo, Ed. – 1998
This book, developed by the Iowa City Community School District, recipient of the National Library Media Program of the year Award in 1997, provides a complete K-12 curriculum, with details on when key basic information, research, and production skills should be introduced, expanded, and reviewed. The book is divided into four parts: Part I:…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Educational Media, Educational Technology