Looking for a comprehensive, all-in-one guide to RDA that keeps it simple and provides exactly what you need to know? This book covers planning and training considerations, presents relevant FRBR and FRAD background, and offers practical, step-by-step cataloging advice for a variety of material formats. The new cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA), will have far-reaching impacts on your library in terms of how it approaches resource description and access. RDA has been in use at the U.S. Library of Congress since early 2013 and is being widely adopted in the international library community. Today's catalogers need to understand RDA's basic concepts and principles as well as how to apply its rules in order to provide relevant information services in the 21st-century. This book helps you tackle the challenges of implementing the new cataloging code (RDA/Resource Description and Access) in the MARC environment, providing emphasis on practical, straightforward RDA advice for today's busy cataloger. After a general discussion on planning and training for RDA, the authora technical services/systems librarian with more than two decades' experiencepresents a comprehensive review of RDA's conceptual basis in FRBR and FRAD before providing easy-to-follow, practical guidance on cataloging today's diverse library resources using the new code, covering print, audiovisual, and digital materials. The book is a must-have resource for librarians who catalog on a broad, general level, with or without authority work, and who may or may not be cataloging specialists, but are responsible for handling many different formats. Catalogers at busy libraries committed to getting their new materials out to their users as quickly as possible will also find this work extremely helpful.
This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal environments. In a period when women faced legal and social restrictions ranging from coverture to slavery, the emergence of residential communities designed by French utopian writer, Charles Fourier, introduced spaces where female leadership and social organization became possible. Communitarian women helped shape the ideological underpinnings of some of the United States’ most enduring and successful reform efforts, including the women’s rights movement, the abolition movement, and the creation of the Republican Party. Dr. Hart argues that these movements were intertwined, with activists influencing multiple organizations within unexpected settings.
They risked their lives for their country Now their hearts are on the line! In a competition for charity, curvy cake-baker Tilly is paired with ex-military chief executive Campbell Sanderson and they get off to rather a sticky start For the rugged tycoon it's the winning that counts, but bright, bubbly Tilly coaxes a show-stopping kiss! Tanrami Island is the last place midwife Holly expected to see old flame Sergeant Richard Hollingsworth again. Two years ago, the army medic had ended their affair despite their amazing chemistry, but when they are kidnapped by rebels, Holly's sure he's the only man she ll ever want. Fast cars and glamorous socialites were just part of handsome billionaire Orlando Winterton's lifestyle until suddenly the ex-RAF pilot withdrew from the world. Then Rachel Campion arrives at his country estate desperate and in need, and Orlando cannot deny the fragile beauty a bed for the night £1 from the price of each Book will be contributed by Harlequin (UK) Limited to Help for Heroes Trading Limited which Gift Aids all its taxable profits to Help for Heroes (Registered Charity Number 1120920).
A vampire. A murder. A prophecy. I'm Emily Sanderson. I used to be an ordinary girl. Now I'm a vampire, living at Mistwood Academy, a school for supernatural teenagers. It's not how I pictured my life turning out, but I've made friends, and I'm doing okay in my classes. I know I'll figure things out. But then I'm attacked and everything changes. There are whispered voices. Threats. And dark magic. Something sinister is going on at Mistwood ... something that results in murder. Now I'm caught up in an ancient prophecy. A prophecy I need to stop before it's too late.
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Besty's life changes when she suggests that she and Victor start dating others and a young screen star, Patrick Groves, fills in for her drama teacher.
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