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Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the 21st-Century Academic Library

Successful Innovations That Make a Difference

By: Bradford Lee Eden

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Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the 21st-Century Academic Library

Successful Innovations That Make a Difference

By: Bradford Lee Eden

Libraries of all types have undergone significant developments in the last few decades. The rate of change in the academic library, a presence for decades now, has been increasing in the first decade of this century. It is no exaggeration to claim that it is undergoing a top to bottom redefinition. In this second volume of the series, Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library, we explore the initiatives in student learning and training that are underway in our academic libraries. The 13 chapters range from librarians redesigning the space in the library in order to assume control of the campus bookstore to implementing a MOOC where the problems of providing material to potentially thousands of students taking an online course must somehow overcome copyright restrictions. A chapter describes how the iPad has become the chosen delivery mechanism for a rich array of resources that finally begin to reflect the educational potential of the digital world. Another chapter tells how a collaboration creates an audio archive to enrich the experiences of patrons and raise the visibility of the special collections unit on campus. Gamification plays a role in two chapters and active learning is featured in another that employs the technologies of interactive whiteboards, clickers, and wireless slates. These approaches, employing new technologies and terminology, signal that we have begun a new era in the definition and design of the academic library. We can’t expect the redefined academic library to assume its final shape any time soon, if ever, but the transformation is well underway.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1442247045

ISBN 13

9781442247048

No Higher Love

By: Bradford Carter Matthews

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No Higher Love

By: Bradford Carter Matthews

After the great War Roscoe Owen, who was orphaned at 11 joined the Army at seventeen. He married Sara and they had one girl, then a SIDS boy, Jimmy, born Christmas and died Easter. Their second son, Billy was a very sickly child developing pneumonia at two. Sulfer and liquid iron were the only medicines of the day which had adverse effects on teeth and the body. Billy overcame his childhood asthma to become an incredible athlete, an All America football player. When he was sixteen he met and fell in love with Katie. As the lovers approached college, her mother Jessie told them they must part. It ripped Billy apart. He loved her afar for fifty years. They would meet at times, see each other at times and remember at times but it was never a convenient time. Both were great Christians, and the Word preceded everything. At the end, Katie is a widow and available again. Billy too is available. What is the Higher love, to God, or each other, read and find out what happened to one love in the rural south to what became to middle class couple.

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