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The Library as Playground

How Games and Play are Reshaping Public Culture

By: Dale Leorke,Danielle Wyatt

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The Library as Playground

How Games and Play are Reshaping Public Culture

By: Dale Leorke,Danielle Wyatt

Digital and analog games have long served modern public libraries as educational tools and as drawcards for new patrons – from dedicated gaming zones and children’s spaces to Minecraft gaming days, makerspaces, and virtual reality collections. Much has been written about the role of games and play in libraries’ programming and collections. But their wider role in transforming libraries as public institutions remains unexplored. In this book, the authors draw on ethnographic research to provide a rich portrait of the intersection between games, play, and public libraries. They look at how games and play are increasingly spilling out of designated zones within libraries and beyond their walls, as part of a broader reconfiguration and “reimagining” of libraries in the digital era. The library’s association with play has historically been understood through its classification as a “third place”: somewhere to relax, socialise and experiment outside of the utilitarian demands of work and home. But far from just offering patrons an opportunity for detached leisure, this book illustrates how libraries are connecting games and play to policies agendas around their municipality’s economic and cultural development. Attending to the institutionalisation of play, the book sheds new light both on the contradictions at the heart of play as a theoretical concept, and what libraries are in contemporary public life.

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165

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538164329

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9781538164327

Hospitality Business Development

By: Ahmed Hassanien,Crispin Dale

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Hospitality Business Development

By: Ahmed Hassanien,Crispin Dale

Hospitality Business Development analyses and evaluates the different aspects of business growth routes and development processes in the international hospitality industry. It considers the essential features of the strategic business context, in which any hospitality organisation operates. Since the first edition, the hospitality industry has evolved significantly with the emergence of new entrants, new technologies and evolved global market structures. This new edition has been updated to reflect these developments in the field and includes the following: New contemporary topics such as social enterprises, business models, social capital, value proposition, co-creation and the sharing economy. Examples and case studies on hospitality organisations from across the world to demonstrate the globalisation of the hospitality business. A new up-to-date standard for explaining the hospitality business development concept, scope and process. This book equips students and aspiring hospitality managers with the necessary knowledge, expertise and skills in business development. It is a must-read for anyone studying or working in the hospitality industry.

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301

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Routledge

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1351033689

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9781351033688

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000

Essential Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Robert Safdie,Dale Safdie

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Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000

Essential Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Robert Safdie,Dale Safdie

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this book offers a clear, step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning essential features of Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000.

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0789557401

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9780789557407

Public Libraries in the Smart City

By: Dale Leorke,Danielle Wyatt

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Public Libraries in the Smart City

By: Dale Leorke,Danielle Wyatt

Far from heralding their demise, digital technologies have lead to a dramatic transformation of the public library. Around the world, libraries have reinvented themselves as networked hubs, community centres, innovation labs, and makerspaces. Coupling striking architectural design with attention to ambience and comfort, libraries have signaled their desire to be seen as both engines of innovation and creative production, and hearts of community life. This book argues that the library’s transformation is deeply connected to a broader project of urban redevelopment and the transition to a knowledge economy. In particular, libraries have become entangled in visions of the smart city, where densely networked, ubiquitous connectivity promises urban prosperity built on efficiency, innovation, and new avenues for civic participation. Drawing on theoretical analysis and interviews with library professionals, policymakers, and users, this book examines the inevitable tensions emerging when a public institution dedicated to universal access to knowledge and a shared public culture intersects with the technology-driven, entrepreneurialist ideals of the smart city.

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142

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Springer

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9811328056

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9789811328053

Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook

A Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages

By: Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook

A Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages

By: Dale Carnegie

Inspirational and practical advice on courage and self-confidence, enthusiasm, faith, friends and the joys of living.

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New York : Simon and Schuster

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0671189506

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9780671189501

Book's by Dale Safdie

The Library as Playground

The Library as Playground

Hospitality Business Development

Hospitality Business Development

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000

Public Libraries in the Smart City

Public Libraries in the Smart City

Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook

Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook

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