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A Gathering of Spoons

The Design Gallery of the World's Most Stunning Wooden Art Spoons

By: Norman D. Stevens

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A Gathering of Spoons

The Design Gallery of the World's Most Stunning Wooden Art Spoons

By: Norman D. Stevens

Featuring more than 200 hand-carved art spoons, this collection is the definitive photographic record of the world's most brilliant and beautiful examples of art spoon design. Spoons are not just utilitarian tools but are also revered as powerful ceremonial and symbolic objects Showing how spoonmaking has been a respected craft and art form in many cultures for centuries, this work celebrates the resurgence of the art form in recent years. A fascinating visual record of great art in an unusual form, ""A Gathering of Spoons"" presents a dazzling variety of forms, materials, and carving techniques and showcases the finest work in spoonmaking from around the world, with each piece beautifully photographed to present its unique visual appeal.

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Linden Publishing

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1610351436

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9781610351430

Postcards in the Library

Invaluable Visual Resources

By: Norman D Stevens

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Postcards in the Library

Invaluable Visual Resources

By: Norman D Stevens

Postcards, individually and collectively, contain a great deal of information that can be of real value to students and researchers. Postcards in the Library gives compelling reasons why libraries should take a far more active and serious interest in establishing and maintaining postcard collections and in encouraging the use of these collections. It explains the nature and accessibility of existing postcard collections; techniques for acquiring, arranging, preserving, and handling collections; and ways to make researchers and patrons aware of these collections. Postcards in the Library asserts that, in most cases, existing postcard collections are a vastly underutilized scholarly resource. Editor Norman D. Stevens urges librarians to help change this since postcards, as items for mass consumption and often with no apparent conscious literary or social purpose, are a true reflection of the society in which they were produced. Stevens claims that messages written on postcards may also reveal a great deal about individual and/or societal attitudes and ideas. Chapters in Postcards in the Library are written by librarians who manage postcard collections, postcard collectors, and researchers. Some of the authors have undertaken major research projects that demonstrate the ways in which postcards can be used in research, and that have begun to establish a standard methodology for the analysis of postcards. They write about: major postcard collections, including the Institute of Deltiology and the Curt Teich Postcard Archives the use of postcards for scholarly research postcard conservation and preservation, arrangement and organization, and importance and value Postcards in the Library describes the postcard collections in a variety of libraries of different kinds and sizes and indicates very real ways in which the effective use of postcard collections can result in and contribute to substantive, scholarly publications. It also offers advice and suggestions on the myriad issues that libraries face in handling these ephemeral fragments of popular culture. Special collections librarians, postcard collectors, postcard dealers, and historical societies will find the information in Postcards in the Library refreshing and practical. Libraries with established postcard collections or those thinking about developing postcard collections will use it as a valuable planning tool and start-to-finish guide.

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262

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Routledge

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1317939239

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9781317939238

Archives of Library Research From the Molesworth Institute

By: Norman D Stevens,Peter Gellatly

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Archives of Library Research From the Molesworth Institute

By: Norman D Stevens,Peter Gellatly

An anthology of library humor by the director of the mythical Molesworth Institute, Norman Stevens, this book is sure to provide librarians with many hours of amusement. This collection is full of Stevens’most memorable papers describing the odd kinds of research conducted by the Institute, such as a sophisticated study of the disappearance of umbrellas in libraries, a computer analysis of library postcards, and a “precostretrieval” scheme to accelerate the disintegration of book pages while saving the letters in them. Archives of Library Research from the Molesworth Institute is also well-stocked with unforgettable one-liners, such as the author’s “plan to solve a major space problem for libraries by microfilming all Braille books.”The imaginary Molesworth Institute has taken on a life of its own since its story first appeared in the ALA Bulletin in 1963. Stevens writes mostly for fun and entertainment, but also to stress the point that librarians should take a less serious view of their work. After all, as Stevens points out in this anthology, “The library world, like the real world, [is] impossible to understand on a rational basis.” Now librarians can enjoy the convenience of having Stevens’most treasured papers--spanning over two decades--all in one very funny book.

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128

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Routledge

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1317941578

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9781317941576

A Guide to Collecting Librariana

By: Norman D. Stevens,Valerie Burnham Oliver

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A Guide to Collecting Librariana

By: Norman D. Stevens,Valerie Burnham Oliver

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224

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Scarecrow Press

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0810818744

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9780810818743

Communication Throughout Libraries

By: Norman D. Stevens

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Communication Throughout Libraries

By: Norman D. Stevens

Offers sound advice on the involved processes of talking, understanding, and working together in an organization.

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206

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Scarecrow Press

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081081577X

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9780810815773

Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension

By: Norman M. Kaplan

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Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension

By: Norman M. Kaplan

Listed as the #1 reference book for hypertension by the American Society for Hypertension in 2006, this new edition presents up-to-date, practical, evidence-based recommendations for treatment and prevention of all forms of hypertension.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1605475033

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9781605475035

Human Information Processing

An Introduction to Psychology

By: Peter H. Lindsay,Donald A. Norman

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Human Information Processing

An Introduction to Psychology

By: Peter H. Lindsay,Donald A. Norman

Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology, Second Edition, was written to reflect recent developments, as well as anticipate new directions, in this flourishing field. The ideas of human information processing are relevant to all human activities, most especially those of human interactions. The book discusses all the traditional areas and then goes beyond: consciousness, states of awareness, multiple levels of processing (and of awareness), interpersonal communication, emotion, and stress. The book begins with an introduction to some of the more interesting phenomena of perception and poses some of the puzzles faced by those who would attempt to unravel the structures. Separate chapters cover the systems of most interest for human communication: the visual system and the auditory system; the structure of the nervous system; and the systems of memory: sensory information storage, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Subsequent chapters deal with the different aspects of memory, including show how memory is used in thought, in language, and in decision making. Also examined are the neurological basis of memory and the representation of knowledge within memory.

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808

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Academic Press

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1483258238

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9781483258232

A Gathering of Spoons

The Design Gallery of the World's Most Stunning Wooden Art Spoons

By: Norman D. Stevens

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Linden Publishing

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Postcards in the Library

Invaluable Visual Resources

By: Norman D Stevens

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Invaluable Visual Resources

By: Norman D Stevens

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A Gathering of Spoons

A Gathering of Spoons

Postcards in the Library

Postcards in the Library

Archives of Library Research From the Molesworth Institute

Archives of Library Research From the Molesworth Institute

A Guide to Collecting Librariana

A Guide to Collecting Librariana

Communication Throughout Libraries

Communication Throughout Libraries

Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension

Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension

Human Information Processing

Human Information Processing

A Gathering of Spoons

A Gathering of Spoons

Postcards in the Library

Postcards in the Library

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