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The Accidental Library Manager

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

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The Accidental Library Manager

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

Included are insights from working library managers at different levels and in various types of libraries, addressing a wide range of management issues and situations. Not to be missed: comments from library staff about the qualities they appreciate - and the styles and attitudes they find counterproductive - in their own bosses."--Jacket.

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Information Today, Inc.

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1573872105

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9781573872102

The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

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The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

One of the ways librarians maintain the integrity of their profession is through the creation of a robust body of professional literature. In The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication, Rachel Singer Gordon speaks to the hidden genius in each of us. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: queries and proposals; increasing your odds of publication; networking and collaboration; marketing and promotion; and the particular demands of authorship in an electronic environment. An appendix contains interviews with several library publishers and editors, covering the gamut of publication outlets. This is a one-stop guide for librarians at any stage of their publishing career.

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206

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Scarecrow Press

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0810848953

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9780810848955

The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online

By: Sarah L. Johnson,Rachel Singer Gordon

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The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online

By: Sarah L. Johnson,Rachel Singer Gordon

This book provides practical advice on using the Internet to research educational and networking opportunities and to keep current through online conferences and discussion lists. There is also information on reading and contributing to professional literature, applying for scholarships and grants, creating an electronic resume, and researching prospective employers online. Appendices list organizations and publications with an online presence. Nesbeitt is reference/systems librarian at Maxwell Library, Bridgewater State College. Gordon is head of computer services at the Franklin Park Public Library. She is Webmaster of the library career site Lisjobs.com, and founding editor of the Info Career Trends electronic newsletter. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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Information Today, Inc.

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1573871249

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9781573871242

What's the Alternative?

Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

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What's the Alternative?

Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

As the global information economy grows, librarians who are able to retool and transfer their skills are finding themselves increasingly in demand. Here, Rachel Singer Gordon explains the dynamics of the shifting market for information-based work, reveals a range of nontraditional employment opportunities for librarians, and encourages info pros to utilize their skills in new and exciting ways. Mixing practical advice with real-life stories of librarians working in various fields, Gordon provides a wealth of useful ideas and resources for info pros rethinking their career paths. Whether youre a recent library school grad facing a tight job market, a working librarian seeking improved work/life balance, or an info pro with an entrepreneurial streak, Whats the Alternative? will help you explore your options and maximize your career potential.

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Information Today, Inc.

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1573873330

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9781573873338

The Accidental Systems Librarian

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

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The Accidental Systems Librarian

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

Practical advice on using research, organizational, and bibliographic skills to solve system problems. Staff request.

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Information Today, Inc.

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1573871613

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9781573871617

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing

Clip and Download Your Way to Big Savings!

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing

Clip and Download Your Way to Big Savings!

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

• Combines couponing advice with up–to–date online coupon tips and a sensible approach

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207

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Penguin

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1101580119

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9781101580110

The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

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The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide

By: Rachel Singer Gordon

This book provides timely advice along with tips, comments and insights from dozens of librarians on issues ranging from image and stereotypes.

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228

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Information Today, Inc.

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1573872563

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9781573872560

The Mars Room

A Novel

By: Rachel Kushner

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The Mars Room

A Novel

By: Rachel Kushner

TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).

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Scribner

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1476756589

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9781476756585

Roots of the Revival

American and British Folk Music in the 1950s

By: Ronald D Cohen,Rachel Clare Donaldson

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American and British Folk Music in the 1950s

By: Ronald D Cohen,Rachel Clare Donaldson

In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals that took place in the United States and Great Britain. After setting the stage with the work of music collectors in the nineteenth century, the authors explore the so-called recovery of folk music practices and performers by Alan Lomax and others, including journeys to and within the British Isles that allowed artists and folk music advocates to absorb native forms and facilitate the music's transatlantic exchange. Cohen and Donaldson place the musical and cultural connections of the twin revivals within the decade's social and musical milieu and grapple with the performers' leftist political agendas and artistic challenges, including the fierce debates over "authenticity" in practice and repertoire that erupted when artists like Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio carried folk into the popular music mainstream. From work songs to skiffle, from the Weavers in Greenwich Village to Burl Ives on the BBC, Roots of the Revival offers a frank and wide-ranging consideration of a time, a movement, and a transformative period in American and British pop culture.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096428

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9780252096426

Researching Young People′s Lives

By: Sue Heath,Rachel Brooks,Elizabeth Cleaver,Eleanor Ireland

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Researching Young People′s Lives

By: Sue Heath,Rachel Brooks,Elizabeth Cleaver,Eleanor Ireland

′Researching young people′s lives will be useful to both the novice researcher and anyone interested in learning about new methods of practice′ - Youth Studies Australia Researching Young People′s Lives provides an overview of some of the key methodological challenges facing youth researchers and an introduction to the broad repertoire of methods used in youth-orientated research. The book is split into two sections. In the first half of the book, the authors consider the broad methodological and contextual concerns of relevance to the design and conduct of youth research, including ethical issues, the importance of context, and the rise of participatory approaches to youth research. The second part of the book focuses on the use of specific research methods in the conduct of youth research, ranging from surveys and secondary analysis through to interviewing, ethnography, visual methods, and the use of the internet in youth research. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on research in practice, and examples are drawn from recent youth research projects from a wide range of disciplines and substantive areas, and from a range of both UK and non-UK contexts. This is an ideal introduction to the field for novice researchers, in particular students studying and researching in the broad area of youth studies. It should also appeal to practitioners engaged in evaluation of service provision to young people, and to established youth researchers who might wish to explore the potential of using a different set of methods to those with which they are already familiar.

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SAGE

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1446203972

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9781446203972

American Dynasties

A History of Founding and Influential American Families

By: Rachel Dickinson

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American Dynasties

A History of Founding and Influential American Families

By: Rachel Dickinson

Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall. No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493048155

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9781493048151

It All Changed in an Instant

More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

By: Larry Smith,Rachel Fershleiser

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It All Changed in an Instant

More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

By: Larry Smith,Rachel Fershleiser

“A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared. Be warned, though. If you plan to lend out your copy, start out with two. Once it leaves your hands you’ll never see it again.” —Denver Post (on Not Quite What I Was Planning) The editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning are back with its much-anticipated sequel, It All Changed in an Instant. With contributions from acclaimed authors like Malcolm Gladwell, Frank McCourt, Wally Lamb, Isabel Allende, Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, and James Frey, and celebrities like Sarah Silverman, Suze Orman, Marlee Matlin, Neil Patrick Harris, Ann Coulter, and Chelsea Handler, It All Changed in an Instant presents a thousand more glimpses of humanity. . . six words at a time. In the vein of the popular Post Secret books, It All Changed in an Instant, in the words of Vanity Fair, “will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists.”

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Harper Collins

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0061963488

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9780061963483

Is that a Gun in Your Pocket?

The Truth about Female Power in Hollywood

By: Rachel Abramowitz

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Is that a Gun in Your Pocket?

The Truth about Female Power in Hollywood

By: Rachel Abramowitz

Ten years ago, Rachel Abramowitz began interviewing the most powerful women in the movie-making business in an effort to discover how they had infiltrated this male-dominated world. From superstar actors to independent directors, women in all arenas opened up to her, and the result is extraordinary—together, these stories comprise the most comprehensive history to date of women in Hollywood. Here, in their own candid and provocative words, are Jodie Foster, Penny Marshall, Dawn Steel, Sherry Lansing, Barbra Streisand, Nora Ephron, Meryl Streep, Jane Campion, and many others—in short, one of the most talented casts ever assembled. Poignant, inspiring, scandalous, and hilarious, this is at once a landmark look at the evolution of women’s place in filmmaking and a glimpse inside one of the most powerful industries in American culture.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0375758690

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9780375758690

Book's by Rachel Singer Gordon

The Accidental Library Manager

The Accidental Library Manager

The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication

The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication

The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online

The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online

What's the Alternative?

What's the Alternative?

The Accidental Systems Librarian

The Accidental Systems Librarian

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing

The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide

The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide

The Mars Room

The Mars Room

Roots of the Revival

Roots of the Revival

Researching Young People′s Lives

Researching Young People′s Lives

American Dynasties

American Dynasties

It All Changed in an Instant

It All Changed in an Instant

Is that a Gun in Your Pocket?

Is that a Gun in Your Pocket?

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