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Household perspectives on minority language maintenance and loss
This book examines minority language maintenance and loss in Spanish-speaking families in communities in the US with a low ethnolinguistic vitality for Spanish. It offers an account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission and compares the self-perceptions, motivations and attitudes of m...
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Stories and lessons from the world’s leading opera, orchestra librarians, and music archivists, volume 1
This volume contains two Open Access Chapters This collection explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of performing arts.
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Protest technologies and media revolutions
Contains an Open Access chapter. With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic...
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Posthumanism in digital culture
This book explores the theories of transhumanism and posthumanism, two philosophies that deal with radically changing bodies, minds, and even the nature of humanity itself.
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Videogames, libraries, and the feedback loop
Offering a fresh understanding of the learning potential of youth videogaming in public libraries, and delving into research-based accounts which showcase feedback mechanisms that nurture meaningful learning, Abrams and Gerber equip readers to re-envision library programming that specifically fea...
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The techlash and tech crisis communication
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of tech journalism. The emerging tech-backlash is a story of pendulum swings: we are currently in tech-dystopianism after a long period spent in tech-utopianism.
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Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation
Libraries have recently begun doing more to support entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities. This volume explores how this has come about, looking at libraries from across North America, Europe and Africa, and helps position readers to better understand what is happening, and how...
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Library dementia services
There are 50 million people globally living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and tens of millions of their caregivers. Library and information professionals must learn to assist those with dementia. This book explores best practice guidelines and concrete ideas for serving those wi...
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European origins of library and information science
This book explores the history of Library and Information Science (LIS) across non-English speaking European countries, including France, ex-Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Portugal.
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Exploring the roles and practices of libraries in prisons
Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons aims to strengthen and expand the small body of knowledge currently published regarding libraries in prisons, with each chapter addressing different aspects of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.
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Building community engagement and outreach in libraries
An important addition to the research on how libraries can work with their communities to provide critical services and resources. Providing valuable insights about the diverse ways that outreach can be accomplished within and through communities, this volume serves as a significant resource for ...
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Toward new possibilities for library and information science
The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in the USA exemplifies the changing shape of dissent and protest in the digital age. The use of social media has changed the ways such events develop, offering new tools for organizing, strategizing, generating large numbers of participants, and for communi...
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Challenging the “jacks of all trades but masters of none” librarian syndrome
This volume will explore the current purpose of librarianship and libraries, how we become “Masters of our Domains”, develop expertise in various elements of the profession, and how we extend outward into our communities.
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Informed learning applications
Informed Learning Applications is the latest volume of rigorous research in the Advances in Librarianship series. Edited by experienced librarian Kim L. Ranger, the eight contributions to this volume describe various practices extending Christine Bruce's informed learning theory across a range of...
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Children and mobile phones
This book examines research and relevant theory on the role of mobile phones in the lives of children and young people, how these technologies are used for different applications, the effects that mobile phones have on young people, and the challenges of regulating and controlling the technology ...
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Proposition 13 – america’s second great tax revolt
California’s controversial property tax law, Proposition 13, is considered one of the most significant tax revolts in American history. Libraries, facing decreased funding, were pushed to reset priorities, rethink operations, and learn a new activism. Their struggle left many lessons from which t...
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Digital detox
Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon and the politics of disconnection from invasive media. With a wealth of examples, the book demonstrates how self-regulation online is practiced and delves into how it has also become a...
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Libraries and reading
In a climate of tightened budgets and severe demands on public literacy resources, Conner and Plocharczyck go to the foundations of social justice in Cultural Studies to show how the means of integrating those with disabilities into libraries and communities can be found in our everyday practices.
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Communication as gesture
This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both in...
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The smart city in a digital world
This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. Drawing on worldwide case studies documenting the redevelopment of old and the creation of new cities, it provides an essential ...
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Emotional intelligence and critical thinking for library leaders
As the use of libraries changes, leaders need to improve their emotional intelligence and critical thinking in order to attract and retain users. Focused on practical management advice, this is an engaging discussion of how library leaders can grow in their role.
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The brexit referendum on twitter
The Brexit referendum on Twitter:a mixed-method computational analysis investigates how Twitter worked in shaping political discourse and its potential for fuelling populism in the month leading to the referendum.
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Digital life on instagram
Discussing the social uses of Instagram, this book shows how visuality is changing people’s perception of the world and their mediated lives, illustrating how the platform shapes new social relationships, marketing techniques, privacy and surveillance concerns, and representations of the self, ar...
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Re-envisioning the mls
At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the future of librarians—and how well our instructional programs, especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them for their careers. This book continues the critical conversations around preparing future librarians.
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Nirbhaya, new media and digital gender activism
Using the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya rape case as a case study and keeping gender discourses at its core, this book explores the use of digital media for gender activism in India demonstrating how it has formed an alternate platform for dissent.
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The organization of knowledge
Through different theoretical and analyses glasses, this book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural, and political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical contexts shape ideas of informatio...
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The creative writer's mind
The Creative Writer’s Mind is a book for creative writers: it sets out to cross the gap between creative writing and science, between the creative arts and cognitive research. It examines what cognitive psychology, neuroscience and literary studies can tell creative writers about the processes of...
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Rural and small public libraries
This volume begins by defining the challenges that rural and small libraries face before shifting to an analysis of ways that these obstacles can be overcome or mitigated. The authors explore ideas for enhancing community partnerships and outreach by using rural and small public libraries as cent...
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Super-sticky wechat and chinese society
This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo, QQ and other Wes...
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Digital activism and cyberconflicts in nigeria
This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of con...
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Promoting reflection on language learning
This book presents the collaborative efforts of a team of academics at a university in Japan to promote learner reflection. It includes studies, practical applications and reflective accounts, and demonstrates how reflection can be effectively integrated into language learning activities with sig...
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Project management in the library workplace
This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization attempts to put project management into the toolboxes of library administrators through overviews of concepts, analyses of experiences, and forecasts for the use of project management within the profession.
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Becoming digital
This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving ...
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Teacher reflection
This book examines teacher reflection in three main areas: policies, practices and the impact of teacher reflection on teachers’ practices and professional development. The chapters shed light on concerns and challenges experienced by teachers in diverse international contexts and institutions.
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Digital materialism
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do.
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Social media in earthquake-related communication
This book presents a comprehensive framework for disaster communication, with a main focus on earthquake-related communication, building on a previously fragmented, single-case study approach to analysing the role of social media during natural disasters.
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The power of voice in transforming multilingual societies
Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access. They present powerful evidence of how marginalized speakers reclaim their voices and cha...
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Reflecting on the common european framework of reference for languages and its companion volume
This book discusses the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume on curricula, teaching/learning and assessment in a wide range of educational contexts, identifies challenges posed by the Companion Volume and sheds light on areas that require fur...
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Book proposals that sell
In Book Proposals That Sell, Terry reveals 21 secrets to creating a book proposal that every author needs in order to create one that sells.
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Classroom 15
A result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and so...
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The artist's library
A guide to libraries as creative spaces including exercises, best practices, and examples for artists, librarians, and community members.Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. An offshoot of the Library as Incubator Project, The Artist’s Library offers that an...
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Talking back, talking black
An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters—now in paperback!
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