Sentences with phrase «as librarians who»

The State Library of Queensland provides family history services, with lots of online information as well as librarians who can help you access the library's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander materials and family and local history collections.

It may not be the person who buys your book — it may be people such as librarians who will recommend your book.

As a librarian who helps people through this difficult process, I must ask that it not be trivialized.

As any librarian who's dealt with ebook adoption can quickly tell you, «It's complicated.»

I like that the language of the Durham Statement includes the word «open» — as a librarian who serves the public, it does me no good to have restrictive licenses keeping my users away from the information they need... [more]

About this blog About my company, Brazen Careerist Penelopes guide to starting a blog The Internet has created a generation of great writers Posted to: College students Diversity Journalism October 19th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by Wil Butler on October 21, 2009 at 1:48 pm permalink As a librarian who is a frequent user of online technologies I have been trying to articulate this idea for quite some time.

Posted by Wil Butler on October 21, 2009 at 1:48 pm permalink As a librarian who is a frequent user of online technologies I have been trying to articulate this idea for quite some time.

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The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

As a librarian (and mom), I'm often asked for book recommendations for kids who love Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

Mr. Jackson is a lecturer and public speaker, as well as an author and editor who co-edited the award winning book, The 21st Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges, and authored Queens Notes: Facts About the Forgotten Borough of Queens, New York.

Molly Hagemann, who describes herself as «a librarian for dead animals» at Honolulu's Bishop Museum, was able to help.

Angry librarians, who like the Postal Service face obsolescence as a result of the cyberspace revolution, argued that libraries are a better place for Internet links because they are open longer and their staff better able to provide help to users.

I would love to try the Eileen Fisher pants you love so much, but as an elementary school librarian who sits on the floor with little kids, I am not sure I want to spend that much..

There's the great use of veteran character actor Benedict Wong as an acid - tongued librarian who is also a selflessly determined soldier in the fight against evil, the transformation of his character from the comic books to be enthusiastically celebrated.

Party Girl — Parker Posey stars as the eponymous libertine who becomes a librarian and an existentialist to win the heart of a Lebanese street vender.

Jason Robards delivers a strong and resonant performance as the aging Charles Halloway, the town's librarian who's been pretty sad lately.

This documentary follows Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and a librarian who amassed an impressive collection of contemporary art, as they endeavor to give a piece of art to one museum in all 50 states.

The prison librarian, called «English» (Paul Benjamin), forms a fascinating, respectful relationship with Morris, and Frank Ronzio provides some warmth as «Litmus,» the guy who can get anything (in exchange for your desert).

The plot thickens as both Macon, along with Ethan's guardian, Amma — a librarian who, as played by Viola Davis, has some secrets of her own — struggle to keep the teens apart for their own good.

Working with Interpol agents Arthur Watson (Lee Evans), a bumbling undercover spy who poses as a librarian, and Nicole James (Claire Forlani), a former love interest, Eddie gets a lead on the child abductor.

After all, as the pioneering American librarian John Cotton Dana once said, «Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.»

As the school librarian and a teacher who is keenly interested in literacy, I want my students to think of themselves as writerAs the school librarian and a teacher who is keenly interested in literacy, I want my students to think of themselves as writeras writers.

Collins will receive the award, which honors a distinguished academic librarian who has made an outstanding contribution as an education and / or behavioral sciences librarian, at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday, June 28.

Reference librarian and guest blogger Paige Alfonzo cites EMS (experience sampling study) as a foundation for using social media as a formative assessment tool for students who already live in that world.

Alfonzo, a reference librarian, cites EMS (experience sampling study) as a foundation for using social media as a formative - assessment tool for students who already live in that world.

Counselors and other educational specialists such as academic coaches, CST professionals, librarians / media specialists, paraprofessionals, athletic trainers, health workers and counselors, etc. who do not have a class roster, may set SGOs at the discretion of local district leadership.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

«People who work with children as librarians must love ideas,» she explains.

She currently serves as co-President of the Hunterdon County Librarians Association and as mother of two daughters who love to read.

And librarians, who will now spend more time handling e-books than traditional print items, will also have to advance their own research skills and expand their own knowledge in order to remain competitive in the job market; as Seth Grodin notes in his recent ode to libraries, librarians will also be critical in teaching children how to be «first - rate data sharks» in the knowledge - based economy.

Sabrina Jankowski is a 5th grade classroom teacher at Mountain View Elementary who worked with Ms. Gibney both when Ms. Gibney was a teacher - librarian and in her role as a digital - literacy teacher.

«This is required reading by every teacher librarian, because as you recognize a teacher like Mark in your building who is doing something different, pounce on that person to help out and partner in the experimentation!»

Young people are working at local libraries as an «library associate» — college graduates who do the same work as librarians but receive lower salaries than their MLS counterparts.

Over the course of our conversations, this student who had just recently started working as a new school librarian mentioned that she had gotten affirmation from a teacher about how she was already doing more than the previous librarian had done.

My web site section for librarians includes a contest aimed specifically at libraries, my book's reviews in the trade journals, ordering information, my terms for library book orders (though this is uncommon, as most libraries will order via wholesalers, not directly), my offer of a column for library newsletters, my offerings of programs and lectures to libraries (and the consequent booking information), and endorsements by librarians who've booked me as a speaker.

Trade review publications are read by booksellers, librarians, and others who work inside the book industry (as opposed to consumers); two of the most well - known are Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.

The speaker (who was from LJ) was trying to position Self - E as being like BookBub, saying that if you get your books in the Self - E catalog, librarians would push your books and you'd get all this exposure, only for free instead of paying.

Penguin invoked the term «friction,» in reference to the ease of checking out books; but I see the real «friction» as the Bonus Army of librarians, authors, and readers who are speaking truth to power.

Deep down, the publishing - industrial complex will not be satisfied until they can do away with those pesky librarians, they who broker reading as a public good, champion the right to read, and advocate for equitable access.

When his mother gets a job as a librarian, Lester, who has been homeschooled, must now attend fifth grade at a public school.

Deb Kachel, a long - time instructor in the School of Education who was recently hired as an Affiliate Faculty Member in the K - 12 School Library Endorsement program, has been working with Keith Curry Lance, principal researcher at Library Research Service, Colorado, tracking school librarian positions since 2000.

Now you want to be careful because you want to choose the subject categories that are relevant to your book, but we always talk here at Ingram about, we have so many wonderful librarians who are excellent at categorizing books into the specific category that's relevant to their title, but it is also a marketing play as well, and so you want to think about connecting with your audience.

As a Health Librarian in the UK who has been lending e-readers to library users for over two years, and recently started lending Samsung Galaxy Tab PCs I would be very interested to hear of any other libraries which actually lend e-readers and / or tab PCS to users.

The cultural news website Flavorwire quotes an Amazon reviewer, who writes, «as a school librarian, I won't be recommending this series to my students any longer.

Anderson, who also works as a school librarian and is a self - proclaimed «Melvil Dewey fangirl,» shares three books she's been reading lately.

So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life — a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

Your next - door neighbor who's a librarian and good at catching typos is not the same thing as a professional copy editor.

«As someone who believes in the limitless potential of innovating, tinkering, experimenting and making, Andy Weir knows just how empowering school librarians can be to the students that they work with,» said Suzanne Dix, School Library Month committee chair.

Bowker has just released an iOS app for the iPad and iPhone that will assist librarians and customers who want to compare prices as they shop for ebooks.