Sentences with phrase «works by the librarian»

Children of all ages are read to regularly and are introduced to new works by the librarian.

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The fastest - growing wage, meanwhile, belongs to librarians, whose salaries have increased on average by 39 % over the past five years, due, in part, to the changing nature of their work.

From 1971 — 1982 he was employed as a professional librarian by Cheshire County Council and from 1973 to 1982 he also worked as a librarian and teacher of study skills in a Cheshire Comprehensive school.

Melissa Techman, the librarian at Broadus Wood Elementary, empowers her students» voices by asking for feedback on the work, look, and usability of the library, and she uses social media for connecting students across the district to foster that discussion.

While I worked at Wesley College Melbourne during this time the book trailer creation idea was taken up successfully by the large multi-campus team of librarians.

Digital Native Does Not Equal Digital Literacy Ann M. Martin and Kathleen R. Roberts By working together, principals, librarians, and teachers can transform learning environments to ensure that students achieve digital literacy.

Worked with other secondary librarians to provide information to district curriculum leaders regarding the purchase of databases district wide to support student research (EBSCO databases have been purchased by our school district and will provide all secondary students with access to quality information for research and study beginning this July)

Yes, we were fortunate to have good teachers and school librarians (who are also certified teachers, by the way), who worked together on lessons and made us realize there are «curricular connections».

These maker spaces are frequently led by librarians and located within school libraries, which have been reconfigured and redesigned to include workstations where students work on projects involving coding and robots, inquiry - based building, and even 3 - D printing.

By working together, principals, librarians, and teachers can transform learning environments to ensure that students achieve digital literacy.

She remained there for twenty - five years, working as a librarian at the Biblioteca Nationale by day and cooking sumptuous meals alone in her small apartment at night.

The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content & Libraries Working Group, and can be used by librarians to weigh ebook contract variables most important to their library.

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.

Teachers, librarians, and parents can access the additional features by being one of the first 10,000 to sign up in the US; those who work with young readers in some for outside of the classroom or outside of the US but are still interested in the club's additional features will be able to download them from the website.

At the same time, they reinforce librarians» commitment to young adult readers» wide - ranging reading tastes and abilities as recognized by the work of Margaret Edwards, Booklist, YALSA, and the American Library Association as a whole.

Some blogs by librarians are the best I've found since they work directly with readers every day.

It also reinforces librarians» commitment to teen readers» wide - ranging abilities and interests as symbolized by the work of Margaret Edwards, Booklist, and the American Library Association.

Selected by judging committees of librarians and other children's experts, the awards encourage original and creative work.

The project seeks to make PG books more easily ingestible and understandable to library catalog systems and workflows by sustainably producing MARC records, integrating attractive book cover images, and working to make a source control system for the books more friendly to librarians and their patrons.

And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

Yes, we were fortunate to have good teachers and school librarians (who are also certified teachers, by the way), who worked together on lessons and made us realize there are «curricular connections».

Librarians (and patrons) often make it difficult to work through issues associated with ebooks by doggedly assuming that ebooks will work the same way as printed books in terms of their economic impact, and by insisting therefore that the things they've done with print should carry over largely unchanged to ebooks.

These helpers can support operation of the school library by handling processing and clerical tasks, giving the school librarian more time to work with students and teachers.

If selected by Library Journal's evaluators, your book will be included as a highlighted work in the Library Journal SELF - e Select, that curated collection of the best submissions, offered to librarians nationwide.

[6] Baen's electronic strategy is explained exhaustively in a series of «letters» or «essays» called The Prime Palaver by Baen Free Library «First Librarian» Eric Flint, but in a nutshell, emphasizes distribution of unencrypted digital versions of its works free of Digital Rights Management copy protection schemes through Baen Ebooks (formerly Webscriptions, which was not formally part of Baen Books, but in effect an independent e-publisher).

This NSR original three - part series on ebooks in K - 12 or school libraries (written and researched by Peyton Stafford, an expert on school library - oriented publishing) is intended for school librarians who want a basic understanding of how ebook business models work in their world and how to make them work as much as possible to the librarian's advantage.

The dilemma has been in that «tsunami of content» unleashed by digital self - publishing: already harried acquisition librarians have had no way to sort through the tidal wave of self - published work being produced on the major platforms now operating.

But I've listened to many a book written in the first person POV of a 20 yr - old librarian assistant / school teacher / first mate / warrior princess narrated by a 50 - yr - old, ex-smoker who happens to have a contract to narrate a certain number of books a year with the audiobook publisher producing the book... especially, I'm sad to say, in the Inspirational Fiction Market, where I do most of my work.

The Jan / Feb issue, guest edited by Kafi Kumasi and Sandra Hughes - Hassell, outlines ways school librarians can work to better serve, understand, and envision possibilities of success for racialized youth.

By doing so, your business is supporting the highest quality children's literature possible, a better future for children through libraries, and the work that librarians do across the country.

Also included in «Big Spaces and Large Planes» are: the loosely graphic paintings of Cathy Fiorelli who shares studio space with eleven other artists at the Middletown Pendleton Art Center; the perceptive works on femininity of Pattie Byron from West Chester; the Kente Cloth - inspired art quilts by Miami University - educated Linda Kramer; the mixed media of Oxford's Maureen Nimis with her cut paper and photographic work; the small works by Catalog & Slavic Librarian at Miami University, Russian - born Masha Misco; and the jewel - like small photographs of Denver - born Cincinnati resident Brian Luman whose exploration of urban crevices is fueled by his skateboard and camera.

At the trial, several former Knoedler employees — including Melissa De Medeiros, who was Freedman's assistant, and Edye Weissler, the gallery's librarian — said they had done provenance research into the Rosales works to find documentation that proved the paintings were purchased decades ago by a Swiss collector with the help of either Ossorio or Herbert.

In every subsequent year the media has made attempts to arouse some of the old excitement, with descriptions of the «outlandish» works produced by nominees, such as James Richards's slides of pornographic photographs, from which the genitals have been sandpapered by a Japanese librarian.

I don't intend to discuss these cases in this column, here I will write about the development of the deep research skills needed by professional researchers such as lawyers and law librarians to provide the enhanced expertise needed to be paid professionally for this work.

It was organised by Juriconnexion, the French Association for law librarians and others whose work involves legal information, and was funded by sponsorship.

For too long, librarians were defined in the public consciousness by the place in which you work.

With associate positions hard to come by, new graduates — desperate to find a paying job in the legal profession — are applying for work as paralegals, legal secretaries and law librarians, according to Long Island Business News.

Members of a working group of BIALL, representing British and Irish law librarians, were interviewed by the reviewers, and along with two colleagues, I was given the opportunity to explain the role that the recently formulated Legal Information Literacy Standards could play in legal curriculum planning for the future.

Each week their team of experts, led by founding editors Stacy Konkiel and Nicky Agate, work to «liberate research» by recruiting the «very best scholarly communication literature from across the Web, working with authors to make their research available, ensuring that librarians are connected to... [more]

# 3: Checklists: Law librarians are natural keepers and organizers of checklists, an important tool in large deals or lawsuits to tracking the steps that need to be taken (when discussing checklists, I like to mention the great work done by the Law Society of British Columbia in making a number of practice checklists available online).

• Libraries act as almost limitless inventory collections • Librarians act as search filters • Collection management by librarians is a constant work in progress • Statistics (usage) is a critical factor • Institutions must be able to measure the ROI on content purchases and continue to make the right choices for their coLibrarians act as search filters • Collection management by librarians is a constant work in progress • Statistics (usage) is a critical factor • Institutions must be able to measure the ROI on content purchases and continue to make the right choices for their colibrarians is a constant work in progress • Statistics (usage) is a critical factor • Institutions must be able to measure the ROI on content purchases and continue to make the right choices for their constituents

While away from work, Ms. Baber asked the Principal for accommodation by changing her teaching assignment to teacher / librarian.

Connie wins for her «leverage of law librarians» — both for the triple alliteration and the truth that none of us, practitioners or academics, would be able to work as we do without the leverage provided by the law librarians.

Although a few of the attendees had specific experience with knowledge management, many had not, and my hope was that I was able to convince them that they all had opportunities to augment their skills by bring knowledge management principles into their daily work as law librarians.

Do you think the specialist work of law librarians / information professionals and other members of the legal profession can be replicated by machines?

Looking at this message to both lawyers and librarians, is there work that is being done by lawyers in the law firms that library can help to automate or otherwise achieve?

As has worked in the past, when the neutral citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum), legal writing and research faculty, law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English legal communities.

This is a very subjective method of information dissemination, however, given the general level of adoption of RSS readers by lawyers in my firm (none), the «librarian as personal RSS aggregator» — to take Steve's advocation one step further — is working well.

Written and compiled by an experienced law librarian, with chapters contributed by other seasoned legal information professionals, this book tells you what it's like to work in a particular work environment - ranging from the court house library to a law firm library, the law society to a legislative library.

Supporting professionals like doctors, human resources specialists, librarians and lawyers, are people who assist them in their work by performing clerical duties.