Essays 1 - 30
expected in years past (Neyer, 2003). The digital era does not affect only the availability of individual journal articles ...
Such is the case for "America Dreams..through the decades", a web site developed by the Library of Congress. The "America D...
automation is also responsible for the creation and maintenance of digital technologies, which now make it possible to generate in...
content specifically set out in the CIPA statue;... 2. Certain broad categories of content--among them journalistic, medical, educ...
to young people, the library staff applauds all parents who are interested and involved in their childrens educational process, an...
is an annex approximately three miles from the main library. It was eventually proposed by the outside company that both facilitie...
hundred residents at best, these communities are far too small to be able to support a standalone public library. They welcome th...
carefulness of life and beauty, isnt that high...
film and television show DVDs, and an exhaustive collection of audio books. Walking past them all, attempting to focus on the ima...
seventeen potential responses, including "AIDS", "gay rights movement", "Masters and Johnson", and "Moral Majority". Taken togeth...
in 2005, according to the American Library Association (ALA) (Manzo 26). The ALA defines a "challenge" as "any formal, written com...
was involved, including hundreds of suppliers and continued improvement in managing a diverse workforce; finding and using the bes...
is a living memory. The chaos, confusion, and shock that ran through the nation when Nixon resigned (the only President in history...
website, they have a "TEENS" section with sections labeled "Dirt," "Hookup," "Inside Story," "Lowdown," "This is Serious" and "YAA...
more difficult to justify diverting scarce funds to library science. The "bottom line" here is that "the basic character of being...
encouraged to visit libraries so they will be able to access information without cost. In recent years, libraries have expanded th...
the number of transistors (Jurvetson, 2004). However, the use of nanotechnology has extended the law from the boundaries that were...
and also make it possible to simulate changes in the environment and the machinery used so that the alternatives can be measured f...
does to customers access to library holdings. Digital Divide. This is the concept of the inequities between those who have...
potential" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). An individuals literacy level cannot be defined by a single skill, such...
Americans may not recognize it themselves, but American English is a complex language with complex sentence structures (Brown, 200...
libraries come complete with materials, but, more importantly, they offer staff who are there to tutor children and young adults ...
for all of that, the country was restless. This laid the foundation for Fidel Castro to sweep into the capital city, execute nearl...
and easily preservable. Of course, while the goal might be to preserve a piece of paper for example, digitization is not concerned...
. . . 19 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
This paper examines functionality issues required by a video shop to set up a database information system to allow customers easie...
Libraries need to respond to those challenges by initiating programs that will cater to the needs of present and future users, in ...
much more concerned with relating the circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of th...
writing a report on breast cancer. At the same time, if the information were filtered, information on breast cancer would be banne...
good, sound education is for the librarian to gain the students interested in the lesson plan; while some are inherently good lear...