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Ancient Library of Alexandria and its Destruction

In five pages this paper examines the great ancient Library at Alexandria's rise and subsequent destruction. Three sources are ci...

Overview of the Gnostic Gospels

In five pages this paper examines the Gnostic Gospels in terms of origin, Christianity differences, and the 1945 Nag Hammadi Libra...

Classroom and Technology Integration

from high school, computers will have moved beyond commonplace to being as necessary to modern life as indoor plumbing and electri...

Internet and the Impact Upon Library Institutions

library, see information as both organized and structured and they comprehend the difference that exists between sources (2000). I...

'Library Without Walls' Customer Survey

does to customers access to library holdings. Digital Divide. This is the concept of the inequities between those who have...

Adult Literacy and the New York City Public Library

potential" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). An individuals literacy level cannot be defined by a single skill, such...

Examining the Critiques of The Quiet American by Greene

The Viking Critical Library version of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, edited by John Clark Pratt, contains a wide variety of ...

Library Services Outsourcing

In fifteen pages this paper examines the practice of public library services' outsourcing. Thirty one footnotes and seventeen sou...

Overview of the ERIC/AE Clearinghouse Website

In six pages information and library areas associated with this website are the primary focus of this overview. One source is cit...

The Issue of Censorship and Applying it to Modern Literature

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the application of censorship principles to the books of J.K. Rowling. ...

Research - Internet versus Library

The more specialized the topic of research, the more specialized the library needed to be. The further along in the educational ...

Academic Libraries and Barriers to International Students

Americans may not recognize it themselves, but American English is a complex language with complex sentence structures (Brown, 200...

Moore’s Law and Data Storage

the number of transistors (Jurvetson, 2004). However, the use of nanotechnology has extended the law from the boundaries that were...

Libraries in Rural Areas

more difficult to justify diverting scarce funds to library science. The "bottom line" here is that "the basic character of being...

Copyright Law in Education

encouraged to visit libraries so they will be able to access information without cost. In recent years, libraries have expanded th...

Implementing Activity Based Costing

and also make it possible to simulate changes in the environment and the machinery used so that the alternatives can be measured f...

Technology and Learning Systems

alone should not be the only measures of accountability for school libraries and library professionals. Instead, there is a need ...

Academic Integrity, Student Research Methods, and Study Skills

the components involved" (Padgett, 2005, p. 56). For example, to locate general information on the best dog food brands, one woul...

Procedures and Policies Within University Libraries

different borrowing limits placed in them. For example materials that are likely to be in high demand may be placed in the reserve...

The Research Process

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Fort Vancouver Regional Library District

website, they have a "TEENS" section with sections labeled "Dirt," "Hookup," "Inside Story," "Lowdown," "This is Serious" and "YAA...

TQM - Boeing, Starbucks, Libraries

was involved, including hundreds of suppliers and continued improvement in managing a diverse workforce; finding and using the bes...

Going to the Local Public Library as a Sensory Experience

film and television show DVDs, and an exhaustive collection of audio books. Walking past them all, attempting to focus on the ima...

The Nixon Library and Museum

is a living memory. The chaos, confusion, and shock that ran through the nation when Nixon resigned (the only President in history...

Public School Libraries and the Impact of Computers

good, sound education is for the librarian to gain the students interested in the lesson plan; while some are inherently good lear...

Propaganda and Information Age Abuses

for all of that, the country was restless. This laid the foundation for Fidel Castro to sweep into the capital city, execute nearl...

Digital Data Preservation Challenges

and easily preservable. Of course, while the goal might be to preserve a piece of paper for example, digitization is not concerned...

What caused the Limited Growth in US Income: Library Research Activity

This 3 page paper gives an overview of possible sources to answer the question the created after reading the source article about ...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

European Union, Economic and Cultural Development

the most effective system for governing states that are culturally diverse is "federal-like arrangements."vi The catalyst for the ...