Author: Ripley AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berkeley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Berkeley Public Library Proposal
Author: Ripley AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berkeley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Request for Proposals for Architectural Services for the Renovation and Expansion of the Central Library, Berkeley, California
Author: Berkeley Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Request for Proposals for Construction Management/project Management Services for the Renovation and Expansion of the Central Library, Berkeley, California
Author: Berkeley Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Berkeley Public Library Branch Libraries Facilities Master Plan
Author: Noll & Tam ArchitectsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berkeley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Hell/a Mexican
Author: Kevin Madrigal GalindoPublisher: Nomadic
ISBN: 9781955239165
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
HELL/A MEXICAN is an appreciation of the tragicomedy that is existing on American soil with foreign roots. These stories shed light on the boundless experience of living and learning through your identity. This collection, much like us, reaches for hope; Sometimes we find it, sometimes we don't. Poetry.
Formal Opening of the Berkeley Public Library, January Thirty-first, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-one, Berkeley, California
Author: Berkeley Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Ideology and Libraries
Author: Michael K. BucklandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538143151
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School (Scarecrow Press, 1999). Subsequent research into initiatives to improve library services during the Allied occupation has revealed surprising discoveries and human interest of the lives of very diverse individuals. A central role was played by a librarian, Philip Keeney, who later became well-known as an alleged communist spy. A national plan, designed for Japan’s libraries, was based directly on the county library system developed by progressive thinkers in California, itself a dramatic story. The School of Librarianship at the University of California and its founding director, Sydney Mitchell, was found to have deeply influenced key figures. The story also requires an appreciation of the deployment of American libraries abroad as tools of foreign policy, as cultural diplomacy. Meanwhile, library services in Japan were seriously underdeveloped, despite Japan’s extraordinarily high literacy rate, very well-developed publishing and book retail industries, and librarians who were far from backward. The difference in library development lay in the huge divergence between the ethos of the American public library (dominated by support for individual self-development and Western liberal democracy) and the evolving political ideology of Japanese governments after the Meiji Restoration (1868). After absorbing authoritarian French and German administrative practices Japan became a militarist dictatorship from the 1920s onwards until surrender in 1945. The literature on the Allied Occupation of Japan is vast, but library services have received very little attention beyond the creation of the National Diet Library in 1948. The story of initiatives to improve library services in occupied Japan, the role of libraries as cultural diplomacy, the dramatic development of free public library services in California have remained unknown or little known – until now.
Towers of Gold
Author: Frances DinkelspielPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429959592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history, the early days of California are seen through the life of a man who started out as a simple store owner only to become California's premier money-man of the late 19th and early 20th century. Growing up as a young immigrant, Hellman quickly learned the use to which "capital" could be put, founding LA's Farmers and Merchants Bank, that city's first successful bank, and transforming Wells Fargo into one of the West's biggest financial institutions. He invested money with Henry Huntington to build trolley lines, lent Edward Doheney the funds that led him to discover California's huge oil reserves, and assisted Harrison Gary Otis in acquiring full ownership of the Los Angeles Times. Hellman led the building of Los Angeles' first synagogue, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, helped start the University of Southern California and served as Regent of the University of California. His influence, however, was not limited to Los Angeles. He controlled the California wine industry for almost twenty years and, after San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, calmed the financial markets there in order to help that great city rise from the ashes. With all of these accomplishments, Isaias Hellman almost single-handedly brought California into modernity. Ripe with great historical events that filled the early days of California such as the Gold Rush and the San Francisco earthquake, Towers of Gold brings to life the transformation of California from a frontier society whose economy was driven by the barter of hides and exchange of gold dust into a vibrant state with the strongest economy in the nation.
Proposed In-service Training Program, Berkeley Public Schools
Author: Berkeley Unified School District. Committee to Evaluate In-Service Education Program and to Develop New PlansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Author: Bill BrysonPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767926315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson’s earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.
