This Book Is Overdue!

This Book Is Overdue! PDF Author: Marilyn Johnson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061431605
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A spirited exploration of libraries' evolution from fusty brick-and-mortar institutions to fluid virtual environments.

This Book Is Overdue!

This Book Is Overdue! PDF Author: Marilyn Johnson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061431605
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Book Description
A spirited exploration of libraries' evolution from fusty brick-and-mortar institutions to fluid virtual environments.

New Chronicles of Rebecca

New Chronicles of Rebecca PDF Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Long Overdue Library Book Revised

Long Overdue Library Book Revised PDF Author: Sandy M. Bradley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781503342194
Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The popular Long Overdue Library Book has been revised with more stories, pictures, and quotes. Fans of the original will want to read new stories. Everything you liked about the Long Overdue Library Book remains, and now there is even more to like in this 2015 version of stories about libraries, librarians, and the wonderful, wacky world they inhabit. As always, the monies raised by the sale of this book go directly to support public libraries."--Amazon.com.

Library Overdues

Library Overdues PDF Author: Robert Burgin
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780866563765
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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An effective guide to help librarians develop a more systematic and effective approach to dealing with overdues. The editors present statistical data on overdues, as well as successful tactics employed by various libraries to combat the persistent problem of overdue materials.

Overdue

Overdue PDF Author: Amanda Oliver
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641605340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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"One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America's public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book lovers." —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth When Amanda Oliver began work as a school librarian, fueled by a lifelong love of books and a desire to help, she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and arms of state surveillance. Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at Northwest One, the DC Public Library branch where she would ultimately end her library career. Through her experience at this branch, Oliver highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded, troublingly at odds with the common romanticization of the library as a shining beacon of equality: racism, segregation, and economic oppression. These fundamental American problems manifest today as police violence, the opioid epidemic, widespread inaccessibility of affordable housing, and a lack of mental health care nationwide—all of which come to a head in public library spaces. Can public librarians continue to play the many roles they are tasked with? Can American society sustain one of its most noble institutions? Libraries will not save us, but Oliver helps us imagine what might be possible if we stop expecting them to.

Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library

Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library PDF Author: Holly Danvers
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 163910335X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An icy cold murder and a library patron collide in Holly Danver’s second Lakeside Library Mystery. A glowing wood stove, a cozy log cabin, and shelves full of books are all Rain Wilmot needs to ride out the Wisconsin winter, now that she’s made her family’s Lofty Pines library her year-round home. But the warm-hearted librarian’s blood runs cold when local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree. After Benson’s body is found in his ice shanty, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing a few cookbooks to prepare for the fishing tournament’s communal “chili dump.” She later finds these same books returned to the library’s drop box, with an enigmatic note from Benson to Rain. As Rain seeks to understand the message, the prime suspect becomes Rain’s friend Nick, who was the last person to see Wallace alive and who returned to the Jamboree with a nasty cut on his hand. The knife found in his tackle box only makes Nick’s troubles worse. But Rain keeps fishing for other suspects. Was the killer Danny, who lost his arm to a logging accident involving Wallace? Or Danny’s bitter father, whose dreams of retirement were dashed by his son’s accident? With the help of her friends Julia and Jace, Rain sets out to hook the real culprit and clear Nick’s name. But can her sleuthing skills protect her from a killer who’d like to take her out of circulation?

Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger

Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger PDF Author: Glen Rounds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823407132
Category : Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ten tales of Paul Bunyan including how he built the Rockies, how the rain fell up one spring, and how Paul stops a river from whistling.

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library PDF Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

A Death Long Overdue

A Death Long Overdue PDF Author: Eva Gates
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 1643854593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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When her former director is found dead in the water, librarian Lucy Richardson will have to get to the bottom of the mystery before the killer ends her tale. It's summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James's college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the pier, using flashlights to illuminate the dark path, but what's scarier than the dark is finding the former director of the Lighthouse Library floating lifeless in the water. Helena Sanchez, the former director, wasn't much loved and spent the party being rude to almost everyone there. As a result, Lucy finds herself in deep water as she rocks the boat, questioning several suspects. But she'll have to batten down the hatches and fast before she's left high and dry...and right in the killer's crosshairs.

Murder at the Lakeside Library

Murder at the Lakeside Library PDF Author: Holly Danvers
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 1643856332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A bookish cozy mystery series debut full of “rekindled friendships, family secrets, a twisty mystery, and a hint of romance” (Victoria Gilbert, author of the Blue Ridge Library mysteries). When a body turns up near Rain Wilmot’s rustic Wisconsin cabin, she must discover the killer—before the book closes on her life. Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family’s waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain’s corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain’s mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the re-opening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers the body of Thornton Hughes, a real estate buyer, on the premises. The community of Lofty Pines starts pointing fingers at Willow, since she has been unusually absent from the library this summer. A fishy rumor surfaces when Rain learns that Willow had been spending a lot of time with Thornton. The town even thought they were having an affair. While theories swirl about Thornton's death, Rain takes it upon herself to solve the case to exonerate her mother. As more clues surface, Rain will have to piece together the mystery. But if she isn't careful, she may be the next to end up dead in the water in Murder at the Lakeside Library, the first in Holly Danvers’ new Lakeside Library mysteries.