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Public library
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A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by…
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Biblioteksentralen
Bibliothèque municipale de Nancy
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Review
2013
Review
2013
The KwaZulu-Natal school library policy and its feasibility for implementation in the province.
M. D. Toit
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C. Stilwell
2013
Corpus ID: 56035751
This article reports on research on the KwaZulu-Natal School Library Policy, its implementation strategy and feasibility for…
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Review
2008
Review
2008
The Female-Friendly Public Library: Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Uses and Perceptions of U.S. Public Libraries
Denise E. Agosto
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Kimberly L. Paone
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Gretchen S. Ipock
Library Trends
2008
Corpus ID: 23425041
This article reports the results of a written survey of ninety-seven female and male adolescents, ages fourteen through seventeen…
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2006
2006
Encounters with the Library: Understanding Experience Using the Life History Method
Robert V. Labaree
Library Trends
2006
Corpus ID: 16893312
Drawing on the author's own research, this article explores the use of life histories as method and the ways in which this…
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2001
2001
Long Live Old Reference Services and New Technologies
B. Katz
Library Trends
2001
Corpus ID: 32829909
Reference librarians must take the lead in the new era of information. It is not enough to follow traditional patterns of service…
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1997
1997
Activity in Professional Associations: The Positive Difference in a Librarian's Career
D. Frank
Library Trends
1997
Corpus ID: 37600153
PARTICIPATING ACTIVELY IN PROFESSIONAL associations can make a positive difference in a librarian’s job and career. Associations…
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1996
1996
Specialization, territoriality, and jurisdiction : Librarianship and the political economy of knowledge
M. F. Winter
1996
Corpus ID: 33895979
RECENT WORK ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY and knowledge growth has produced a variety of models to capture a process of bewildering…
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Review
1992
Review
1992
Leadership in Librarianship
Alice Gertzog
1992
Corpus ID: 1792845
Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library…
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Theory and implementation for SWIFT II. The Sandia waste-isolation flow and transport model for fractured media. Release 4. 84
M. Reeves
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D. S. Ward
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N. Johns
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R. Cranwell
1986
Corpus ID: 106684136
This report is one of two that describe the three-dimensional finite-difference code SWIFT II. This code is used to simulate flow…
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1984
1984
Policy formulation for public library provision in the Highlands of Scotland
J. Crawford
1984
Corpus ID: 62539117
Policy formulation for library provision in the Highlands of Scotland was largely the product of outside intervention and was…
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1982
1982
Beyond deregulation: Designing the information infrastructure
A. Branscomb
The Information Society
1982
Corpus ID: 205508171
Abstract The United States and Japan lead the world in information technology. Yet they occupy opposite ends of the spectrum with…
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