A Guide to Collecting Librariana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Collecting Librariana write by Norman D. Stevens. This book was released on 1986. A Guide to Collecting Librariana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
The Laughing Librarian
The Laughing Librarian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Laughing Librarian write by Jeanette C. Smith. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Laughing Librarian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny. The spectrum of library humor from sources inside and outside the profession ranges from the subtle wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This examination of American library humor over the past 200 years covers a wide range of topics and spans the continuum between light and dark, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as objects of fear. It illuminates different types of librarians--the collector, the organization person, the keeper, the change agent--and explores stereotypes like the shushing little old lady with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the sexy librarian. Profiles of the most prominent library humorists round out this lively study.
The Librarian's Book of Lists
The Librarian's Book of Lists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Librarian's Book of Lists write by George M. Eberhart. This book was released on 2010-05-10. The Librarian's Book of Lists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mixture of serious topics, tongue-in-cheek items, and outright silliness provides something to please everyone familiar with libraries, making a fun read and a wonderful gift.
National Librarian
National Librarian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook National Librarian write by . This book was released on 1983. National Librarian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Postcards in the Library
Postcards in the Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcards in the Library write by Norman D Stevens. This book was released on 2014-01-09. Postcards in the Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcards, individually and collectively, contain a great deal of information that can be of real value to students and researchers. Postcards in the Library gives compelling reasons why libraries should take a far more active and serious interest in establishing and maintaining postcard collections and in encouraging the use of these collections. It explains the nature and accessibility of existing postcard collections; techniques for acquiring, arranging, preserving, and handling collections; and ways to make researchers and patrons aware of these collections. Postcards in the Library asserts that, in most cases, existing postcard collections are a vastly underutilized scholarly resource. Editor Norman D. Stevens urges librarians to help change this since postcards, as items for mass consumption and often with no apparent conscious literary or social purpose, are a true reflection of the society in which they were produced. Stevens claims that messages written on postcards may also reveal a great deal about individual and/or societal attitudes and ideas. Chapters in Postcards in the Library are written by librarians who manage postcard collections, postcard collectors, and researchers. Some of the authors have undertaken major research projects that demonstrate the ways in which postcards can be used in research, and that have begun to establish a standard methodology for the analysis of postcards. They write about: major postcard collections, including the Institute of Deltiology and the Curt Teich Postcard Archives the use of postcards for scholarly research postcard conservation and preservation, arrangement and organization, and importance and value Postcards in the Library describes the postcard collections in a variety of libraries of different kinds and sizes and indicates very real ways in which the effective use of postcard collections can result in and contribute to substantive, scholarly publications. It also offers advice and suggestions on the myriad issues that libraries face in handling these ephemeral fragments of popular culture. Special collections librarians, postcard collectors, postcard dealers, and historical societies will find the information in Postcards in the Library refreshing and practical. Libraries with established postcard collections or those thinking about developing postcard collections will use it as a valuable planning tool and start-to-finish guide.
