Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold
Author: Mark Y. Herring
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0786453931

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This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROM's were all once predicted as the contemporary library's heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material.

Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles

Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles
Author: Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625852002

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Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.

Public Library Statistics

Public Library Statistics
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1959
Genre: Public libraries
ISBN:

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Comparing Public Library Systems

Comparing Public Library Systems
Author: Malcolm Getz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 43
Release: 1979
Genre: Public libraries
ISBN:

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The operations of 31 large public library systems across the country are compared using information from the author' s interview survey. Operations are compared in physical terms: hours of service, materials, locations, and staffing. Differences in operations are found to be associated with differences in labor costs, local fiscal circumstances, and demographics. The libraries seem to reduce hours in the face of higher labor costs. Differences in the use of the libraries are found to be associated with differences in library services and demographics. The number of materials acquired per capita has a strong impact on library use

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Types of Public Library Story Hour Programs in Improving the Receptive Language of Children Three, Four, and Five Years of Age

A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Types of Public Library Story Hour Programs in Improving the Receptive Language of Children Three, Four, and Five Years of Age
Author: Frances A. Smardo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1982
Genre: Libraries and preschool children
ISBN:

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