Glenn, Sharlee Mullins
Summary: "As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Mary Lemist Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it could. She was determined that everyone should have access to the library--not just adults and those who lived in town. Realizing its limitations and inability to reach the county's 25,000 rural residents, including farmers and their families,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 921 TitcombMcDaniel, Breanna J.
Summary: "A luminous picture book biography about librarian and storyteller Augusta Baker, the first Black coordinator of children's services at all branches of the New York Public library"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: Discover the different things librarians do through simple text and photographs of librarians at work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 020.92 AUSPatterson, James
Summary: To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates "book joy" by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, "You've got to read this. You're going to love it." Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 PATLehane, Cornelius
Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHStephens, Michael T.
Summary: "Associate Professor at San Jose State University, Stephens encourages curiosity and creativity in his students and all library workers by connecting trends from outside the profession to its bedrock values. With a humanist lens, he reflects on such topics as: how libraries can empower kindness; developing a coterie of kindred spirits at conferences outside libraryland; inspiring creativity in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020.23 STEPeiss, Kathy Lee
Summary: "Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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Summary: Examines the story of how librarian Ann Carroll Moore created the first children's room at the New York Public Library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOOO'Neill, Alexis
Summary: Learn how Melvil Dewey's love of organization and words drove him to develop and implement his Dewey Decimal system, leaving a significant and lasting impact in libraries across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC O'NEGross, Valerie J.
Summary: "This book describes a groundbreaking concept that enables public libraries--and librarians--to become indispensible by following a "Three Pillars" educational approach, and by replacing traditional terms with powerful, intuitive, value-enhanced terminology that everyone understands"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libraries Unlimited 2013
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1 available in Administration Reference, Call number: ADM 020 GROGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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Summary: "This is a non-fiction picture book biography of beloved Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl, focusing on her childhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PEAConrad, Vicki
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLEDenise, Anika
Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BELMedina, Meg
Summary: This inspiring chapter book biography introduces readers to Pura Belpré who brought Spanish and bilingual storytelling and books to libraries across the country, giving Spanish speakers the opportunity to read and find community in ways they never had before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BELArcher, C. J.
Summary: "Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. J. Archer 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 9781922554222Stephens, Michael T.
Summary: A search for "librarians and empathy" won't get many hits, but empathy is key in collaboration among cross-cultural partners in a technological environment. Stephens believes that in order to create institutions that expand minds and craft futures-- especially in a time of falling budgets and rising use-- libraries must not be just hyperlinking establishments, but must also engage with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020.23 STERobbins, Louise S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020.896 ROBGates, Eva
Summary: "They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GATRuurs, Margriet.
Summary: Describes unusual mobile libraries found around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J027.4 RuuPalfrey, John G. (John Gorham)
Summary: "Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020 PALContents: Introduction / by Alison Lewis -- Politics and anti-politics in librarianship / by Mark Rosenzweig -- Corporate inroads in librarianship : the fight for the soul of the profession in the new millenium / by Peter Mcdonald -- Librarianship and resistance / by Sandy Iverson -- A few gates redux : an examination of the social responsibilities debate in the early 1970s and 1990s / by Steven Joyce --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Juice Press 2008
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: OFR 021.2 LEWBellisario, Gina.
Summary: Students learn what a librarian does and what kind of tools they use to find information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 020.92 BELHanagarne, Joshua
Summary: An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2013