1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456777303321

Autore

Moyer Jessica E

Titolo

The Readers' Advisory Handbook [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, IL, : ALA Editions, 2010

ISBN

0-8389-9034-7

0-8389-9902-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

ALA readers' advisory series The readers' advisory handbook

Altri autori (Persone)

StoverKaite Mediatore

Disciplina

025.04

20

Soggetti

Readers' advisory services

Readers' advisory services - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Getting to Know Your Materials; 1. How to Read a Book in Ten Minutes; 2. Nonfiction Speed Dating; 3. How to Listen to a Book in Thirty Minutes; 4. How to Read a Graphic Novel in Five Minutes; 5. Keeping Up: Genre Studies as Continuing Education; Part 2: Reviewing and Evaluating Materials; 6. Reviews and Annotations for Fiction and Nonfiction; 7. Reviewing Audiobooks; 8. How to Review Graphic Novels and Manga; 9. Reviewing and Evaluating Reference Materials; Part 3: Marketing, Promoting, and Sharing Materials

10. Passive Readers' Advisory: Bookmarks, Booklists, and Displays11. Creating Themed Booklists; 12. Read-Alikes; 13. Book Group Kits; 14. Taking Readers' Advisory Online; Part 4: Programming; 15. Book Groups; 16. How to Host Author Events; 17. Adult Storytime; Part 5: Expanding Readers' Advisory Services; 18. Readers' Advisory by Proxy for Teens; 19. Readers' Advisory for Older Adults; 20. Readers' Advisory for Incarcerated Populations; 21. Suggesting Adult Books to Teen Readers; 22. Suggesting Teen Books to Adult Readers; List of Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Covering everything from getting to know a library's materials to marketing and promoting RA, this practical handbook will help you



expand services immediately without adding costs or training time.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777526003321

Autore

Martínez Vergne Teresita

Titolo

Nation & citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 [[electronic resource] /] / Teresita Martínez-Vergne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908792-2-6

0-8078-7692-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

972.93/04

Soggetti

Nationalism - Dominican Republic - History

National characteristics, Dominican

Citizenship - Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Intellectual life

Dominican Republic Politics and government 1844-1930

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The national project -- The city as the site of citizenship -- Race in the formation of nationality -- Representing bourgeois womanhood -- Working people in the city -- Claiming citizenship from below.

Sommario/riassunto

Combining intellectual and social history, this book explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.