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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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Learn how to market your library's services to your community. From learning about your target audiences to crafting a mission statement, this program shows you how to create an effective marketing plan. In addition, you'll learn how to create a message for your library to make short-term and long-range planning a success.
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The program covers ADA compliance, including pulling together a focus group and designing an action plan to make the library's facilities and resources accessible. Real stories from libraries are included throughout the program. Customers with disabilities share their concerns about accessibility and provide insight to providing "reasonable accommodation." The resource guide includes a self evaluation survey concerning employment services, physical...
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This training program highlights libraries that have replaced the Dewey Decimal System for customer use. Rethinking the call number visits the Maricopa Public Library (AZ) and the Frankfort Public Library (IL) to see how their conversion to a "Dewey-less" library has gone. The results have been pretty dramatic. Even if leaving Dewey behind is not an option, this offers plenty of ideas and suggestions about library layout, signs, shelving, and more....
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Use the appeal characteristics to help your patrons find the book that is most appropriate for them. You will also learn how to use the "Quick Dip" in order to learn about a book without reading it. "People love to talk about the books that they read," according to this excellent readers - advisory instructional. Recommended for professional library collections."- Booklist.
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Elsie is about to have puppies, and Elizabeth is going to help. Her grandmother shows her exactly how to make the den for the dog and how to be ready when the puppies come out. After they are born, Elizabeth helps Elsie care for them. Most important of all, though, she helps her grandmother find just the right home for each, especially the very last one. MCPL card number and PIN required for access.
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Every day we make assumptions about who we are, what we do, and who we interact with. Diversity in the Library will help you examine those assumptions and realize that they can create barriers to outstanding public service. The program uses scenarios taken directly from library worker's experiences. By examining those scenarios and the solutions provided, viewers will be able to better serve all of their customers in this increasingly complex and...
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Geography in 20 Minutes a Day gives insight into the physical, economic, and political makeup of the world.
This comprehensive book contains short, focused lessons on each continent's physical features, capital cities, ruling governments, economy, and more. It also examines the basis for recent environmental and political events that have shaped geography. Geography in 20 Minutes a Day will help you learn about the world, one short lesson at a time....
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Tell Me How Career Series - Career Education and Opportunities for Young People. Recommended for both School, Public Libraries and Guidance Offices. The Tell Me How series is a necessary addition to any library, guidance center of school curriculum. It explores a large number of career opportunities for young people and features real people doing real jobs. In this program host Jeff Gardner learns the important details of being a great librarian...
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This innovative new book offers what every candidate preparing for the Border Patrol Exam is looking for, powerful practice. This study program, packed with EIGHT full-length practice tests (the most exams available on the market) based on official test specifications, offers the comprehensive preparation needed to succeed on the exam and secure a job as a border patrol agent.
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In "Franklin the Spy", Franklin and Bear play secret agents and uses a hidden tape recorder on their friends. But the recorder stopped taping just when the secret was about to be revealed and Franklin & Bear takes it one step to far.. In "Franklin's Library Book", Franklin receives his first library card and takes out his first library book. He was so excited with this new responsibility. Unfortunately, he left his library book out in the rain and...
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A young doctor who specializes in family planning speaks with five East German women working at the Treffmodelle textile plant in Berlin. Of all different ages, positions and social backgrounds, they discuss birth control, children's education and women's emancipation. Their open discussion about contraception caused a sensation when the film was released.
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The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed dramatists in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) and an emerging one. Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist for stage & screen, is interviewed by Tony Award-winner songwriter, Adam Guettel. MCPL card number and PIN required for access.
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The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed dramatists in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) and an emerging one. Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, author and stage director, is interviewd by artistic director at George Street Playhouse, David Saint. MCPL card number and PIN required for access.
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The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed dramatists in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) and an emerging one. Lee Adams, a Tony Award-winning lyricist, is interviewed by Brian Yorkey. MCPL card number and PIN required for access.
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The Legacy Project documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed dramatists in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) and an emerging one. Charles Strouse, Tony Award-winning composer, is interviewd by composer, lyricist and librettist, Michael John Lachiusa. MCPL card number and PIN required for access.
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