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    The main goal of libraries, are to teach students how to make use of the resources. The library of NVCC dedicates itself into helping students at the Alexandria campus. That is why it provides a wide range of sources that aids its students. Whether it is for a class, a job, or a research, the library has the materials they need to execute their work. In the words of Robert Putnam, a political scientist who teaches at Harvard University, he said that “People may go to the library looking mainly for

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    Nowadays, library, museum and archive play a main role in information world. Growing technology in globalization era already give big impact to this information institutions. Library, museum and archive act as information centre for people to get information and gain knowledge. Suppression from Institute of Museum and Library Services in increase technology into this institution through research, conferences and publication to keep data for public or government mostly. .Humanity need to know the

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    Library and Information Center Management Recent Titles in Library and Information Science Text Series Library and Information Center Management, Sixth Edition Robert D. Stueart and Barbara B. Moran United States Government Information: Policies and Sources Peter Hernon, Harold C. Relyea, Robert E. Dugan, and Joan F. Cheverie Library Information Systems: From Library Automation to Distributed Information Access Solutions Thomas R. Kochtanek and Joseph R. Matthews The Complete Guide to Acquisitions

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    Libraries are an important resource, both to those who use them and to the area in which they reside. Over the years, libraries have changed from being simple repositories of printed books and materials. Instead, libraries now are home to ever changing technologies, community meeting rooms, areas in which children can participate in a variety of activities, and a multitude of other things, in addition to the previously housed print materials. As the Carnegie libraries of the past, and other libraries

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    In most towns or cities, you will find a library; whether it contains “old-school features”, including a card catalogue, a historian, and an old librarian shushing you for talking too loud, or it features modern aspects, like usable iPads, eBooks, and lots of noise being made. The local library in my town became my home as a child. I enjoyed reading many books throughout my childhood, and there is no better place to read a book than a library, which had become my favourite hobby. The book's release

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    Libraries are the first place for all the individuals who are as students, working professionals depending upon their roles. When considering the types of libraries there are of four types which got segregated based on their functionality. According to the Mcgrath (2015) these school librarie are the first place where every individual will see the library for the first time in their life for their education. As this is the first place for the students for the new innovation and build

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    Rural libraries provide an information access point to those who live in remote areas. To define, rural libraries are critical instruments for service areas of 25,00 or less. The social economic life of population groups trend towards lower income and poverty. These forces constrict and curtail patrons abilities for education, self- improvement and access to variety of information platforms. In the course of this effort we will provide a brief survey of challenges that rural libraries

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    The Power of a Public Library Libraries provide resources such as books and computers to a variety of people who may not have them otherwise. A great deal of people in society believe that with the rise of technology, libraries should not be so prominent although they continue to provide very important resources. “22 percent of library computer users (age 14 and older), the library was their only source for access to computers and the Internet” (Source C). In addition to the computer access

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    For my first school library teacher observation, I observed Ms. Gallo-Toth at Brookline Public School’s John D. Runkle Elementary School. According to the Brookline Public Schools website (PSBMA) Website- Runkle School, para.3) is a K-8 school that has about 560 students. The Runkle School is also a host to many Spanish English Language Learner students as well as the Reaching Independence through Structured Education program for children on the autistic spectrum. I observed Ms. Gallo-Toth introduce

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    John Ambrosio (2013), reflecting on the history of the library profession, invokes Antonio Gramsci, who said that a critical understanding of the self also requires the development of an ethical stance, a set of values, principles, and virtues to guide one’s moral conduct (Ambrosio, 2013, p. 328). Lacking such ethics or praxis, librarians are vulnerable to the dominant political ideology. “The way to overcome paralysis is the consciousness of what one really is and knowing oneself. It begins with

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