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Publication date: 14 June 2011

Sarah Pomerantz

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Reference Reviews, vol. 25 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0950-4125

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Publication date: 16 February 2010

Sarah Pomerantz

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Reference Reviews, vol. 24 no. 2
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ISSN: 0950-4125

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Publication date: 30 March 2010

Sarah B. Pomerantz

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Reference Reviews, vol. 24 no. 3
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ISSN: 0950-4125

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Publication date: 19 January 2010

Sarah Pomerantz

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether aggregator packages might be appropriate to replace or supplement print collections in business and nursing, it aims to identify…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether aggregator packages might be appropriate to replace or supplement print collections in business and nursing, it aims to identify e‐book equivalents for print books acquired for an academic library's collections.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper provides a list of the library's acquisitions in two disciplines checked against e‐book aggregators' holdings. The comparison is analyzed and discussed.

Findings

The results confirm findings of a previous study showing that less than one‐third of print books acquired for this library's nursing and business collections have e‐book equivalents available from aggregators, so the aggregators' holdings do not strongly match the library's collecting profile.

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The present study applies previous research to a different type of collection, and tests previous conclusions.

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This paper contributes to assessment of the value of e‐book collections for academic libraries.

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Collection Building, vol. 29 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0160-4953

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Publication date: 13 January 2012

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Collection Building, vol. 31 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0160-4953

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Publication date: 8 September 2023

Sarah E. Ryan, Sarah A. Evans and Suliman Hawamdeh

Public libraries are incubators for collective action in the knowledge economy. As three case studies from the United States and Singapore demonstrate, public libraries can serve…

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Public libraries are incubators for collective action in the knowledge economy. As three case studies from the United States and Singapore demonstrate, public libraries can serve as influential champions that garner financial resources, communicate an urgent need for change, and respond to the unmet information and economic needs of marginalized individuals and communities. In the Raise Up Radio (RUR) case, public librarians engaged schools, museums, youth, and families in rural communities to develop and deliver STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) content over local radio stations. In collaboration with organizational partners, RUR librarians created a model for library-community-radio projects for the rural United States. In the What Health Looks Like (WHLL) case, public librarians engaged senior citizens in discussions of health and the creation of health comics. In partnership with an interdisciplinary health research team, WHLL librarians developed a pilot for library-community-public health projects aimed at information dissemination and health narrative generation. In the Singapore shopping mall libraries case, the National Library Board (NLB) created public libraries in commercial spaces serving working families, senior citizens, and the Chinese community. The NLB developed an exportable model for locating information centers in convenient, popular, and useful business spaces. These case studies demonstrate how libraries are nodes in the knowledge economy, providing vital services such as preservation of cultural heritage, technology education, community outreach, information access, and services to working families, small- and medium-size businesses, and other patrons. In the years to come, public libraries will be called upon to respond to shifting social norms, inequitable opportunities, emergencies and disasters, and information asymmetries. As the cases of RUR, WHLL, and the shopping mall libraries show, public librarians have the vision and capacities to serve as influential champions for collective action to solve complex problems and foster sustainable development and equitable participation in the knowledge economy.

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How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80382-435-2

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Publication date: 23 August 2022

Alison Pilnick

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Reconsidering Patient Centred Care
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80071-744-2

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Publication date: 10 December 2023

Ted Moser, Charlotte Bloom and Omar Akhtar

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Winning Through Platforms: How to Succeed When Every Competitor Has One
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ISBN: 978-1-80455-298-8

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Publication date: 23 November 2017

Sarah M. Corse

In this paper, I look at one of the most archetypal of children’s stories, that of Noah and the flood, to understand the classificatory schema it presents.

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Purpose

In this paper, I look at one of the most archetypal of children’s stories, that of Noah and the flood, to understand the classificatory schema it presents.

Methodology/approach

Drawing on an analysis of 47 children’s picture books based on the biblical story, including those held in the historical archive of the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton, I show that the single most consistent frame for the story is the trope of “two by two”, referencing both the animals and people in the story. The books in the sample, intended for children aged 4–10 years, were published between 1905 and 2006, and are between 14 and 60 pages long.

Findings

The repeated emphasis on mated pairs, one male and one female, serves to reproduce the twinned categories of gender and heterosexuality in an overtly “natural” fashion that ties the animal bodies to human social divisions. These constitutive categories of social division – gender and heterosexuality – then become central schemas for organizing people and experience. I draw on Martin (2000) arguing that children encounter picture books before they have had experience in actual social life. Therefore, the books help instill these primary categorization schemas in children, creating the social groupings and relations among them that order their worlds.

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The argument makes a strongly causal role for culture and argues that the impact/importance of the content of children’s books may be subordinate to the role they play in helping establish classificatory schema that help construct children’s understandings of the social world.

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Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Among Contemporary Youth
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-613-6

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Publication date: 4 May 2008

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Journal of Children's Services, vol. 3 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-6660

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