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Apps for Librarians: Using the Best Mobile Technology to Educate, Create, and Engage
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Apps for Librarians: Using the Best Mobile Technology to Educate, Create, and Engage

Smartphones and other mobile devices that support downloadable applications—universally referred to as "apps"—can be used to foster productivity, conduct research, or read and study. Additionally, savvy librarians can better serve their communities by gaining expertise in mobile technologies and being qualified to make app recommendations to patrons. This book introduces you to the apps that can help you save time and increase your own productivity as well as serve as a curator and reviewer of apps and resident expert to benefit your patrons.
 
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Tags: serve, patrons, productivity, mobile, introduces
Read Me a Rhyme in Spanish and English
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Read Me a Rhyme in Spanish and English Leame Una Rima En Espanol E InglesRead Me a Rhyme in Spanish and English Leame Una Rima En Espanol E Ingles

In Rose Zertuche Trevino's "Read Me a Rhyme in Spanish and English", programming ideas abound for librarians who have bilingual patrons and wish to present reading programs for children for whom Spanish is the spoken language at home. The bilingual programs are for children of all ages: babies to primary school children. The program material presented originates from Latin culture, engaging those patrons for whom the nursery rhymes are new, as well as for older children and parents for whom the rhymes are old favorites.
 
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Tags: children, Spanish, rhymes, programs, bilingual, Rhyme, English, patrons
Kepler
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KeplerKepler

In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, the acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe.
Wars, witchcraft, and disease rage throughout Europe. And for this court mathematician, vexed by domestic strife, appalled by the religious upheavals that have driven him from exile to exile, and vulnerable to the whims of his eccentric patrons, astronomy is a quest for some form of divine order. For all of the mathematical precision of his exploration, though, it is a seemingly elusive quest until he makes one glorious and profoundly human discovery.
 
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Tags: quest, exile, Kepler, patrons, astronomy, divine
Patrons, Brokers and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France
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Patrons, Brokers and Clients in Seventeenth-Century FrancePatrons, Brokers and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. During this period, the royal government of Paris gradually extended its sphere of control by taking power away from the powerful and potentially disloyal provincial governors and nobility and instead putting it in the hands of provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.
 
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Tags: power, Paris, provincial, France, patronage, Patrons
Magill's Literary Annual 2010
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Magill's Literary Annual 2010Magill's Literary Annual 2010

This book contains 200 reviews of significant fiction and nonfiction published in 2009. It provides coverage for works that are likely to be of particular interest to the general reader, and that will stand the test of time.

By filtering the thousands of books published every year down to 200 notable titles, the editors have provided the busy librarian with an excellent reader's advisory tool and patrons with fodder for book discussion groups and a guide for choosing worthwhile reading material.
 
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Tags: published, reader, advisory, patrons, fodder, Magill, Literary, Annual