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The well-established gold standard in texts on collection development, Collection Management Basics: Sixth Edition provides a new edition to the last... Developing Library and Information Center Collections book providing a completely fresh approach to the material.This latest edition continues to cover all aspects of collection development and management, including subjects such as needs assessment, policies, selection process theory and practice, protection, legal issues, censorship, and intellectual freedom. The book represents a total restructuring of the previous work, and reflects changes brought on by new technology and the up-and-down economy. Students and practitioners alike will benefit greatly from this up-to-date and essential text.

It's no longer about just about having the "best" collection. As education shifts to a learner-centered environment, collection development must address... the dynamic interplay between all stakeholders in the wider school community. Based on the latest educational theory and research, Hughes-Hassell and Mancall recommend a plan to operate school media centers in the midst of radical flux, while meeting students' information needs in a holistic context.Connecting to the guidelines of Information Power, the premier learner-focused model for library media centers, Collection Management for Youth is grounded in educational theory to help connect the "whys" to the "hows". The authors pose a challenge to school library media specialists and supervisors, youth librarians in public libraries, and educators: Given these tools, are you willing to become learner-centered collection managers, to wear the hats of change agents, leaders, learners, and research guides?This ground-breaking guide will help youth librarians: * Develop and manage collections that meet the changing needs of learners * Address a dynamic educational process and ever-changing resource base * Become an informed teacher and information guide * Tap into the school s broadest learning community to build partnershipsAddressing both print and electronic information sources, this must-have manual is filled with eleven field-tested tools to encourage collaboration and help put the concepts to work.

Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted... decades to collecting nothing—and a lot of it. With Collections of Nothing, he takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate. Part memoir, part reflection on the mania of acquisition, Collections of Nothing begins with the stamp collection that King was given as a boy. In the following years, rather than rarity or pedigree, he found himself searching out the lowly and the lost, the cast-off and the undesired: objects that, merely by gathering and retaining them, he could imbue with meaning, even value. As he relates the story of his burgeoning collections, King also offers a fascinating meditation on the human urge to collect. This wry, funny, even touching appreciation and dissection of the collector’s art as seen through the life of a most unusual specimen will appeal to anyone who has ever felt the unappeasable power of that acquisitive fever. "What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one. . . . His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all."—New Yorker "King's extraordinary book is a memoir served up on the backs of all things he collects. . . . His story starts out sounding odd and singular—who is this guy?—but by the end, you recognize yourself in a lot of what he does."—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune 

This book features 68 performance tasks and rubrics, all designed to motivate and engage your students. Also included are samples of student work to... help you apply the rubrics and develop your grading and scoring skills. The performance assessments in this book were contributed by teachers like you from all over the country and they include:- open-ended and extended response exercises- projects and portfolios- behavioral assessments (skits, debates, discussions, etc.)- authentic assessments- and student self-assessments, in addition to those administered by teachers.

Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial... study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessible study demonstrates how the civil rights movement succeeded against difficult odds by mobilizing community resources, resisting powerful opposition, and winning concessions from the government.

Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public... action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change, Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subjectto empower novicesto think like an organizers.

Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Understanding collective bargaining in education and... its impact on the day-to-day life of schools is critical to designing and implementing reforms that will successfully raise student achievement. But when it comes to public discussion of school reform, teachers unions are the proverbial elephant in the room.Despite the tremendous influence of teachers unions, there has not been a significant research-based book examining the role of collective bargaining in education in more than two decades. As a result, there is little basis for a constructive, empirically grounded dialogue about the role of teachers unions in education today.This timely and comprehensive volume offers a thorough and nuanced analysis of the available research and varied perspectives on its implications. It will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come.

This computerized simulation allows students to re-negotiate a labour agreement for a major metals corporation. By analysing the company's history,... financial statements, current labour agreement and more, students negotiate economic and non-economic issues of the labour agreement. The instructor's manual contains instructor and student disks.

Employing a relaxed, readable writing style, David Locher illustrates all the major sociological perspectives and theories of collective behavior and... classical social movements. The book provides a comprehensive and balanced examination of the field and provides recent examples that encourage readers to evaluate different perspectives and think for themselves. Addresses the study of collective behavior, theory, categories of collective behavior, an analysis of modern episodes of collective behavior and social movements. For those curious about collective behavior.

Drawing from research and insights from both fields, this text provides an integrated framework for looking at both collective behavior and... social movements. KEY TOPICS: It covers the study of collective behavior; collective behavior process; collective behavior in culturally tolerant and maladaptive settings; collective behavior in oppositional settings. For sociologists and all those interested in collective behavior and social movements.

Voting is often the most public and visible example of mass collective decision-making. But how do we define a collective decision? And how do we... classify and evaluate the modes by which collective decisions are made? This book examines these crucial questions to discover the true nature of voting as a means of making collective decisions and public choices. As traditional ways of evaluating collective decisions are under challenge, new ways and new moral criteria for collective decisions are gaining influence. With it comes an appreciation that despite the general disaffection for voting seen in many mature democracies, voting has in fact a much greater potential than is often recognised. "Collective Decisions and Voting" is essential reading for everyone with an in interest in how public choices are made and in voting theory.

Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys... accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. Scott Althaus' comprehensive analysis of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality (in opinion surveys) leads to surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is dispensed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect opinions disproportionately. Accordingly, the study can help survey researchers, journalists, politicians, and concerned citizens better appreciate the problems and potentials of the usage of opinion polls to represent the people's voice.

This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by... reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two important questions: What collective efforts could have prevented these large-scale social harms? And is some group to blame and, if so, how is blame to be apportioned? Contributors: R.P. Lewis, Joel Feinberg, Howard McGary, D.E. Cooper, R.S. Downie, Virginia Held, Stanley Bates, Manuel Velasquez, Peter French, Richard T. DeGeorge, James Muyskens, Richard Wasserstrom, Kurt Bauer, Anthony Appiah, Larry May, A. Zvie Bar-on, and Hannah Arendt.