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My Library

The public library was my favorite place in the town where I grew up. Besides the fact that it was a wonderful place to relax, study and enjoy myself, there were three particular reasons I like to be there. With friendly and knowledgeable staff the library was an inviting and pleasant place to ...

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The Library Of Congress

was established by an act of congress on April 24, 1800. It was originally housed in the United States capitol. The collection, which stared out small at 740 volumes, slowly increased to over 3,000 volumes by 1814. That year, though, the British along with the capitol burned those books during ...

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Andrew Carnegie

, in 1873, decided that the future of business was in steel manufacturing. He built the J. Edgar Thompson Steel Mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and set forth the Carnegie empire. In 1901, Carnegie sold his Carnegie Steel Company and faithfully devoted himself to philanthropic ...

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Conflict In Organisations

"As new strategies are implemented in any organisation, tension and conflicts are likely to arise ... such conflicts must be confronted, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel to operate in such a situation. " Discuss in relation to LIS organisations and examine the management strategies which ...

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Librarianship Reflective Essay

Jacob Hill Third-Year Review Reflective Essay In my 3 years at the A.C. Buehler Library I believe I have developed the competence and experience necessary to execute professional librarianship as it is outlined in the Qualifications for Librarian promotion in the faculty manual. Since ...

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Brief History Of Library Automation: 1930-1996

An automated library is one where a computer system is used to manage one or several of the library's key functions such as acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, circulation and the public access catalog. When exploring the history of library automation, it is possible to return to past ...

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Stephen King

"The most haunted of houses is the human mind." When you read that quote, what does it make you think? Well, it makes me think of one thing. It makes me think of all of the terrifying stories I’ve read by the master of the macabre himself, Stephen Edwin King. His mind has conjured up countless ...

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Censorship In Public Schools

-A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school board's decision to remove Richard ...

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Magic

Doing this research paper didn’t really help me find anything extraordinary about the word . I pretty much knew what the word meant, from the comic books I read and the television I watch. It did however, make me view the word in more depth. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying in any way that ...

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Literacy Narrative

Kat Camp Trayal ENGL 1010 055 18 September 2014 Love or Hate Relationship My start with literacy begin a little differently than a lot of the stories we read about for our discussions, but it gave me material to compare my experiences too. For example, just like Malcolm X I did not start ...

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The Gothic Age

Introduction As the third year that followed the year on thousand grew near, there was to be seen over almost all the earth, but especially in Italy and in Gaul, a great renewal of church buildings; each Christian community was driven by a spirit of rivalry to have a more glorious church than ...

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Plus (computer Program)

Sather is an object oriented language designed to be simple, efficient, safe, and non-proprietary. It aims to meet the needs of modern research groups and to foster the development of a large, freely available, high-quality library of efficient well-written classes for a wide variety of ...

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Mark Twain And The Lost Manuscript Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Outline Thesis Statement: An original draft of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exists containing material excluded from the first printing of the book. I. Twain's biographical information A. Childhood B. Education C. Professional life 1. Jobs 2. Literary works 3. ...

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Huckleberry Finn 8

Huckleberry Finn Should Not Be Banned If Mark Twain was alive today, he would probably be appearing at libraries and in online chat rooms during Banned Books Week to discuss the fate of his own books. He certainly deserves recognition for the number of times his books have been challenged or ...

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The Baroque Era

The Baroque period, 1600-1750, describes the style or period of European music at that time. The term Baroque was derived from a Portuguese word meaning "a pearl of irregular shape." The word Baroque was initially used to imply strangeness, abnormality and extravagance, applying more to art than ...

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Andrew Carnegie

Essay written by aliciareagan@neo.tamu.edu A man of Scotland, a distinguished citizen of the United States, and a philanthropist devoted to the betterment of the world around him, became famous at the turn of the twentieth century and became a real life rags to riches story. Born in Dunfermline, ...

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Andrew Carnegie

A man of Scotland, a distinguished citizen of the United States, and a philanthropist devoted to the betterment of the world around him, became famous at the turn of the twentieth century and became a real life rags to riches story. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835, entered ...

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Improving Public Schools

Research is best done in the library. In doing so, I have found Florida Gulf Coast’s library rich in resources. Part of the richness comes from the electronic resources offered online, which includes the popular Proquest Direct and EbscoHost. In conducting my research I used EbscoHost. This ...

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Information Technology Acts

Information Technology Acts Paper Rebecca Reyes BIS/220 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATION AND SYSTEMS May 21, 2012 Information Technology Acts Paper Since the beginning of the Internet protecting children online has been a long time issue. With so many websites that have ...

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Hate Groups And The Internet

With the Internet being used by millions of people of all ages worldwide for both, educational and recreational purposes, a great tool has been created for those in our society who wish to project their opinions, good or bad, to do so with reckless abandon. One such group which has chosen to ...

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