Product Description: Top advice from a master stillwater angler and complete hatch information for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs make Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing the perfect resource for fly fishing on stillwaters. With proven fly patterns, tips on the best way to fish them, and more than 300 full-color photos, this book is a must-have for all dedicated fly fishers...read more

Product Description: Flies, techniques, equipment-all the basics are covered. Then Gorman takes it a step further by giving you invaluable real-world tactics for overcoming the many challenges that can get in the way of your steelheading success-crowded rivers, rude anglers, your own frustration and impatience, lack of knowledge and skills, changing river conditions,tempermental steelhead...read more

Product Description: From his earliest reading memories in wartime Britain through five decades of librarianship, eminent librarianand former ALA President Michael Gorman offers insights from his extraordinary career in this new memoir.Gorman relates his personal and professional journey in prose that is by turns charming, opinioned, andrevealing...read more

Product Description: Authored by cataloging librarians, educators, and information system experts, this book of essays addresses ideas and methods for tackling the modern challenges of cataloging and metadata practices.• Contains essays authored by experienced, passionate, and articulate catalogers, metadata librarians, and other experts• Includes original research survey results on librarians' views regarding current topics such as RDA, AACR2, FRBR, the use of upstream data, and cataloging on the Semantic Web• Contains an introductory timeline and history of cataloging and metadata from ancient to present times• Provides a chronological bibliography of selected works related to cataloging and libraries through 1800 and a more complete bibliography of related works• Includes a foreword and afterword by three internationally known and respected cataloging figures, Michael Gorman, Dr...read more

Product Description: Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book is a compilation of quotations originally collected for the "Quotes of the Week" section of Library Juice, an e-zine published by Rory Litwin between 1998 and 2005 that dealt with philosophical and political dimensions of librarianship...read more

Product Description: Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book is a compilation of quotations originally collected for the "Quotes of the Week" section of Library Juice, an e-zine published by Rory Litwin between 1998 and 2005 that dealt with philosophical and political dimensions of librarianship...read more

Product Description: Would you/he say sheets or linens? Shoes or pumps? Is it ever OK to say ''bye-bye'' or ''scrumptious''? Deep in their guts, real men know there are some words they just don't say ... ever! Words that make women cringe and turn romantic dates into playdates...read more

Product Description: Manual of Business Spanish is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using Spanish.Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, it comprises five parts:* A 6000-word, two-way Glossary of the most useful business terms* A 100-page Written Communications section giving models of 50 letters, faxes and documents* An 80-page Spoken Situations section covering face-to-face and telephone situations* A short Reference Grammar outlining the major grammar features of Spanish* A short Business Facts section covering essential information of the country or countries where Spanish is usedWritten by an experienced native and non-native speaker team, this unique volume is an essential, one-stop reference for all students and professionals studying or working in business and management where Spanish is used...read more

Describes an approach to initiate change in a library system along with a collection of fifteen case studies.

Product Description: Supplementing existing textbooks with exercises that allow practice in description, classification, subject analysis, and MARC 21, this workbook pinpoints problem areas that arise in the cataloging of a wide variety of materials in public, school, special, and academic library settings...read more

Product Description: Amid thorny and challenging issues facing librarians today - technological changes, the pressures of multitasking, budget cuts, the Patriot Act, hassled customers, job insecurity - there's solace in realizing that others experience similar frustrations...read more

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Describes the principles of eight core values including stewardship, services, intellectual freedom, and literarcy and learning; and discusses how libraries can adapt them in order to thrive in the twenty-first century. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This update is the most accessible and practical guide for beginning catalogers.

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Product Description: The 1998 Revision includes all changes and corrections authorized by the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR since 1988, including Amendments authorized through 1997. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on one of the most fundamental areas of librarianship, Gorman and a host of distinguished contributors examine the current state of the field of technical services and offer their views on its future. The book is divided into four sections: acquisitions, bibliographic control, automation, and administration...read more

Product Description: Book by Gorman, Michael