Library classification

The library of congress is an agency that serves as the research library for congress. It is meant to provide information to the legislative process. The library of congress was established on April 24, 1800. The purpose of the Library of congress is to serve congress and give them information. However the Library of Congress also serves other federal agencies as well as people such as scholars by providing them with information. The head of the Library of Congress or the acting Librarian of…

Level Two Discussion 1. The Importance of Meeting Outcomes School librarians need to demonstrate the contributions of the school library program in contributing towards student learning at their school. Callison (2007) describes the difference between inputs, outputs, and outcomes and their importance in evaluating student learning and the contribution of the school library program to the school (p.43). School librarians need to focus on outcome- based evaluation to determine if the program…

households. The education presentation setting is at the Pasadena Central Public Library, Studio On The 4th space, which is an open area on the forth floor with tables and chairs where people frequently visit and remain during their stay at the library. The space has adequate lighting, welcoming space visible to those outside of the area, with two large presentation screens. The location, Central Pasadena Library itself, has a strong reputation in the community for hosting educational programs.…

just the staff who work in the libraries, we also need to know how the content of the library affects a student. The absence of things such as bilingual books or audiovisual equipment can be a detriment to students who are not strong in English, whether they are an immigrant or simply struggling. A survey done by Scholastic Inc. and the Gates Foundation revealed that 83 percent of all students received their books from school libraries, 38 percent from public libraries and 20 percent from…

Library has always been a magical place to me since I was five years old, and it played a compelling role in my childhood development. How librarians know where to find what information from the temple of mystery was amazing to me at that time, and I get to understand comprehensively of library’s vital value to people and community when I studied in universities and visited libraries around the world, especially after few years’ involvement in library as a volunteer. A library is a place where…

GEOG 1992-108 Jifeng Wang 10/10/2015 Position Paper #1 Globalization can improve the lives of people both in core and peripheral country, if core countries and peripheral countries work together to improve education, economic growth, health care and birth control. Globalization is showing its own positive value, which encourage closer communicating on many countries. World Trade Organization (WTO) helps core and peripheral countries trade goods with…

In the years since the inception of the first car several components have been modified to allow people to use those vehicles for different purposes depending on their needs. The cars have gone from having had a small engine and built with wood, to cars made of carbon fiber, which can reach a top speed that reaches 253 mph. Now days we have different styles of cars like sedans, luxury vehicles, sport cars, and Off-roaders. In all of them lay the same desire of transporting us from one point to…

Citizen of a Third World Country In the world today, people living in developed countries will see commercials or hear ads about people in third world countries living in poverty. They begin to think about how sad it is, then within the next ten minutes they forget all about it. People only know a small portion of what it is like to live in a third world country. Unless one has traveled abroad, they do not know about any other way of living other than their daily routines. Those in third world…

There are an abundance of theories as to the notable disparity and relationship between countries of Latin America, and the developed nations of North America, As well as other third world nations around the globe. One such theory is dependency. This theory born in the late 1940 's was a counter to the development theory of modernization. At its core dependency theory examines the historical trends of said countries to explain why they fail to compete both economically and socially with others.…

Globalization of economies has negatively affected individuals by creating more inequality and by failing to reduce poverty. The environment has also faced a negative impact because many developed countries are still heavily reliant on fossil-fuels and their production of greenhouse gases keeps rising. Additionally, the United States outsources much of its industrial sector to China whose population is quickly growing which has led to large concentrated areas of pollution emission. When…