Download or read book The President the Professor and the College Library written by Guy Redvers Lyle and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The President the Professor and the College Library written by Guy R. Lyle and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First White House Library written by Catherine M. Parisian and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First White House Library is the first book to consider the history of books and reading in the Executive Mansion.
Download or read book Report to the President Duke University written by Duke University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the President written by George Peabody College for Teachers and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College written by Alexander Keyssar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book Report of the President written by Simmons College (Boston, Mass.). President and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Professor a President and a Meteor written by Cathryn J. Prince and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Professor Benjamin Silliman, beginning with his investigation of a meteorite that fell over Weston, Connecticut in the winter of 1807, inspired a generation of American scientists.
Download or read book Ideology and Libraries written by Michael K. Buckland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School (Scarecrow Press, 1999). Subsequent research into initiatives to improve library services during the Allied occupation has revealed surprising discoveries and human interest of the lives of very diverse individuals. A central role was played by a librarian, Philip Keeney, who later became well-known as an alleged communist spy. A national plan, designed for Japan’s libraries, was based directly on the county library system developed by progressive thinkers in California, itself a dramatic story. The School of Librarianship at the University of California and its founding director, Sydney Mitchell, was found to have deeply influenced key figures. The story also requires an appreciation of the deployment of American libraries abroad as tools of foreign policy, as cultural diplomacy. Meanwhile, library services in Japan were seriously underdeveloped, despite Japan’s extraordinarily high literacy rate, very well-developed publishing and book retail industries, and librarians who were far from backward. The difference in library development lay in the huge divergence between the ethos of the American public library (dominated by support for individual self-development and Western liberal democracy) and the evolving political ideology of Japanese governments after the Meiji Restoration (1868). After absorbing authoritarian French and German administrative practices Japan became a militarist dictatorship from the 1920s onwards until surrender in 1945. The literature on the Allied Occupation of Japan is vast, but library services have received very little attention beyond the creation of the National Diet Library in 1948. The story of initiatives to improve library services in occupied Japan, the role of libraries as cultural diplomacy, the dramatic development of free public library services in California have remained unknown or little known – until now.
Download or read book The American Presidency written by Clinton Rossiter and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Presidency is one of the most popular books ever published on America's highest office. Clinton Rossiter's eloquent and insightful classic now appears with a substantial new introduction by Michael Nelson. Firmly grounded in history, constitutional analysis, and political culture, The American Presidency examines the evolution of presidential powers and limitations and evaluates the performances of individual presidents since Washington's inauguration in 1789.
Download or read book Leading Change in Academic Libraries written by Catherine Cardwell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Institutions of higher education and academic libraries are not the traditional organizations they once were. They are subject to a variety of forces, including shifting and changing populations, technological changes, public demands for affordability and accountability, and changing approaches to research and learning. Academic libraries can no longer establish their excellence and ground their missions, visions, and strategic directions using the old means and methods. Leading Change in Academic Libraries is a collection of 20 change stories authored by academic librarians from different types of four-year institutions. Librarians tell the story firsthand of how they managed major change in processes, functions, services, programs, or overall organizations using John Kotter's Eight-Stage Process of Creating Major Change as a framework for examining change at their institutions, measuring their successes and areas for improvement, and determining progress. In five sections--strategic planning, reorganization, culture change, new roles, and technological change--chapters discuss tackling common challenges such as fear, anxiety, change fatigue, complacency, unexpected changes of leadership, vacancies, and resistance; look at the results of their tactics; and provide effective practices they found. Each section ends with a thorough analysis of the stories within and the most effective tips for leading that kind of change. Leading Change in Academic Libraries can help you establish flexible, nimble, and collaborative decision-making processes, and facilitate the transition from legacy collections-based libraries to forward-looking service-based libraries"--from the ALA website.
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Download or read book The President s Report July 1892 July 1902 written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the President written by Brown University and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The President s Report written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1897/98 includes summaries for 1891 to 1897.
Download or read book Report of the President written by Bowdoin College and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The College Librarian Looks at the College President written by J. Periam Danton and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
