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How to get a job in the music industry / by Hatschek, Keith.(CARDINAL)538945;

MARCIVE 05/06/09Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.Foreword / by Tony Brown -- Today's job market : the big picture -- Workshop 1. Create your own career binder -- Why geography matters -- Workshop 2. Landing in an entertainment capital -- What kinds of jobs are out there? -- Workshop 3. Magic lamp -- Gizmos, people, and gender -- Workshop 4. Self-assessment quiz -- Career ladders : technical career track -- Workshop 5. Building your career ladder -- Career ladders : management track -- Workshop 6. How much will you earn? -- Excuse me, what do you do? -- Workshop 7. Your dream sheet -- Analyzing job descriptions -- Workshop 8. What's in a job description? -- Your marketable skill set -- Workshop 9.1. Foundation skills assessment -- Workshop 9.2. Job-specific skills assessment -- Building a winning resume -- Workshop 10. Building your resume --Make your resume sparkle with worth points -- Workshop 10. Worth-point development -- How to write effective cold and cover letters -- Workshop 10. Write a cold letter -- Why most music-industry jobs are rarely advertised -- Workshop 13. Finding unadvertised job openings -- Schmooze or lose (secrets of a networking guru) -- Workshop 14. Networking -- Digging in the dirt (or how I learned to love the Internet) -- Workshop 15.1. FInd and use your industry news sources -- Workshop 15.2. Career homework -- Alphabet soup : all about trade associations -- Workshop 16. Locating a mentor -- Goal-setting skills -- Workshop 17. Setting your goals -- Preparing for interview success -- Workshop 18.1. Informational interview guidelines -- Workshop 18.2. Send your cold letter -- Workshop 18.3. Job interview practice -- Learn before you earn -- Workshop 19. Describing your ideal internship opportunity -- Preparing for your job search -- Workshop 20. Career investments -- Are you ready to hit the streets? -- The three best means to land a music-industry job -- Workshop 22. Job search action plan -- Careers in new media and music products --Workshop 23. New media and music products opportunities --Views from the top. Joe Lamond, NAMM ; Jeanine Cowen, JMC Music ; Chuck Taylor, Billboard magazine ; Alan Stoker, Country Music Hall of Fame ; David Jahnke, Hal Leonard Corp. ; Gary Miller, Universal Music Pub. Group ; Leslie Ann Jones, Skywalker Sound ; Murray Allen, Electronic Arts ; Gary Gand, Gand Music & Sound ; Gregg Hildebrandt, TASCAM -- App. A. Author's career path -- App. B. Selected resources. Books and directories ; General Internet resources ; Job-related web sites ; Job directories and search engines ; Other books ; Industry biographies ; Periodicals -- App. C. Trade associations.Offers insight on career opportunies in the industry, details on job prospects, networking strategies, workshops, interviews with pros, guidance on résumés, and interview advice.

Subjects: Music trade; Sound recording industry;

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Google Apps : G-suite: A Complete and Practical Guide on How to Use Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, Google Calendars and Google Photos / by Cromwell, Masha,author.;

Google Apps is a Web-based and collaborative Software that customizes the proprietary Google platform and brand for businesses of all sizes. Google Apps customizes applications for different industries, as described below: Google Apps (free): Gmail (up to ten free email accounts), Google Calendar, Google Sites, and Google Docs Google Apps for education: Free applications for schools Google Apps for business: Paid version, which provides Web-based application tools for collaboration Google Apps for government: Web-based and government certified collaboration tools Google Apps for nonprofit: Collaboration and communication tools for U.S. nonprofit organizations The goal of this book is to help familiarize you with the most commonly used Google Apps for home education and small business users. In this book you will learn: What are the most powerful Google Apps, and how to use them Understanding Google Applications How to Use Google Drive How to Use Google Docs How to Use Google Sheets How to Use Google Slides How to Use Google Forms How to Use Google Keep How to Use Google Photos How to Use Google Calendars How to Use Gmail ... and so Much More.--

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Google.; Application software; Composite applications (Computer science); Application program interfaces (Computer software); Application software;

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Ultimate game design : building game worlds / by Meigs, Tom.(CARDINAL)543409;

Subjects: Video games; Video games;

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Halo [videorecording] : nightfall / by Colter, Mike,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)849429; Contreras, Christian,actor.; Elliott, Aidan,1981-television producer.; Huffam, Mark,television producer.(CARDINAL)832757; Mimica-Gezzan, Sergio,1957-television director.; Scheuring, Paul T.,screenwriter.; Waddington, Steven,actor.; 343 Industries,presenter.; Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)DLC(CARDINAL)808538; Microsoft Corporation.(CARDINAL)190982; Scott Free Productions,production company.(CARDINAL)834862;

Director of photography, Gavin Struthers ; music, Klaus Badelt.Mike Colter, Steven Waddington, Christina Chong, Christian Contreras; Luke Neal.This tells the personal story of Jameson Locke, a legendary manhunter and agent with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Earth's most powerful and secretive military branch. He and his team are investigating terrorist chatter on the distant colony world of Sedra, when they are caught in a horrific biological attack. Led by Locke, ONI agents are forced to coordinate with Randall Aiken, a local commander with a remarkable history and deep-rooted mistrust of ONI.Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player.

Subjects: Fantasy television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Science fiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Webisodes.; United States. Office of Naval Intelligence; Terrorists;

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The quick résumé & cover letter book : write and use an effective résumé in only one day / by Farr, J. Michael.(CARDINAL)187157;

Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Write and send a resume in a day -- 1. Quick tips for creating and using a resume -- What is a resume? -- Some people say you don't need a resume -- Some good reasons to have a resume -- Everyone thinks they're a resume expert -- Resume basics, for print and electronic formats -- Three types of resumes -- "Send your resume to lots of strangers and, if it is good enough, you will get job offers" and other fairytales -- 2. Write a simple resume in about an hour -- Two chronological resume samples -- The major sections of a chronological resume -- The final draft -- 3. Write a skills resume in just a few hours -- A sample skills resume -- Writing a skills resume -- Tips for editing your draft resume into final form -- More sample skills resumes (and JIST Cards) -- 4. Develop an electronic resume in less than an hour -- Applying directly on employer Web sites -- A sample text-only resume, with all graphics and formatting removed -- Adapting your resume for electronic use -- The importance of keywords -- Using the Internet to go beyond the resume -- pt. 2. A more thorough approach to resume writing and career planning -- 5. Develop a powerful new skills language -- Three major types of skills -- Identify your skills -- 6. Document the many details of your work and life experience -- Quick tips for completing the forms -- The worksheets -- 7. Identify your perfect job and industry -- Why your resume needs a job objective -- Consider jobs within groups of related occupations -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook -- Other important sources of occupational information -- Also consider industries in your job search -- Values, preferences, and other factors to consider in defining your job objective -- Write your resume's job objective -- Finalize your resume's job objective statement -- 8. Highlight your strengths and overcome "problems" on your resume -- Never highlight a negative -- General guidelines for handling "problems" -- Other items to include, or not include, on your resume -- A final few words on handling problems -- 9. Write a better resume now -- If you aren't good at writing a resume, get some help -- What sort of resume will work best for you? -- Gather information and emphasize accomplishments, skills, and results -- More quick resume-writing tips -- More tips to improve your resume's design -- pt. 3. A stupendous collection of professionally written and designed resumes -- 10. Sample chronological resumes -- 11. Sample skills-based and combination resumes -- 12. Sample electronic resumes -- pt. 4. Quick cover letters, thank-you notes, JIST Cards, and other job search correspondence -- 13. The quick cover letter and how to use it -- Only two groups of people will receive your cover letters -- Seven quick tips for writing a superior cover letter in 15 minutes -- Writing cover letters to people you know -- Writing cover letters to people you don't know -- Additional sample cover letters -- 14. Thank-you letters and JIST Cards -- The importance of thank-you letters -- JIST Cards®, a mini-resume and a powerful job search tool -- Other job search correspondence -- pt. 5. How to find a job fast -- 15. Get a good job in less time -- Career planning and job search advice -- Changing jobs and careers is often healthy -- Seven steps for a quick and successful job search -- The quick job search review -- 16. Quick tips for using the Internet in your job search -- The Internet as a tool for your job search -- Eight quick tips to increase your job search effectiveness on the Internet -- The most useful Internet sites -- Closing thoughts : remember your main purpose -- Appendix A. Sample job description from the Occupational Outlook Handbook -- Appendix B. How to contact the professional resume writers who contributed to this book.

Subjects: Résumés (Employment); Cover letters.;

Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 14

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Marketing for dummies / by Hiam, Alexander,author.(CARDINAL)265950;

PART I. Getting started with marketing -- 1. Optimizing your marketing program -- Know yourself, know your customer -- Finding your marketing formula -- Controlling your marketing program -- Refining your marketing expectations -- Revealing more ways to maximize your marketing impact -- 2. Strengthening your marketing strategy -- Finding and riding a growth wave -- Growing with a market expansion strategy -- Specializing with a market segmentation strategy -- Developing a market share strategy -- Designing a positioning strategy -- Considering other core strategies -- Simplicity marketing -- Quality strategies -- Reminder strategies -- Innovative distribution strategies -- Selling innovative products -- Writing down and regularly reviewing your strategy -- 3. Writing a marketing plan -- Grasping the value of the marketing plan -- Reviewing the contents of a good plan -- Understanding the do's and don'ts of planning -- Writing a powerful executive summary -- Preparing a situation analysis -- Clarifying and quantifying your objectives -- Summarizing your marketing plan -- Exploring your program's details -- Managing your marketing program -- Projecting expenses and revenues -- Buildup forecasts -- Indicator forecasts -- Multiple scenario forecasts -- Time-period forecasts -- Creating your controls.pt. II. Leveraging your marketing skills -- 4. Researching your customers, competitors, and industry -- Knowing when and why to do research -- Asking really good questions -- Paying wisely for market research -- Researching the low-cost (or free!) way -- Riding a rising tide with demographics -- 5. Engaging your marketing imagination -- Turning the tide with creativity -- Applying your creativity -- Generating rich ideas -- Managing the creative process -- Tapping highly creative contributors -- 6. Pumping up your marketing communications -- Pursuing your communication priorities -- Communicating to the entire brain -- Exploring four strategies for boosting your communications' appeal -- Pull power : building customer traffic -- Tightening your writing -- Creating great visuals.pt. III. Advertising f or fun and profit -- 7. Perfecting your printed materials -- Designing printed marketing materials -- Producing quality, effective brochures -- Placing a print ad -- 8. Signing on to outdoor advertising -- Heading back to basics : the essential sign -- Going big : posters and billboards -- Exploring the world of intelligent locational ads -- Putting your name on portable items -- Taking your message to the streets -- Keeping your message on the move with transit advertising -- 9. Broadcasting your message -- Producing ads for radio -- Identifying less expensive ways to use the power of video -- Designing ads for TV and YouTube.pt. IV. Finding powerful alternatives to advertising -- 10. Maximizing your web marketing -- Creating and managing a web identity -- Developing your hub website -- Following simple rules for higher traffic -- Adding satellites around your hub site to draw visitors -- How to advertise on the web -- Knowing how much to budget -- Understanding e-mail etiquette -- 11. Making a positive impression on low-cost ways -- Making the most of word of mouth -- Using publicity to your advantage -- Premiums : the most abused and misused medium -- 12. Leveraging face-to-face marketing opportunities -- Harnessing the power of face-to-face marketing -- Sponsoring a special event -- Putting on your own public event -- Exhibiting at trade shows and exhibitions -- 13. Going direct with your marketing -- Beating the odds with direct marketing -- Making your direct-response ads work -- Delivering direct mail -- Establishing and running a call center -- Drumming up business by phone -- Telemarketing.pt. V. Selling great products to anyone, anytime, anywhere -- 14. Making your brand stand out -- Burning your brand into your customers' minds -- Coming up with a brand name -- Designing a product line -- Strengthening an existing product -- Identifying when and how to introduce a new product -- When to upgrade an existing product -- 15. Finding the right pricing approach -- Eyeing pricing opportunities and constraints -- Setting or changing your list price -- Designing special offers -- Staying out of trouble with the Law -- 16. Distributing your product where your customers are -- Taking a strategic approach -- Tracking down ideal distributors -- Understanding channel structure -- Reviewing retail strategies and tactics -- Stimulating sales at point of purchase -- 17. Succeeding in sales and service -- Knowing when to emphasize personal selling -- Taking stock of you sales skills -- Making the sale -- Organizing your sales force -- Compensating your sales force -- Retaining customers through great service.pt. VI. The part of tens -- 18. Ten common marketing mistakes -- 19. Ten tips for boosting web sales.Whether it's boosting your baseline marketing skills, figuring out social media, or developing a comprehensive web-marketing strategy, this guide has everything you need to enter a new-- and successful-- phase of marketing your business.

Subjects: Marketing; Marketing.;

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Surviving schizophrenia : a manual for families, patients, and providers / by Torrey, E. Fuller(Edwin Fuller),1937-(CARDINAL)124130;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-520) and index.1. The inner world of madness : view from the inside -- Alterations of the senses -- Inability to interpret and respond -- Delusions and hallucinations -- Altered sense of self -- Changes in emotions -- Changes in movements -- Changes in behavior -- Decreased awareness of illness -- The black-red disease -- Recommended further reading -- 2. Defining schizophrenia : view from the outside -- Official criteria for diagnosis -- Subtypes of schizophrenia -- Delusional disorders -- Schizotypal, schizoid, paranoid, and borderline personality disorders -- Schizoaffective disorder and manic-depressive illness -- "Manicdephrenia" -- Recommended further reading -- 3. Conditions sometimes confused with schizophrenia -- A "split personality" -- Psychosis caused by street drugs -- Psychosis caused by prescription drugs -- Psychosis caused by other diseases -- Psychosis caused by head trauma -- Psychosis with mental retardation -- Infantile autism -- Antisocial personality disorders and sexual predators -- Culturally sanctioned psychotic behavior -- Recommended further reading -- 4. Onset, course, and prognosis -- Childhood precursors -- Onset and early symptoms -- Childhood schizophrenia -- Postpartum schizophrenia -- Late-onset schizophrenia -- Predictors of outcome -- Male-female differences -- Possible courses : ten years later -- Possible courses : thirty years later -- The "recovery model" -- Causes of death : why do people with schizophrenia die at a younger age? -- Recommended further reading --12. Commonly asked questions -- Does schizophrenia change the underlying personality? -- Are people with schizophrenia responsible for their behavior? -- Does schizophrenia affect the person's IQ? -- Should people with schizophrenia drive vehicles? -- How do religious issues affect people with schizophrenia? -- Should you tell people that you have schizophrenia? -- Genetic counseling : what are the chances of getting schizophrenia? -- Why do some adopted children develop schizophrenia? -- What will happen when the parents die? -- Recommended further reading -- 13. Schizophrenia in the public eye -- Schizophrenia in the movies -- Schizophrenia in literature -- Schizophrenia, creativity, and famous people -- The problem of stigma -- Recommended further reading -- 14. Dimensions of the disaster -- How many people have schizophrenia in the United States? -- Where are they? -- Do some groups have more schizophrenia than others? -- Is schizophrenia increasing or decreasing? -- Is schizophrenia of recent origin? -- Deinstitutionalization : a cradle for catastrophe -- What is the cost of schizophrenia? -- Recommended further reading -- 15. Issues for advocates -- Congress, state government, and the politics of neglect -- Scientologists, anti-psychiatrists, and "consumer survivors" -- NIMH and research funding -- Educating the public -- Decreasing stigma -- Improving services -- How to organize for advocacy -- Recommended further reading -- Appendix A. An annotated list of the best and the worst books on schizophrenia -- Appendix B. Useful Web sites on schizophrenia / Judy Miller -- Appendix C. Other useful resources on schizophrenia.5. Research findings on the causes of schizophrenia -- The normal brain -- The brain with schizophrenia -- The disease if familial -- There may be neurochemical changes -- There are structural and neuropathological changes -- There are neuropsychological deficits -- There are neurological abnormalities -- There are electrical abnormalities -- There are immunological and inflammatory abnormalities -- Individuals with schizophrenia are born disproportionately in the winer and spring -- Individuals with schizophrenia are born and/or raised disproportionately in urban areas -- Other abnormalities : pregnancy and birth complications, minor physical anomalies, and an absence of rheumatoid arthritis -- What parts of the brain are affected? -- When does the brain damage begin? -- Recommended further reading -- 6. Theories about the causes of schizophrenia -- Genetic theories -- Neurochemical theories -- Developmental theories -- Infectious and immune theories -- Nutritional theories -- Endocrine theories -- Stress theories -- Obsolete theories -- Masturbation and demons -- Bad mothers -- Bad families -- Bad cultures -- Thomas Szasz -- Ronald Laing -- recommended further reading -- 7. The treatment of schizophrenia : non-medication aspects -- How to find a good doctor -- What is an adequate diagnostic workup? -- Hospitalization : voluntary and involuntary -- Alternatives to hospitalization -- Payment for treatment and insurance parity -- Outpatient treatment and managed care -- Services for children -- Services in rural areas -- Counseling, or supportive "psychotherapy" -- Insight-oriented psychotherapy -- Cognitive behavioral therapy -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) -- Dietary treatments -- Herbal treatments -- Experimental treatments : TMS and VNS -- Recommended further reading --8. The treatment of schizophrenia : medications -- First-generation antipsychotics -- Adverse effects -- Second-generation antipsychotics -- Adverse effects -- Clozapine (Clozaril, Leponex) -- Olanzapine (Zyprexa) -- Risperidone (Risperdal) -- Quetiapine (Seroquel) -- Ziprasidone (Geodon) -- Aripiprazole (Abilify) -- Which antipsychotic should you try? : the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on prescribing patterns -- Which antipsychotic should you try? : the bottom line -- Interactions of antipsychotics with other medications -- Other drugs to try if antipsychotics fail -- New medications on the horizon -- Drug prices and the use of generics -- Medications for early treatment or prevention -- The medication-savvy consumer and family -- Recommended further reading -- 9. The rehabilitation of schizophrenia -- Money and food -- Housing -- Employment -- Friendship and social skills training -- Medical and dental care -- Quality of life measures -- The need for asylum -- Recommended further reading -- 10. Ten major problems -- Cigarettes and coffee -- Alcohol and street drugs -- Sex, pregnancy, and AIDS -- Victimization -- Confidentiality -- Medication noncompliance -- Assisted treatment -- Assaultive and violent behavior -- Arrest and jail -- Suicide -- Recommended further reading -- 11. How can patients and families survive schizophrenia? -- The right attitude -- The importance of education -- Survival strategies for patients -- Survival strategies for families -- Effects of schizophrenia on siblings, children, and spouses -- Minimizing relapses -- Recommended further reading --

Subjects: Schizophrenia;

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The United States government Internet directory, 2014. by Hattis, Shana Hertz.(CARDINAL)611290;

Description based on: 2010; title from title page.Latest issue consulted: 2013.

Subjects: Directories.; Internet addresses; Electronic government information; Government Web sites;

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