Search:

Results 91 to 100 of 108 | « previous |

Downtown Housing & the State of Buildings. [videorecording]
Moderator: Kevan Frazier (Proprietor of Asheville by Foot, Author of Legendary Locals of Asheville), Erin Derham (Asheville oral historian and film maker). Panelists: Becky Anderson (Asheville's 1st Director of Downtown Development, founding Director of Handmade in America), Peter Austin (Worked at the Market Place Restaurant, lived above Gatsby's bar), Larry Holt (former Project Director of Asheville Redevelopment Commission, former Executive Director of the Housing Authority), Karen Ramshaw (helped mother with Moveable Feast, Vice President for Public Interest Projects). Chris McGrayne was listed as a panelist in the promotional materials but was not at the presentation.Recorded at Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina, August 31, 2016."The expansion of housing in the Central Business District would come to be one of the key elements of Asheville's Renaissance. The tax credits these pioneers utilized saved many of downtown Asheville's architectural gems. Meanwhile, other older housing stock was being taken down displacing many long-time residents. Learn about this important physical and cultural transformation of downtown Asheville in the 1980s."--Back cover and promotional poster.Panelists and other speakers discussed the following topics: Affordable housing, rental housing, new housing units, zoning, barriers of living downtown including housing discrimination, opportunities for those living downtown, history of Asheville growth, malls, parking, traffic, the Asheville Renaissance, Asheville downtown redevelopment, urban renewal, tax credits for housing projects, infrastructure including I-240, the East Riverside Project, Pack Plaza, Haywood Wall Street Redevelopment Project, Eagle Street Project, and Downtown Asheville Residential Neighbors. Key figures in downtown development such as David Brown, John Lantzius, Roger McGuire and Don Martell were discussed as well as several important buildings including the Battery Park Hotel, J.C. Penney's, T.S. Morrison Hardware, and the BB&T building.Also available online at the Pack Memorial Library North Carolina Room blog.Sponsored by The Friends of the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina.DVD.Title from title screen (viewed January 21, 2017).
Subjects: Video recordings.; Architecture; Buildings; Business enterprises; Central business districts; City planning; Historic buildings; Historic districts; Historic sites; Housing development; Housing policy; Housing; Land use; Retail trade; Urban renewal; Zoning;

Managing information technology : a handbook for systems librarians / by Ingersoll, Patricia.(CARDINAL)280881; Culshaw, John,1964-(CARDINAL)281214;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Academic libraries; Systems librarians; Academic libraries; Academic libraries;

Careers in writing & editing.
Includes biliographical references and index.Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- Working in a Gig Economy -- Industry profiles: Advertising and Marketing Industry -- Higher Education Industry -- Internet and Cyber Communications Industry -- Legal Services and Law Firms -- Libraries and Archives Industry -- Motion Picture and Television Industry -- Museums and Cultural Institutions Industry -- Music Industry -- Philanthropic, Charitable, Religious, Civic, and Grant-Making Industry -- Public Elementary and Secondary Education Industry -- Publishing and Information Industry -- Theater and Performing Arts Industry -- Video, Computer, and Virtual Reality Games Industry -- Career Profiles: Advertising, Promotions, and Marketing Managers -- Archivists, Curators, and Museum Workers -- Clergy -- Copywriters -- Court Reporters -- Dancers and Choreographers -- Editors -- Film and Video Editors and Camera Operators -- Grant Writers -- Graphic Designers -- Historians -- Interpreters and Translators -- Journalists -- Judges and Hearing Officers -- Lawyers -- Librarians -- Multimedia Artists and Animators -- Music Directors and Composers -- Paralegal and Legal Assistants -- Postsecondary Teachers -- Producers and Directors -- Public Relations Specialists -- Radio and Television Broadcasters -- Social Media Specialists -- Software Developers -- Technical Writers -- Writers and Editors -- Appendix A: Holland Code -- Appendix B: General Bibliography -- Appendix C: Web Resources -- Index.
Subjects: Authorship; Editing; Computer programming;

Information hunters : when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe / by Peiss, Kathy Lee,author.(CARDINAL)754374;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index.The country of the mind must also attack -- Librarians and collectors go to war -- The wild scramble for documents -- Acquisitions on a grand scale -- Fugitive records of war -- Book burning, American style -- Not a library, but a large depot of loot."Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They traveled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gathered together countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, and participated in the denazification of book collections. Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked on these missions, and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin, and in German caves and mineshafts. The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus of national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. These efforts also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries' ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually."--
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services.; Library of Congress Mission to Germany.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Books; Intelligence service; Acquisitions (Libraries); Cultural property; Librarians; World War, 1939-1945;

Performance testing for Superpave and structural validation / by Gibson, Nelson,author.; Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center,issuing body.(CARDINAL)286897;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253).Final report;The primary objective of this full-scale accelerated pavement testing was to evaluate the performance of unmodified and polymer modified asphalt binders and to recommend improved specification tests over existing SUperior PERforming Asphalt PAVEment (Superpave®) binder performance grading methodologies. Candidate replacement tests were evaluated via their ability to discern fatigue cracking resistance and rutting. Two fatigue cracking specification tests were identified as more capable in capturing performance than others: binder yield energy and critical tip opening displacement. Two rutting specification tests that quantify irrecoverable deformations exhibited the best strength to capture rutting: multiple stress creep and recovery and oscillatory-based nonrecoverable stiffness. Based on the full-scale performance and laboratory tests, crumb rubber (recycled tires) modified asphalt (Arizona wet process) was shown to significantly slow or stop the growth of fatigue cracks in a composite asphalt pavement structure. A hybrid technique to modify asphalt with a combination of crumb rubber and conventional polymers (terminally blended) exhibited good fatigue cracking resistance relative to the control binder. Also, a simple addition of polyester fibers to asphalt mix was shown to have high resistance to fatigue cracking without the use of polymer modification. The research study also quantified the capabilities of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program's mechanistic-empirical pavement design and analysis methodologies to predict rutting and fatigue cracking of modified asphalts that were not captured in the calibration data from the Long-Term Pavement Performance program. Falling weight deflectometer, multidepth deflectometer, and strain gauge instrumentation were used to measure pavement response. The results illustrated that the nationally calibrated mechanistic-empirical performance models could differentiate between structural asphalt thickness but had difficulty differentiating modified from unmodified asphalt binder performance. Nonetheless, the mechanistic-empirical performance ranking and predictions were enhanced and improved using mixture-specific performance tests currently being implemented using the asphalt mixture performance tester.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Binders (Materials); Pavements; Asphalt; Pavements, Flexible; Pavements; Pavements;

An introduction to The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck [sound recording] audio guide / by Stone, Dan.(CARDINAL)516422; Bradbury, Ray,1920-2012-spk(CARDINAL)148181; Gioia, Dana.nrt(CARDINAL)729808; Harris, Ed,1950-nrt(CARDINAL)318703; Inada, Lawson Fusao.spk(CARDINAL)724171; Parini, Jay.spk(CARDINAL)723438; Rodriguez, Richard.spk; Shillinglaw, Susan.spk(CARDINAL)355484; Starr, Kevin.spk(CARDINAL)156553; Steinbeck, Thomas.spk(CARDINAL)669678; Straight, Susan.spk(CARDINAL)358565; Wartzman, Rick.spk(CARDINAL)349164; Steinbeck, John,1902-1968.Grapes of wrath.Selections.; Arts Midwest (Organization : Minneapolis, Minn.)(CARDINAL)274228; Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)(CARDINAL)280052; National Endowment for the Arts.(CARDINAL)138252;
Radio program -- Bonus tracks: John Steinbeck describes his childhood to Eleanor Roosevelt -- Jay Parini on the self-education of John Steinbeck -- Ray Bradbury and Richard Rodriguez on the str]ucture of The Grapes of wrath -- Susan Shillinglaw on Steinbeck's love of music -- Lawson Inada on the diverse migrant experience in California -- Thom Steinbeck, Ed Harris, and Susan Shillinglaw on the power of Ma Joad -- Rick Wartzman on the negative reactions to The Grapes of wrath -- Thom Steinbeck on how his father made him a reader.Narrated by Dana Gioia ; readings by Ed Harris ; featuring Ray Bradbury, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jay Parini, Richard Rodriguez, Susan Shillinglaw, Kevin Starr, Thom Steinbeck, Susan Straight, and Rich Wartzman.Includes interviews, commentaries and excerpts from the novel, providing first-hand accounts of why The Grapes of Wrath remains so compelling seven decades after its initial publication. Teacher's guide contains ten lessons, each with a focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments. Also includes capstone projects, suggested essay topics, handouts with more background information, and bibliographical references. Lessons dovetail with state language arts standards required for fiction. Reader's guide includes interviews, book lists, time lines, and historical information.Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a poor family of sharecroppers who are driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry during the Great Depression.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.; Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968;

The complete guide to Google advertising : including tips, tricks, & strategies to create a winning advertising plan / by Brown, Bruce C.(Bruce Cameron),1965-(CARDINAL)477468;
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Google; Internet advertising; Internet marketing; Web search engines; Web sites;

Africa today. by Haines, C. Grove(Charles Grove),1906-1976.(CARDINAL)195274;
Bibliographical footnotes.1. The position of Africa in world affairs: Africa and the West in historical perspective / Sir Philip Mitchell ; commentary: David Edward Owen -- The African cultural background in the modern scene / Melville J. Herskovits ; commentary: Robert T. Parsons -- Africa's strategic significance / Admiral Richard L. Conolly ; commentary: Paul H. Nitze -- 2. The heritage of Africa: Native cultural and social patterns in contemporary Africa / Elizabeth Colson ; commentary: Robert A. Lystad -- The role of Christianity and Islam in contemporary Africa / George W. Carpenter ; commentary: Glora M. Wysner -- The European heritage: approaches to African development / Paul Henry ; commentary: Horace Mann Bond -- The impact of Western education on the African's way of life / Lorenzo D. Turner ; commentary: E. Franklin Frazier -- 3. Elements of political and social upheaval: Geography of sub-Saharan race relations / Edwin S. Munger ; commentary: William O. Brown -- Fears and pressures in the Union of South Africa / Cornelis E. De Kiewiet ; commentary: Arthur Keppel-Jones -- The emergence of African political parties / James S. Coleman ; commentary: Norman Steven-Hubbard -- The communist threat in Africa / Max Yergan ; commentary: Harold Cooper -- 4. Recent developments in the African dependencies: The Gold Coast and Nigeria on the road to self-government / Kofi A. Busia ; commentary: Harold Cooper -- French Africa and the French Union / Kenneth Robinson ; commentary: Rayford W. Logan -- Recent developments in Belgian Africa / Guy Malengreau ; commentary: William Ugeux -- The impact of the United Nations on Africa / Vernon McKay ; commentary: Sherman S. Hayden -- 5. The economic status and future possibilities of Africa: Africa's economic potentialities / Peter Ady ; commentary: Karl Pelzer -- Colonial development and welfare / A. Campbell ; commentary: William Hange -- U.S. technical and economic assistance to Africa / E. William Moran, Jr. ; commentary: David L. Gordon -- Private enterprise in Africa / Bernard Blankenheimer ; commentary: W. Clifford Shields -- 6. The United States and Africa: The United States and Africa: an American view / Paul H. Nitze -- The United States and Africa: an African view / Kofi A. Busia -- Appendix: Mau Mau / Sir Philip Mitchell.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Old State Library Collection.;

Proquest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2017 / by ProQuest (Firm)(CARDINAL)291866; United States.Bureau of the Census.(CARDINAL)171405; United States.Economics and Statistics Administration.(CARDINAL)275203;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population: -- Estimates and projection by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces: -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health And Nutrition: -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education: -- Overview: All levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- School crime and safety -- Libraries -- Section 5: Law Enforcement, Courts, And Prisons: -- Crimes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography And Environment: -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections: -- Voter registration and vote results -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State And Local Government Finances And Employment: -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal Government Finances And Employment: -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National Security And Veterans Affairs: -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower --Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social Insurance And Human Services: -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor Force, Employment, And Earnings: -- Labor force status -- Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, Expenditures, Poverty, And Wealth: -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices: -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business Enterprise: -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science And Technology: -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture: -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, Fishing, And Mining: -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy And Utilities: -- Energy production, consumption -- Energy expenditures and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction And Housing: -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures: -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and financeSince 1878, this publication has provided a statistical portrait of social, political, and economic conditions of the United States" and includes thousands of tables from hundreds of sources and valuable, detailed bibliographic documentation.
Subjects: Census data.; Statistics;

How to study / by Fry, Ronald W.(CARDINAL)770837;
Introduction -- How to start out right -- How to organize your studying -- How to read and remember -- How to organize your time -- How to excel in class -- How to conduct your research -- How to write terrific papers -- How to study for tests -- Epilogue -- Index.Book Description: The bestselling How to Study (Seventh Edition) reveals the study skills that all students need to know in order to be successful, whether the goal is landing a top scholarship or excelling in school. This edition includes information on how to create an effective work environment, stand out in class, use the library, conduct research online, and much more. Plus, author Ron Fry covers all the traditional elements of a winning study strategy, such as reading, writing, time-management, memory, and test-taking skills. How to Study (Seventh Edition) introduces a revolutionary study system, along with examples, that gives students the edge in any learning environment. About This Edition: Chapter Features: Chapter 1: How to Start Out Right-Starts by explaining individual study skills and clarifying how each can and should function; Chapter 2: How to Organize Your Studying-Teaches the importance of where, how, and when to study, and of building the study environment that's perfect for each person; Chapter 3: How to Read and Remember-Introduces the skills basic to any study process: reading and comprehension; Chapter 4: How to Organize Your Time-Introduces the simplest and easiest-to-use organizational and time management tools you'll ever find--powerful ways to make sure you are always on track; Chapter 5: How to Excel in Class-Teaches you how to get more out of lectures and take better notes, encourages active class participation, and gives pointers on how to overcome the tendency to be a back-of-the-room student; Chapter 6: How to Conduct Your Research-Introduces you to the two important resources in your study career: the library and internet. You'll learn how to build and flex your research muscles to get the information you need; Chapter 7: How to Write Terrific Papers-Introduces a remarkably easy way to take notes and organize information. Break down any paper into easy-to-follow steps; create infinitely better papers than before; Chapter 8: How to Study for Tests-Covers the dos and don'ts of test prep, including: the differences between studying for weekly quizzes, midterms, and final exams; why last-minute cramming doesn't work; studying for and taking different types of tests; how to increase your guessing scores; which questions to answer first and which to leave for last. Additional Features: Prepares students of all ages to excel in their classes by developing effective study skills; Written by an acknowledged authority and nationally known spokesperson for the improvement of public education; Provides a quick, easy-to-read style showing students essential skills that can be applied beyond classroom studies and later in life. Nobody is great at everything, but everyone is great at something. "How to Study" teaches you how to capitalize on your something by outlining study tips and encouraging good study habits. Also includes study tips for teaching/studying with young children; advice for fighting mid-study tiredness and boredom; tips for in-class learning, and more.
Subjects: Learning.; Study skills.; Writing.; Écriture.; Étude; Apprentissage.; Learning; Test Taking Skills; Writing;

Results 91 to 100 of 108 | « previous |