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Describes a four-step process for creating a comprehensive information literacy plan for libraries, outlining the preliminary steps, offering advice on how to prepare the writing group for its task, discussing the key points of the document, and covering assessment, maintenance, and promotion. Includes support material, model plans, and a CD-ROM.

"Hare and Dillon walk educators through a series of questions and ideas on how learning spaces can support collaboration, creation, showcasing learning, and a learner's need for quiet. In addition to nudging thinking forward, Space provides practical design tips and uses images and testimonials for hacking learning spaces on a realistic budget. This book is designed to motivate, grow capacity, and energize educators to begin shifting their learning spaces to support modern learning for all students"--Amazon.com.

Change the course of your retirement and cut through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly.

Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from engagement to walking down the aisle, to honeymoon and beyond, The Best Party of Our Lives invites readers to reflect on what makes their own relationships unique, and the significance of public celebrations of love. With chapters each focusing on a different couple's love story, the challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, the book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the changing face of marriage.

Walks educators through the process of designing spaces to accommodate new modes of learning.

The kids in this book are all growing gardens. They need math to measure and build garden beds, calculate growing seasons, figure out the right greenhouse temperatures, and compare the costs of growing and selling their own produce.

Presents viewpoints about transportation infrastructure that is selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications.

"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall-ridden suburbs of today. Ross finds that sprawl is much more than bad architecture and sloppy planning. Its roots are historical, sociological, and economic. He uses these insights to lay out a practical strategy for change, honed by his experience leading the largest grass-roots mass transit advocacy organization in the United States. The problems of smart growth, sustainability, transportation, and affordable housing, he argues, are intertwined and must be solved as a whole. The two keys to creating better places to live are expansion of rail transit and a more genuinely democratic oversight of land use. Dead End is, ultimately, about the places where we live our lives. Both an engaging history of suburbia and an invaluable guide for today's urbanists, it will serve as a primer for anyone interested in how Americans actually live"--.

Presents the summary and recomendations of the "Commitee on NASA's Strategic Direction" on the future of space exploration.