This book is based on a series of informative interviews with a number of music librarians working for different leading symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the world. In these interviews, librarians share with the readers what kind of professional skills, knowledge and personality that are required to supply music to the performers onstage, as well as information to these world-famous performing arts organizations.Interviewees also discuss in details about their pro...

This volume contains two Open Access ChaptersVolume 1 of the two part collection Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. Featuring interviews and conversations from over twenty orchestra, opera, and ballet librarians and archivists working for some of the world’s leading performing arts and educational instituti...

Literacy and Reading Programmes for Children and Young People: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents interviews with over 40 librarians from around the world who tell of their library programs. The volumes are arranged geographically with Volume 1 offering interviews from library professionals from the USA and Europe, and with Volume 2 sharing programs from Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.The volumes highlight the diversity of the types of programs cater...

Literacy and Reading Programmes for Children and Young People: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents interviews with over 40 librarians from around the world who tell of their library programs. The volumes are arranged geographically with Volume 1 offering interviews from library professionals from the USA and Europe, and with Volume 2 sharing programs from Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.The volumes highlight the diversity of the types of programs cater...

Volume 2 of the two part collection Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. Featuring interviews and conversations from over twenty orchestra, opera, and ballet librarians and archivists working for some of the world’s leading performing arts and educational institutions from Europe and Asia, this book is a helpful resource to librarian...

These volumes provide a series of informative interviews with school/teacher librarians practicing in different parts of the world. The 2-volume set showcases the resilience, creativity, and best practices from successful school librarians from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. The librarians interviewed come from all different schools and schools systems, from a tiny recently built school library in a rural village in Africa to an ultra-modern library in Sweden...

As a branch of International and Area Studies Librarianship (IASL), East Asian Librarianship has become increasingly important in an age of globalization as scholars engage in interdisciplinary research and study. Volume 2 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Chinese, Korean, and Asian American librarianship.East Asian Studies librarianship requires a variety of technical ...

As a branch of International and Area Studies Librarianship (IASL), East Asian Librarianship has become increasingly important in an age of globalization as scholars engage in interdisciplinary research and study. Volume 1 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Japanese and Korean librarianship.East Asian Studies librarianship requires a variety of technical skills, combinin...

Lo Stoicismo Oggi. Pratiche filosofiche per la vita quotidiana raccoglie saggi, testimonianze e riflessioni sulla filosofia praticata da Epitteto e Marco Aurelio. Una saggezza antica che ancora oggi può insegnarci a vivere con maggiore serenità d’animo le sfide e le avversità quotidiane. A parlarci dell’attualità delle pratiche filosofiche e di vita dello stoicismo sono autori con diverse esperienze e background culturali. Meditazione buddista, ricerca della mindfulness, ...

El derecho ambiental es una disciplina especialmente joven que ha ido introduciéndose de manera progresiva en nuestra sociedad hasta convertirse en una especialidad ineludible e influyente. De hecho, no existe discusión sobre crecimiento económico, promoción de las inversiones o conflictividad social que no incorpore de alguna manera la variable ambiental. Este libro, escrito por Patrick Wieland Fernandini, ofrece una mirada introductoria y general a esta disciplina, aunque no por ello men...

Molti praticanti del buddhismo trovano che la filosofia stoica, antica filosofia e stile di vita greco-romano, sia un utile contributo alla propria vita, affine a quello della propria via. Dall’altro lato, anche molti stoici moderni praticano la meditazione di ispirazione buddhista, e trovano sostegno nelle idee e pratiche da esso ispirate. In questa estesa riflessione, Patrick Ussher considera in che modo il buddhismo e lo stoicismo siano affini – entrambi filosofie altamente impegnate e ...

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated with producer Ski and a host of other contributors to create Uptown Saturday Night, featuring the seminal single “Luchini (a.k.a. This is It).” While other 1990s rappers referred to 1970s Blaxploitation culture, Camp Lo were self-descri...