Communities and Connections: Volume 63 of Virginia Libraries

Digital libraries for creative communities

Digital library technologies have a great deal to offer to creative, design communities. They can enable large collections of text, images, music, video and other information object to be organized and accessed in interesting and diverse ways. Ordinary people – people not traditionally viewed as “creators” or “designers” – can now conceive, assemble, build, and disseminate new information colle...

Invisible Connections Dance , choreography and internet communities

n Service of Their Communities : Public Libraries

Introduction It is no doubt a truism to say that public libraries are societal institutions that genuinely mirror the society in which they have been set up. In spite of the fact that they are normally established and funded by the local communities, their activities reflect the broader policies of a particular society towards its citizens. The contemporary society in which public libraries act...

Building Communities: Social Networking for Academic Libraries

Now, we come to offer you the right catalogues of book to open. building communities social networking for academic libraries is one of the literary work in this world in suitable to be reading material. That's not only this book gives reference, but also it will show you the amazing benefits of reading a book. Developing your countless minds is needed; moreover you are kind of people with grea...

Created versus natural wetlands: Avian communities in Virginia salt marshes1

Permits to destroy wetlands often require the creation of the same type of wetland elsewhere. An assumption underlying this practice is that such created wetlands will replace the ecological functions lost when the developed wetland was destroyed. Part of this ecological function is providing habitat for wildlife, including, in coastal areas, a suite of bird species tied to salt marshes for som...