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The Cross And The Spade: Archaeology And The Discovery Of The Earliest Serra Chapels At The Royal Presidio Of Monterey, 1770-1772, Rubén Mendoza Jan 2013

The Cross And The Spade: Archaeology And The Discovery Of The Earliest Serra Chapels At The Royal Presidio Of Monterey, 1770-1772, Rubén Mendoza

SSGS Faculty Publications and Presentations

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A "Novel" Approach To Recreational Reading: Creating A Virtual Collection On A Shoestring, Sarah P C Dahlen, Steve G. Watkins Jan 2013

A "Novel" Approach To Recreational Reading: Creating A Virtual Collection On A Shoestring, Sarah P C Dahlen, Steve G. Watkins

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Reading for recreation has been tied to academic achievement and lifelong learning, but not all academic libraries have the capacity to offer a separate recreational reading collection for their users. A low/no-cost option is to create a virtual recreational reading collection that allows patrons to browse for print titles by genre or book cover, much as they would in a bookstore or physical collection. The authors recently implemented this solution at their institution by dynamically compiling records of existing titles belonging to genres that are often of interest to recreational readers. This article addresses the justification for investing staff time …