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Image one: E-book titled How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals:(2016) - synopsis: Using plain, intelligible language, this book outlines the basic principles of breaking bad news and presents a technique, or protocol, that can be easily learned. It draws on listening and interviewing skills that consider such factors as: how much the patient knows and/or wants to know; how to identify the patient’s agenda and understanding; and how to respond to his or her feelings about the information. Also discusses reactions of family and friends and of other members of the health care team.
Image two: E-book titled Careers in Health Information Technology (2015) - synopsis: Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them. Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field. The book offers guidance for students in higher education and currently employed individuals looking for mid-career opportunities. It includes a description of educational requirements for success in the HIT field and major themes of the HIT workforce such as informatics, provider-based jobs, vendor, government, and payer-based employment.
Image one: E-book titled Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers, and Gig Workers of All Types (2019) - synopsis: The all-in-one legal and tax resource every independent contractor and gig worker needs. Whether you’re starting a full-scale consulting business or booking gigs on the side, Working for Yourself provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place. This excellent, well-organized reference will also show you how to: decide the best form for your business (sole proprietor, LLC, or other); make sure you’re paid in full and on time; pay estimated taxes and avoid trouble with the IRS; take advantage of all available tax deductions; keep accurate records in case you get audited; and write legally binding contracts and letter agreements.
Image two: E-book titled Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide (2019) - synopsis: This book put together all the possible information with regards to cybersecurity, why you should choose it, the need for cybersecurity, and how you can be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit. Starting with the essential understanding of security and its needs, we will move to the security domain changes and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to secure systems. Later, this book will walk you through all the skills and tools that everyone who wants to work as a security personal needs to be aware of. Then, this book will teach readers how to think like an attacker and explore some advanced security methodologies.
Image one: E-book titled The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management (2017) - synopsis: This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in which information professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to help demonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areas of employment and career development, ripe for applying the Information Services skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with common themes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to the information management landscape.
Image two: E-book titled Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work (2019) - synopsis: Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist.
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First Generation Club and McNair Scholars Program presents
UNT Dallas Library Sessions with librarian Robert Taylor
1. How to develop a research strategy - 1/27/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
2. How to Google like a scholar - 2/3/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
3. What's new at the library - 2/10/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
Zoom ID (for each session): 83148094734
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Image one: E-book titled Saving the Earth as a Career: Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional (2016) - synopsis: Explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: is this the right career for you?; Designing a program of study; Designing and executing a project; Attending conferences and making presentations; Writing papers; Finding a job; and Making a difference.
Image two: E-book titled The Emerald Handbook of Information Management (2017) - synopsis: This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in which information professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to help demonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areas of employment and career development, ripe for applying the Information Services skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with common themes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to the IM landscape.
Image one: Career Development Month
Image two description: E-book titled Beginner's Guide to Journalism and Mass Communication (2013) - synopsis: This guide introduces basic tools of the applied journalism in simple language. It provides step-by-step instructions to develop skills in the field. Any person interested in journalism, mass communication and in public relations will find this book very interesting, informative and useful. It could even motivate you to contribute articles and features to newspapers and magazines as a freelance writer.
Image three description: Careers in Health Information Technology (2015) - synopsis: Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them!Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT) and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field. The book offers guidance for students in higher education and currently employed individuals looking for mid-career opportunities. It includes a description of educational requirements for success in the HIT field and major themes of the HIT workforce such as informatics, provider-based jobs, vendor, government, and payer-based employment.
Image one: E-book titled Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures (2012) - synopsis: Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, OC Hack, OCO contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, OC Game, OCO they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, OC Jam, OCO considers the role of error as both an inherent OC counter strategy OCO and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society.
Image two: E-book titled Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater (2012) - synopsis: The Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater covers history from 1887 to the present, in a chronology, and a dictionary with over 600 substantial and cross-referenced entries on authors, books, and genres as well as more general ones describing the historical background, cultural features, techniques and major theatres and clubs.
