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Group Theory
READS
Famous Tennessee Authors
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TN Library Facts
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The stage in which the team start to form. Includes feelings and behaviors of excitement, anticipation and optimism.
What is Forming?
100
A new collection category in READS.
What is Streaming Videos?
100
Though not born in Tennessee, she calls Tennessee home and is owner of Parnassus books. Bel Canto is just one of her many award winning books.
Who is Ann Patchett?
100
An enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.
What is an ILS or Integrated Library System.
100
The only library in Van Buren County.
What is Burritt Memorial Library?
200
This level is where the team begins to accomplish tasks and is given new projects. Not every team makes it to this phase.
What is Performing?
200
A new service from READS with News and Reviews.
What is READS Newsletter?
200
He wrote the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Who is Alex Haley?
200
A mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals.
What is an E-reader?
200
The library with the highest amount of visitors in 2013.
What is Nashville Public Library?
300
Not every group moves through this phase. But personal relationships formed often continue long after this phase is over. Habitat for Humanity and PLMI are examples of groups that go through this bittersweet phase.
What is Adjourning?
300
A program which allows libraries to add additional copies of popular titles that are exclusively available for their patrons.
What is the Advantage Program?
300
In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible.
Who is Sequoyah?
300
a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access. A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval by a computer.
What is a database?
300
A library with an Official Service Area Population less than 5,000.
What is a Level 1 Library?
400
This phase requires management to coach people and clearly define goals. It is the phase that makes or breaks a team.
What is Storming?
400
A separate READS site to provide a safe and easy browsing experience for kids.
What is the Children's eReading Room?
400
Wrote the national bestseller Memoirs of a Geisha.
Who is Arthur Golden?
400
"a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items." In 2000, several libraries around the world announced their intent to integrate this technology into their library systems, pioneering its use for contemporary library functions.
What is RFID or Radio Frequency Technology?
400
Library situated across from the State Capitol.
What is the Tennessee State Library and Archives?
500
His book Conducting Educational Research has gone through five editions and his Theories and Applications of Educational Psychology is now in it’s third edition. Currently he directs the Academic Learning Lab at Ohio State University (from 1998). In the 70's he developed the group theory with five stages of development.
Who is Dr. Bruce Tuckman?
500
A program that provides timely eBook access to individuals with print disabilities.
What is the Library eBook Accessibility Program (LEAP)?
500
American comedy writer whose comedic works include The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Who is Jane Wagner?
500
A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models. Essential Characteristics: On-demand self-service. Broad network access. Resource pooling. consumer demand. Rapid elasticity. Measured service.
What is Cloud Computing?
500
The only two log cabin libraries in Tennessee.
What is Beersheba Springs Public Library and South Cheatham Public Library?