Summary: Preparing meals that meet the individual requirements of elderly people is a challenge, especially when patients or clients can no longer look after themselves. This program provides senior-care trainees and specialists with helpful diet information and strategies for getting older people to eat properly. Topics include basic and specific nutritional needs, portion sizes, appropriate meal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Effective employee communication is vitally important in every area of health service delivery and care. This program, filmed with a focus on the aged-care environment, covers verbal and nonverbal communication, formal and informal communication, conflict resolution and negotiation, and staff-to-staff and staff-to-management communication. A valuable training and professional development resource.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Effective communication with elderly people living in residential care is key to the delivery of high-quality treatment that not only meets the physical needs of patients, but also their mental, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. This program examines the basic elements of communication and how they can be adapted to older people who are living with hearing, vision, speech, and cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Assisting elderly patients and aged-care facility residents to address their incontinence issues both effectively and with sensitivity is crucial to helping them maintain their dignity and independence. A thorough introduction to the subject of incontinence, this program discusses the four types-stress and urge, functional, overflow and enuresis, and fecal-while offering strategies for managing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: After an overview of skin anatomy and physiology, this program describes the techniques necessary for making accurate assessments of elderly patients with new or ongoing skin conditions. The video also defines specialized terminology and suggests post-assessment courses of action. An intelligent and accessible look at the fundamentals of skin care for senior citizens.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Balancing practical know-how with medical theory, this program examines the needs of patients with dementia and explores a range of fulfilling activities that foster self-worth and belonging. After an insightful look at dementia and its symptoms, the video illustrates both one-on-one and group activities and identifies which recreational pursuits are best suited to a particular level of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Briggs, Patricia.
Summary: After years at the bottom of the pack, Anna has learned never to trust dominant males, until Charles Cornick, the enforcer and leader of the North American werewolves, declares her his mate, revealing her destiny as an Omega wolf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BriggCalandrelli, Emily
Summary: Nina is beside herself with excitement about meeting her favorite artist and enlists Ada and Mr. Peebles’s coding-whiz nephew to help revamp her online portfolio. When Nina finally meets Miroir, he snubs her, and her confidence is shaken—but not enough to miss the art show opening. While there, Ada spots a suspiciously familiar painting that may mean Miroir isn’t the original he claims to be....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Calandrelli 2019Calandrelli, Emily
Summary: Eight-year-old Ada Lace is determined to win the robot-building competition but is struggling with her art class so she soon wonders if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Calandrelli 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CALCalandrelli, Emily
Summary: "Eight-year-old Ada, who has a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries, teams up with her best friend, Nina, to find a missing dog."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Calandrelli 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CALCalandrelli, Emily
Summary: Eight-year-old Ada uses new skills she learned from Milton to see if he sabotaged the social studies project Nina and the two of them worked on together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Calandrelli 2018LaHaye, Tim F.
Summary: Joshua Jordan, former U.S. spy-plane hero turned weapons designer, creates the world's most sophisticated missile defense system, a laser shield code-named Return-to-Sender. Even as Jordan hopes to secure America against a brazen array of new enemies, he finds himself trapped between international as well as domestic assailants. Global forces conspire to steal the defense weapon even as U.S....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHKemp, Thomas Jay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Research Co. 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3746 Kemp,Brimner, Larry Dane
Summary: Ace builds her own skateboard, but it takes a lot of practice (and some falls) to learn to skate well--and then she builds a ramp and takes it to the park to skate with her new skateboarding friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BRIMiller, Olga K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Research Co. 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 MilleCalloway, Cab
Contents: I got a girl named Netty -- This is always / Warren-Gordon -- Jealous / Nalie-Finch -- A blue serge suit -- One o'clock jump / C. Basie -- Frantic in the Atlantic -- Jumpin' jive / Calloway-Frobea-Palmer -- Airmail stomp / Bandul-Haggart -- Crusin' with Cab -- You got it / J. Ragovou -- That old black magic / Arlen-Mercer -- Everybody eats when they come to my house / Calloway -- The duck trot.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prism Leisure 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Calloway 1987LaHaye, Tim F.
Summary: Set in the near future, describes the events that lead up to the Apocalypse which were prophesized in the book of Revelation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: Ace gets her mountain bike ready for the big bike race, but during the race Ace's bike chain comes off the sprocket, and a tire goes flat--luckily she has her tools with her to fix the problem so she can finish the race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: On a distant planet the inhabitants pray to a god, unaware it is only a computer programmed to respond to hymns. When free thinkers publicize this, the planet's rulers try to silence them and a conflict erupts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHISummary: The origins of the Book of Kells are uncertain; it was written and illustrated around the year 800, but the monastery where it originated has not been identified. It contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, with some pages in elaborate color; almost every page has brightly-colored birds and animals, and there are portraits of the four evangelists. This program not only shows but identifies...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Green, Grant.
Contents: Ease back (5:43) -- Hurt so bad (6:45) -- I don't want nobody to give me nothing (Open up the door I'll get it myself) (6:07) -- Upshot (9:58) -- Cease the bombing (8:50).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GREBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: Ace has built her own go-kart, but when she is ready for a test run it will not start, and she has to figure out what part is missing--and then in the middle of the race something else goes wrong.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BRIGreatshell, Walter.
Summary: After Maddy Grant suffers brain damage in an accident, scientists at the Braintree Institute decide to use a new technology to repair the injury. But repairing Maddy's brain isn't the only thing they want to do; they plan on reprogramming her personality, turning her into a killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011