Organized by season, this collection contains an entire year of storytime programs for librarians to use with children ranging from infants to toddlers, book discussion programs for elementary student
Drawn from the database Guide to Reference, this bibliography presents an annotated list of print and electronic biomedical and health-related reference sources, including internet resources and digit
Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age is concerned with the study of the preservation of culture--both the culture itself and the objects that carry information. Whil
This guide to library disaster planning, response, and recovery uses a model that focuses on continuity of core resources and services while enhancing the library's role through partnerships with emer
The Coretta Scott King Book Award is given each year to African American authors and illustrators of works for children and young adults. Intended as a guide for use in the classroom, this book featur
The authors propose a concept of metaliteracy that expands the scope of traditional information literacy skills to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digi
In this guide, the authors demonstrate how to plan and teach a one-shot library instruction session that shows college students how to find, evaluate, and use information. Focusing on the student expe
Reidsma explains how to design a library web site that can provide the same information to users with very different sizes and shapes of screen, from desktops to cell phones. Such a responsive design
Lehman, a school librarian, and other librarians and educators from the US explain how to use primary sources from the Library of Congress to teach history and historical inquiry skills to K-12 studen
This book describes how to address issues related to people and records management in organizations using the concept of information culture as the basis for developing and promoting recordkeeping pra
Shaia, a children's librarian, provides programming ideas for after-school clubs meant to encourage reading in children from kindergarten to sixth grade. The ideas focus on the themes of math, fairy t
This guide outlines the basic principles of WordPress and how to use it for a library website. It discusses the software and its benefits and drawbacks, its competitors, website planning, themes, crea
Del Negro describes her on-the-job epiphany as a librarian and offers practical advice to other librarians, teachers, and storytellers, and anyone promoting storytelling. She spotlights the story to e
Dando, a library information services educational specialist for a public school district and former teacher and librarian, illustrates the use of data to advocate for school and public libraries. She
Well-written and covering a broad range of topics in a useful in-depth manner, this guide to library training deals with topics ranging from making training interesting for both staff and users, to th
Ragains, the business and government librarian at the U. of Nevada, Reno, and other library instructors from US universities show academic librarians how to teach information literacy. In 20 chapters,
A guide to technology used in libraries and information centers covers such topics as security, buying decisions, RSS, blogs, open source, and podcasting.
Storytime experiences help children develop school-readiness and preliteracy skills. Art and craft activities appropriate for toddler skill sets are hard to find. With this book, Hopkins helps busy li
Libraries have an incredible role in helping children develop a lifelong enjoyment of learning. This guide shows how Carroll County (Maryland) Public Library developed a program to train adults in pro
Poe (professor of children's and young adult literature) explains how to implement a children's literature readers theatre, which can adapted for all age levels. This book offers suggestions for teach
From the authors of the enormously popular Hipster Librarian’s Guide to Teen Craft Projects comes an all-new selection of innovative ideas. These projects have been chosen especially to engage tweens
With this workbook containing 52 weekly modules, Hakala-Ausperk, the director of a library system in Ohio who teaches library and information science at Kent State U., shows library leaders how to bui
Offered as both a self-guided tour of historical fiction and as a reference, Baker focuses on the aspects of historical fiction that draw readers in and how we can identify them quickly enough to make
Looks at how to share poetry with children ages five to twelve, describing popular and classic poets, poets from diverse cultures, important poets with lists of their websites, and types of poetry col
Academic and public libraries are much different today than they were even 15 years ago. And with even bigger changes on the horizon, what lies in store? In this systematic attempt to speak to academ
The vast array of social media options present a challenge to today’s busy librarians: it’s tough to keep current, let alone formulate a plan for using these tools effectively. Solomon, a librarian wi
Ernst, a children's librarian focusing on library services and programming for very young children, offers a manual for stimulating literacy development in children ages 12 to 24 months using rhymes,
Part of the ALA series designed to provide resources and support to library reader advisers, this second edition has been updated to reflect the current trends in horror fiction including vampire fict
Children's author Reid provides programming and book ideas to keep preschool and elementary kids' attention by making them laugh. He presents 10 humor story programs and describes books to go with the
Emphasizing the importance of having collection development policies in place to deal with challenges, Pinnell-Stephens (the Office of Intellectual Freedom) provides guidance on policies related to ar
Morris (information science and technology, Drexel U.) provides readers' advisory librarians with a guide to urban fiction that helps them gain an understanding of the genre as professionals and reade
Small, Arnone, and Berger (all School Media Program, Syracuse U.), join with Stripling (New York City Dept. of Education) to provide current and future librarians a practical a guide to their instruct
How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that ques
MacMillan, a freelance writer, and Kirker, a children's librarian, offer theme-based lessons for librarians and classroom teachers to use to build literacy and library skills in kindergarten students.
Lavender (information studies and cultural heritage preservation, Syracuse U.) shows librarians, archivists, and other book collectors how to make an archivally sound repair to a damaged book with lit
Puckett, a communication librarian at Georgia State U., provides a guide for researchers, librarians, and teachers to Zotero, a free reference manager program that allows researchers to save reference
The organization of this text/resource for reference librarians and students follows the syllabus of a typical LIS course, covering key concepts, resources, search techniques, and managerial tasks of
VanDuinkerken and Mosley (cataloging records support and collection support services, Texas A&M U.) show library managers how to lead staff through change, including how to engage employees and co
In this sequel to the book that "takes teen services to a new level" (Adolescence), YA experts Amy J. Alessio And Kimberly A. Patton present entirely new content while building on their previously suc
