This "how-to" manual is a thorough compilation of essays detailing the start-up, maintenance, management, and evaluation of mobile, public library outreach services, promising to become the "bible" o
Award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas offers a primer on how to tell a spooky story, with 25 tales organized by age appropriateness and tips on how to effectively tell each tale.
Organized alphabetically by author name and series title, this detailed guide offers readers a one-stop reference and resource to approximately 700 supernatural and speculative mysteries, with most (
This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture.
Designed to aid novice and experienced serials catalogers, this resource compiles selected notes to be used as examples in constructing notes for serial bibliographic records. Notes have been selected
Sharron L. McElmeel offers another winner--a new way to fire up interest in science, history, and other areas of the curriculum with students in grades 4-12.
More Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Adventures with Mythical Creatures will put imaginations to work to foster creativity and build reading skills.
Here is a practical handbook for school librarians who seek to create an active, energetic, and imaginative school environment with literacy as its focus.
Popular authors and presenters, Pat Messner and Brenda Copeland provide worksheets, reproducible patterns and related reading based activities linked to school curriculums to get students interested
This book provides assistance to new faculty members by offering a structured platform introducing a model for teaching and assessing student learning in applied LIS courses while providing strengths
Busy teacher-librarians will no longer have to sink or swim on their own-this book will allow them to dive into managed independent work stations, literacy stations, collaborative units, and many oth
Looking for the perfect bunny rhyme to add to your story hour program? Or a song about ducks? Or maybe you just need all the words or music to "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." This versat
Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. Many universities and colleges, however, now have a new or renewed
Using proven methods, the author offers a guide to raising funds for library projects ranging from simple book sales through the construction of a new building.
Want to add some pizzazz to your booktalks and motivate young readers? Here are simple but powerful ideas and instructions for integrating technology into your presentations, and using booktalks to l
This book looks broadly at the many arenas in which librarians face ethical choices and helps practitioners identify an ethical dilemma and provide guidance on how to respond, how to separate persona
Expand fairy tale programs, activities, and units with this lively guide to fractured, altered and otherwise retold classic favorites for K-5 students.
Provides practical advice to library media specialists and supplementary reading to complement the ALA Intellectual Freedom Manual for library and information studies programs.
The high school librarian has a unique opportunity and responsibility 1) to serve all the students including the forgotten half, those who if they finish high school, are unlikely to go beyond commun
The abundance of formats available today provides a rich learning environment but also poses challenges to librarians, teachers, and parents. This new volume in the respected Best Books series guides
Each story is chosen for its risk and danger quotient and the heroic qualities displayed by the main character to appeal especially to the adventure seekers in your library or classroom.
Digital stories are brief multi-modal digital videos, which libraries can use to engage their staff members with one another, to market library services and collections, to attract donors, and most im
Learn how to use proven retail techniques to promote your library collection, elevate your library's image, draw patrons to your space, encourage them to browse and find new materials, enhance their
Students are asked to create poems, games, quizzes and other products in lieu of traditional written reports in this new book of ideas keyed to standards in writing, reading comprehension and informa
Looking for books guaranteed to grab the attention and interest of boys? Dip into this guide for a wealth of ideas. This book is designed to help librarians, teachers, and parents find fiction and no
This guide to approximately 1,000 fantasy titles helps you advise fantasy readers, find fantasy read-alikes, and learn more about the genre and its fans.
This fourth volume of the series, Using Picture Story Books to Teach Literary Devices, gives teachers and librarians the perfect tool to teach literary devices in grades K-12.
Wallace links current and historical works to the development of knowledge management concepts across domains and disciplines, demystifying this area of increasing intellectual import.
This subject-based, information-packed selection guide helps you find the best fiction and nonfiction to encourage independent reading skills in children ages 4 to 7.
Targeted for elementary teachers, librarians, and drama teachers, Handmade Tales offers more than 25 original tales from around the world that use hands as an active way to tell the stories. Dianne d
