This guide to more than 44 street-lit titles aids readers' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories
With schoolwork out of the way and many of their extracurricular activities on hold, summer is the perfect time for kids to enjoy the fun of reading or listening to stories. It's also the perfect tim
Baumann, who directs a translation company that works with corporations, non-profits, and government organizations, draws on her marketing experience and the ideas of library personnel to offer a guid
Public librarians are beginning to find that visits to their websites are exceeding visits to the physical library and that library users include both virtual and physical locations, depending on the
This book helps readers explore how public librarians have reinvented the ways they bring people and information together to meet 21st-century challenges.
The impact of the Internet and related technologies extends to library patrons, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. It affects public library funding, community expectations, and social
Used in library schools worldwide, this critically acclaimed standard text provides students with a thorough understanding of technical services. Updated and expanded, the eighth edition further emph
Having a robust metadata strategy for digital films and videos will enable the discovery, transport, and reuse of these materials across disparate repository and media management systems. What does t
This text contains convenient, ready-to-go booktalks for contemporary fiction and nonfiction books set in every continent around the globe, useful for teachers of grades three through nine.
This valuable reference work and readers' advisory tool lists, describes, and organizes, according to reading interests, contemporary picture books and easy readers that satisfy the interests of chil
Resilience is the quality that descibes the capacity of children to grow up successful, content, and competent even though they are faced with adversities like poverty, violence, illness, or neglect.
This groundbreaking guide shows library staff how to break through media and genre boundaries, make new connections within the library collection, and better serve patrons.
It's an often overlooked fact: Small four-year and community colleges are very differnt from larger institutions. The patrons' objectives and priorities are different and the monetary resources and s
This is a practical and useable reference for developing and evaluating school library programs that meet the needs of 21st century learners, teachers, and administrators.
This book provides an overview of leadership in library and information science (LIS), examines the findings of doctoral students in the Simmons program in Managerial Leadership in the Information Pr
While there are many books on leadership, there are none extant that focus on the key attributes of interpersonal communication and/or emotional intelligence for librarians. This book, throught expla
This guide provides librarians, teachers, counselors, and other education professionals a wide range of suggested reading from the "realistic-problem novel" subset of modern young-adult literature, o
Just as an automobile depends upon an engine to turn the wheels, a library needs an integrated library system (ILS) to move forward in its daily operations. Selecting an ILS is a major undertaking---
High School and Junior college Students are Often tasked with Writing research papers---assignments that are intended not only to generate Knowledge of the paper's topic, but also to build critical th
It's a sad reality: our world is threatened by myriad environmental problems. It's also likely that the generations that will be most affected by these issues are also the ones who hold the greatest
This is the most comprehensive textbook on school library administration available, now updated to include the latest standards and address new technologies.
This is the most comprehensive textbook on school library administration available, now updated to include the latest standards and address new technologies.
This text contains a comprehensive overview of library services for preschool children that provides simple, practical tips for working with the youngest library patrons, including computer usage.
Keeping a library program vital requires regular reflection about current practices and a willingness to implement changes that will position the library and library staff should they be threatened w
While the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is perhaps the best known bibliographic control system in existence, it is cumbersome and not always user friendly. Faceted Application of Subjec
Libraries, especially academic research libraries, hold bound-with books in far greater quantities than they know, often because such compilations sit on library shelves without having been given the
The practical application of library and information science is based upon 75 years of critical theory and thought. Therefore, it is essential for students and faculty in LIS to be familiar with the
The Native American Choctaw "codetalkers" who played a vital role in World War I. Jeanette Rankin, elected to the U.S. Congress---before women could vote. Despite being one of the youngest nations, U
Mike Fink, the crackshot keelboater. Babe, the blue ox. Davy Crockett and the raccoon. The Cat with a wooden leg. Despite being one of the youngest nations, the United States has a rich tapestry of t
This valuable reference guide provides suggestions of picture books set in more than 70 countries in each continent of the world, along with standards-based activities.
Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Aliceri had a pet snake, played poker, and enjoyed sliding down the White House stairs on a sled. You can read the details in What to Do About Alice?. In Farmer George P
While liberating management theories are well known to the profession, the traditional command-and-control structure prevails, leaving many libraries as reactive---not proactive---institutions. How c
Knowing a community enables library and information professionals to prioritize the community's information needs and design appropriate services for them. Assessing information Needs: Managing Trans
In the United States, convenience food and soft drink—based diets, increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and obesity have become common in youth culture. The importance of health education merits integr
Freed of many of the governing laws that shape public shools, librarians in independent schools have more opportunity to develop new ideas and methods, Among these are the "information commons" where
World War II mobilized 100 million military personnel and resulted in the deadliest conflict in human history. Everyone from students in grade six to adults will be engrossed by tales documenting the
Readers theatre is well-known as an excellent teaching tool that can be used across the curriculum, even to enhance math skills. But what does a teacher do to avoid the danger of labeling when the cl
This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis.
