Discover the true value and exciting possibilities of oral history in the library: learn new and compelling ways to engage your patrons by sharing personal and community history with them.• Shows libr
Covering the most common subject specialties and departmental liaison roles found in colleges and universities, this guide is for early- and mid-career librarians looking to move up in their chosen sp
Defining both the Common Core Standards and the school librarian's role in their implementation, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans and other tools for grades K–5 and identifies opportunities
Defines and models the ways the school library program, the faculty of the school and the library staff work together to perform the important work of education in each and every school.
The Amazon River basin, known for its lush fertility and varied flora and fauna, has also nourished a rich and diverse folklore tradition. Here are forty-one tales gathered from Amazonian fishermen,
Evaluate and enhance your historical fiction collection with this guide to the genre and its effective use in the library and classroom, including in-depth discussion of 80 recent titles for students
This guide identifies more than 500 of the most popular nonfiction for teens and organizes them into specific genres and reading interests that teens enjoy--from true adventure, sports and life stori
Jenkins offers a newly revised and expanded annotated bibliography of book-length reference works, covering the rise and fall of the Greek and Roman civilizations from the Bronze Age through the 6th
Walker and Shaw link the teaching of ten commonly taught reading strategies such as sequencing, compare and contrast, and prediction to picture book titles. Each chapter of the book provides a strate
This truly monumental work maps the literature of women's studies, covering thousands of titles and Web sites in 19 subject areas published between 1985 and 1999. Intended as a reference and collectio
This important work has been completely revised and expanded with the addition of online databases, Web sites and CD-ROM titles. It identifies and describes hundreds of reference books that pertain to
A theoretical look at the selection, acquisition, preservation, and use of video and other evolving moving image media in libraries, as well as a practical working guide for librarians and educators i
As more and more libraries acknowledge their growing teen population, young adult librarians are scrambling for quick and easy ways to make their materials more user-friendly and accessible to this ag
Supplying classroom-tested lessons and unit plans that can serve as templates, this book demonstrates exactly how to integrate and implement Guided Inquiry Design (GID) theory into practice.‧ Answers the needs of teachers and librarians who are seeking actual lesson plans using the GID concepts specifically at the 6th–8th grade levels‧ Supplies lesson plans and complete units of Guided Inquiry Design along with materials for implementation‧ Includes techniques for assessment of learning strategies aligned to the Common Core State Standards‧ Serves to heighten student engagement by going beyond fact-finding to achieve deeper understanding and knowledge creation‧ Encourages embedded information literacy and creates student choice
This fourth edition provides an updated look at information organization, featuring coverage of the Semantic Web, linked data, and EAC-CPF; new metadata models such as IFLA-LRM and RiC, and new perspe
This fourth edition provides an updated look at information organization, featuring coverage of the Semantic Web, linked data, and EAC-CPF; new metadata models such as IFLA-LRM and RiC, and new perspe
Looking for a comprehensive, all-in-one guide to RDA that keeps it simple and provides exactly what you need to know? This book covers planning and training considerations, presents relevant FRBR and
Make history come alive! This book helps librarians and teachers as well as readers themselves find books they will enjoy—titles that will animate and explain the past, entertain, and expand their min
Contemporary urban legends have always been a popular topic of conversation and discussion and are becoming more so as electronic media such as the Internet, TV, and social media make them more access
Chance (library science, Sam Houston State U.) and Sheneman, a librarian who formerly taught at Sam Houston State U. show public and school librarians and others how to promote literacy in family prog
This reference for librarians in public, high school, and college libraries gives info and brief synopses of 456 biography titles on people from ancient times to the present, from many fields and coun
This reference for readers and readers' advisors describes 500 graphic novels that will appeal to adults and readers over age 16 with a wide range of reading tastes. Providing plot summaries and notab
This book explores what the past 75 years of reading instruction has meant to children, teachers, and parents, and how children's librarians and school media specialists are a crucial part of the dev
Pearl (formerly Washington Center for the Book) and Cords (library and information studies, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) present librarians and book store personnel with a guide to some 500 of the most p
From Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons and Anzia Yzierska's The Bread Givers to Laurie Colwin's Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object and Chet Raymo's The Dork of Cork, here are some of the forgotte
Agile librarians love their work and are appreciated for it. They have expertise in the practice of their profession and in the business of gaining and maintaining influence, as well as in effective m
Everything you need to know about eBooks is explained in this holistic guide to a new world of reading—from selection and curation of an eBook collection to training and support for staff and patrons.
Aligned with the Common Core, this book enables teachers and librarians to develop lessons and workshops as well as to teach high school students how to research and write a humanities paper using a g
Kalen, a fan of manga and anime who recently graduated from the master of library and information science program at the U. of Western Ontario, Canada, provides a guide to Japanese manga and anime, Ko
Today's catalogers need to be well-versed in various media and be able to contend with the pace and scope of changing technology. The ways in which library users now search for and approach informati
Science fiction opens new worlds, new possibilities, and new paradigms of thought to its readers and to society as a whole. It enables us to dream beyond our limitations and explore ways to make thos
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
Put a stop to high-tech and more traditional low-tech forms of cheating and plagiarism. Also, learn to recognize the danger signs for cheating and how to identify material that has been copied. Sampl
From the descendants of the Huns and the mighty warrior, Chinggis Khan (or, as he is known to Westerners, Genghis Khan), and the land of the steppes and the Gobi Desert, come tales of passion, strife
Authors Sharon Snow and Yvonne Reed present fashion as a way to offer a fun and interesting program for teens in the library—and not just for girls. Today's fashion-savvy teenaged guys are just as lik
From the O. J. Simpson case to the CSI franchise, more and more of us are aware of and curious about the world of forensic science. Cynthia Holt takes that interest and directs it toward the literatu
