Library and information services

A collection of versatile best practices for promoting literacy development by utilizing local community connections in school and public libraries.

This guide offers exciting new reading paths for students who enjoy fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal themes.

Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times-and how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship.

This insightful book reviews the current research on literacy programming, examines the latest standards for strengthening reading skills, and provides educators, families, and caregivers methods for building successful reading habits in and out of the classroom.

Created in consultation with teachers and public librarians, this fantastic collection of 101 ready-to-use book lists provides invaluable help for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature.

This book is an invaluable resource for school library aides who conduct storytime activities, providing everything from instruction on how to read to children to a week-by-week read aloud curriculum for the entire school year.

Categorizing hundreds of popular biographies according to their primary appeal-character, story, setting, language, and mood-and organizing them into thematic lists, this guide will help readers' advisors more effectively recommend titles.

Today's students need to be fully prepared for successful learning and living in the information age.

This book will help public library administrators, managers, and board members to better plan, strategize, and understand their communities, enabling public libraries to become dynamic, proactive institutions.

Common Core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development-where to begin?

Librarians can use this book to become leaders in their schools, collaborating with teachers to keep them abreast of resources that will facilitate the inclusion of STEM in the curriculum.

Do you have a great idea for an innovation in your library?

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 for collaborative teaching.

Here is everything you need to promote your library as a center for genealogical study by leveraging your collection to help patrons conduct research on ancestors, document family stories, and archive family heirlooms.

This is an ideal resource for joining the maker movement, no matter the size of your public library or resource level.

eResearch presents new challenges in managing data.

Discover how digital content creation supports 21st-century learning, providing new insights into organizing, synthesizing, and evaluating information.

This guide provides library directors, managers, and administrators in all types of libraries with complete and up-to-date instructions on how to evaluate library services in order to improve them.

This guide identifies hundreds of books that can help children develop into engaged readers.

Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians.

Designed to promote literacy in young children and to empower parents, educators, and librarians, this guide is filled with simple strategies, creative activities, and detailed instructions that help make reading fun.

Some students are more "e;challenging"e; than most.

Explore exciting programs and initiatives that can both engage undergraduate students with academic libraries and assist academic librarians in creating a vibrant library atmosphere.

Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians.

This comprehensive book takes the reader through the necessary steps to develop user buy-in and assistance in creating a learner-driven library program.

This book provides an introduction and helpful guide to online education for librarians and educators in the K-12, public, and academic library settings.

Despite technologies, many basic library activities still lend themselves to analysis and improvement.

Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery.

The book report is due and panic sets in.

Despite technologies, many basic library activities still lend themselves to analysis and improvement.

Eclectic library reading programs for young children have blossomed across the nation over the last decade, encouraging in toddlers a fondness for the library and an excitement for the caches of books to be found there.

Library music materials require a more complex shelflisting approach than books in order to account for extremely prolific composers, works with generic titles, opus numbers, and thematic index numbers.

The early years of American nationhood, beginning at the close of colonial rule and ending with the onset of the Civil War, saw both a young country and its literature grow in confidence and develop an awareness of self-identity.

The law should be accessible to every professional, which is the philosophy behind The Law of Libraries and Archives.

The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented.

Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery.

Building on Goldman's Words of Intelligence and Maret's On Their Own Terms this is a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in intelligence, security, and information policy.

Volume 6 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on academic library technical services operations, and ways that they have been transformed and reimagined for working in today's higher education environment.

The fifth volume in this series focuses on creating partnerships and developing new roles for libraries in the 21st century.

Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world.

Planning and implementing a 3D printing service in a library may seem like a daunting task.

This book is based on a series of informative interviews with a number of music librarians working for different leading symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the world.

Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations.

Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms.

This title offers pre-service, newly practicing, and seasoned school librarians opportunities for reflection as well as inspiring strategies for enacting four core values of the profession.

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 guided inquiry approach.

Public libraries must offer relevant, exciting, and stimulating learning centers that appeal to kids.

This book breaks new ground, offering school and public librarians serving children in grades K-8 a roadmap for implementing and upholding queer-inclusive programs, policies, and services.

Schools and libraries can make a difference by teaching kids how to identify and cope with emotions, how to communicate with confidence and empathy, and how to persevere even when things are difficult.

Every upper-elementary and middle school educator can teach news literacy and connected literacies, including text, visual, graphic, and video literacy, using this book.