This collection of thought-provoking essays by visionary and innovative library practitioners covers theory, research, and best practices in collection development, examining how it has evolved, identifying how some librarians are creatively responding to these changes, and predicting what is coming next.
Including real-world scenarios and best practices, this text presents the important topics of patents, trademarks, and copyrights in relation to intellectual property creators and consumers.
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 guidebook is a must-have resource for anyone teaching a television production class or running a morning news show at the elementary, middle, or high school level.
Help maximize your existing collection with this browsable volume containing titles that serve double-duty with their appeal to both teens and adults and cover genres spanning crime novels, romance, horror, science fiction, and more.
Transform your library into a "e;think tank"e; by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards.
This easy-to-use primer will empower anyone-even those with no IT background-to face the challenge of adding one or more technologies to library services or maintaining existing technologies.
This creative guidebook teaches librarians in diverse communities how to develop and implement early learning programming beyond traditional storytimes.
Learn how to integrate pop culture and technology into school library programs and classrooms, and make today's digital content, mobile devices, and students' changing interests work to the educator's advantage.
The inventor of the School Library Writing Center makes it easy for librarians and teachers of kindergarten through sixth grade learners to provide highly effective writing instruction.
Busy elementary librarians need help applying the new AASL Standards Framework, especially in collaboration with social studies teachers seeking to apply the social studies standards framework.
One of the only books to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the role of school librarians in student success, this guide offers everything you'll need to develop, align, and evaluate curriculum with your library collection in mind.
This book explains how librarians can capitalize on the growing interest and need of patrons for help with technology by expanding their library's tech services to build community engagement and support.
Updated and enhanced, the second edition of this text provides both library students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of procedural and philosophical approaches in acquisitions management.
This book stimulates informed dialogue between librarians and historians regarding the changing nature of history and the resultant needs for a wider variety of collections and library services, including inter-library loan, library instruction, outreach, and reference.
This book leads readers through an intriguing examination of how books began and have evolved through history and explores where future technologies may lead them.
This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information.
This essential guide covers the basics of planning to safeguard your library's digital assets-library catalog and circulation data, online resources, etc.
Two authors with more than 40 years of combined library experience tap into their wealth of knowledge about discovery and user experience, sharing proven methods for setting up, promoting, and teaching their own discovery systems.
The third edition of Crash Course in Collection Development is a must-have for librarians just entering the field and professionals in need of a refresher in effective library operations.
Providing clear explanations of inquiry-based learning in the light of the Common Core, this book is a practical and graphical guide that will serve as a much-needed primer for librarians and educators.
Any competent librarian can have good accounting skills-after all, attention to detail, correct classification, and effective documentation are essential to both kinds of tasks.
Concise, informative, and well-indexed, this book helps readers get the "e;big picture"e; as well as the considerable number of details involved in managing the finances for a library.
Inclusive of the scope and authoritative references from earlier editions, this edition additionally embraces the digital world and provides practical suggestions for performing the "e;act of teaching.
Borrowing winning techniques from the business world, this book examines ways you can make library service more personalized, focused, and solutions-oriented for your patrons.
Learn how to improve teen services in public libraries by better understanding teen development and having positive interactions with teens to provide appropriate and interesting collections and services.
A convincing explanation of why interactive or movable books should be included in the library collection that documents their value as motivational instructional tools-in all areas of the school curriculum, across many grade levels.
Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience-fans as well as librarians-this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles.
Help your library leverage opportunities in the popular do-it-yourself publishing movement by following this guide's process for creating and producing books.
This book explains how and why to get an international library job, what to expect when you arrive in your host country, and how to overcome challenges in your new home.
Providing perspectives of early- and mid-career librarians as well as highly seasoned professionals, this book offers leadership advice that will help academic librarians of all experience levels to surmount the issues they face and overcome new challenges.
Learn the concept of passive programming and get started easily with plans for implementing a wide array of intergenerational programs in libraries with this professional primer.
