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Based on empirical research and written by an expert, this book provides the information a media specialist needs to teach information literacy skills in a meaningful, useful, and strategic manner.

Draws on learning theories, research, and AASL's position on information literacy using a tried and true approach.

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This book is designed for courses that prepare college and university students for undergraduate or graduate degrees in school library media. The overall goal of this textbook is to teach library media specialists what information literacy looks likein general, in the school, in the classroom, in your mind, in life, and in motion.

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

This book is an exploration of, not an explanation of, information (in its recorded form), and the keepers of those records, the librarians.

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This volume examines the role of specialized knowledge in evaluating and designing information policy.

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This volume examines the role of specialized knowledge in evaluating and designing information policy.

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Presenting the Big6 skills from multiple perspectives, this accessible book provides exercises, examples, and explanations, plus practical methods for bringing together other instructional efforts and this problem-solving approach. Now easily available, this is the first Big6 book showing detailed applications of the Big6.

(Paperback, 6th edition)

This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the best resources for their diverse needs.

(Hardback, 6th edition)

This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the best resources for their diverse needs.

(Hardback)

From cell phones to Web portals, advances in information and communications technology have thrust society into an information age that is far-reaching, fast-moving, increasingly complex, and yet essential to modern life. This text distills and explains the most important concepts and insights at the core of this revolution.

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Developmental disabilities are the most numerous of disabilities, and they are exceptionally complex. This professional reference overviews developmental disabilities, discusses the information needs of people with developmental disabilities, and provides practical guidance to librarians and information professionals who serve them.

(Hardback)

This comprehensive, practical, and up-to-date guide will help the preservice and in-service library media specialist to develop an information services program to meet the changing curricular needs of high schools and to integrate information access and usage skills into the total school curriculum.

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Filling a gap in the existing library and information science literature, this book consolidates recent research and best practices to address the need for diversity and social justice in the training and education of LIS professionals.

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In the last 15 years, the ground - both in terms of technological advance and in the sophistication of analyses of technology - has shifted. Within such a context, a fresh and critical analysis of the foundations and applications of technology in librarianship is long overdue.

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How can libraries and librarians across the educational continuum work together to support student transitions from high school to college, utilizing free or low-cost resources

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This work explores how managerial innovations are generated and disseminated among public librarians. It provides a case study of the dissemination of an innovation which allows librarians to engage in user-oriented planning, community-specific role setting and self-evaluation of performance.

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In the changing modern-day library, the area of technical services has undergone radical redesign and reorganization not just once, but many times in the last thirty years.

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Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K-12 schools.

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Begin a school-wide movement toward collaborative instruction and ultimate student success! Challenge yourself and teachers to build learning environments that focus on realistic issues and themes. Build a strong case for the role of the library media specialist in implementing curriculum changes.

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Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 -- .

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Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 -- .

(Paperback)

Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 -- .