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Contributions from leading rare book curators concerning the different needs and problems companion to rare book collections.

(Paperback)

Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume.

(Paperback)

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 FRAD background, and offers practical, step-by-step cataloging advice for a variety of material formats.

(Paperback)

Most high school administrators, teachers, and staff concentrate on the student who is in the college preparatory track, while those who may not even finish high school have less attention paid to their curriculum and their educational needs.

(Hardback)

The volume includes an overview of the unique challenges facing academic institutions and libraries today in serving a diverse student population, suggestions on working effectively in the current academic environment, and practical guidelines for specific program design, implementation, and evaluation.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Open the cover of this updated popular title and find fresh ways to promote the library with a focus on collaboration and student learning. You will reach and involve every one of your readers when you use the lessons and ideas in these hands-on, minds-on lessons!

(Paperback)

It provides you with a vision and a plan for enhancing your library service to religious teens with pertinent information that helps you understand the different belief systems and traditions of various religious groups and practical guidance for developing services and collections to serve their needs.

(Paperback)

Author Gary Niebuhr proves that mystery book club is no misnomer, and that when it comes to the mystery genre, there is indeed a great deal to talk about.

(Paperback)

With this practical guide, it's easy to implement the proven fun-and learning-of a read-it-forward program in your middle school library. Teens recommend books to other teens, offering a surefire way to promote books and reading.

(Paperback)

With thousands of romance novels published each year, librarians-especially those unfamiliar with or indifferent to the genre-can benefit from this well-organized, reference that offers scores of appeals-based read-alike lists for some of the most popular, contemporary romance fiction.

(Paperback)

Mystery and crime readers looking for great new reads, and librarians looking for fresh reading lists for patrons will love this new resource.

(Paperback)

Read On...Science Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste offers excellent recommendations for everyone interested in the genre, from the newest explorers making their first forays to the most experienced and adventurous readers.

(Paperback)

With more than 300 original annotations in some 60 thematic lists, this one-of-a kind compilation opens the world of audiobooks to listeners and librarians alike.

The demand for audiobooks is booming, yet materials that help listeners make choices of what to listen to have been in short supply.

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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.

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With more than 500 original descriptive annotations in over 70 thematic lists, this unique compilation makes it easy for adult readers and librarians to discover graphic novel reads that satisfy their interests and reading tastes.

Graphic novels are not the junk food of the literature world.

(Paperback)

Hundreds of popular historical fiction titles are described and categorized according to their underlying appeal features, and under topics and themes you'll never find in the library catalogwomen with true grit, greatest war stories, royalty rules, quick reads, humor, and many others.

(Paperback)

Aimed at librarians looking for a different way to find suggestions for readers seeking that great horror read. This work categorises the popular horror fiction titles, according to their underlying appeal features, and under topics and themes. It covers approximately 350 titles of the best horror fiction titles.

(Paperback)

Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog-from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose.

(Paperback)

With over 350 titles organized into their primary appeal characteristics and scores of thematic lists, librarians and educators will benefit from lists of contemporary selections specifically written for teens.

Interest in teen fiction has grown in popularity in the last decade, especially within the fantasy and paranormal genres.

(Paperback)

Organized across appeal features, this comprehensive listing of stories, biographies, and fiction is the first and only guide to sports literature for adult and teen readers.

Sports literature spans multiple genresfrom fast-paced adventures, to biographies of sports heroes, to tales of underdogs overcoming the odds among others.

(Paperback)

An indispensable book for every readers' advisor offers new reading lists of women's fiction for RA, handouts, websites, or for readers to browse for that next great read.

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This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game.

(Hardback)

This volume provides insights into the organizational dynamics of libraries. Topics discussed include: decision making in libraries, bureaucratic structure and personality, controlling and reappraising, the handling of staff problems, communication, and the library and politics.

(Paperback)

This book presents background information on the current literary theory known as reader response and examines ways in which response and the teaching of literature has been researched and the findings of that research.