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This book features Jim Aylesworth, a popular picture book author. Each book features personal information about the author, including insight into why he or she writes a particular type of book, plus ideas that will assist teachers in lesson plans and/or activities for each of the author's featured books.

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This book reports the results of a comparative survey of journalism students in university-level institutions in 22 countries of the major world regions. The students had three different concepts of the role of the press: the enlightenment model in which the prime functions is to educate and inform;

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Most scholars and students relied on card catalogs, printed bibliographic indices, and hardcopy books and journals. This book examines the history of digital resources for scholarly communication, JSTOR. It looks at JSTOR's mission of saving storage space and thereby storage costs, a mission that expanded to improving access to the literature.

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Gather your students and jump back in time to experience what life was like back then. Elementary teachers, librarians, youth leaders, and home schoolers will appreciate this complete and creative resource that covers four major areas of the elementary curriculum: Ancient cultures Native American culture Colonial America Pioneers.

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Simple, straightforward guidance for the practitioner who wants to use assistive technologies to extend library access.

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Get 263 new booktalks to introduce good books to ages 8 to 88 - 70 elementary level, 190 middle school, 181 high school and up (several overlap levels). Written at the reading level of the book's audience, booktalks can be actually talked, read from, referred to, displayed by the book, and photocopied and inserted in the book.

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This book connects to the new AASL standards, ISTE Standards for Students, and provides simple directions for using a variety of books to create maker activities that deepen the reading experience.

Books and maker activities help children to associate reading with hands-on learning.

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The only book currently available that comprehensively integrates research and evaluation for evidence-based library and information science practice.

Numerous books cover research and evaluation in general, but not within the context of library and information science.

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Libraries are creating dynamic knowledge bases to capture both tacit and explicit knowledge and subject expertise for use within and beyond their organizations. Knowledge Management for Libraries guides the reader through the process of planning, developing, and launching their own library knowledge base.

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Libraries are creating dynamic knowledge bases to capture both tacit and explicit knowledge and subject expertise for use within and beyond their organizations. Knowledge Management for Libraries guides the reader through the process of planning, developing, and launching their own library knowledge base.

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Successful after-school programs are just a part of this detailed study of the impact of unsupervised or latchkey children on the community in general and on libraries in particular.

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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.

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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.

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In view of the challenges facing higher education, academic librarians need to take an expanded campus leadership role. This book shows the way.

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This text describes the philosophy, strategies, approaches, and leadership and management methods used by the leaders of some of America's most notably successful archival programmes. These programmes select, manage, and make available records of enduring value for research and other purposes.

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In order for school librarians to continue to play a crucial role in improving student achievement, their leadership skills must be evident to administrators, teachers, students, and to the community.

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School library media specialists know that a close collaboration between the school principal and themselves is critical in the development of an exemplary school library media program, but they are often unsure of how to establish and build on that collaboration.