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This book makes the perfect addition to teachers' and librarians' story time selections, containing 25 educational and entertaining tales from around the world as well as proven storytelling techniques.

(Paperback)

Working with or without a native speaker, a storyteller can touch the minds and hearts of all listenerseven those with little or no English language skills.

(Paperback)

Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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(Hardback)

To be an effective manager in today's library, you must know and comply with numerous federal and state laws and regulations.

(Hardback)

The analysis of the management activities and effectiveness of the academic library director in Joanne Euster's The Academic Library Director is a fine companion to Rook's work on motivation.

(Hardback)

The literature of academic librarianship today reflects these changes and points to the direction in which academic libraries are headed.

This book is a comprehensive guide to book chapters and articles written on academic librarianship between 1990 and 1993.

(Paperback)

This useful handbook describes and illustrates proven methods to get your library and information services the attention and support they deserve. This useful handbook describes and illustrates proven methods to get your library and information services the attention and support they deserve.

(Hardback)

She discusses the additional pressures resulting from the dilemmas faced by libraries, including dwindling budgets, theft of library materials, understaffing, and the demand for broader or improved services.

(Hardback)

The problem of purpose in the title is the 130-year debate within the library community over the proper place for the library in society. Chapters discuss roles for public libraries from the founding of the Boston Public Library with its clear educational purpose through attempts at rational planning for library roles in the 1980s.

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This guide covers every step from why you should hold author events and how your organization can benefit to such logistics as selecting an author, choosing the type of event and venue, publicity, set-up, escorting, crowd control, and managing the autograph line.

(Hardback, 5th edition)

Everything you need to know in order to start, maintain, and provide service for a business collection, and to research virtually any business topic.

Now in its fifth edition, The Basic Business Library is a modern sourcebook of core resources for the business library and the business information consumers and researchers it serves.

(Paperback)

Use these 100 handy reproducible book lists to instantly create hand-outs for teachers and parents (as well as for older readers), to add to your newsletter, or to post on your Web site or bulletin board.

(Paperback)

Promote reading and literacy with this wonderful assortment of lively, fast-paced, fun-filled children's programs specifically designed for children aged 4 through 8.

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Use these 100 handy reproducible book lists to instantly create handouts for teen readers and teachers, add to your newsletter, or post on your web site or bulletin board. This versatile guide provides one-page reproducible book lists and bookmarks for: books about self (e.g., coming-of-age, perfectionism, gangs;

(Paperback)

Based on many years of columns from School Library Media Activities Monthly, this book presents key terms in a working theoretical model that may be used in developing and understanding the power of information inquiry in instruction.

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Facing budget and personnel cuts, special librarians increasingly need to justify the cost of library operationsoften even the library's existence.

(Hardback)

This sourcebook offers an overview of the accreditation process, focused specifically on contemporary expectations for, and challenges to, libraries, information technologies, and academic computing. It also offers practical advice to those librarians involved with academic accreditation.

(Hardback)

Explores the causes and consequences of recent closures of American library schools at a time when other professional schools have expanded. The authors consider the theory that the closures have come about through poor marketing and management and by neglecting the history of librarianship.

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(Paperback, 7th edition)

This thorough treatment of collection development for school library educators, students, and practicing school librarians provides quick access to information.

This seventh edition of The Collection Program in Schools is updated in several key areas.

(Hardback, 7th edition)

This thorough treatment of collection development for school library educators, students, and practicing school librarians provides quick access to information.

This seventh edition of The Collection Program in Schools is updated in several key areas.