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Tony Fredericks presents a collection of best loved stories in the popular readers theatre format to integrate with the United States history and language arts curriculum in the upper elementary and middle school grades.

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A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of public library history prior to World War I, touching on such topics as the growth of the public library from the genteel, early nineteenth-century social libraries of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states and the founding of the American Library Association in 1876.

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This easy-to-read, thorough guide to library automation systems includes current information on the components of software and choices to make when automating a school library.

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Today, with all of the controversies surrounding religion in the schools and in the public sphere, it would seem more important than ever that teachers and librarians have a quick source of up-to-date, correct, unbiased information to give to patrons and students.

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The intersection of informetrics and information retrieval (IR) research provides valuable insights for IR system modeling, design, and evaluation.

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How can your library-and your patrons-benefit from mobile apps This guidebook offers a solid foundation in "app-literacy," supplying librarians with the knowledge to review and recommend apps, offer workshops, and become the app expert for their communities.

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More than 300 critical reviews of quality reference titles by subject experts cover reference titles for this audience;

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Providing focused help as you build and maintain your philosophy and religion collections and field patron's requests, this new addition to the ARBA In-depth series contains over 300 critical reviews of quality reference titles by subject experts.

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It provides tips on how to use archival materials effectively and efficiently.

Topics covered include government archives, science and technology collections, military archives, genealogical records, business and corporate archives, performing arts archives, and sports collections.

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This text features 14 case studies that illustrate the importance records play for accountability in society. Focused around four themes - explanation, secrecy, memory and trust - the book demonstrates how records compel, shape, distort and recover social interactions across space and time.

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This bibliography lists the numerous articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States, this volume includes over 2,200 titles.

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This is a study of women in library education. The authors examine the dynamic social processes and significant relationships - such as mentoring - that have shaped the aspirations and career goals of women faculty in library and information science. An intergenerational sample is used.

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Reading this well-researched, practical book on assessing critical skills and applying the authors strategies will allow the library media specialist to not only teach the standards but to also teach students to improve their critical skills.

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In this book, theory is blended with practical application to provide a concise, up-to-date explanation of how school librarians can work with students and teachers to assess for learning in 21st century schools.

Coauthors Harada and Yoshina authored the first text that focused on learning assessment in a school library context.

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Based on a tested model for community analysis, this book offers a guide to the management of client-centered transformative information services that can be applied in any type of library or information agency.

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White's previously published articles and speeches (most presented after 1989) identify and address critical issues that range from library education, funding, and leadership to technology, ethics, and burnout. A must for the library professional shelf and a useful supplementary text for management and issues courses in library schools.

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Topics addressed in this book include: how to begin and upgrade a collection; the relative merits of complete and abridged audio books; and a sample-written selection policy for the audio-book collection. There are also suggestions for incorporating audio books in education.

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Managing and budgeting for an integrated service are covered in detail in chapters of interest to library managers planning to institute or expand a search service or to managers of existing search services.