(Paperback)

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.

(Hardback, 3rd edition)

This invaluable guide enables librarians as well as patrons and teachers to identify the best books for high school readers out of the thousands published each year.

(Paperback)

In this book, experts in the field describe best practices based on their experiences in corporate libraries worldwide.

With information driving today's global economy, corporate librarians must become even more proactive in their daily assignments.

(Hardback)

Intended to support the national initiative to strengthen learning in areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, this book helps librarians who work with youth in school and public libraries to build better collections and more effectively use these collections through readers' advisory and programming.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Authored by an experienced librarian, digital resource manager, and professor in the field of library science, this book explores the wide-reaching impact of second-generation web technologies on library organization and services-and how library staff must respond.

(Paperback)

This unique book covers the who, what, when, where, why, and, most important, the HOW of creating a career center or jobseeker program in a public library.

Blueprint for a Job Center at Your Library provides a practical, down-to-earth guide for library staff who wish to better meet one of their patrons' most pressing needs.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Fifteen units focus on authors who speak about their ethnic heritage through their books and those who write or illustrate multicultural materials. Activities that reinforce the multicultural theme and bibliographies of related books and films are also featured.

(Hardback)

The only comprehensive treatment of American library architecture, this work details the evolution of the modern public library from 1850 to the present.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Sixteen chapters, based on such lively themes as Risky Reading (adventure stories), Horrendous Fun (monster stories), and Book, Line, and Sinker (ocean world) contain introductions to the themes, introductory activities, booktalks, annotated bibliographies, and reproducible activity pages that extend learning across the curriculum.

(Paperback)

This book provides a wealth of read-aloud titles and related activities that provide busy teachers with the tools to help students in grades K-12 become successful writers.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Everything librarians need to know to get the most out of booktalking with their teen readers.

(Paperback)

Whether you are a public or school librarian, teacher, or teen group leader, you'll find this collection helpful in motivating teens to read, building their appreciation of books, and in extending learning opportunities beyond the reading experience.

(Paperback)

This title gives concrete practical examples of how to align school library programs and instructional practice with the six key concepts of brain-compatible learning: increasing input to the brain;

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

In response to the often-cited need to improve science literacy in the United States, this book examines how popular science information resources contribute to this goal and recommends nearly 2,500 significant titles70 percent published since 1990representing all fields of modern science.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Learn how to promote your library and become an influential player in your school and district. As the school librarian, you play a critical role in impacting student achievement. Learn how to develop your influence and make an even bigger difference both inside and outside the library media center.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This all-inclusive, how-to book tells you everything you need to know to run your own summer reading camp.

Get students to continue to read during the summer monthsand enjoy it!

(Hardback)

Andrew Carnegie was the foremost supporter of public library construction to the point that Carnegie Library became a cliche, synonymous with the public library, especially in small towns.

(Paperback)

Novice and advanced online searchers can prepare for cost-effective electronic database searching with this new resource. The process includes conversation and question negotiation, strategy formulation, discussion of alternative approaches, search algorithm, file selection, search results, evaluation, and further steps if necessary.