Special Events Programs in School Library Media Centers: A Guide to Making Them Work

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This practical, hands-on guide will assist the school library media specialist in planning, funding, implementing, and promoting special events programs in the school. Trotta provides a readable text filled with program ideas, planning documents, and tips for successful programs. She shows how to incorporate special events programs into a yearly curriculum plan, where to locate speakers and performers, how to budget and build support for special programs, and how to develop partnerships with school and community members that will ensure the success of the program. Reproducible forms and guidelines will make it easy for the school library media specialist to plan for and implement special event programming. Trotta systematically takes the library media specialist through the process from the idea stage to the evaluation process. The work features chapters on developing special events programs relevant to the curricula, developing partnerships to support these programs, raising community support and awareness of the media center and its programs, personnel training and strategies, developing promotional materials, keys to making programs successful, and how to do programs on a shoestring. An extensive list of resources for all kinds of programs completes the work.

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.,."the book can be used for a wide variety of situations. It will be referred to frequently over a long period of time by the school library media specialist because good planning never goes out of style."-Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science
...the book can be used for a wide variety of situations. It will be referred to frequently over a long period of time by the school library media specialist because good planning never goes out of style.-Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science
This title will be especially beneficial to new librarians, but those of us with many years experience can also benefit as we are reminded of some of the planning steps we may have become lax in implementing. Trotta's step-by-step, how-to approach is logical and easy to understand, and it will serve as a guide from the initial planning stages through completion and evaluation of programs....Recommended.-The Book Report
..."the book can be used for a wide variety of situations. It will be referred to frequently over a long period of time by the school library media specialist because good planning never goes out of style."-Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science
"This title will be especially beneficial to new librarians, but those of us with many years experience can also benefit as we are reminded of some of the planning steps we may have become lax in implementing. Trotta's step-by-step, how-to approach is logical and easy to understand, and it will serve as a guide from the initial planning stages through completion and evaluation of programs....Recommended."-The Book Report

Author Bio

MARCIA TROTTA is Executive Director of the Meriden, Connecticut, Public Library. She has developed many special events programs in her library that have earned her local and state recognition, including the Outstanding Librarian Award from the Connecticut Library Association in 1986 and again in 1993. She often gives workshops on special events programming and promotional strategies for school and public libraries. She is a past president of the Connecticut Library Association and serves on the Connecticut State Library Board of Directors. She is an Adjunct Professor of Library and Information Science at Southern Connecticut State University. Trotta was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from Alberta Magnus College in 1995, and the Distinguished Alumna Award from the School of Library Science and Informational Technology at Southern Connecticut State University in 1996.