The Principal's Guide to a Powerful Library Media Program: A School Library for the 21st Century

(, 2nd edition)

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This book of best practices documents how school administrators and librarians can work together to optimize their library media services. A campus administrator looking to improve an existing library media program or create a new one. A teacher or librarian seeking the principal's support for establishing a more effective program. A university professor requiring the foundation for a curriculum to instruct preservice librarians and campus administrators. In each of these scenarios, The Principal's Guide to a Powerful Library Media Program can provide relevant background information, clear guidance, and tangible techniques. This unique text draws on professional literature, research, site visits, interviews, and the coauthors' collective years of experience to help principals be effective practioners, and to facilitate full comprehension of the far-reaching benefits a successful library media program has on the entire campus. The anecdotes and insights on best practices illustrate the principal's role in managing and facilitating the library media programincluding hiring, budgeting, scheduling, and professional development. The methodology of "GEAR"Gather information, Establish goals, Apply strategy, and Reflectis championed throughout the book.

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With focused and well-organized topics from understanding the research and standards to supporting and sustaining them through collaborative processes, this revised edition (Linworth, 2005) offers a great deal of concrete information. . . . While the book is written with school librarians and principals as the primary readers, it can be adapted for public librarians to create open communication between both entities. Overall, an excellent choice for the professional media specialist's or principal's shelf. * School Library Journal *

Author Bio

Marla W. McGhee, PhD, is associate professor, Educational Leadership, Texas Christian University (TCU), Ft. Worth, TX. Barbara A. Jansen is chair of 112 Instructional Technology and upper school librarian at St. Andrew's Episcopal Upper School, Austin, TX.