Lessons from Library Power: Enriching Teaching and Learning

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Share the power of our important national initiative! The profound changes instituted by the Library Power Project can also serve as a catalyst for the revitalization of your school library media center. This book offers an abundance of practical and insightful ideas for collaborative planning, flexible scheduling, collection development, professional development, and facility renovation. Compiling research findings of the project as documented in surveys of key players (library media specialists, principals, and teachers) and through direct observation in case studies across the United States, this book provides a valuable instructional model for today's schools. Essential reading for media specialists, teachers, district administrators and principals, it will also benefit students of library science and academics interested in school reform.

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Appended copies of the original surveys, numerous clearly designed tables and charts, and many practical ideas make this essential reading for anyone involved with school and library reform.-Booklist
Draws on results of a 10-year project to show library media specialists how to create and develop a vital school library media center.-Reference and Research Book News
Has merit for librarians who wish to revitalize their programs with a variety of different approaches. Recommended.-Library Talk
Use this as a blueprint for improving school libraries or as an advocacy tool. The numbers speak for themselves. Recommended.-Appraisals
"Draws on results of a 10-year project to show library media specialists how to create and develop a vital school library media center."-Reference and Research Book News
"Has merit for librarians who wish to revitalize their programs with a variety of different approaches. Recommended."-Library Talk
"Use this as a blueprint for improving school libraries or as an advocacy tool. The numbers speak for themselves. Recommended."-Appraisals
"Appended copies of the original surveys, numerous clearly designed tables and charts, and many practical ideas make this essential reading for anyone involved with school and library reform."-Booklist

Author Bio

DOUGLAS L. ZWEIZIG is Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. DIANNE MCAFEE HOPKINS is Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-principal investigator in the evaluation of the National Library Power Program, an initative funded by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. She received AASL's Distinguished Service Award and has served on ALA's Intellectual Freedom Committee. She is a member of the Board of the Library Research Roundtable of ALA. Zweizig and Hopkins are co-principal investigators in the evaluation of the National Library Power Program, an initiative funded by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.