This new compilation of ideas and suggestions is drawn from the Tips column in THE BOOK REPORT: The Magazine for Secondary School Library Media and Technology Specialists. Receive collegial support, ideas, and inspiration from your professional peers - over 800 ideas organized in nine categories for easy reference. Manage your library/media/technology center more efficiently while you improve skills - and accomplish more of your goals. Share your colleagues' experience in this "professional workshop in a book" - attracting patrons to your library, using computers in the curriculum,...

Share your colleagues' experience and over 400 ideas organized in eight categories - a "professional workshop in a book." Improve skills and manage your library media/technology center more efficiently. This new compilation of hints and ideas is drawn from the Shop Talk column in LIBRARY TALK: The Magazine for Elementary School Library Media and Technology Specialists. Organized so that you can easily find several ideas to use, adapt, or think up a "twist" for just the area you're concerned with, just when you need it. Categories include: bulletin boards, curriculum connections, promoting...

"Nothing is permanent except change" was never more true than with the Internet today. This approachable book advocates dealing with this fluid environment with an exploratory approach--persistent, patient, and also playful. Library media specialists are a natural to be advisors and mentors in this valuable and significant information arena, and this book supports that role wonderfully well. The new edition has expanded Web coverage, identifying multiple sites for use in training staff and students, and for integration into the curriculum. Links are current and selected with classroom and...

Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and "virtual visit" celebrations

Here's step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or "virtual" celebrations--including lively curricular activities. You'll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment...getting the books, resource booklets, and videos...helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas)...and...

Library media specialists, classroom teachers, and other educators who work with preschool through intermediate students will find this explanatory guide immensely helpful in making thematic connections to curriculum objectives that are well-supported by literature. In the frameworks, common elementary school topics--from Apples to Zoos--are used as building blocks for classroom workshop activities. Combine the blocks to support any theme or curricular unit. You can also select activities within each topic to integrate selected books and activities into the existing curriculum, such as...

Selected for their accuracy, authenticity, and appeal, these books span the curriculum in subject matter and will help librarians advise readers making the transition from fiction to nonfiction. McElmeel provides thorough guidelines for choosing and using information books to promote literacy and learning through inquiry. Complete bibliographic information, grade and age levels, and series information are given for each title with suggestions for related resources (both fiction and nonfiction) and learning connections.