In one detailed multimedia source, you'll find everything you need to evaluate your library's current policies and procedures, and suggestions to help you develop new ones in today's more complex digital content environment.Among the many areas covered are: Collection Development; Acquisitions; Budgeting; Equipment and Materials Maintenance; Year-End Reporting; Scheduling; Web Publishing and Design; Reading Incentive Programs; Serving Students with Special Needs; and Copyright.You'll find more than 300 sample policies, procedures, and forms you can customize and print to help you manage each...

Build your booktalking repertoire with these easy and effective talks. Jennifer Bromann, author of the popular Booktalking that Works, returns with this collection of over 200 titles and all-new talks--from classics like Go Ask Alice to current bestsellers like The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Filled with practical advice, Bromann helps librarians craft their own booktalks; get invited into classrooms and schools; incorporate various genres and subjects; and develop catchy book hooks that grab teens' attention and get them to the shelves. Entries for each book include a full, ready-to-use...

Young adults are a growing population in libraries, yet few librarians know how to provide the unique kinds of services teenagers need. Here, the authors apply customer service theory and technique to serving this population.

Pete Hautman is an author who likes to tackle big ideas from addiction and psychosis to the nature of belief and what the world is coming to in his fiction for teen readers. In novels like Mr. Was, Sweetblood, Invisible, Rash, and the National Book Award winner, Godless, Hautman leavens his exploration of these big ideas with humor while showing that he understands how overwhelming such matters can be. As Hautman himself says, It s complicated. In Pete Hautman: Speaking the Truth to Teens, Joel Shoemaker looks at the life and work of an author whose young adult fiction represent a wider...