"Tales Out of the School Library: Developing Professional Dispositions" is a book that empowers anyone working in the school library to redefine their practice to meet the needs of young learners today. It covers familiar, everyday topics of the most concern to practitioners assessment, literacy and reading, diversity, intellectual freedom, communication, collaboration, and more. But it is the approach that makes this book unique.

Each chapter of "Tales Out of the School Library" begins with a story from one of three fictional, yet recognizably authentic library media specialists...