Most academic libraries could not operate without a host of part-time student workers. But employing students is different from filling a professional position with an experienced worker; often their library employment will be their first job experience. Since many student positions make them the public face of the library, effective mentoring of such student employees is vital. In this book Reale explores the challenges and opportunities involved in recruitment.

The haunting prose poems of Michelle Reale's The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance form a rare and intimate portrait of a complex, resilient, and essentially powerful woman betrayed by the politics of family and culture. Burned free of sentimentality, this collection pushes against the mindless stereotypes that stunt the mainstream image of Italian American women, and instead offers a fresh, honest portrayal of a life forged by oppression and survival.
-Olivia Kate Cerrone, Italian-American novelist; recipient of Distinguished Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
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Embedded librarianship is "not one size fits all," yet many books on the subject treat it in a cold, objective manner that doesn't adequately communicate how becoming an embedded librarian actually works in the real world. Here, Reale shares her own university classroom experiences to offer a step-by-step primer for those contemplating the practice. Demystifying what can sometimes feel intimidating to academic librarians, this down to earth resource defines what embedded librarianship is, and isn't; explains why being in the classroom is so important, and how it creates communities of...

"How do you dress for a front/row seat at the suffering of another?" Michelle Reale's intimate poems answer this question with bold precision, witnessing the alcoholic with a starkness that recalls Fitzgerald's portrayal of his own crack-up. Reale's speaker meets "the wolf at the door," tosses him some raw meat, and dares him to dance the tarantella until he drops. -- Jessie Janeshek All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens, is a sonorous lament on the worst unholy nightmares - bringing the urgent intimacy of a mother's love for a sick and wayward child bravely into the public...