Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Library & Information Science - General

Here are forty-one tales gathered from Amazonian fishermen, hunters, lodgers, small plot farm gardeners, and villagers in Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Organized thematically, these tales for mature readers convey messages of kinship bonds and reciprocity, capturing the socialized relationships between peoples, animals, plants, places and a variety of shape-shifting supernatural entities. Often shocking or hair-raising, some of these tales even range into illicit topics, such as cannibalism and psychotropic plants.

"Government Secrecy" presents the best that has been thought and written on the subject, including history and philosophy, theory and practice, justification and critique. Through readings, which range from Georg Simmel on secrecy and Max Weber on bureaucracy and secret-keeping, to post-9/11 concerns regarding freedom of information and presidential secrecy, it enables readers to explore the issues and questions that surround the government's right to keep necessary secrets--or not.

This collection, and the diverse perspectives it represents, will engage students and other interested...

Join Piggy Rae and her silly friends Bernie Bear, Tommy Turtle, Alistair McMoose and others in these engaging and interactive puppet skits that encourage both laughter and learning. This guide gives you everything you need for lively storytimes. In addition to ten complete scripts, you'll find literacy tips, preparatory checklists of materials and props needed, patterns, lists of books for literacy building displays, activities that relate to the story and promote early literacy, and take-home reproducibles for caregivers that help them reinforce the six early literacy skills. Designed for...

Wit, humor, and warmth permeate the stories in this collection. Here are more than 50 traditional folktales from the people of Poland, ranging from animal and humorous tales to why stories, tales of magic and the supernatural, and local legends. In addition, you'll find riddles, nursery rhymes, games and activities, recipes, and background information on the land, the people, and the stories-all enhanced by maps and handsome color photos and illustrations. A wonderful addition to the folklore collection, this book provides material that folklorists will wish to study, storytellers will be...

Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. Many universities and colleges, however, now have a new or renewed emphasis on outreach beyond the campus, seeking to ensure their institutions' relevance to the community at large. How can and do academic libraries participate in this type of outreach? What types of collaborations or partnerships are academic libraries forming with schools, public libraries, or community groups? How do academic librarians partner with faculty or campus departments on their...

Many glimpses into what might be called library philosophy are scattered throughout the literatures of library history and library and information science, but none has coalesced as yet. Conversely, theories relative to the operation of libraries, rather than relative to why its operations are necessary in the first place, are exceedingly abundant. Not surprisingly, fundamental misunderstandings are shared among public, scholar, and librarian about what the library is and why it exists. Adapting the work of Kenneth Boulding, Osburn presents a cogent, well substantiated explanation of why...

Traditional instruction in the social studies has been content rather than process oriented, concentrating on the lower level thinking skills. With coverage of the culture and history of the fifty United States, "Reading the Fifty States" offers librarians and teachers the tools to encourage higher order thinking skills. Students read novels set in each of the states and participate in targeted reader-response activities that are process oriented, develop higher cognitive skills, and spark creativity. Helpful tools include 200 booktalks (4 for each state), lists of other recommended titles...

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Would you like to optimize the impact of library services in your school? Be proactive and make educational partnerships happen In this essential guide, Farmer presents techniques, guidelines, and examples for growing and nurturing educational relationships. By exploring the issue of partnerships, as well as current educational challenges and their impact on the roles of school community members, Farmer shows how to deal with contemporary educational goals and gaps. She then discusses the benefits and costs of educational partnerships. Included are detailed models of partnership plans...

Bring new visibility to your school library media program and promote its strengths to all its constituencies. Learn how to teach video production as a communications tool. Use video-making to encourage reading, writing, and research and for school news shows. Video production is not only a great way to communicate, it's also a great way to teach communication skills to students and teachers. Set up in a checklist format to save you time, this book is easy to apply to a particular need. Teaching lighting? Make copies of "The Lighting Checklist"--and if you need to learn about an item on...

Organized compilation of recent articles from LIBRAY TALK, BOOK REPORT, and Technology Connection. Arranged to increase support for funding, training, curriculum integration, Internet evaluation, and public relations. Get important tips, tricks, and techniques, nitty-gritty details as well as breakthrough ideas. All URLs updated Step back and rethink your goals "from the ground up " With this well-organized presentation of the best current and recent thinking about great library media programs, you'll round out your professional world view and easily select the areas you want to refresh....

Designed to motivate students to do more research, InfoQuest ensures that information literacy skills are continuously practiced.

Using InfoQuest, each week a different research question is posed. Students have all week to come to the media center and use a variety of reference tools and media to research the answer. Small prizes are awarded on Friday to the students who have researched the answer correctly. This guide to implementing InfoQuest in your library includes a wealth of ready-made resource sheets for specific subject areas as well as a list of resources for individualizing the...

Collaboration is much more than just the latest buzzword. It is a worthwhile concept that can greatly benefit library media specialists, teachers, students and administrators alike. And if it is done correctly, collaborating planning and teaching can help with meeting education standards. This straightforward resource presents methodology and models to assist secondary library media specialists in their efforts to work collaboratively with teachers. Each of the 17 units included are standards-based, and provide opportunities for students to master information literacy skills as outlined in...