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

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Bring authentic multicultural booktalks to your students using this well-researched, easy-to-use book of recommended titles and talks.

Offers a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction, history, and memoirs

Highlights award winning, well-written fiction

Allows the library to serve and reach underserved populations

Recommended titles and talks written by some of the best authors around

Inspire your NCLB subgroup students to read by booktalking these culturally responsive books

Indexed by subject, title, and by author

Encourage secondary students to read more, read...

Ever since the initial release of the AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, "School Library Monthly" magazine has consistently focused on providing librarians with the information and strategies they need to help students achieve those standards. Now from the pages of that magazine comes a collection that no school library or librarian should be without.

"21st-Century Learning in School Libraries: Putting the AASL Standards To Work" brings together the ideas and methods of leading school librarians and educators across the nation, all focused on meeting the new standards. The...

This easy-to-read, thorough guide to library automation systems includes current information on the components of software and choices to make when automating a school library. This book includes information on the various stages of automation conversions and a project planning process guide to assist librarians in a variety of library settings to plan and implement their automation projects. It includes interviews, background information, vendor presentations, and the author's practical experience in implementing an integrated automation system. Also includes a glossary of terms and an...

Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool. In "Stories on Board : Creating Board Games from Favorite Tales," award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas shows how it's done, allowing students to create their own board games with a unique method that integrates learning and fun.

With "Stories on Board ," students read and listen to popular folktales, analyze the structure of the story through story mapping, and then create a board game based on their analysis, engaging their aural, visual, and tactile skills. The lesson culminates in a Game Day in which the students play...

Finding children and tweens great books to read is still a key library service, even in the age of computers. "Readers' Advisory for Children and 'Tweens" is an easy-to-use, practical guide that will help any library staff member become more comfortable offering this service--and more adept at producing satisfying results.

Beginning with basic advice on the readers' advisory interview, the book details how to find books for different age groups, including young children and their parents, emergent readers, transitional readers, and adept readers. It explores genre fiction for tweens,...

"Reading the World with Picture Books" presents an exhaustive collection of booktalk options with picture books that are set in the major countries of each continent. Hundreds of children's books with an international flavor are organized by continent and then by country, and suggested activities accompany the titles, encouraging students to interpret information related to historical or geographic concepts and use problem-solving skills. Activities range from those appropriate for beginners to experienced researchers/writers. All call for high-level thinking and most provide opportunities...

This reference text provides a complete instructional overview of the workings of the library media center--from the basics of administration, budgeting, facilities management, organization, selection of materials, and staffing to explanations on how to promote information literacy and the value of digital tools like blogs, wikis, and podcasting.

Since the publication of the fourth edition of "Administering the School Library Media Center" in 2004, many changes have altered the landscape of school library administration: the implementation of NCLB legislation and the revision of AASL...

Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians--they can help

Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that, in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us--expert and hopelessly baffled alike--can get along without human help. And not just any help: we need librarians, the only ones who can save us from being buried by the digital age. This Book Is Overdue is a romp through the ranks of information...

Get students to continue to read during the summer months--and enjoy it "Camp Summer Read: How to Create Your Own Summer Reading Camp" is the brainchild of two Texas librarians who have created just such a camp--and have a waiting list of kids who want to attend.

What they offer is a complete, how-to handbook based on their own experiences developing and running a summer reading camp for children. Organized as a checklist, the book is a step-by-step guide that includes everything you need to know to plan and run your own summer reading camp. It includes multiple book lists and...

Research clearly shows that our schools are often unhealthy social environments: 80 percent of middle school students report seeing arguments or fights every day at school. Almost three out of four (70 percent) of surveyed girls ages 8-17 report symptoms of low self-esteem. Even worse, most of these girls reported falling into patterns of dysfunctional behavior, such as bullying, disordered eating, or smoking or drinking when feeling badly.

In this book, author Kevin Strauss has carefully laid out background information, traditional stories, and skill-building activities that will...

"Teens and Social Networking Now: What Librarians Need to Know" is organized around ten major topics, including using social networking sites to connect teens to young adult literature, social networking and legislative issues, social networking and safety/privacy issues, and the social and educational benefits of social networking. Expert practitioners explain how such issues can and should impact library services to young adults, focusing on concrete suggestions and specific steps for best practices and program designs that will help librarians utilize social networking tools to enhance...