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Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great purchase! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book is a must-have for anyone interested in becoming a library media specialist. It is an excellent source of information and practically required by the ALA, since that is who co-wrote it. It is also absolutely necessary if you're taking the Library Media Specialist Praxis test. A lot of the questions come from this book.

Editorial Review:

This volume aims to help readers respond proactively and help to lead the way to collaborative learning in schools. The American Library Association has been instrumental in shaping and publishing guidelines for school libraries for 75 years. This book incorporates the standards that should help students become skillful producers and consumers of information along with guidelines and principles to help create a dynamic, student-centred programme. The book's underlying concepts feature: helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation or disciplinary borders; designing authentic learning tasks and assessments; speaking in terms educators understand; defining your role in student learning; and joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes and a variety of print and nonprint resources.

Elementary School Librarian's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Tips, Techniques, and Materials to Help You Save Time and Work in Virtually Every Aspect

Barbara Farley Bannister, Janice B. Carlile

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Help! 5 out of 5 stars.
35 of 36 people found this review helpful.

That's what this book does. It helps very much.
It has forms, charts, letters, and patterns to
help you. Topics such as physical organization
of the library, how to build
support for your programs, discipline,
storytimes, and booktalks are just a
few of the many subjects covered in this book.

It goes beyond what you learn in school and it is
all in this one handy volume.

The Bible for New Elementary Librarians, even as Para-profes 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book, which I discovered in a catalog from World Almanac, I believe, was a very useful asset in my two years of learning experience as an emerging librarian. I found information which was verified in my graduate school coursework to gain my Masters' Degree in Library Science. Later, I found many recommendations and commendations for this volume. I will continue to return to this book for resources and ideas and good basic aids to the librarian in an elementary school. Additionally, their are great ideas that can translate to middle school and high school librarians and their many, multi-tasking roles!

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This resource is packed wtih tested tips, techniques, and tools for performing every aspect of the K-8 librarian's job. New technology, operating during a budget crunch, maintaining discipline, and building support for the library program are all topics that are included.

57 Games to Play in the Library or Classroom

Carol K. Lee, Fay Edwards

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libary fun 3 out of 5 stars.
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Many of the games in the book require lengthy preparation time, however once completed, they can become part of the routine learning process. I have other library games books and I found this one to be better, covering all grades in a K-6 situation, equally and with design for organized skill learning.

Editorial Review:

Teach children how to use the library with this fun, delightful collection of simple games. Activities cover Dewey Decimal Classification®, card catalogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias and more! Use common classroom materials and supplies to create all games. Includes reproducibles. For use with grades K-6.

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Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program

Esther Rosenfeld

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Library Research with Emergent Readers: Meeting Standards Through Collaboration

Christa Harker, Dorette Putonti

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At last! A developmentally appropriate, standards-based, hands-on approach to research for emergent readers! Standards-based, step-by-step approach to research featuring the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. Focused on collaboration between the library media specialist and the classroom teacher. Employs research-based best practices for use with your young, emergent readers and writers. With the academic pressures of No Child Left Behind and other state mandates, a focus on emergent readers and library integration is a prime topic for today's library media specialists. This book offers librarians and teachers hands-on research projects for emergent readers to help prepare students to meet challenging academic requirements. Targeted for media specialists, and for kindergarten and 1st grade classroom teachers who want to guide emergent readers through the library research process, this book provides background discussion and educational research on best instructional strategies, integrating curriculum standards, differentiating instruction, and step-by-step implementation of library research for emergent readers. Practical examples of library research units are the main focus of the manual. Find everything you need in this book to make your young students successful.

Running a School Library Media Center: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)

Barbara L. Stein, Risa W. Brown

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Editorial Review:

Finally - a completely new edition of the classic handbook and text for school librarians! Running a School Library Media Center has been expanded and updated to include each and every aspect of school library media operations. Here you will learn how to forge better relationships with teachers, students, and administrators. You will understand how to manage better through appropriate policy-setting, procedure development, budgeting, public relations, and staff training. Cataloging, collection development, weeding, furniture selection, space planning, circulation and more are discussed in detail. Checklists, sample forms, and templates are included to make every task and procedure simpler. Among the special sections are directories of book, periodical, and nonprint vendors; learning skills inventories; important professional statements; and a listing of key listservs and electronic resources. This major work - a goldmine of practical information - is a must have for all school libraries.

The Power of the Media Specialist to Improve Academic Achievement and Strengthen At-Risk Students

Jami Biles Jones; Alana M. Zambone

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Harness the power of the library to reach students! Find out how the school library media specialist can influence students' academic achievement and close the achievement gap ·Change school culture to recognize the role of the media specialist in developing essential academic skills ·Learn ways to address the needs of at-risk students in the library media center ·Help improve test scores and decrease drop out rates by being part of the team who builds skills in needy students This book is the must-have resource school library media specialists need to become an integral part of their school improvement team. Use the strategies in this guide to assist at-risk students to improve academic achievement and make adequate yearly progress (AYP). This resource also focuses on the librarian's role as leader in promoting resiliency in adolescents by highlighting the research on resiliency and its impact on student achievement. It includes a section on best practices that the librarian can adopt build resiliency in students.

Power Up Your Library: Creating the New Elementary School Library Program

Sheila Salmon, Elizabeth K. Goldfarb, Melinda Greenblatt, Anita Phillips Strauss

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Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library. Putting the many facets of the media specialist's professional life into the context of a flexibly scheduled, collaboratively planned teaching program, the book offers simple strategies for effecting positive change. It covers such topics as the librarian's role as teacher, programming, assessment, collection development, facilities, technology, the library budget, support staff, and public relations. Written for the school library media specialist who has or plans to have a library that conforms to today's vision of an effective school library media program, this book places the library media center at the heart of the school's educational program and shows how to position the library as the catalyst for school reform.

Library Media Leadership in Academic Secondary Schools

Pauline H. Anderson

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Ensuring Intellectual Freedom and Access to Information in the School Library Media Program

Helen R. Adams

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Over two-thirds of all challenges to books and other resources reported to the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom occur in schools. This book explores intellectual freedom issues in school library media programs including selection of resources and materials selection policies, challenges and censorship, students' freedom to read, patron privacy and confidentiality of library records, the blocking of Internet resources, access to the school library media center, its resources, and services for students with special needs, and advocacy for minors' First Amendment rights in school library media programs. Throughout the text, practicing public school and private school library media specialists at different grade levels candidly share their stories and observations on how intellectual freedom principles and ALA policy statements apply to real life situations. Attorney Mary Minow provides vital information about the impact of the First Amendment, federal and state law, and court decisions on minors using libraries in schools. Whether a library media specialist in the field or a student in a graduate or undergraduate library and information studies program, readers will find both practical information and advice to complement the concepts found in the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Manual. Print and Web resources are included.