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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.
32 of 35 people found this review helpful.

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.

Taxonomies of the School Library Media Program

David V. Loertscher

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Collection Assessment and Management for School Libraries: Preparing for Cooperative Collection Development (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

Debra E. Kachel

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A leader in cooperative collection development for the school library presents a framework for developing school library collections in today's era of "access vs. ownership" and cooperative resource sharing. This guide provides new tools and techniques for analyzing collections, including "ready-to-use" collection data-gathering forms and collection assessment and analysis worksheets. Also included are examples of a written collection development policy, a selection policy, a copyright policy and procedures, and an Internet use policy. It shows how to map the school curriculum, represent library collections using automated circulation data, and document priorities for the collection. The guide is based on the premise that school library media specialists must have a clear understanding of their collection strengths and needs before participating in cooperative collection development in order to "think globally but act locally." The author provides more than 30 collection assessment tools, worksheets, and exemplary written sample collection policies that have proven effective in school library media centers and can be adapted for use in grades K through 12. Kachel provides both qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze existing collections based on the conspectus approach. Cooperative collection development activities are detailed, including the financial, technical, and human resources needed for success. Methodologies for providing a rich base of resources matching curricular and student needs in a cost-effective and user-relevant fashion enhance the managerial and leadership role of the school library media specialist. For all school library media specialists who plan to analyze and assess their collection and participate in cooperative collection development, this guide provides all the tools necessary to accurately and successfully manage this activity in a cost-effective manner.

Teaching Electronic Literacy: A Concepts-Based Approach for School Library Media Specialists (Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship)

Kathleen W. Craver

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School library media specialists will find this concepts-based approach to teaching electronic literacy an indispensable basic tool for instructing students and teachers. It provides step-by-step instruction on how to find and evaluate needed information from electronic databases and the Internet, how to formulate successful electronic search strategies and retrieve relevant results, and how to interpret and critically analyze search results. The chapters contain a suggested lesson plan and sample assignments for the school library media specialist to use in teaching electronic literacy skills to students and teachers. Dr. Kathleen W. Craver, a nationally recognized specialist in technology in the library media center, identifies the universal concepts of electronic literacy and provides the library media specialist with the rationales, background, methods, and model assignments to teach students and faculty to become proficient and critical users of electronic information technologies.

Designing a School Library Media Center for the Future

Rolf Erikson, Carolyn Markuson, Rolf Erickson

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Sharing their experiences of working on more than 100 school building projects, two expert school library media specialists draw a road map for becoming building-savvy, avoiding renovation pitfalls, and creating a school library media center for the future. Using conceptual plans from actual school libraries, the authors explain how to: -- Limit liability while creating universal -- ADA-compliant -- access -- Connect library facilities design to Information Power strategies -- Address the unique ergonomic and technology needs of children -- Control costs using proven bidding and evaluation methods

The Indispensable Librarian : Surviving (And Thriving) in School Media Centers in the Information Age

Doug Johnson

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The Indispensable Librarian: Don't Leave Home without It! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Indispensable Librarian is a valuable resource for any librarian, whether he or she is fresh out of library school or a seasoned professional. The author provides advice and encouragement relating to all aspects of the profession. Although the author directs much of the information toward school library media specialists, whatever your niche in the field of librarianship, this book provides plenty of nuggets of wisdom to make your job more rewarding. Chapter 8 offers rules for planning and questions to ask an architect before beginning a building project. This valuable chapter offers guidance and structure to the library director required to participate in such a monumental endeavor as well as to any librarian who sits on the planning committee. Johnson's relaxed writing style will move professional reading time right up to the top of your "to do" list! Get yourself a copy! You'll be glad you did!

The Collection Program in Schools: Concepts, Practices and Information Sources (Library Science Text Series)

Phyllis Van Orden

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This text gives you an overview of the processes and procedures associated with developing, maintaining, and evaluating a collection at the building level. It describes the environment of the collection and presents principles, techniques, and common practices of collection development.

Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller

Margaret Read MacDonald

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Editorial Review:

MacDonald's classic storytelling how-to primer returns, filled with updated resources, classic stories from around the globe, guidelines to tell them with gusto, as well as advice on finding, learning, and telling new tales. Twenty stories, complete with suggestions for chants, songs, dialects, repeating lines, and audience participation, make these multicultural tales easy to learn and tell while satisfying young audiences. A master of communicating in the story format, MacDonald engages readers just as she does her young audience members in story circles worldwide. She shares a goldmine of practical advice so that both veteran and inexperienced storytellers can: Find your unique voice to make the stories your own; Build up a sure-fire story repertoire quickly, and expand it easily using McDonald's recommended resources; Identify traditional story variants to wow audiences; Prepare and rehearse for success using techniques honed over 40+ years; Find the best tales for your style and audience; A new generation of school and children's librarians, storytellers, and folklorists can get ready to be inspired! Use this classic handbook to create maximum impact around the story circle - for tellers and listeners alike.

Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program

Esther Rosenfeld

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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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