This sixth edition of Library Unlimited's classic school library management text describes new approaches to management and addresses the realities that school librarians face in today's quickly evolving information-based world.
In recent years, nearly all school libraries and school librarians have been targeted for having their funding or staffing cut as a result of reductions in school budgets. How does a newly graduated LIS professional prepare for a career in this volatile environment? How do established librarians and administrators prove their value and necessity to decision makers?
This freshly updated edition of The School Library Manager is an invaluable textbook that leads readers through the many essential management tasks and skills required to administer the successful school library program and beyond. It promotes the leadership role of the school librarian in the school and addresses the need for school librarians to provide students with equal access to information. The information presented will not only enable librarians to keep their jobs but also supply specific guidance and inspiration that gives readers the ability to make their positions and libraries undeniably relevant and valuable―and to ensure a path of upward mobility in their LIS careers.
 • Provides information that progresses logically from preparing for the profession, to seeking a job, and to acting and managing in the role of the school librarian
• Newly updated to offer additional insight into the challenges of leadership in changing school environments and specific information for school administration
• Addresses and emphasizes the value of school librarians in education and student achievement―information to be shared with school administration in an advocacy appeal
• Provides several appendixes of additional information

The School Library Manager: Surviving and Thriving (Library and Information Science Text Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Woolls, Blanche

Coatney, Sharon

Social Sciences

Libraries Unlimited

Building on the success of The Strangest Dinosaur That Never Was (Libraries Unlimited, 2003), a storybook approach to teaching Web site evaluation to young learners, this set of books is the first in a series of three that focus on teaching the inquiry process to young learners. In the interactive storybook, Mac the Information Detective introduces the beginning stages of the research process―The Big Question, Narrowing It Down, and Making a Plan―to the curious kids who have found a caterpillar and want to know how to keep him alive until he becomes a beautiful butterfly. Accompanying the storybook is an educator's guide featuring lesson plans, extension ideas, vocabulary words, and reproducible worksheets for teaching the inquiry process. The lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards in language arts and science, and are designed to be used collaboratively by the classroom teacher and teacher librarian. Grades K-3.

MAC, Information Detective, in… The Curious Kids and the Squiggly Question [2 volumes]: A Storybook Approach to Developing Research Skills [2 volumes]

Children's Books

Arnone, Marilyn P.

Computers & Technology

The Curious Kids Digging for Answers: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills and its accompanying Educators' Guide, is the second in a set of three dealing with teaching the inquiry process to young learners (K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the during stage of the research process in which students locate, collect, organize, and interpret information in order to answer their questions. In this case, students have found a rock which is no ordinary rock (it may be a fossil!). They have many questions and they begin digging for answers. Mac introduces them to a new clue: I give you Clue #4: Get ready for . . . Information Exploration! Answers we will find. Information Exploration. I've got FOSSILS on my mind! Accompanying the interactive storybook is an educators' guide featuring lesson plans for reading the story aloud. The guide also includes many extension lesson ideas for teaching the inquiry process, as well as vocabulary words, and reproducible worksheets. Lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards as applicable in language arts and science. They are framed to be collaboratively taught using the skills and expertise of the classroom teacher and teacher librarian.

The curious Kids: Digging for Answers : Educator's Guide : A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Libraries Unltd Inc

The Curious Kids Digging for Answers: A Storybook Approach to Developing Research Skills and its accompanying Educator's Guide, is the second in a set of three dealing with teaching the inquiry process to young learners ( K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the during stage of the research process in which students locate, collect, organize, and interpret their information in order to answer their questions. In this Case, students have found a rock which is no ordinary rock ( it may be a fossil!). They have many questions and they begin digging for answers. Mac introduces them to a new clue: I give you Clue #4: Get ready for . . . Information Exploration! Answers we will find. Information Exploration. I've got FOSSILS on my mind! Accompanying the interactive storybook is an educators' guide featuring lesson plans for reading the story aloud and many extension lesson ideas for teaching the inquiry process as well as vocabulary words, and reproducible worksheets. Lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards as applicable in language arts and science. Lessons are framed to be collaboratively taught using the skills and expertise of the classroom teacher and teacher librarian.

Mac, Information Detective, in The Curious Kids...Digging for Answers : A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills (Prepack--Storybook & Educator's Guide)

Activities, Crafts & Games

Mac, Information Detective, in…The Curious Kids and Why Dolphins Visit Curiosity Creek: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills and its accompanying educators' guide, deals with teaching the inquiry process to young learners (K-3). Mac, Information Detective, introduces the ending stage of the research process in which students evaluate their information and their inquiry process and decide how to present their findings to others. Lessons are all coordinated to AASL information literacy standards and national content area standards as applicable in language arts and science. The read aloud illustrated picture book is accompanied by an educator's guide offering lesson plans and many reproducible worksheets for student use. Interactive pages placed throughout the read aloud picture books help teachers and librarians pace their reading and introduce activities that teach the ending stage of the inquiry process. A vocabulary list is included to aide in student comprehension. Grades K-3.

Mac, Information Detective, in . . . The Curious Kids and Why Dolphins Visit Curiosity Creek [2 volumes]: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research ... Book and Educator's Guide Set [2 volumes]

The School Library Manager (Library and Information Science Text)

This very readable text is updated to encompass the new role of school librarians in managing the digital world in libraries.
This textbook is simply the ideal guide for preservice school librarians and those new to the field. After a brief introduction that describes the history of the role of the school librarian, the book covers how to choose a credential program, identify the requirements for working in each of the 50 states, and avoid the pitfalls of looking for and choosing a job. The text even supplies a first-week "survival guide" for excelling in that new position from the beginning, covering the challenges of successfully managing collections, facilities, personnel, and technology. Critical subject matter such as librarian/teacher collaboration, curriculum integration, proposal writing, tackling leadership, and the role of a school librarian in the legislative process are addressed as well. This latest version of this established, "go-to" text provides updated coverage of student learning assessment, supplies new information on managing digital and virtual libraries and collections as well as social media in the library media center, and supplies careful attention to key strategies to meet AASL and Common Core standards.
 • Presents up-to-date information and thorough revisions of a well-established and popular textbook
• Highlights the teaching role of today's school librarian
• Emphasizes the newest AASL standards, the Common Core standards, and the management of 21st-century digital and virtual libraries and collections
• Supplies comprehensive coverage of current issues in school library media center administration

Weeks, Ann Carlson

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Books by Coatney, Sharon

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The School Library Manager: Surviving and Thriving (Library and Information Science Text Series)

MAC, Information Detective, in… The Curious Kids and the Squiggly Question [2 volumes]: A Storybook Approach to Developing Research Skills [2 volumes]

The curious Kids: Digging for Answers : Educator's Guide : A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills

Mac, Information Detective, in The Curious Kids...Digging for Answers : A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research Skills (Prepack--Storybook & Educator's Guide)

Mac, Information Detective, in . . . The Curious Kids and Why Dolphins Visit Curiosity Creek [2 volumes]: A Storybook Approach to Introducing Research ... Book and Educator's Guide Set [2 volumes]

The School Library Manager (Library and Information Science Text)

The School Library Manager (Library and Information Science Text)