Book by Loertscher, David V., Woolls, Blanche

Information Literacy: A Review of the Research : A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers

Education & Teaching

David V. Loertscher

Schools & Teaching

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Building a School Library Collection Plan: A Beginning Handbook With Internet Assist

Computers & Technology

Blanche Woolls

Computer Science

Book by David V. Loertscher, Douglas Achterman

Increasing Academic Achievement Through the Library Media Center: A Guide for Teachers

Politics & Social Sciences

Douglas Achterman

Social Sciences

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Loertscher, Koechlin, and Zwaan team up in this book to rethink everything about the function and role of school libraries and computer labs. It is often a case of 180 degree reconsideration. What does this mean? The profession has been on a command and control model: If we build it, they will come. We build a website and expect students and teachers to use it on our terms. They Google, instead. We expect teachers to appreciate the collections we build. They want classroom collections. We open our doors during the school day. Our patrons want 24/7-365 service.

The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win

Carol Koechlin

Sandi Zwaan

More than a decade ago, David Loertscher introduced the concept of collection mapping in two different books mostly to the audience of school librarians. It received some attention at that time because it contained a simple method of dividing the collection into various segments that became a part of a visual representation of collection strengths and weaknesses. Much has happened in the last decade that has put into major questions what it is libraries should own and what it should provide access to across a wide spectrum of information and for what types of devices. For this new revision of the collection mapping idea, Laura Wimberley has added her expertise and together the authors have designed a book that would be useful to all types of libraries. It's object is to take into consideration many of the traditional ideas of collection development that still make sense, but also to push the envelope in the idea of collection development. This book has been designed to use as a textbook for beginning practitioners, and also for experienced collection developers who want to challenge their traditional practices. We believe this is critical in an era where many patrons consider the Google search as their own definitive free access to the world of information. We hope that the issues we raise will stimulate discussion on the book's companion wiki.

Collection Development Using the Collection Mapping Technique: A Guide for Librarians

Laura H. Wimberley

The typical research assignment might consist of a selection of a topic and the interception of information resulting in a product of some kind that is graded. The end. Next topic, please. However, football coaches approach things quite differently. Yes there is the daily practice culminating in the game. But they videotape the game for a specific reason. Monday, everyone analyzes the game. Put your ego at the door. Watch. Analyze. Synthesize. What when on? How did I do; how did we do; what can we do to get better? If this reflection activity is omitted, the players don t get any better. Neither do the coaches. The Big Think introduces the same reflection strategies for both classroom teachers and teacher librarians. Here are nine strategies to use as we analyze the game no, the learning activity, particularly when both the librarian and the classroom teacher have been struggling to improve teaching and learning. What happens to coaches when they don t get better across the season? What happens to the players? In the same way, we posit that there must be a reflection activity at the end of the unit a metacognitive activity that looks back over the learning event that just occurred. Leave it out at your own risk. There is much talk about metacognition in education. It is part of critical thinking and creative thinking. Everyone seems to understand that it should happen but in our look across the educational literature, it is one of those assumptions that it automatically happens when we have little evidence that it does. This trio of authors have created nine strategies that become the cherry atop the whipped cream of a unit sundae. Each strategy can be used to ascertain two major successes or failures: Content learning (what I know; what we know) and Process (how I learned; how we learned) followed by So What? and What s Next? Such activities give the teacher librarian and the classroom teacher real evidence of what students know, are able to do, and what they deeply understand. We recommend these ideas strongly in the current results milieu. If you have enjoyed this trio s work in the past, don t miss this one!

The Big Think: 9 Metacognative Strategies that Make the Unit End Just the Beginning of Learning

Sandy Zwaan

People: Think Models for Collaborative Knowledge Building

Completely updated for the 2012-2013 school year, this 8th edition includes two- and four-page spreads that cover many genres in Young Adult Literature and Multimedia. Each spread gives a history of the genre, sample titles, and spotlights authors and how to keep up in that particular genre. Topics include: The young adult novel, fantasy and science fiction, history, popular music, and teen television, among others. Its greatest strengths in comparison to other guides on young adult literature is its price, yet it is a quality introduction for teachers and librarians. Purchasers of the print edition have access to a digital book2cloud edition where collaborative work can be done by readers of the interactive e-book. Instructions are found inside the printed cover on how to access this collaborative tool. We welcome Beth Wren-Estes to the authorship of this edition, replacing Mary Ann Harlan.

Young Adult Literature and Multimedia, 8th Ed.

Sharron McElmeel

Beth Wrenn-Estes

Completely updated for 2014, this 9th edition includes two- and four-page spreads that cover many genres in Young Adult Literature and Multimedia. Each spread gives a history of the genre, sample titles, and spotlights authors and how to keep up in that particular genre. Topics include: The young adult novel, fantasy and science fiction, history, popular music, and teen television, among others. Its greatest strengths in comparison to other guides on young adult literature is its price, yet it is a quality introduction for teachers and librarians.

Young Adult Literature and Multimedia: A Quick Guide

Laura Wimberly

Marc Crompton

Learning Commons Press

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