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FRBR - Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records - is an evolving conceptual model designed to help users navigate catalogs and find the material they want - be that print, DVD, audio, or adaptations. This work offers explanations for librarians interested in the next phase of access to their library's digital information.

Outlines hands-on plans to: identify potential security problems; put prevention strategies in place; create guidelines for libraries and staff in case something does happen; and, minimize risk, whether to building, collections, patrons, staff, or computers.

Offers a companion to accompany ""Children's Jukebox, Second Edition"". This is a comprehensive guide to make music an integral and engaging part of children's story hour.

Navigating what at she calls the ""extravagantly rich world of nonfiction,"" the author builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports.

Stephen Abram has the knack for seeing and expressing the obvious long before most people become aware of the issue. With bibliography of Abram's works and recommended reading list, this volume gives perspective on the future of the library profession, challenges preconceptions, and helps librarians stay ahead of the learning curve.

Drawing on research in instructional strategies, this guide offers a roadmap to the task of teaching reading comprehension in a collaborative process. With practical applications, it: encourages collaboration with a flexible design and delivery framework; strengthens partnering techniques to improve reading comprehension; and more.

From job search strategies and discovering your work philosophy to the nitty-gritty details of creating acceptable use policies, this work serves as a mentor for new school library media specialists (SLMS). It presents the joys and perils of the profession along with advice on books, presentations, and workshops.

What does it truly take to provide excellent library service to children? The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has outlined seven core competencies - skills that are building blocks for professional development for children's librarians. This guide aims to bring these skills to life.

Incorporating outcome-based planning and evaluation is critical when developing new programs and services. This guide shares the experts' findings and strategies such as: Generate results that support funding - be it governmental or grant-based; Improve communications between staff and customers; and more.

Do they ""get it""? Are students mastering information literacy? Framing ACRL standards as benchmarks, this work provides a toolbox of assessment strategies to demonstrate students' learning.

From needs assessment through design and implementation to final evaluations, this practical guide takes librarians step by step through the workshop process. With a focus on practical applications, it shows instruction librarians how to make every minute count.

Breaking down a complex process into pieces, this work shows how to get started, be organized, and stay on track with checklists, tips, and exercises; and outlines proven approaches to collaborative instruction, literature appreciation, and integrating technology. This study guide coaches school library media specialists through exam specifics.

Provides practical implementation tips for busy children's librarians. This work contains scripts and plans that help librarians explain what adults can do to enhance children's print motivation, phonological awareness, vocabulary, narrative skills, print awareness, and letter knowledge.

MacDonald's storytelling how-to primer is 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.

A study of library workplace conflicts, along with realistic ways to manage them. This book shows how to create a positive working environment, stay on track with achieving goals, and live the mission of the library.

For application of the most current Anglo-American Cataloguing RulesMaxwell's Handbook for AACR2 is used. This practical and authoritative cataloging how-to, now in its Fourth Edition, has been completely revised inclusive of the 2003 update to AACR2.

Is your library vulnerable to challenges arising from difficult patrons, censorship, budget issues, or disgruntled staff? This step-by-step primer illustrates communications basics to prepare libraries for communicating to critical contacts in times of crisis. It is a guide to creating a time-saving resource for any emergency situation.

An estimated 13 million people in the U.S. are not served by a public library. ""The Public Library Start-Up Guide"" provides a framework for success - from looking at the big strategic picture to picking the furniture.

The authors guide both librarians and administrators to make promises for the future and present a strategy for keeping those promises so that young adult audiences can become active library and community participants. From building partnerships to implementing successful programs to incorporating technology that helps teens assume leadership and responsibility, this is an inspiring yet practical take on what it means to "get it right" for teens in the library.

Looks at legal issues surrounding libraries, covering such toipcs as designing a Web site, copyright, library empolyees, and providing access to people with disabilities.

With clearly stated goals and core values, this book provides direction on establishing quality library service to young adults in school and public libraries - service that is built upon the foundations of youth development, developmental needs and developmental assets.

This authoritative reference to the thorny issues of copyright, trademarks and patents provides detailed explanations of the various types of intellectual property, how they differ, what they cover and how the protections affect library work and services to customers.

A practical manual on the process of library outcomes assessment. It includes detailed case studies and discusses how to: prepare an outcomes assessment strategy; execute your plan by collecting and analyzing data; and measure the value of the services you are providing.

Who hasn't read ""Blubber""? It remains one of the ""100 Most Frequently Challenged Books"" and is kept out of many school libraries. This work of discussion guides shows that there is a way to teach these books while respecting all views.

A guide for library managers, offering practical strategies for success. Linking the role of the frontline manager to the rest of the organization, it covers the skills of mentoring, team-building, decision-making, taking charge, and working and communicating with staff at all levels.

This volume challenges librarians to demand a place at the community planning and development table. Describing the experiences and insights of librarians who have blazed trails of community involvement, it outlines practical ways to become involved in policy-making.

Written by a librarian and former romance-snob, this work explains the genre of romantic fiction and its subcategories. A method of increasing familiarity within any genre is also included, while appendices offer the resources to create and implement a romance-friendly library plan.

A reference guide covering the repair, maintenance and preservation of library or archive collections, providing an analysis of how to plan for and ensure the long-term health of an institution's collection in this digital age.

This text advises parents on the benefits of reading to their children. It suggests that adults can help develop proper audience behaviour in young people, and stimulate their interest.