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Helps you understand the role that medical, hospital, public, and health libraries are uniquely qualified to play in improving health literacy. This work teaches you ways to use collection development, the reference interview, community health information, and Web resources, as well as strategies for working with special needs populations.

What skills, resources, and techniques do expert searchers use when looking up health information? This work teaches you strategies and techniques, and takes you through the components of an expert search. It also includes an interview checklist and examples of librarian-user interactions that help you plan a successful, efficient search.

Explains the threat of potential liabilities, and recommends how to avoid them. This guide clarifies how liability issues differ not only between institutions - public libraries, academic libraries, museums - but also between varying information related jobs like reference librarianship and cataloguing.

Explores various facets of creating a vibrant YA reading community such as inquiry-based learning, promoting and motivating reading, collection management, understanding multiple intelligences, accepting diverse beliefs, and acting as a change agent to name a few.

Describes Web 2.0 tools in-depth, models Web 2.0 tools through classroom examples, explains how to get started with each tool, presents practical unit plans illustrating the use of Web 2.0 in the K-12 content-area curricula, and identifies and describes what tools are most useful to educators for networking, productivity and insight into the technologies.

Technology grants provide the crucial funding to implement the latest technology projects so you can meet your community's needs. But how can you write a successful grant proposal? How can you be sure that your technology grant will be approved? Here is the only book that covers technology grants for libraries.

Inquiry follows a continuum of learning experiences, from simply discovering a new idea or an answer to a question to following a complete inquiry process. Written by a team of school library leaders, Teaching for Inquiry focuses on this process, helping school library media specialists actively engage and motivate their students in learning.

Here is a guide that shows you how to help student's develop the critical thinking and learning skills necessary for effective and engaged citizens in the 21st Century. It provides tools and strategies to deliver a cutting-edge school library curriculum.

Covering both basic book repair techniques and sound preservation practices, this practical, step-by-step manual offers illustrated sections on cleaning, mending, hinge and spine repair, strengthening paperbacks, and more.

This comprehensive, practical guide covers every aspect of systematic instructional design. By taking a broad, multifaceted approach, rather than concentrating on one model or system, it enables librarians and other information professionals to compare and contrast instructional design, so that they can make the best choices in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes.

Nothing comes as naturally to children as pretending. This harnesses that wonderful capacity to nourish learning, literacy, cognitive development and pure enjoyment. Fifty compelling themes encourage children to use their imaginations to learn about subjects as diverse as camping, the beach, the Old West, pirates, jungle safaris, dinosaur digs, plus 44 more scenarios.

Helps you identify the essential concepts and goals behind great leadership, and effectively implement each one into your library's organizational structure. This book covers key strategies and processes for coaching, team building, and mentoring library staff.

Electronic resource management encompasses much more than turning on and off resources and tracking usage. This guide provides advice on the tools and best practices of the field help you tackle your workload while saving you time, effort, and money.

Explores the unique nature of academic librarianship and guides readers to understand what is required to have a successful career in academic librarianship. Evans and Alire explain the important ways in which the higher education environment distinguishe

Provides guidance in information acquisition including copyright and contract matters. This book covers basic fair trade and contract law concepts, contract formation, compliance, breech and remedy issues; developments in online and information contracting; and the advantages and disadvantages about licensing.

This extensively revised, new edition tackles important changes in technology and the increasing financial pressures that have affected both the health care and library industries. From new initiatives, roles, and technologies to assessing the needs of an organization to managing libraries, this volume focuses extensively on the management of the 21st-century health sciences library.

Offering a selection of the very best YA literature as chosen by the members of YALSA-BK, each book entry is fully annotated and generously cross-referenced, creating a rich resource that offers a wealth of ideas for any school or public librarian.Offers ideas for those school or public librarians who work with collection development, readers' advisory, reference or programming for young adults.

Covers various aspects of institutional repository (IR) development. This book includes real-life examples of IR development from respected academic libraries including Cornell University, Colorado State University, and Macalester College.

Aims to offer the answers and approaches you need to make effective choices about video gaming in your library. This work includes topics such as: video game basics - history, formats, and genres; benefits and controversies; selection, collection, and circulation of titles; equipment and vendors; programming ideas; policy and management; and more.

This is a practical copyright handbook designed to help librarians, media specialists, technology coordinators and specialists, and teachers stay within copyright law while making copyrighted print, non-print, and Web sources available to students and others.