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Suitable for 'Generation M' - those born in the early 1980s through the mid 1990s, this title answers the core questions you may need to facilitate new and powerful learning opportunities for your Gen M audience, including: Who are the members of Gen M? What is their shared cultural experience and how does it influence learning?

A guide to the theory and practice of library instruction. It covers various aspects and modes of information literacy instruction, including history and psychology, as well as how to create and design teaching materials, how to use new technology to support pedagogy, and how to utilize new developments in the field.

A work on building, growing, managing, and maintaining your electronic resources collection. It covers over 15 subject areas, including jobs and employment, business, medicine, law, social sciences, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, earth sciences, and arts and humanities.

Ideal for anyone who aims to obtain an overview of the current status of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) development. It helps identify the key FRBR issues that need to be addressed and investigates the future directions of FRBR development.

Offering information about space and power planning, troubleshooting, social networking, and supervision, this handbook is suitable for new and veteran school librarians who want to stay current with best practices in technology management and for LIS students who are preparing for careers as school librarians.

Identifies and describes more than 250 nonfiction books from the children's department that will support and engage the adults with special needs.

Whether you're an avid storyteller or 'newbie', this guidebook takes you inside the art and magic of making stories come alive for young patrons. It helps you expand your repertoire and build confidence in your abilities to select stories, engage listeners, and encourage a love of story performance.

From building personal networks and creating innovative job descriptions to mentoring programs, organizing first-year experiences, and providing intensive training, this book helps you to support your entry-level librarians, as they build effective leadership skills, and assume greater responsibilities.

Does the flu vaccine cause the flu? How do I find a LASIK surgeon? Will Echinacea treat my daughter's cold? This work offers a resource to suggest when patrons come to you with health questions. It includes entries that provide an explanation of medical conditions and treatment, and provide call-out facts to support better understanding.

Helps you teach and support students as they learn to access, evaluate and use print and electronic information successfully. This book offers professional development support for paraprofessionals, aides, and non-degreed staff working in children's and young adult services.

Teaching information literacy with technology across the curriculum, this work is filled with case studies and lesson plans that can help you put together a technology-based course for your institution. Each chapter is co-written by a librarian-faculty member team involved in a collaborative teaching-with-technology project.

Compiles bibliographic information about the books and authors honored by the Alexander, Edwards, and Printz awards given by YALSA - the division of the American Library Association (ALA) that serves the librarians who work with young adults. This volume includes essays written by experts in young adult content.

Intended for information professionals, this text describes how medical libraries can be useful players in the health informatics revolution. It includes chapters that describe the history, role, and infrastructure of medical informatics as well as its impact on access to medical information and the culture and quality of medical care.

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.

Provides tips and advice about buying, recommending, cataloging, and shelving graphic novels. This book shares the insights of librarians, media specialists, and vendors about how best to build and manage graphic novel collections.

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.

Contains information on how to evaluate a library's policies and procedures, and provides suggestions to help develop new policies and procedures. This book covers the areas of: Collection Development; Acquisitions; Budgeting; Equipment and Materials Maintenance; Year-End Reporting; Scheduling; and Web Publishing and Design.

Features ideas from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) for implementing the most popular virtual activities into your services. This work offers snapshots of the technology-oriented programs. It covers topics that include recreation- and education-based programs, working with special teen populations.

Describes over more than 800 Web sites covering United States, ancient and medieval, and modern history. Each entry in this work includes the URL and a detailed annotation. Two introductory chapters help librarians and educators learn to locate and evaluate history Web sites and integrate them into the educational or library setting.

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.

What teen wouldn't be interested in a poetry slam, hosting a cable TV show, or learning to be a DJ? This title provides 25 teen programs from public libraries based on the Search Institute's ""40 Developmental Assets for Teens"". The companion CD-ROM provides the sign-up forms, promotional posters, evaluation worksheets, permission slips, and more.

Helps you turn your favorite stories or poems into puppet presentations. This guide gives you annotations of nursery rhymes, poems, stories, folk-tales, fables, and songs. It shows you how to select and purchase puppets, develop performance techniques, store and preserve these tools, and integrate them with children's literature.

Helps you approach book selection confidently and strategically. This book offers advice for: establishing general criteria and following guidelines; using selection tools effectively; and special selection criteria for specific genres, including picture books, fiction, genre fiction, folk literature, rhymes, and poetry.

Created to appeal to the diverse needs of children, communities, and librarians, this book offers 35 storytimes, each of which includes: ""Rhymes and Songs""; ""Storytime Picks""; ""Crafty Corner""; and ""...Plus"" - ideas for incorporating traditional children's games, larger projects and activities, tell-aloud stories, and fun-food activities.

Designed to help librarians connect new adult readers with books and to acquaint literacy teachers with materials generally available in their public library. This book outlines the library's role in fostering adult literacy and shows how popular library materials can be used by librarians and teachers in new and innovative ways.

Music adds an extra special element to storytime programming. This compilation of musical storytimes features more than 75 songs, including traditional folk songs and lyrics. It includes annotated bibliographies of picture books related to music, along with tips on how to deliver these programs. It also has hints for non-singers.

It may sometimes seem impossible to get some kids to read. This work shows you how to entice reluctant readers, what types of books are most likely to grab and keep their interest, and how to connect different kinds of readers with different genres - graphic novels, realistic fiction, mystery, fantasy, nonfiction, short stories, and more.

Focuses on the topics of copyright, including those in the areas of legislation and case law. Divided into four parts, this book also offers guidance for making copyright decisions in day-to-day situations, and includes electronic classroom and international copyright agreements, a glossary of important terms and phrases and mandated words.

Identifies many of the books that deal with the tough topics kids face, including divorce, death, moving, sibling rivalry, fire, substance abuse, friendship, multiculturalism, separation anxiety, and more. This book also encourages involvement with dramatic arts, movement, and music to build student confidence and a lifelong love of reading.

Helps librarians and classroom teachers alike use simple instruments such as bells, rhythm sticks, sand blocks, shakers, and tambourines to add a musical element to storytime. The companion CD-ROM includes audio tracks along with forms and patterns to make these low-prep favourites.