The Collection Program in Schools

The Collection Program in Schools
Author: Kay Bishop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This fourth edition of a best-selling development resource provides an updated overview of processes and procedures associated with developing, maintaining, and evaluating a collection at the building level. It offers principles, techniques, and common practices of collection development and management while weaving in new considerations. New topics include licensing online resources such as subscription databases, creating a collection development policy that meets curriculum standards, circulating and promoting the collection, using online selection and evaluation tools, providing remote access to school library collections, using virtual libraries to increase the collection, and writing policy and procedures manuals. This new edition provides an updated overview of the processes and procedures associated with developing, maintaining, and evaluating a collection at the building level. New topics include licensing online resources such as subscription databases, creating a collection development policy that meets curriculum standards, circulating and promoting the collection, using online selection and evaluation tools, providing remote access to school library collections, using virtual libraries to increase the collection, and writing policy and procedures manuals.

LMP 2007

LMP 2007
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 2006
Genre: Publishers and publishing
ISBN: 9781573872553

Volume 1 covers core publishing industry information: book publishers; editorial services and agents; associations, events, courses and awards; and books and magazines for the trade. Volume 2 contains information on service providers and suppliers to the publishing industry. advertising, marketing and publicity; book manufacturing; sales and distribution; and services and suppliers can be found in this volume. Entries generally contain name, address, telephone and other telecommunications data, key personnel, company reportage, branch offices, brief statistics and descriptive annotations. Where applicable, Standard Address Numbers (SANs) have been included. SANs are unique numbers assigned to the addresses of publishers, wholesalers and booksellers. Publishers' entries also contain their assigned ISBN prefixes.

El-Hi Textbooks and Serials in Print, 2006

El-Hi Textbooks and Serials in Print, 2006
Author: Bowker Editorial Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-02
Genre: Periodicals
ISBN: 9780835247931

Essential for every school librarian, El-Hi Textbooks & Serials In Print 2006 provides bibliographic information for more than 189,000 textbooks (elementary, junior high, and high school) and pedagogical entries. While the main emphasis is on classroom textbooks, also included is information on appropriate reference books, periodicals, maps, pedagogical books, tests, teaching aids, audiovisual, and learning materials from over 13,000 publishers. A must-have for curriculum development, this resource offers information on materials that will complement and enhance a teacher's lesson plans. El-Hi Textbooks & Serials In Print features seven indexes: subject, author, title, series, publisher and distributor, serials subjects, and serials titles. The main subject index is topically arranged by 21 broad subject areas and 308 more specific subdivisions, with cross-references where necessary.