Managing the Successful School Library

Managing the Successful School Library
Author: Lesley S. J. Farmer
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-12-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838915167

More than just a compendium of management theories, this book provides much food for thought that will help readers gain important insights into their own roles as school library managers and leaders.

Strategic Planning for School Library Media Centers

Strategic Planning for School Library Media Centers
Author: Mary Frances Zilonis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2002
Genre: Instructional materials centers
ISBN: 0810841045

Offers step-by-step instructions for implementing long-range media center plans in school libraries, identifying priorities for future direction, explaining the basis for effective budget development, and emphasizing the library media center's role in the school's instructional program.

Designing a School Library Media Center for the Future

Designing a School Library Media Center for the Future
Author: Rolf Erikson
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2007-04-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838909450

A guide to designing school library media centers that provides information on addressing the unique ergonomic and technology needs of children, controling costs using proven bidding and evaluation methods, understanding the technical drawings and language used in architecture, and other related topics.

Strategic Planning for Academic Libraries

Strategic Planning for Academic Libraries
Author: Gregory C. Thompson
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838918937

Written by a team of authors with decades of library administration experience between them, this powerful resource enables academic libraries to produce plans that will offer directional guidance to employees while also demonstrating the library's power to meet institutional goals.

Guided Inquiry Design®

Guided Inquiry Design®
Author: Carol C. Kuhlthau
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2012-06-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1610690109

Today's students need to be fully prepared for successful learning and living in the information age. This book provides a practical, flexible framework for designing Guided Inquiry that helps achieve that goal. Guided Inquiry prepares today's learners for an uncertain future by providing the education that enables them to make meaning of myriad sources of information in a rapidly evolving world. The companion book, Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, explains what Guided Inquiry is and why it is now essential now. This book, Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, explains how to do it. The first three chapters provide an overview of the Guided Inquiry design framework, identify the eight phases of the Guided Inquiry process, summarize the research that grounds Guided Inquiry, and describe the five tools of inquiry that are essential to implementation. The following chapters detail the eight phases in the Guided Inquiry design process, providing examples at all levels from pre-K through 12th grade and concluding with recommendations for building Guided Inquiry in your school. The book is for pre-K–12 teachers, school librarians, and principals who are interested in and actively designing an inquiry approach to curricular learning that incorporates a wide range of resources from the library, the Internet, and the community. Staff of community resources, museum educators, and public librarians will also find the book useful for achieving student learning goals.

Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning

Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
Author: American Association of School Librarians
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1998
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This volume aims to help readers respond proactively and help to lead the way to collaborative learning in schools.

Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools

Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools
Author: Faye Ong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Provides vision for strong school library programs, including identification of the skills and knowledge essential for students to be information literate. Includes recommended baseline staffing, access, and resources for school library services at each grade level.

Strategic Planning for Results

Strategic Planning for Results
Author: Sandra Nelson
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838935737

The PLA Results Series has long served to help public librarians envision, evaluate, and respond to community needs with distinctive programs and services. Building from this proven model, Strategic Planning for Results is the fully revised version of Planning for Results, the foundational book in this groundbreaking series. Sandra Nelson, senior editor of the Results Series, focuses on the essential steps to draft a results-driven, strategic planning process that libraries can complete over the course of four months, regardless of organizational structure or size. Reflecting on the current planning environment for public libraries, Nelson makes the case for strategic rather than long-term planning and includes a wealth of information about understanding and managing the change process to help staff Assess the change-readiness of the library and preparing staff to implement forthcoming changes Simplify data collection and decision-making processes through the use of 14 reproducible workforms Identify service priority options and reach agreement as a group Successfully present and communicate within their library Including the newly revised and adopted Public Library Service Responses, along with case studies, workforms, and tool kits, Strategic Planning for Results offers librarians a wealth of ideas to effectively meet changing community needs.

Social Media Curation

Social Media Curation
Author: Joyce Kasman Valenza
Publisher: ALA TechSource
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838959381

This issue of Library Technology Reports draws from 17 in-depth interviews to show how libraries are using social media to collect, organize, share, and interpret—in short, how to tell a digital story.