The Librarian’s Guide to Book Programs and Author Events

The Librarian’s Guide to Book Programs and Author Events
Author: Brad Hooper
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838913997

Using this guide, libraries can connect book lovers eager to learn about recent and noteworthy books to authors and fellow book lovers.

Writing Reviews for Readers' Advisory

Writing Reviews for Readers' Advisory
Author: Brad Hooper
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838910173

With energy and commitment born of professional experience and a deep love for graphic novels, Goldsmith provides the first guide to the genre aimed specifically at readers advisors, while presenting an abundance of resources useful to every librarian.

Nonfiction in Motion

Nonfiction in Motion
Author: Julie Dietzel-Glair
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838914687

Using this book as a springboard for programming will ensure that storytime is a delightful, educational experience for children and adults alike.

Self-Publish & Succeed

Self-Publish & Succeed
Author: Julie Broad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736031506

You can write a book-anyone can. But if you want to write a book that people will want or even need to read, it's not as simple as sitting down to write. In fact, that's one of the biggest mistakes unsuccessful authors make. Writing a book can be one of the smartest moves for your business success. But you need more than writing skills to create an impressive book that readers will love. You also need a plan to market, sell, and leverage your book into a new level of leadership within your industry to reach your professional goals. In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your first chapter. To write a book that boosts your brand, generates a profit, and makes you an influencer in your industry, you need the #noboringbooks way. You're about to discover: -The reason why you're not finishing your book-and how to overcome it. -Why most books are boring, and how to keep yours from being one of them. -Which editors you need to perfect your story and where to find them. -The one simple page that could generate thousands of sales. -Seven places to sell your book (and only one starts with "A!"). Nonfiction doesn't mean no fun. Write a money-making book that delivers meaningful impact. Self-Publish & Succeed is your step-by-step guide to writing, publishing, and marketing a book that will get attention, explode your career, and change people's lives-including yours.

Introduction to Public Librarianship, Third Edition

Introduction to Public Librarianship, Third Edition
Author: Kathleen de la Pena McCook
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 083891506X

Put simply, there is no text about public librarianship more rigorous or comprehensive than McCook's survey. Now, the REFORMA Lifetime Achievement Award-winning author has teamed up with noted public library scholar and advocate Bossaller to update and expand her work to incorporate the field's renewed emphasis on outcomes and transformation. This "essential tool" (Library Journal) remains the definitive handbook on this branch of the profession. It covers every aspect of the public library, from its earliest history through its current incarnation on the cutting edge of the information environment, including statistics, standards, planning, evaluations, and results;legal issues, funding, and politics;organization, administration, and staffing;all aspects of library technology, from structure and infrastructure to websites and makerspaces;adult services, youth services, and children's services;associations, state library agencies, and other professional organizations;global perspectives on public libraries; andadvocacy, outreach, and human rights. Exhaustively researched and expansive in its scope, this benchmark text continues to serve both LIS students and working professionals.

The Librarian's Complete Guide to Involving Parents Through Children's Literature

The Librarian's Complete Guide to Involving Parents Through Children's Literature
Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1997-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313078440

Getting parents to participate in their child's education is easy with these take-home reproducibles! This book provides a single-source guide to selected reading and extension activities for grade levels K-6. Each activity sheet includes a summary of a book, discussion questions, and a list of engaging learning projects for adults and children. The activities are designed to increase discussion, build reading skills, and develop comprehension. More than 100 titles of quality children's literature are featured. Teachers will love this unique way to promote reading, and it's great PR for the library. A must for school and public libraries!

Teaching Adult Learners

Teaching Adult Learners
Author: Jessica A. Curtis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440865450

As adult instruction becomes a more common part of library practice, librarians need guidance in an area that may not always have been a part of their library science education. This book provides the instruction necessary to instruct adult patrons. Presenting complex concepts and ideas in an easy-to-understand format, this book applies learning theory to real-life situations and provides a much-needed resource for those responsible for or seeking to instruct adults in library settings. The book introduces learning principles and techniques that will enhance your classes, programs, and one-on-one interactions as well as increase the memory retention of participants. It will help you not only to promote learning but also to create positive library interactions and build retention. Current library instructional and theoretical texts address instructional programming but do not explain how the instructor handles learning instruction differently for individuals, general audiences, and specific audiences, or in passive situations such as through handouts or online interactions. This guide differs from other works in that it addresses all adult services positions, not only those with the title of "instructional librarian," and addresses the full scope of instruction that librarians need to better meet patron needs.

Literacy Across the Community

Literacy Across the Community
Author: Laurie A Henry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000290050

This volume explores and evaluates community-based literacy programs, examining how they bridge gaps in literacy development, promote dialogue, and connect families, communities, and schools. Highlighting the diversity of existing literary initiatives across populations, this book brings together innovative and emerging scholarship on the relationship between P20 schools and community-based literacy programming. This volume not only identifies trends in research and practice, but it also addresses the challenges affecting these community-based programs and presents the best practices that emerge from them. Collaborating with leading scholars to provide national and international perspectives, and offering a clear, birds-eye view of the state of community literacy praxis, chapters cover programming in a multitude of settings and for a wide range of learners, from early childhood to incarcerated youths and adults, and including immigrants, refugees, and indigenous communities. Topics include identity and empowerment, language and literacy development across the lifespan, rural and urban environments, and partnership programs. The breadth of community literacy programming gathered in a single volume represents a unique array of models and topics, and has relevance for researchers, scholars, graduate students, pre-service educators, and community educators in literacy.

Bringing the Arts into the Library

Bringing the Arts into the Library
Author: Carol Smallwood
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838994695

Smallwood has combed the country finding examples of programs implemented by a variety of different types of libraries to enrich, educate, and entertain patrons through the arts.

Read It Forward

Read It Forward
Author: Linda Kay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598848097

With this practical guide, it's easy to implement the proven fun—and learning—of a read-it-forward program in your middle school library. Teens recommend books to other teens, offering a surefire way to promote books and reading. Finding the right book for each student is almost impossible if you serve several hundred students, as most school librarians do. Read It Forward offers an innovative way around that problem: a program that lets librarians saturate the school with a title that encourages middle school students to read for pleasure. As an added bonus, Read It Forward (RIF) creates learning opportunities that can be leveraged across the curriculum. The program presented here is based on the author's experience with a community RIF project that was a collaborative effort among nine middle school librarians from schools with varying needs and socioeconomic levels. This thoroughly practical book takes librarians through the process step by step, offering specific examples of what worked and what didn't, then showing how the process can be extended to almost any book. The author also discusses other aspects of running a successful RIF program—such as getting buy-in from school administrators, the PTA, and department chairs—so that parents and teachers can collaborate in the experience.