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Energize your library summer reading program with this new approach that involves all ages, and rekindles the desire for children and families to read together for recreation, pleasure, and their own curiosity. No more counting hours or books, no rewards...

Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of American Reference Books Annual, RRB features only those resources that have been recommended for purchase by small and medium-sized academic, public, or school libraries. Written by over 200 subject specialists,...

Very often in the operation of two-year and other small academic libraries there are common issues and concerns. Librarians working in such institutions take the opportunity to share current thinking on such topics as managing change, accreditation...

Defines and models the ways the school library program, the faculty of the school and the library staff work together to perform the important work of education in each and every school. Use this book with teachers or give to school administrators to use...

Jump start students' verbal powers with a series of lively activities designed to hone writing, speaking, and listening skills. Each unit contains: teacher tips (making sure teachers understand the concept-very useful to home schoolers); a game with warm...

The Illusion of Reality was conceived during my tenure as director of the newly established Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation in 1979-1981 as a partial response to the need for a textbook for students, both...

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...

This versatile book from Master Teaching Artist Resurreccion Espinosa features 10 full-length plays in English and Spanish. Some plays are bilingual, and one is written for a multigenerational group. Tested in both inner-city and suburban schools, the...

Another winner from prolific author, Nancy Polette, this title focuses on setting the stage for 200 popular picture book read-alouds. Similar to her LU book for the intermediate-grade audience, 300 Junior Novel Anticipation Guides, this book introduces...

Students examine the concepts of intelligence, culture, technology and communication in this study. Using the information, they can form a culture for an intelligent organism that could exist on an unknown planet. A set of colour transparencies are also...

In this valuable book, 11 chapters each overview a technology of interest to librarians working in the field today.From cloud computing to data curation to open-source software, the world of technology offers great opportunity-and potential frustration...

Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With initiating activities, chapter-by-chapter...

Changes in technology, in society, and in your role as a library media specialist have spawned hundreds of new words, phrases, and acronyms. Where can you find their meanings? This dictionary was created to provide a single source of definitions for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936117178Author Andr CossetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Library Juice PressPublisher Library Juice PressWeight(grams) 109g

The transformation of the Bodleian Libraries provides an example of how major libraries can meet twenty-first century challenges: in 2008 it was facing a failed system installation, a failed plan to cope with its storage needs and the threat of losing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851423777Author Simon PrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint AslibPublisher Aslib The Association for Information ManagementWeight(grams) 122g

Connection. Competition. Collaboration. These three words define management of college libraries, today and in the future. They also describe the contents of this book, which focus on planning for the multiple directions that college library managers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038977407Author Anja OberländerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 318g

Knowledge management (KM) is frequently presented as a recent development born entirely of the business world. However, the intellectual origins of knowledge management are both deeper and broader than have been posited in the literature to date...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389605211Author Ravindra SarodeFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Scholars WorldPublisher Scholars WorldWeight(grams) 156g

This book helps directors of small college libraries to plan, staff, and organize their facilities and make the right decisions to effectively contribute to their college's mission. The purpose of this book is to provide the director of a small college...

Judy Freeman has developed a comprehensive handbook with thoroughly annotated lists of the 2008's best children's books, lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources. Grades K-6. The WINNERS! Handbook starts with an extensive...

This book by well-known authors Liz Knowles and Martha Smith (Boys and Literacy, Reading Rules!, etc.) fills the need for a K-12 resource for teachers and librarians searching for materials and activity ideas for character education at all grade levels...

Media specialists, particularly in large urban high schools, often cannot meet the individual instructional needs of every student. This book outlines an online unit that helps media specialists ensure that every student receives valuable-and...

Judy Freeman has developed a comprehensive handbook with thoroughly annotated lists of the 2007's best children's books, lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources. Grades K-6. The WINNERS! Handbook starts with an extensive...

Introduce students to the settings of well-loved children's books with engaging selections and a variety of geography and extension activities from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Marion Dane Bauer's On My Honor, Carol Ryrie Brink's...

This volume LNCS 14217 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2023, held in Wuhan, China, during October 2023. The 20 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were...

This text is a compilation of standard film and video subject headings and genre terms, and presents guidance from an established cataloging expert on assigning them. The first edition of Subject Access to Films & Videos has been effectively used by...

This latest collaboration in the Library Programs that Inspire series explores library media center events that target the high school age audience. Detailing particular methods to inspire high school students to appreciate and use the library media...

Contains 25 story theater scripts appropriate for Grades 2-6. The scripts are designed to accommodate whole-classroom participation. The book also includes a description of the process for working with students to create a school Story Fest. Grades 2-6...

Human beings have always had a penchant for collecting images. The challenge today is that almost anything and everything in the world is available as a viewable image. Consequently, say O'Connor and Greisdorf, image collections can no longer be the...

The 2008 volume of the 33-year-old Educational Media and Technology Yearbook series continues the legacy of its predecessors. It highlights the major trends of the previous year, with a focus on instructional technology education. It features the winning...

Out of his years of experience in working with children, Zingher identifies some of the powerful and evocative themes of childhood, and explores why these touch children so deeply. He encourages professionals who work with children in school, camp, club...

Not just an anthology, this extensive index offers keyword, title, and author name access to more than 1,800 quotations from nearly 500 classic, award-winning, and popular works for children. Pearls of humor and wisdom from authors such as the Brothers...

Just beginning to enter the workplace, Millennials have never known a world that wasn't connected by email, instant messages, text messages, and the Internet. For libraries, the challenge is clear: how do we serve older and more established clientele,...

Inventing the Future: Information services for a New Millenium is a sequel to Harris and Hannah's 1998 book Into the Future. In this book they move beyond the rhetorical contests about the future of the library and turn their attention to the more...

Unlike guides that take a simple geographic-chronological approach to listing historical fiction, this book takes a genre approach, with chapters devoted to historical romances, mysteries, adventures, etc. By grouping titles by subgenre and theme, and...

Strong women who prevail and triumph using their intelligence, courage, or resourcefulness are celebrated in this gathering of stories for all ages. It features legends, folklore, and fairy tales from such far-flung places as the Punjab, Africa, China,...

Identifying thousands of historical fiction novels, biographies, history trade books, CD-ROMs, and videotapes, these books help you locate resources on American history for students. Each book presents information in two sections. In the first part,...

This book examines mentoring in the communications discipline and using critical communication for effective relationships with students and junior faculty in higher education. Via qualitative and narrative-based research and critical and cultural...