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Shaping the Future: Advancing the Understanding of Leadership by Peter Hernon 9781598846157
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book provides an overview of leadership in library and information science (LIS), examines the findings of doctoral students in the Simmons program in Managerial Leadership in the Information... -
Connecting Children with Classics: A Reader-Centered Approach to Selecting and Promoting Great Literature by Meagan Lacy 9781440844393
Booksplease Price: £56.96This guide identifies hundreds of books that can help children develop into engaged readers. Children's librarians, collection development specialists in public libraries, as well as K-8 school... -
Making Surveys Work for Your Library: Guidance, Instructions, and Examples by Robin Miller 9781440861079
Booksplease Price: £41.36Instead of using expensive off-the-shelf surveys or relying on a poorly worded survey, read Making Surveys Work for Your Library and design your own that collect actionable data. Library listservs... -
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification, 11th Edition by Daniel N. Joudrey 9781598848571
Booksplease Price: £92.97A new edition of this best-selling textbook reintroduces the topic of library cataloging from a fresh, modern perspective. Not many books merit an eleventh edition, but this popular text does. Newly... -
Short-Term Staff, Long-Term Benefits: Making the Most of Interns, Volunteers, Student Workers, and Temporary Staff in Libraries by Nora J. Bird 9781440841767
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the... -
Reviving Reading: School Library Programming, Author Visits and Books that Rock! by Alison M.G. Follos 9781591583561
Booksplease Price: £31.52Drawing on her long experience as a school librarian, the author uses this middle school library programming book to help you promote free voluntary reading through innovative workshops, staff... -
The Responsive Public Library: How to Develop and Market a Winning Collection, 2nd Edition by Sharon L. Baker 9781563086489
Booksplease Price: £45.06How can public libraries successfully meet the needs of their patrons and their communities, and build support for their endeavors? Focusing on the heart and soul of the library-its collection-the... -
Riding Tall in the Saddle: The Cowboy Fact Book by Angel Vigil 9781563089022
Booksplease Price: £29.88Deeply rooted in American culture, lore, and history, cowboys have shaped the imagination of generations of Americans-young and old. Presenting the development of cowboy and cattle culture from the... -
The Library Compensation Handbook: A Guide for Administrators, Librarians and Staff by David A. Baldwin 9781563089701
Booksplease Price: £61.63Often the largest budget item in libraries, employee compensation is a vital, heavily discussed issue. This book provides library managers with essential information about establishing and... -
Romance Authors: A Research Guide by Sarah E. Sheehan 9781598843866
Booksplease Price: £41.36This book offers the perfect starting point for fans and researchers of the romance genre looking to learn more about a favorite author. Romance is the Rodney Dangerfield of popular fiction genres... -
Engaging in Evaluation and Assessment Research by Peter Hernon 9781598845730
Booksplease Price: £56.42For library managers, this book explains evaluation and assessment research and identifies the components of proper execution, such as planning, decision making, and accountability. Increasingly,... -
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 2007: Volume 32 by Michael Orey 9781591584421
Booksplease Price: £81.77The 2007 volume of the 32-year-old Educational Media and Technology Yearbook series continues the legacy of its predecessors. It highlights the major trends of the previous year, which cluster around... -
Read On...Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste by Rosalind Reisner 9781591587668
Booksplease Price: £37.42Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog-from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose. ... -
Personal Learning Networks: Professional Development for the Isolated School Librarian by Mary Ann Harlan 9781591587903
Booksplease Price: £37.42Most school librarians are solo librarians working with little direct contact with their counterparts in schools or in other types of libraries. This makes it very difficult to keep up with trends... -
Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-sized Libraries and Media Centers: 2014 Edition, Volume 34, 34th Edition by Shannon Graff Hysell 9781610695510
Booksplease Price: £76.81An essential resource for collection development specialists in small and medium-sized libraries, this guide identifies the highest quality, most affordable, and most appropriate new reference... -
More Virtual Field Trips by Gail Cooper 9781563087707
Booksplease Price: £31.52The amazing growth and popularity of the Internet means more opportunities to learn! Responding to the tremendous interest in their previous volume (Virtual Field Trips, Libraries Unlimited, 1997)... -
More Reading Connections: Bringing Parents, Teachers, and Librarians Together by Liz Knowles 9781563087233
Booksplease Price: £30.87Here are more great topics and sample book club sessions to help you start a book club and keep it going! Chapters in this volume cover humor, families, social issues, folklore and mythology, sports,... -
Introduction to United States Government Information Sources, 6th Edition by Joe Morehead 9781563087356
Booksplease Price: £52.00Whether used as a text for library and information science students, as a resource for professional librarians needing to access the information produced by or for the federal establishment, or as a... -
Using Consultants in Libraries and Information Centers: A Management Handbook by Edward D. Garten 9780313278785
Booksplease Price: £81.77This handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of the consultant/library relationship. It includes chapters written by full-time professional library consultants, information specialists, and... -
Planning for a New Generation of Public Library Buildings by Gerard B. McCabe 9780313305924
Booksplease Price: £75.81The public library director needs information that helps in understanding what is involved in planning for a public library building project. This applies whether the subject is a free standing... -
Exemplary Public Libraries: Lessons in Leadership, Management, and Service by Joy M. Greiner 9780313310690
Booksplease Price: £61.05What does it take to have a great library? The right leader? A great team? A wonderful facility? The best services? How can you transform your library to better meet the demands of tomorrow? This... -
Flexible Access Library Media Programs by Jan Buchanan 9780872878341
Booksplease Price: £30.87Learn how to move from a rigid scheduling program to a flexible one. This handbook covers the rationale for a flexible access library program, cooperative planning, implementing a flexible access... -
Serials Management in Academic Libraries: A Guide to Issues and Practices by Jean Walter Farrington 9780313273780
Booksplease Price: £76.51In the decade ahead, libraries will have to do more with less. Fewer journal titles owned by each institution, less detailed cataloging, and fewer staff will become realities as libraries are forced... -
Middleplots: Vol. 4 A Book Talk Guide for Use with Readers Ages 8-12 by John T. Gillespie 9780835234467
Booksplease Price: £56.97Find the right books to prepare persuasive, inspiring book talks with this successor to Introducing Books, Introducing More Books and Introducing Bookplots 3. Middleplots 4 details 80 books grouped... -
Readers Theatre For Young Adults: Scripts and Script Development by Kathy Howard Latrobe 9780872877436
Booksplease Price: £26.60Twelve reproducible scripts from the classics serve as examples of the readers theatre format. In addition, the authors have identified scenes from 30 contemporary novels (e.g., Prairie Songs, Tex,... -
Journal Keeping with Young People by Barbara Steiner 9780872878723
Booksplease Price: £24.63Journals offer young people a safe place to reflect, reminisce, dream, explore feelings and relationships, set goals, solve problems, celebrate themselves, and yes, even practice writing. In this... -
Picture Book Story Hours: From Birthdays to Bears by Paula Gaj Sitarz 9780872875562
Booksplease Price: £19.96This popular collection of 22 program plans includes introductions for read-alouds and booktalks and suggestions on how to use such other materials as poetry, participation books, songs, fingerplays,... -
Special Events Programs in School Library Media Centers: A Guide to Making Them Work by Marcia Trotta 9780313291906
Booksplease Price: £56.67This practical, hands-on guide will assist the school library media specialist in planning, funding, implementing, and promoting special events programs in the school. Trotta provides a readable text... -
Applied Informetrics for Information Retrieval Research by Dietmar Wolfram 9780313319709
Booksplease Price: £65.97The intersection of informetrics and information retrieval (IR) research provides valuable insights for IR system modeling, design, and evaluation. This work introduces readers to informetric aspects... -
Rebuses for Readers by Pat Martin 9780872879201
Booksplease Price: £24.92This text presents 100 rebuses - a hieroglyphic of sorts, combining pictures with letter sounds to make a word or phrase. Fifty of the rebuses are based on books, an additional 15 are "Authors in... -
Public Library Planning: Case Studies for Management by Brett Sutton 9780313287763
Booksplease Price: £81.77Public libraries must function in a time of limited funding, increasing technology, and shifting demographics and client needs. To fulfill their role, libraries must manage change through effective... -
Social Studies Readers Theatre for Children: Scripts and Script Development by Mildred Knight Laughlin 9780872878655
Booksplease Price: £27.88Fourteen reproducible tall tale scripts bring alive characters such as Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Mike Fink, and Stormalong. Another section uses eight books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and presents 60... -
Nature Puzzlers by Lawrence E. Hillman 9780872877788
Booksplease Price: £24.92Puzzling anecdotes from the real world of nature are dramatized in a short, easy-to-read format and used to encourage critical-thinking skills. Various applications can be employed to guide students... -
Intermediate Science by John W. Butzow 9780872879461
Booksplease Price: £28.19Integrate science into all disciplines of the middle school curriculum with the hands-on activities found here. Focusing on earth and environmental science, the authors have chosen a book... -
An Author a Month (for Nickels) by Sharron L. McElmeel 9780872878273
Booksplease Price: £26.90Bring favorite authors and children together in your classroom with these three acclaimed books. Each book includes biographical information, a photo page, booklists, and numerous activities designed... -
Coretta Scott King Award Books: Using Great Literature with Children and Young Adults by Claire Gatrell Stephens 9781563086854
Booksplease Price: £31.17Here's a fresh opportunity to learn more about these fine titles and integrate them into the curriculum. The first half of the book presents annotated bibliographies of all author and illustrator... -
Linking Picture Books to Standards by Brenda S. Copeland 9781591580881
Booksplease Price: £27.58This practical handbook provides more than 30 ready-to-use lesson plans that connect picture books to the national language arts standards set forth by NCTE and IRA. Designed for the primary grades,... -
ARBA In-depth: Children's and Young Adult Titles by Martin Dillon 9781591581628
Booksplease Price: £66.89This new addition to the ARBA In-depth series provides focused help in building children's and young adult collections. More than 300 critical reviews of quality reference titles by subject experts... -
The Power of Language/El poder de la palabra: Selected Papers from the Second REFORMA National Conference by Lilliam Castillo-Speed 9781563089459
Booksplease Price: £36.44Focusing on promoting Spanish-language and Latino-oriented services and resources in libraries, this selection of 20 papers was compiled at the Second REFORMA National Conference by experts in the... -
The Bottom Line: Determining and Communicating the Value of the Special Library by Joseph R. Matthews 9781591580041
Booksplease Price: £43.76Facing budget and personnel cuts, special librarians increasingly need to justify the cost of library operations-often even the library's existence. Expert Joseph Matthews illustrates how to evaluate...