school libraries

Presents procedures for planning and evaluating a library media program and illustrates how the processes might work in a middle school setting.

A guide to developing a public relations program to promote school libraries to students, faculty, school boards, administration, parents, and the community, with advice on getting publicity and media coverage, and offering promotional activites and ideas.

Designed to serve as a practical, usable aid to locating children's books that illustrate reading, language, and literary instructional concepts ... in both traditional and holistic programs--Preface.

Presents a comprehensive collection of the author's top-rated children's books of 2006 including fiction and nonfiction, biographies, poetry, and folklore.

Addresses the implementation of the key components of Library Power, a program initiated in 1988 to improve public school libraries in New York City; discusses some of the consequences of Library Power programs; examines the use of professional development as a communication strategy; and considers the evaluation process.

A guide to collection development for school library media specialists, focusing on books, offering advice on how to get started, select materials, find the best sources, weed and evaluate a collection, minimize censorship complaints, and share materials.

Defines more than 375 basic and technical terms used by K-12 school library media specialists.

Explains principles and standards to libraries and media specialists responsible for cataloging materials for school and public libraries.