school libraries

Provides advice and ideas to elementary school librarians on how to manage the school library/media center, covering physical organization and management, discipline, reading promotions, special programs, budgeting, policies, and other topics; and includes reproducible forms, charts, letters, and patterns.

Shares over two thousand ideas for making five hundred pictures books interactive, showing how elements from the story are turned into activities for children, and includes instructions for creating songs, games, rhymes, plays, and other activities to complement any book.

Explains how to build a strong library media program, providing taxonomies for the library media specialist, teacher, student, and administrator and discussing collaborative planning, technology, direct services to groups and individuals, the information infrastructure, and program evaluation.

Introduces teachers to the importance of good library media centers, explaining how they can improve the quality of instruction without necessarily increasing workload.

Guide for librarians selecting, ordering, and using government documents.

Integrating traditional and electronic means of communication, this book offers step-by-step instructions and tips for creating planning, publicity, teaching, and programming documents for a school library.

Explores the role for the modern school library media center. Includes planning guides and evaluative instruments.

Includes 1,200 quick ideas to better manage the school library. Includes curriculum involvement, volunteers, reading motivation, bulletin boards, and computers.