The law of libraries and archives (book)

Carson, B.M. (2007). The law of libraries and archives. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.

This book has a companion website.
"This site contains a number of important documents and resources related to library law. This site also supports the book The Law of Libraries and Archives published by Scarecrow Press. The materials were selected by the author, Bryan M. Carson, a lawyer and librarian who is the Coordinator of Reference & Instructional Services at Western Kentucky University Libraries." --Bryan Carson

Storytimes for two-year-olds (book)

Nichols, J. (2007). Storytimes for two-year-olds (3rd Ed.). Chicago: American Library Association.

The introduction briefly covers planning strategies, troubleshooting, and program elements. You will find 50 thematic program ideas. Each theme has a book list, rhymes/songs/fingerplays, craft, sign language notes, and follow-up ideas for parents. The Booklist review warns that the author’s style of running a toddler storytime is very rigid, but praises the thematic ideas and says they are easy to adapt to your own style.

Welcome to your Library (DVD)

Welcome to your Library (DVD) by Minneapolis Public Library; 027.63 Welco (DVD)

This DVD is in Somali with English sub-titles. A Somali man leads a tour of the library, pointing out services and materials that may be of particular interest to Somalis. This DVD serves as an excellent model for those of you who are interested in developing culturally competent services or materials to particular groups of people in your service area.

For more information visit "Welcome to your Library" on Minneapolis Public Library's website.

Library Services to Indigenous Populations (book)

Library Services to Indigenous Populations: Viewpoints & Resources. Kelly Webster, ed., Office for Literacy and Outreach Services - ALA, 2005. 64 pp.
isbn 0-8389-8316-2
call # - 027.63 Libra3

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Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn (Book)

Why question? Why bother? Isn’t thinking enough? What’s the difference, anyway? Isn’t questioning and thinking part and parcel of the same whole? Pg. 1

The first paragraph of this book immediately starts modeling the practice of questioning. The book is full of easily understandable thought provoking quotes on thinking and questioning such as:
1-“At worst, thinking can resemble a cow chewing its cud.” Pg. 2
2-“Questioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread making. Unleavened bread is flat, hard and unyielding. Unleavened thinking is uninspired.” Pg. 7
3-“Questioning is central to learning, growing and acting. An unquestioning mind is condemned to ‘feeding’ on the ideas and solutions of others. An unquestioning mind may have little defense against the data smog (Shenk, 1997) so typical of life in this information age. An unquestioning mind is too much like a rudderless sloop swept along by storm swelled currents.” Pg.15

At least 10 different types of questions (Essential, Irreverent, Irrelevant, Inventive, Hypothetical, Probing, Divergent, Provocative, Unanswerable, Subsidiary ) are eloquently defined. The reader is provided concrete examples to help their understanding. Reading this book is like attending one of those “just in time” workshops that send you home with a toolbox of new techniques to try on your students first thing Monday morning. Don’t question yourself on this one, check it out! It would be a great professional book group study for any building!