New books - business and buildings

Bergart, Robin, and Vivian Lewis. Sudden Selector's Guide to Business Resources. ALA 2007. 025.218769 Berga ISBN 0-8389-8414-2
This guide to the literature of business is designed to equip the new business librarian with solid advice, and acquaint them with the tools, resources, people and organizations for collection development.


McCarthy, Richard C. Managing Your Library Construction Project: a step-by-step guide. ALA 2007.
727.80973 McCar ISBN 0-8389-0931-0
McCarthy is an architect with in-depth expertise building libraries as well as an eighteen-year veteran library trustee. He communicates the challenges and opportunities from both sides of the table. This authoritative overview is filled with practical advice for understanding key relationships and managing a complex process. Library directors, professionals, administrators, and trustees will learn what the responsibilities are on both sides. Checklists and sample construction documents provide hands-on insights into the best practices in library construction. McCarthy explains the entire process, from deciding on new construction and analyzing the site to working with architects to evaluating the process and assessing the building's effectiveness.

new books 6/20/07

The Board Building Cycle: Nine steps to finding, recruiting, and engaging nonprofit board members. 2nd ed. Lakey, Berit M. Boardsource, Washington DC, 2007. isbn 1-58686-093-3 658.422 Lakey 2nd ed.
This concise, well-illustrated book includes such gems as a board orientation guide and checklist, and case studies along with pithy advice.


Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-sized Libraries and Media Centers. 2007 edition. Libraries Unlimited, Westport Conn., 2007 isbn978-1-59158-526-8 011.02 Recom 2007
This work includes book reviews from the American Reference Books Annual, a nationally known work that reviews not only books, but also CD-ROMs and Internet sites published in the U.S. and Canada. This work contains recommended sources that would be of interest for small libraries. Critical comments and comparisons with other sources are included.

Newbery and Caldecott Awards 2007 (book)

Association for Library Service to Children. (2007). Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A guide to the medal and honor books. Chicago: American Library Association.

The 2007 edition is out! This has a brief description of the awards, the selection committees, and history. It also includes an annotated bibliography of the award winners and honor books by year.

Preschool favorites: 35 storytimes kids love (book)

Briggs, D. (2007). Preschool favorites: 35 storytimes kids love. Chicago: American Library Association.

Each of the 35 storytime themes has a booklist of 10-12 read-alouds, several songs/rhymes/finger plays, activities like dance or dramatic play, music on CD/cassette, craft ideas, and reproducible black-line masters that can be used for flannel board characters, finger puppets, coloring and anything you can think of.

Serving Teens Through Readers' Advisory (book)

Booth, H. (2007). Serving Teens Through Readers' Advisory. Chicago: American Library Association.

Covers topics such as how to approach teens, conducting reference interviews with teens, teen appeal, what to do if you haven’t read a teen book since you were a teen, readers’ advisory and homework, how to suggest books to parents looking for something to bring home to their teen, how to create resource lists for the rest of the staff, and several book lists.