Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library (book)

Cuban, S. (2007). Serving new immigrant communities in the library. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited

"Cuban provides a guide for librarians interested in developing their institution's services for new immigrant communities. Coverage includes knowing and planning for new immigrants' needs, assessing community needs and assets, gathering resources for serving new immigrant communities, communicating competently with new immigrant communities, changing library policies to meet new needs, accommodating new immigrants with library services, building multicultural collections for new immigrant communities, and connecting new immigrants to learning opportunities."-Reference & Research Book News

Serving Young Teens and 'Tweens (book)

Anderson, S.B. (2007). Serving young teens and 'tweens. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

The teenaged library can be a trial, to which many librarians can attest. This book gives them strong reminders of what is happening to them developmentally that might help librarians in dealing with this age bracket. The first chapter should be required reading for all library staff members. The booktalking chapter will be helpful to anyone needing encouragement for school visits. Few libraries could go wrong with purchasing this highly recommended title for youth and teen librarians' professional collections.
—VOYA August 2007

Well-qualified contributors provide practical ideas, balanced and specific examples, up-to-date book lists, and citations to research-oriented works. From the first chapter ("Childhood Left Behind") to the index, the book is sure to provide working librarians with tools they'll use immediately. The booktalking section alone, with few titles older than 2002, gives advice on classroom presentations plus usable write-ups of more than two-dozen talks. A terrific book for most public, middle- and high-school professional collections.
—Booklist/Professional Reading

Learning to Lead and Manage Information Literacy Instruction

Grassian, Esther S., and Joan R. Kaplowitz. Learning to Lead and Manage Information Literacy Instruction. New York City, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2005.

Covers topics from management to cooperation and change, grant writing, publicity, promo and learning to manage technology. Comes with a CD with support materials including info lit enhanced syllabus, memo to administrator, help forms, web links.

Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity: Strategies for Change.

Lathrop, Ann, and Kathleen Foss, eds. Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity: Strategies for Change. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005. Focus is on guiding students, educators and parents from a culture that ignores or tolerates cheating into one where every effort is made to value, encourage, and support honesty.

Library 2.0 and Beyond

Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User, edited by Nancy Courtney ; foreword by Steven J. Bell. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007. 152 p.

Description:

Library 2.0: does everyone seem to know what this means except you? Or are you reasonably well informed but wondering what challenge to take on next? In this new work, Nancy Courtney has assembled some of the most forward looking thinkers in the library world to describe the next generation of online tools. Beginning with Steven J. Bell, each contributor introduces his or her favorite technology, outlines its use, and discusses its potential in today's library environment.

Table of contents:

Preface Steven Bell
Chapter 1: Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: What Librarians Need to Know Elizabeth L. Black
Chapter 2: Library Catalog 2.0 Michael Casey
Chapter 3: The Wonderful World of Wikis: Applications for Libraries Chad Boeninger
Chapter 4: Podcasting in Libraries Chris Kretz
Chapter 5: Handheld Computers in Libraries Christopher Strauber
Chapter 6: Mashups and Web Services Eric Schnell
Chapter 7: Online Social Networking Brian S. Mathews
Chapter 8: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging Ellyssa Kroski
Chapter 9: up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,a,b,select, start: Learning from Games and Gamers in Library 2.0 David Ward
Chapter 10: Library 2.0 and Virtual Worlds = Innovation + Exploration Lori Bell, Tom Peters, and Kitty Pope
Chapter 11: Digital Storytelling, Libraries, and Community Karen Diaz and Anne M. Fields
Suggested Readings
Index
About the Editor and Contributors