Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice

Koufogiannakis, Denise and Alison Brettle (eds.). Being Evidence Based in Library and Information Practice. Neal-Schuman, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1521-9

Description
Bringing together recent theory, research, and case studies, this book provides librarians with a new reference point for how they can use and create evidence within their practice, in order to better meet the needs of their communities.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Background and model

1. Introduction -  Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle
2. A new framework for EBLIP - Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle
3. Articulate - Alison Brettle and Denise Koufogiannakis
4. Assemble - Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle
5. Assess - Alison Brettle and Denise Koufogiannakis
6. Agree - Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle
7. Adapt - Alison Brettle and Denise Koufogiannakis

Part 2: EBLIP in action
8. Practitioner-researchers and EBLIP - Virginia Wilson
9. Academic libraries - Mary M. Somerville and Lorie A. Kloda
10. Public libraries - Pam Ryan and Becky Cole
11. Health libraries - Jonathan D. Eldredge, Joanne Gard Marshall, Alison Brettle, Heather Holmes, Lotta Haglund and Rick Wallace
12. School libraries - Carol Gordon
13. Special libraries - Bill Fisher
14. Conclusion - Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle

Free Government e-Resources for Youth

Ormes, Dorothy. Free Government e-Resources for Youth: Inform, Inspire, and Activate. Libraries Unlimited, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4408-4131-6

Description
This book helps librarians promote online government information to youth and to assist youth in using it to become informed and educated about our federal government and how it works. It covers various areas of K–12 curriculum, highlighting activities and lesson plans based on national and state standards, and gives helpful directions for creating displays and conducting programs for youth on the government.

Table of Contents 

1. Stakeholders in U.S. government information
2. Understanding the governmental process
3. The government and education
4. The government and science
5. The government and the arts and humanities
6. The government and numbers : the census and beyond
7. The government and money
8. More government on the Web : agency pages, digital information, apps and mobile sites
9. Finding the needle in the haystack
10. Joining the FDLP : are you eligible? what's in it for you?

Critical Library Pedagogy

Pagowsky, N., & McElroy, K. (Eds.). (2016). Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook (Vols. 1 & 2). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. ISBN: 978-0-8389-8917-3

Publisher's Description

Critical pedagogy incorporates inclusive and reflective teaching for aims of social justice; it provides mechanisms for students to evaluate their social, political, and economic standing, and to question societal norms and how these norms perpetuate societal injustices. Teaching librarians have long incorporated social justice into their work, but focused interest in critical library pedagogy has grown rapidly in recent years.

In two volumes, the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook works to make critical pedagogy more accessible for library educators, examining both theory and practice to help the busy practitioner explore various aspects of teaching for social justice.

Volume One, Essays and Workbook Activities, provides short essays reflecting on personal practice, describing projects, and exploring major ideas to provide inspiration as you begin or renew your exploration of critical pedagogy. The bibliography of each chapter provides a network of other sources to explore, and the volume closes with a selection of workbook activities to improve on your own practice and understanding of critical pedagogy.

Volume Two, Lesson Plans, provides plans covering everything from small activities to multi-session projects. Critical pedagogy requires collaborating with learners and adapting to their needs, as well as continual reflection, but these lessons provide elements you can pull and tweak to fit your own environment. These chapters also provide 30 different views on creating and delivering critically designed information literacy instruction and reflect material commonly requested by faculty—including introductions to databases, evaluating information sources, and the research cycle. 

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Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals

Dority, G. Kim. Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals. 2nd edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-61069-959-4

Description
This guide is appropriate for those embarking on careers in library and information science as well as those looking to make a change, providing career design strategies that can be used to build a lifetime of career opportunity.

Table of Contents

1. Rethinking information work
2. Self-knowledge : your career starting point
3. Traditional LIS career paths
4. Nontraditional LIS career paths
5. Independent LIS career paths
6. Understanding, describing, and documenting your value
7. Thriving on change
8. Building professional equity
9. Getting from here to there
10. Improvising your resilient career

Appendix A. Special interest groups

Appendix B. Career and employment resources

Appendix C. LIS blogs and social media.

Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism

Cart, M. (2016). Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism (3 ed.). Chicago, IL: Neal-Schuman. 978-0-8389-1462-5.

Cart’s authoritative survey is already a go-to text for students of literary studies, teachers, and YA staff. In this new edition he gives it a thorough update to make it even more relevant and comprehensive. Surveying the landscape of YA lit both past and present, this book

• sketches in the origins of literature targeted at young adults;
• shows how the best of the genre has evolved to deal with subjects every bit as complex as its audience;
• closely examines teen demographics, literacy, audiobooks, the future of print, and other key topics;
• includes updated treatment of best-selling authors like John Green, Suzanne Collins, and Veronica Roth, plus interviews with leaders in the field;
• presents new and expanded coverage of perennially popular genre fiction, including horror, sci fi, and dystopian fiction;
• offers an updated overview of LGBTQ literature for young adults, including Intersex;
• covers such commercial trends as adult purchasers of YA books and the New Adult phenomenon; and
• features abundant bibliographic material to aid in readers’ advisory and collection development.

Cart’s up-to-date coverage makes this the perfect resource for YA librarians who want to sharpen their readers’ advisory skills, educators and teachers who work with young people, and anyone else who wants to understand where YA lit has been and where it’s heading.

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