The 21st-Century Elementary School Library Program: Managing for Results

Harvey II, Carl A. The 21st-Century Elementary School Library Program: Managing for Results. 2nd ed., Libraries Unlimited, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4408-4244-3

Publisher's Description
Compact yet remarkably comprehensive, this book covers all the major aspects of school library services, from administration to instruction focused from the elementary school librarian perspective—now updated and expanded to include the latest developments in makerspaces, the Common Core, social networking, and eBooks.

How do you accomplish a technology transformation at a time when budgets are extremely limited? What is the proper location for web-based social networking in the school library? What are the best practices for working together with students, parents, and educators? The 21st-Century Elementary School Library Program: Managing for Results is an invaluable resource for answers to these and many more questions, as it brings together in one volume the advice and insights you need to bring your library into the new century.

This invaluable guide provides tips and techniques, forms and templates, and advice on everything from staffing and budgeting to collaborating with teachers and other libraries, to Web 2.0 and other new computer tools for building collections and devising special programs. Whether you are just getting started or are a library veteran seeking effective program renewal, this book belongs on your shelf.

Features

• Provides information written by a former practicing school librarian and guidance that is applicable immediately in school libraries
• Updated to include collection development in the digital age to address eBooks and other digital acquisitions
• Covers the instructional stance of school libraries

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Challenge-Based Learning

Graves, Colleen, et al. Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace. Libraries Unlimited, 2017.
ISBN: 978-1-4408-5150-6

 

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An invaluable how-to text that details the workshop model, addresses the design challenges, and explains the best avenues for curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace.

A successful school makerspace needs an enthusiastic maker community, school-wide participation, and staff support. How do you build this type of learning at your school? The innovative team behind Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace addresses common questions and concerns and describes step-by-step how to introduce challenge-based learning into the school library makerspace.

Intended for librarians and school staff who have already started thinking in terms of makerspaces but need further help sustaining programming and want to know more about Makerspace 2.0, this helpful guide details the workshop model, various real-world design challenges, and the process for implementing curriculum-based learning in the school library makerspace. Readers will be empowered to go beyond the initial implementation of a makerspace and to draw from an arsenal of proven methodologies for designing challenges for student learning. Additionally, the book enables the addition of curriculum connections to library programming, shows how to connect your students to local experts and the global maker community, and eases you into more productive collaboration with other librarians.

Features

• Explores crowdsourced research methods that lead to authentic participatory learning
• Ensures that student-led workshops and design challenges result in tremendous success
• Supplies practical tips that can be applied by beginner maker-librarians and provides curricula suggestions for advanced maker-librarians
• Explains how to incorporate design thinking, empathy building, and problem solving with design challenges that spur student creativity

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Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition

Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition by John J. Burke, revised by Ellyssa Kroski. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 978-1-5381-0818-5.

Publisher's Description
Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition is an A–Z guidebook jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Learn what other libraries are making, building, and doing in their makerspaces and how you can, too. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies that will equip them with the knowledge to implement their own library makerspaces. This expanded second edition features eighteen brand new library makerspace profiles providing advice and inspiration for how to create your own library makerspace, over twenty new images and figures illustrating maker tools and trends as well as library makerspaces in action and new lists of actual grant and funding sources for library makerspaces.

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Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Katie Fitzgerald. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 978-1-4422-8167-7.

Publisher's Description
Successful Summer Reading Programs for All Ages: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides the tools necessary to put together successful summer reading programs for each of these different age groups. Key elements include:

• Sample program ideas for early childhood, school-age, teen, and adult readers to suit any summer reading theme
• Best practices for promoting summer reading to the community
• Troubleshooting for common difficulties associated with summer reading programs
• Tips and tricks for using software programs to manage registration and track readers' progress

Public librarians serving children, teens, and adults will find everything they need to put together a successful summer reading program in this comprehensive handbook.

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Implementing the Information Literacy Framework: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Implementing the Information Literacy Framework: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Dave Harmeyer and Janice J. Baskin. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 978-1-5381-0757-7.

Publisher's Description
Implementing the Information Literacy Framework: A Practical Guide for Librarians is written with three types of people in mind: librarians, classroom educators, and students. This book and its website address the implementation of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework of Information Literacy in Higher Education. One of the few books written jointly by an academic librarian and a classroom faculty member, Implementing the Information Literacy Framework packs dozens of how-to ideas and strategies into ten chapters specifically intended for librarians and classroom instructors.

If you have been waiting for a no-nonsense, carefully explained, yet practical source for implementing the Framework, this book is for you, your colleagues, and your students, all in the context of a discipline-specific, equal collaboration between the library liaison and classroom educator. Implementing the Information Literacy Framework gives you the tools and strategies to put into practice a host of Framework-based information literacy experiences for students and faculty, creating a campus culture that understands and integrates information literacy into its educational mission.

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