A Year in the Story Room (book)

Roginski, R. D. (2014). A Year in the Story Room: Ready-to-Use Programs for Children. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions. 978-0-8389-1179-2.

Preparing storytime programs can devour the time of the even the most experienced children’s librarians, especially when several different age groups must be taken into account. Infants and toddlers, pre-readers, and emergent readers all have different needs, and who has time to dig through a multitude of resources to gather suitable programming materials? Roginski offers the perfect solution with this all-in-one planner for young children, providing everything needed for a year's worth of story room fun. Filled with ready-to-use programs for winter, spring, summer and fall on themes children know and love, this handy volume

• Presents materials perfectly tailored to each group, including ideas for infants, traditional story programs for children toddling toward kindergarten, and book clubs for emergent readers
• Gives easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each program, with suggested books, poems, activities, sound recordings, craft ideas, printable patterns, supply lists, and more
• Features a special section on guiding children from reading along to reading alone, and other transitional programs

Librarians can take this amazingly useful resource right into the story room to encourage fun and learning the whole year round.

 

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Cooking Up A Storytime (book)

Snderson-Newham, S. (2014). Cooking Up A Storytime: mix-and-March Menus for Easy Programming. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions. 978-0-8389-1203-4.

Tired of leftovers? Ready to cook up some new storytimes, ones that integrate books and games with math, science, and early literacy activities? These mix-and-match menus featuring kids' favorite topics, like animals, families, farms, and food, will engage young ones while easing their transition to school. Whether you’re hungry for a full-course feast or prefer to order à la carte, this flexible resource dishes up

• Practical, up-to-date early literacy information that helps storytime organizers understand how children grow and learn
• Detailed program menus to enable storytime planners to establish uniformity in content, important for early literacy
• Original flannelboard activities, poems, games, and fingerplays incorporating science, math, and poetry
• A varied selection of mix-and-match books to help create appealing, perfectly seasoned menus

With the guidance provided by this resource, the storytimes you cook up will be delicious and nutritious!

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Implementing an Inclusive Staffing Model for Today's Reference Services

Nims, Julie K., Paula Storm, Robert Stevens. Implementing an Inclusive Staffing Model for Today's Reference Services: a Practical Guide for Librarians. Practical Guides for Librarians, no. 2. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-9128-9

Description
This book describes the step-by-step transition from the traditional librarian-staffed reference desk to an inclusive reference model where non-MLS personnel are equipped and empowered to answer reference questions wherever these questions might be asked. Each chapter contains practical resources such as checklists, forms, and sample materials, and other usable features to support readers as they implement the inclusive reference model. Topics covered include: 

• Recognizing that nearly all staff answer reference questions, but few are trained to do so
• documenting the necessity for a change in reference model
• gaining buy-in from all interested parties—librarians, non-MLS staff, and administrators
• determining the optimal staffing level
• creating training materials and schedules
• monitoring the quality of reference service
• supervising staff
• evaluating the new model using multiple methods

 
Table of Contents
See publisher's website for a detailed table of contents. 

Law Librarianship in the Twenty-First Century

 

Balleste, Roy, Sonia Luna-Lamas and Lisa Smith-Butler (eds.) Law Librarianship in the Twenty-First Century. 2nd edition. Scarecrow Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-9255-2

Description
While designed primarily as a textbook for a law librarianship course, this book offers practical answers to such questions as: What is law librarianship? How do you become a law librarian? How does law librarianship interrelate with the legal world and the library world? This updated edition addresses both historical and contemporary issues facing law libraries and those who staff them!

Table of Contents

Introduction Roy M. Mersky (In Memoriam)

1 A Brief History of Law Librarianship Robert C. Berring Jr.

2 Working at the Law Library: A Practical Guide Karl T. Gruben

3 The Administration of the Academic Law Library: The Glue That BindsLisa Smith-Butler

4 Public Services Anne Klinefelter & Sara Sampson

5 State Law Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: The Maryland ExperienceSteve Anderson

6 The Curious Case of County Law Libraries Robert Riger

7 Law Firm Libraries Abigail E. Ross

8 Collection Development, Licensing, and Acquisitions Frederick W. Dingledy, Benjamin J. Keele & Jennifer E. Sekula

9 Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarianship Mary Rumsey
10 Technical Services Sonia Luna-Lamas

11 The Evolution of Government Documents Jennifer Bryan Morgan

12 Technology Trends in Law Libraries Billie Jo Kaufman & Roy Balleste

13 The Law Library of Congress Christine Sellers

14 The World of Library Consortia: Collaboration and
Resource Sharing in the Twenty-First Century Tracy L. Thompson

Virtual Reference Benchmarks

Virtual Reference Benchmarks. New York, NY : Primary Research Group, Inc., [2014]

The 189-page study presents results of an exhaustive questionnaire about virtual reference services answered by more than 50 academic, public and special libraries covering issues such as budgets, software and services use, consortia membership, partnerships, library staff time consumed, number of reference questions answered, time taken to provide responses, and the tracking of reference answers and the development of a reference database.

The study also looks at reference question & answer delivery vehicles such as web forms, instant messaging, email, phone, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and more. The report also looks at the various costs of virtual reference – telecommunications, manpower, technology and equipment and at how libraries are using and safeguarding their reference response databases.

The study presents data from more than 50 academic, public and special libraries about their virtual reference systems. Data is broken out separately for these types of libraries, as well as by other criteria, such as the number of years that virtual reference has been in use, type of virtual reference service offered, and library size.