Information and Digital Literacies

Farmer, Lesley S. J. Information and Digital Literacies A Curricular Guide for Middle and High School Librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4422-3981-4

Publisher's Description
Information and Digital Literacies: A Curricular Guide for Middle and High School Librarians is a practical guide to help school librarians design and deliver effective instruction that addresses the knowledge, skills and dispositions of information and digital literacies.

This curricular guide from one of America’s foremost experts in this area will help librarians prepare students for college and careers. It provides systematic instruction about conducting research and using integration as stated in the Common Core, complying with state and federal mandates for digital safety/competence curriculum, and recognizing the instructional role of school librarians. It should be noted that “canned” programs, particularly for digital safety exist, but they are not aligned with other school standards, and they do not reflect the unique communities of learners, let alone address the need to collaboration and articulation.

The ready-to-implement curricular guide features:

• instructional design strategies,
• model middle and high school curriculum, including a scope-and-sequence, stand-alone courses, units of instruction, and sample learning activities, and
• ties to new AASL and ACRL information literacy standards, ISTE technology standards, 21st Century Partnership framework, and Common Core State Standards.

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School Libraries 3.0

Butler, Rebecca P. School Libraries 3.0: Principles and Practices for the Digital Age. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
IBSN: 978-0-8108-8580-6

Publisher's Description

This textbook, for school library administration courses, is written by a professor who has taught this course at least once a year for the past twenty years. Technology is interwoven throughout the book and not listed as a separate chapter or book section. This is because the school librarian of today—and certainly the school librarian of tomorrow—is working in an environment of web resources, multimedia, mixed methods, and varying programs and services. Major chapters cover the various roles of the school librarian, curricular standards and guidelines, policies and procedures, budgeting, facilities, personnel, services, programming, ethics, advocacy, and evaluation. Sample policies, procedures, and plans make this book valuable to both new and experienced school librarians.

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The New Librarianship Field Guide

Lankes, R. David. The New Librarianship Field Guide. MIT Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780262529082

Publisher's Description

This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities—librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way.

The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities—students, faculty, scholars, law firms—in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship.

In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers “Frequently Argued Questions” about the new librarianship.

Go Get That Grant! A Practical Guide for Libraries and Nonprofit Organizations

Staines, Gail M. Go Get That Grant! A Practical Guide for Libraries and Nonprofit Organizations. 2nd edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4422-7027-5

Description
This book is a practical, how-to guide for those interested in writing, procuring, and implementing grants. The second edition has also been expanded to include a new chapter on how to become a grant writer. From gathering basic information about an organization through accepting and implementing the grant award, expert advice is provided then illustrated through step-by-step guides along with numerous examples.

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• Creating your toolkit 
• Identifying a project
• Types of grants
• Funding sources
• Select a grant and start writing
• Submitting your grant
• Making the grant successful
• If you want to become a grant writer
• Some advice and final words

Winning Grants: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians

MacKellar, Pamela H. and Stephanie K. Gerding. Winning Grants :  A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (2nd ed.). Chicago: ALA Neal Schuman, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8389-1473-1  025.11 MacKeW2

Publisher's Description
Newly revised and refreshed, this invaluable how-to manual will teach you the skills and strategies crucial for finding, applying for, and winning grants. Whether you’re starting from scratch and don’t know where to begin, or you’re an experienced grant writer looking to tap into new funding sources, this resource offers a proven, easy-to-understand process for grant success. Loaded with a wide variety of forms, worksheets, and checklists to help you stay organized, this book:

• summarizes the grant process cycle and outlines a clear path to success;
• shares inspiring grant success stories in action from diverse libraries;
• offers guidance on gathering knowledge and conducting research, with updated resource lists and links to the various types of funders;
• covers every stage of planning, including how to cultivate community involvement, methods for needs assessment, advice on organizing the grant team, and exercises to help you write realistic goals and objectives;
• gives tips on writing the proposal, such as where to find the best statistics and census data to support your statement of needs;
• advises how to announce a successful grant to the community, and other first steps of implementation, including the basic principles of project management;
• provides guidance on what to do when you’re turned down and how to conduct an effective review session that keeps the process moving forward;
• highlights ways to stay current through online discussion groups, blogs, networking groups, and more; and
• features sample RFPs, budget templates, grant partnership documents, and many other helpful tools.

Written by two librarians who are experts in grantsmanship, this all-in-one toolkit for winning grants is a must-have for library directors, grant writers, board members, consultants, and anyone else involved in planning library programs and services.

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