Category: Library Information Science

By Linda Armstrong

ISBN-10: 1586832301

ISBN-13: 9781586832308

Get reliable studying effects with phonics! educate scholars in Grades K-1 the fundamentals of phonemic expertise to extend studying abilities. ·These classes contain playful tale hour rhymes and actions to supply direct guideline in phonics and phonemic wisdom distinctive to get reliable studying effects ·The classes are easy-to-implement and correlated to nationwide criteria. they're a excellent source for assisting your scholars make sufficient every year development (AYP) ·Included within the ebook are unique, educational, reproducible black line masters! No baby Left at the back of (NCLB) has raised nationwide information of scholar analyzing talent. This new source deals hands-on aid with instructing phonics and phonemic information. those easy-to-follow classes on letter and sound popularity may also help educators construct the root for a good studying application within the school room and library. Use this ebook to educate phonics and enhance your scholars' studying rankings!

By Rebecca Lubas, Amy Jackson, Ingrid Schneider

ISBN-10: 1843347296

ISBN-13: 9781843347293

Cultural historical past pros have excessive degrees of teaching in metadata. notwithstanding, the associations during which they perform frequently rely on help employees, volunteers, and scholars so one can functionality. With restricted time and investment for education in metadata production for electronic collections, there are frequently many questions about metadata with out a trustworthy, direct resource for solutions. The Metadata handbook offers this type of source, answering uncomplicated metadata questions which may seem, and exploring metadata from a beginner's standpoint. This identify covers metadata fundamentals, XML fundamentals, Dublin middle, VRA center, and CDWA schemes and gives workout within the construction of metadata. eventually, the publication offers an summary of metadata, together with mapping and sharing.

• Outlines the most well-liked metadata schema written via working towards metadata librarians
• Focuses on what you "need to know”
• Does now not require coding event to take advantage of and understand

By Donna P. Miller

ISBN-10: 0313096422

ISBN-13: 9780313096426

ISBN-10: 1591585651

ISBN-13: 9781591585657

Find out about the area of ultra-modern teenagers and the way to speak with this extremely important section of your library's viewers. assemble rules for enlisting support from lecturers and faculty librarians in making plans programming to deliver youth to the library. Examples of genuine existence reference interviews stick with a listing of instruments to have on the youngster reference table. the fundamental components of establishing youngster assortment and reader's advisory prone are awarded with rules for making a teenager pleasant library. details should be valuable to librarians in smaller libraries and people assigned to teenager prone as part of their different tasks.

By Mary Ellen Snodgrass

ISBN-10: 156308953X

ISBN-13: 9781563089534

Supplying a wealth of maps and geographic routes for 28 books, this advisor illustrates the right way to train with literary maps, taking scholars on a trip via genuine and imaginary terrains. Entries span a variety of genres and literary codecs (including novels, dramas, and diaries); each one follows a book's protagonist via area and time, protecting locations visited in addition to ancient figures, customs, cultures, and events.Geographic summaries, itemized itineraries, and certain maps support scholars hint each one character's trip and understand the geographic scale of motion. As a prelude to interpreting, the maps may help deprived readers higher comprehend the tales and settings of a publication, that allows you to considerably improve any student's interpreting event. guide on marking maps with notes and arrows can assist scholars organize for college-level sessions as they manage their paintings, simplify complicated components, define chronology, and include extra interpreting and learn.

By Luciano CANFORA

ISBN-10: 0520072553

ISBN-13: 9780520072558

The Library of Alexandria, one of many wonders of the traditional global, has haunted Western tradition for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt--successors of Alexander the Great--had a awesome ambition: to deal with the entire books ever written below one roof, and the tale of the common library and its destruction nonetheless has the facility to maneuver us.But what was once the library, and the place used to be it? Did it exist in any respect? modern descriptions are imprecise and contradictory. The destiny of the valuable books themselves is a topic of unending speculation.Canfora resolves those puzzles in a single of the main strange books of classical heritage ever written. He recreates the realm of Egypt and the Greeks briefly chapters that marry the craft of the novelist and the self-discipline of the historian. Anecdotes, conversations, and reconstructions provide The Vanished Library the compulsion of an unique story, but Canfora bases them all on old and literary assets, which he discusses with nice panache. because the chilling end to this based piece of ancient detective paintings he establishes who burned the books.This quantity has benefited from the collegial aid of The Wake woodland college Studium.

By Brian Mayer

ISBN-10: 0838910092

ISBN-13: 9780838910092

A much-talked-about subject will get thorough attention from educator-librarians, who clarify precisely how fashion designer board video games that are worlds except video games produced strictly for the tutorial industry can turn into curricular staples for college kids old and young. Drawing on their event as online game aficionados and builders of a nationally famous software, the authors equip colleagues with every little thing they should begin a board online game undertaking with * Direct hyperlinks among board video games and curriculum * feedback for construction a center assortment throughout grade degrees * thoughts for application improvement and implementationFrom selling the belief to lecturers and directors to aligning particular video games to country and nationwide schooling criteria, this ebook may also help you construct a robust assortment that speaks to more suitable studying and social improvement and is simply simple enjoyable.

By Barbara Wood Borne

ISBN-10: 0313008418

ISBN-13: 9780313008412

ISBN-10: 0313295522

ISBN-13: 9780313295522

Hand them this easy-to-use, complete consultant to discovering a hundred renowned learn papers, and highschool scholars gets off on course on their examine papers. Designed via a reference and younger grownup librarian to be used in her library, this advisor saves either pupil and librarian time and is a shortcut to powerful learn. each one photocopyable advisor may help the coed to find print and nonprint information regarding the subject, slim the scope of the paper, and locate similar subject matters. it will decrease scholar frustration within the study procedure and introduce the coed to the complete scope of fabrics the library has to provide at the subject. every one advisor serves not just as a map to library assets yet as an summary of library examine procedures.From abortion to adolescence gangs, the a hundred subject courses are geared up into sections on technological know-how and expertise, social concerns, social stories, and biography. every one advisor includes a tablet description of the subject, name numbers for shelf searching, topic headings, pamphlet dossier assets, reference fabrics, ebook and CD-ROM periodical indexes, on-line databases, keywords and descriptors to take advantage of in looking out indexes and databases, an inventory of videotapes at the subject, fiction when it comes to the subject, corporations to touch for extra details, feedback for narrowing the subject, and proposals for comparable issues. as well as the courses, an appendix of aids to investigate can assist scholars with note-taking, bibliographic citations, and digital database looking. The e-book is carefully listed for simple entry of subject info by means of scholars and librarians. when you use those subject courses you are going to ask yourself the way you and your scholars ever received alongside with no them.

By Patty Campbell

ISBN-10: 0810872935

ISBN-13: 9780810872936

.cs7CED571B{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } on the request of her many fanatics, Patty Campbell, editor of the Scarecrow reviews in younger grownup Literature sequence, has chosen a few of her most sensible essays, articles, columns, and speeches in Campbell's Scoop. those items outline the bounds among kid's and grownup literature and evaluate the developments, censorship, difficulties, and glories of the style. different essays give some thought to a few issues and pursuits of younger grownup literature because it has matured: the verse novel, ambivalent endings, violence, the occasionally doubtful price of awards and honor lists, the photo novel, and the problems of the genre's fresh overwhelming good fortune. a bit titled "Inside ALA" appears on the author's a long time of carrier to that association with, between different items, a firsthand examine the easiest Books committee at paintings and a record of her try to unite booksellers and librarians in universal cause.Many of those decisions convey the idiosyncratic wit and fervour that experience made Campbell's column a favourite with Horn booklet readers: an exploration of the that means of the glut of YA novels with dying as a subject or personality; an offended denunciation of the fictitious abuse of animals; a snarky research of "chick lit;" and a technical evaluation from the belly-dancing critic of a YA novel that includes that historic paintings. On a extra severe notice, Campbell pleads for what she calls "Godsearch" in books for youths and can pay tribute to her past due pal Robert Cormier. with out query, the essays in Campbell's Scoop supply readers with the original insights of an suggest who's keen about younger grownup literature and its destiny.

By Kay Johnson

ISBN-10: 078797627X

ISBN-13: 9780787976279

Exploring the electronic Library, a quantity in The Jossey-Bass on-line instructing and studying sequence, addresses the foremost factor of library providers for college and their scholars within the on-line studying surroundings. Written by way of librarians at Athabasca college, a number one establishment in distance schooling, this e-book exhibits how school can successfully use electronic libraries of their day by day paintings and within the layout of digital classes. Exploring the electronic Library is full of info, principles, and

• Discusses how details and communique applied sciences are remodeling scholarship communication
• Provides feedback for integrating electronic libraries into educating and direction development
• Describes methods to selling details literacy abilities and integrating those talents around the curriculum
• Outlines the talents and information required in electronic library use
• Suggests possibilities for college and librarians to collaborate within the on-line academic environment

By Margaret Mering

ISBN-10: 1610694899

ISBN-13: 9781610694896

Whether a library catalogs its personal fabrics or no longer, librarians nonetheless should have a few realizing of RDA. Designed for use by means of educational, public, and college librarians, this is often the precise introduction.

• specializes in the recent RDA principles and conventions and their implementation, rather in smaller libraries the place there are not any expert catalogers

• offers FRBR and different points of RDA's theoretical framework in comprehensible terms

• encompasses a step by step advisor to making bibliographic files for print and digital books, movies, and different formats

• contains speedy publications, routines, a word list of phrases, and an inventory of extra assets