library services

"This book delivers 24 ready-made, standards-aligned lesson plans. Each lesson focuses on one SEL theme and an AASL Standards Shared Foundation. The lessons guide learners to notice and practice prosocial skills and self-regulation"--Provided by publisher.

A guide for librarians using location-aware technologies.

Offers tips and advice for librarians who want to assist multicultural groups, with creative ideas for welcoming all patrons into libraries and strategies for serving them more effectively.

A resource for librarians to better advice library patrons on various types of materials, explaining how to review and evaluate works of fiction, nonfiction, audiobooks, graphic novels, and reference, and offers tips on events such as author visits, book clubs, and storytelling for adults.

Provides instruction for libraries who wish to host interactive "mystery" events, providing materials and scripts suitable for children, students, or adult patrons, with puzzles, word games, clue sheets, and suggested book characters that can be portrayed.

Presents ideas for library media specialists on how to promote reading among students, describing four major activities, including Battle of the Books, Literary Themes, Getting to Know Authors, and Reading on Display; and includes brief discussion of other reading programs.

Contains a collection of booktalks arranged by age level. Includes a bibliography by age level, theme and genre, and an index.

Describes the library and librarians, their role in the community. and the service provided by them.

A collection of essays which explore how the roles of libraries and librarians have changed throughout history.