high school libraries

Contains thirty lesson plans for developing library research skills in students, each including a statement of objectives, background information, reproducible activity sheets, and an answer key.

Offers library professionals a wide range of ideas that combine pop culture and information literacy to teach students how to find the information they need in the library and online.

Lists recommended 10,805 titles for readers in grades ten through twelve.

Reviews the history of cooperation and collaboration in school libraries since the 1990s, discussing the benefits of collaboration between library media specialists and teachers at the elementary level; and features a common template for use in planning collaborative units, as well as a selection of units contributed by teams across the United States.

Discusses customer service principles as they apply to young adult library services and suggests specific strategies that can be used to provide young adult library users with world-class customer service.

Provides tips and suggestions to help public, school, and academic libraries establish a learning-commons area, which can be used as a go-to location for the patrons' teaching, researching, and learning needs, discussing technologies and information resources, and including end-of-chapter checklists.

Presents an annotated bibliography of over one thousand fiction and nonfiction books of interest to high school students, grouped in over thirty thematic chapters, with author, subject, and title indexes.

Contains one hundred reproducible lists of recommended books for teen readers, including fiction and nonfiction new titles and classics.

Reviews the history of cooperation and collaboration in school libraries since the 1990s, discussing the benefits of collaboration between library media specialists and teachers at the junior and high school level; and features a common template for use in planning collaborative units, as well as a selection of units contributed by teams across the U.S.