libraries

Presents a historical survey of the destruction of libraries throughout history, including those in ancient Alexandria, the Chinese Qing Dynasty, as well as those destroyed in Nazi-occupied Europe and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Presents a practical, step-by-step guide for implementing a virtual school library that allows easier access to electronic resources.

Provides an overview of the management and use of information technology in school library media centers, focusing on the possible applications of information technology in the school library program, and the management of information technology to meet the goals of the school.

Collection of essays that provide varied perspectives on developing effective public relations programs for school library media centers.

Presents an overview of the history of the library, in simple text with illustrations, from ancient Greek and Egyptian book collections to the development of the World Wide Web. Includes time line.

Describes a nine-step process for planning, organizing, and running a library contest, offering ideas and advice on how to select a contest planner and develop community partnerships, establish goals and estimate budget, define contest type, determine eligibility, schedule the contest, select a prize, choose judges, promote the contest, and evaluate success.

During the summer of 1916 thirteen-year-old Fayette and her brother accompany their widowed mother on a mule trip into the California mountains, where she is to establish library outposts in isolated communities.

Readers learn how fascinating a trip to the library can be as they read about one child's exciting visit.

Sherlock leads the Sharp Wits to the library where they learn about the Dewey decimal system and how library books are classified. They uncover how nonfiction books are divided into ten main sections with an individual call number and are organized by subject. The Sharp Wits also learn how fiction books are located in a separate area of the library.

New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.