libraries

An introduction to careers in information science that provides information on the job market, working conditions, salaries, job requirements, and training requirements.

Provides a overview of the processes and procedures associated with developing, maintaining, and evaluating a media center; and describes the resources that make up a traditional school center.

A self-study guide designed to help library managers become great bosses, featuring fifty-two modules that cover attitude, staffing, customer service, communication, planning, success with stakeholders, friends and allies, funding, leadership, training, people, and the future, and including questions and exercises.

A guide for librarians on collection mapping, with tips for all types of libraries, and also describes how to use a collection map and ways to implement collection development plans.

Examines the positive features of videogame programming in the public library system, describing the basics of software, hardware, and gaming culture.

Provides information that examines the role of the librarian in achieving high-quality, standards-based science education for students; and features hands-on activities for science instruction in the library, Web references, a guide to selecting science books for children, advice on fund-raising, and a bibliography.

Explains what libraries are, looks at the various jobs that need to be done at one, and asks questions designed to help young readers decide whether they would like to work at a library. Includes a glossary and resources for further research.

No one is sure if Marty Onster is really a monster, but when Bart Ully starts to make trouble during library time, which happens to be Marty's favorite time of the day, Marty's monster mania surfaces.

Contains twenty lessons with reproducible worksheets to encourage reading skills and interest in libraries for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students.

Two new books are dismayed when they are shelved at a library where the books judge each other only by their covers.