school libraries

A guide for creating writing centers in the school library.

Text and color photographs explore rules in the library.

Provides an overview of the activities children participate in during a visit to the school library, in rhyming verse that can be sung to the tune of THE WHEELS ON THE BUS.

Presents opposing views about banning books from libraries.

Short research projects for every day of the school year for grades four through eight. Subjects include history, famous people, and holidays.

On cover after title: K-8. Research activities designed to stimulate curiosity and divergent thinking for gifted students.

Offers an activity-oriented survey of children's literature, highlighting books that every library should have in its collection and including suggestions for book-based activities and programs that will encourage children to read.

Provides school librarians with practical help in working efficiently, covering such topics as organizational styles, goal mapping, realistic schedules, one's work area, account keeping, and problems including distractions, overcommitting, and perfectionism.

Provides hundreds of tips and strategies, many of them environmentally friendly, for running a library on a tight budget, with tips on using volunteers, finding free materials, fixing structural problems, repurposing, and more.