How-to-do-it manuals

Explains basic book repair techniques useful to libraries with limited budgets, as well as alternative, more ambitious conservation treatments, covering paper cleaning and mending, water damage, mold and mildew, hinge and spine repair, and protective enclosures.

Offers school leaders strategies and suggestions for ensuring their school is copyright compliant, explaining how to set up, assess, and regulate compliance procedures.

A guide to using Web 2.0 tools and digital resources in the classroom, providing lessons on choosing a topic, developing higher-level questions, finding sources and experts, taking notes and copyright, the search, digital products and presentations, authentic assessment, and more.

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.