instructional materials centers

A guide for teachers and librarians that explains how schools can integrate the library media program with the school's curriculum.

Contains fifteen lessons designed to improve the library, research, and literature skills of students in fourth through eighth grade, created for use in a library setting, each including visuals, activity sheets, an evaluation, and extension.

Presents a comprehensive, hands-on guide to successfully managing a library media center.

Offers school principals practical advice and strategies to help them develop an effective library media program, with an overview of the best library media practices and strategies for dealing with challenges.

Guide to cooperative learning activities in the library media center includes a section about cooperative learning and ready to use activities.

Provides a tool for the library media or classroom teacher who wants to use the library as a teaching tool for research projects.

Presents step-by-step instructions for first-time library media specialists, covering such aspects of the job as ordering materials, cataloging, circulation, hiring staff, and designing the facility.

Discusses how to use specific reference titles and how to teach the research process.

Presents strategies for a student-centered library program, suggesting methods librarians can use to learn to work together with principals and teachers to build a curriculum, incorporate state and national standards, and implement technology.