instructional materials centers

Offers 500 different strategies that can be used to increase public relations for a school media program and get parents, students, and other community members involved in library projects.

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.

Presents one hundred ready-to-use strategies to help librarians stay on top of their busy schedules and handle any task.

Presents a comprehensive handbook for school library administrators and provides advice on staffing and personnel, cataloging and processing materials, operating budgets, curriculum design and assessment methods, instructional media, and more.

Presents theory, research, and interviews with more than forty library media specialists to show how the role of the library media specialist has changed and needs to be approached; covers such topics as instructional programs and partnerships with the principal, teachers, and the community.

Explains how library media programs have played a key role in curriculum renewal in three different schools in the Untied States.

Looks at the work done by librarians in schools, discusses the education and training needed to do the job, and reviews the history of the profession.

Presents a collection of the author's Library Media Connection columns, offering his perspective on school media, effective ways libraries can use technology, and the role of the library media specialist.

Discusses the role of library policies and procedures, covering topics such as media center administration; acceptable use and accessibility of materials; collection development; acquisitions; reading incentive programs; special needs services; and more, with sample forms and a CD-ROM with policies, procedures, and forms.

A guide to cataloging for school library media specialists, providing a brief history of cataloging, looking at how cataloging standards work with the MARC format, featuring instructions and exercises for using the MARC format to catalog book and non-book materials, and including discussion of the future of cataloging.