"[Examining the] role of school librarians in student success, this instructional guide offers ... [librarians guidance] to develop, align, and evaluate curriculum with your library collection in mind. Includes charts, tables, models, and discussion questions ... Features specific process examples for effective collection development [and] explains both horizontal and vertical curriculum mapping"--Provided by publisher.
Presents a guide to library collection development, providing practical information on materials producers and distributors, community survey techniques, policies, materials selection, acquisition, weeding, evaluation, and more.
"This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers."--Amazon.com.
Offers advice on how to link libraries serving children to software and CD-ROMs when operating on a limited budget by critiquing various programs and lists companies distributing inexpensive software over the Internet and commercial online services.
"Weeding helps a library thrive by focusing its resources on those parts of the collection that are most useful to its users...[the author's] handbook...[gives] public and school library staff the knowledge...to effectively weed any collection..."--amazon.com.
Librarian's guide to using the Internet, featuring a history of the Internet, discussing how reference and collection development librarians can use Internet fundamentals to better serve their patrons.
Provides several weeding methods for all library collections discussing current weeding practices, library standards relating to weeding, present weeding criteria, and recommended weeding objectives, and including instruction on computer assisted weeding, and the weeding of reference collections.
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.
