instructional materials personnel

Explains to children what a library media specialist does in his or her job.

Offers teachers proven techniques and strategies to help them reach out to faculty and students and create a classroom atmosphere that is conducive for effective learning and collaboration.

Provides advice for new school librarians, covering getting a job, reaching students and teachers, planning, technology, and more.

Presents a comprehensive guide for effectively integrating information literary skills into the curriculum and making them available to students and teachers.

Introduces a five-step model for planning information skills learning activities and evaluating student work, covering the framework's theoretical background, related research, and implementation and providing lesson plans for prekindergarten through twelfth grade and a CD-ROM containing teacher and student handbooks, a collaborative planning template, and other tools.

Describes the school librarian's day as she works with students, parents, teachers, and other school workers, helping them to look for information, check out books, use the computers, and more.

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

Provides elementary school library media specialists with strategies designed to help them organize and maintain their libraries.

Examines the role of librarians in education, focusing on school library media specialists, and describes howlearning specialists can update school approaches to learning by promoting collaboration between librarians and the teaching staff, as well as developing digital collections.

A practical guide for the school library media specialist to helps them assist at-risk students in improving their academic achievement.