Foundations for Effective School Library Media Programs

How can you make your school library media program more successful? This timely book identifies current trends and thinking about library media specialists as change agents and their roles in school improvement, curriculum design, collaboration with teachers, and building information literacy. Reprinted from recent issues of Emergency Librarian, 39 enlightening and exciting articles offer stimulating discussions on learning theories, flexible scheduling, new technologies, thematic units, new partnerships, and more. Articles are organized into seven sections: foundations, the school context, role clarification, information literacy, collaborative planning and teaching, program development, and accountability. Essential professional reading, this book can also be used as a school media textbook in library schools.

How can you make your school library media program more successful? This timely book identifies current trends and thinking about library media specialists as change agents and their roles in school improvement, curriculum design, collaboration with teachers, and building information literacy. Reprinted from recent issues of Emergency Librarian, 39 enlightening and exciting articles offer stimulating discussions on learning theories, flexible scheduling, new technologies, thematic units, new partnerships, and more. Articles are organized into seven sections: foundations, the school context, role clarification, information literacy, collaborative planning and teaching, program development, and accountability. Essential professional reading, this book can also be used as a school media textbook in library schools.

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Demonstrates how educators can make the library media program a more dynamic and successful part of the teaching process, identifies current trends in the field, and explores school librarians' roles in curriculum design and information literacy. Taken together, chapters overview critical attributes of successful programs, and provide a design for developing and implementing an integrated program. Chapters are reprinted articles from recent issues of (now called ). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

KEN HAYCOCK is Professor and Director, School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. He has received many awards and honors, including the 1996 Baker and Taylor Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the 1995 Grolier Award for Research from the Canadian School Library Association, and recognition for Outstanding Service to Librarianship in Canada from the Canadian Library Association.