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LIBRARIAN’S INSTRUCTIONAL ROLE

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING Service Learning,

Storytelling Strategies The Pivotal Role of Information Literacy,
for Reaching and Academic Librarians and Libraries

Teaching Children with in Digital Learning JENNIFER E. NUTEFALL, EDITOR
Special Needs MELISSA N. MALLON

SHERRY NORFOLK AND
LYN FORD, EDITORS
FOREWORD BY KENDALL HAVEN

April 2016, 155pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-4091-3
November 2017, 160pp, 7x10 $65.00, £50.00, €60.00
Print: 978-1-4408-5217-6 eBook: 978-1-4408-4092-0
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December 2017, 200pp, 7x10 “ Readers will come away with a
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$50.00, £39.00, €46.00 The current budget-constrained, rapidly ways academic libraries can
eBook: 978-1-4408-5365-4
evolving climate of higher education contribute to service learning
and academic libraries makes it a by providing information
This book supplies stories, essays, and necessity for academic librarians and literacy instruction, useful
lesson plans along with specialized administrators to communicate the materials, space, and more.
storytelling strategies to help teachers value of their library to the university. Recommended for instruction
“level the playing field” for all learners This book explains how to execute this librarians at academic
and better serve children with special critical task. libraries. ”
needs. —Library Journal, August 1, 2016
FEATURES
FEATURES • Advocates and explains the As the number of service learning
• Provides a variety of successful instructional role of academic courses and their requirements increase,
storytelling strategies for reaching librarians—a role that is key and it is essential for academic librarians to
and teaching children with specific continuing to grow in importance
disabilities, enabling educators and • Furnishes practical examples of digital partner with faculty and administration
mentors to choose options that products and proven processes to aid to include lifelong research skills
will work best for their teaching in student learning components. This crucial book provides
environment and students insights and case studies that will help
• Provides concrete methodologies
• Provides immediate access to stories, to use technology to increase the you do just that.
strategies, and adaptations to meet visibility and perceived value of
specific needs academic libraries FEATURES
• Offers a joyful, engaging, and • Illustrates the use of templates, • Draws from the 2014 (inaugural)
Colloquium on Libraries & Service
thoroughly human way to interact lesson plans, and other tools that
with all students—a method that serve teaching librarians Learning
makes giving the gift of empathetic • Offers a unique take on the role
education easier of libraries and librarians in the
service learning programs that
are increasingly popular in higher
education as a way to engage active
learning

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