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CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT SERVICES

FORTHCOMING Libraries, Literacy,
Connecting Children and African
with Classics American Youth
A Reader-Centered Research and Practice
Approach to Selecting SANDRA HUGHES-HASSELL,
and Promoting Great PAULETTA BROWN BRACY, AND
CASEY H. RAWSON, EDITORS
Literature
This important book is a call to
MEAGAN LACY action for the library community
AND PAULINE DEWAN
January 2018 October 2016, 250pp, 7x10 to address the literacy and life
400pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 This readers’ advisory and Print: 978-1-4408-3872-9 outcome gaps impacting African
Print: 978-1-4408-4439-3 collection development guide $50.00, £39.00, €46.00 American youth. It provides
$60.00, £47.00, €55.00 identifies hundreds of books that eBook: 978-1-4408-3873-6 strategies that enable school and
eBook: 978-1-4408-4440-9 can help children connect with public librarians to transform
books and develop into engaged readers. It enables children’s their services, programs, and collections to be more responsive to
librarians, collection development specialists in public libraries, the literacy strengths, experiences, and needs of African American
as well as K–8 school librarians and teachers to choose from the youth.
best in traditional and modern children’s titles.
FEATURES
FEATURES • Clarifies the role of public and school librarians in meeting the
• Enables collection development specialists who are building a literacy needs of African American youth
new collection or strengthening/augmenting an existing one to • Brings together research findings on the literacy strengths
create balanced and enduring collections and needs of African American youth and best practices for
• Serves librarians seeking to increase their knowledge about librarians seeking to improve their services to this population
children’s classics and help young readers get more out of them

Creating Makers MLA Made Easy
How to Start a Citation Basics
Learning Revolution for Beginners
at Your Library MARILYN HEATH
“ teaching the proper way
MEGAN EGBERT For those who dread
“ This should be the to cite sources, or feel
first resource librarians
read when determining inadequate doing so and
send students to an online
how to get started with source, this book is for
makerspaces. December 2009, 212pp, 6x9
”
July 2016, 107pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 ” Print: 978-1-58683-343-5 you.
Print: 978-1-4408-4386-0 —VOYA, December 6, 2016 $45.00, £35.00, €41.00
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00 This book shows you how, even with eBook: 978-1-58683-409-8 —Library Media Connection,
eBook: 978-1-4408-4387-7 August 1, 2010
a tight budget and limited space, you
can foster “maker mentality” in your library and help patrons reap A concise, handy guidebook for teaching correct MLA-style
the learning benefits of making—with or without a makerspace. citation to middle and high school researchers.
FEATURES
ALSO OF INTEREST • Helps those doing research understand the importance of
creating accurate, complete citations for every source used in
Maker Literacy: A New Approach to Literacy Programming for the research
Libraries and The Maker Cookbook: Recipes for Children’s and
‘Tween Library Programs on page 199. • Provides practical guidelines for teachers training their junior
high and high school students in the MLA citation style

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