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MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

High Impact School The Library Positive Classroom
Library Spaces Collaboration and Management Skills for

Envisioning New School Flexible Scheduling School Librarians
Library Concepts Toolkit KAY BISHOP AND JENNY CAHALL
MARGARET L. SULLIVAN Everything You Need
to Know to Get Started

ANDRIA C. DONNELLY

January 2012, 99pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
December 2014, 125pp, 8 1/2x11 Print: 978-1-59884-986-8
Print: 978-1-61069-815-3 $40.00, £31.00, €37.00
$50.00, £39.00, €46.00 eBook: 978-1-59884-987-5
eBook: 978-1-61069-816-0 March 2015, 139pp, 8 1/2x11
Print: 978-1-4408-3684-8 Useful as a guide, a textbook,
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00 “
To keep school libraries relevant, their eBook: 978-1-4408-3685-5 or a professional development
physical spaces need to be reinvented book, this volume belongs on
to mirror 21st-century learning models. the shelves of every school
This book will enable everyone from Appropriate for experienced elementary media specialist, whether
school librarians and principals to librarians as well as students in school beginning or practiced. Others
district-level administrators, architects, library preparation programs, this will also benefit from the
and interior planners of school library powerful book explains the advantages classroom management tips
spaces to reconceptualize school of utilizing a flexible schedule with included, both teachers and
libraries. collaboration as compared to a fixed public librarians. ”
schedule without collaboration.
FEATURES —ARBA, January 1, 2013
FEATURES
• Describes space concepts to support Some students are more “challenging”
personalized learning and guided • Provides a succinct and accessible than most. This book helps school
inquiry yet complete explanation of research
about collaboration librarians prevent, deal with, and
• Addresses the key subject of how to overcome discipline problems they may
best adapt the library for technology, • Supplies practical guidance for moving face when communicating with K–12
virtual learners, and patrons seeking towards a collaborative methodology,
to use smart devices including methods to approach students.
the administration to win support,
• Spotlights the new concepts and a training plan for staff, and team FEATURES
learning applications that are planning strategies • Discusses strategies for establishing
necessary to make school libraries positive librarian-student
more effective, especially at the • Explains the many side benefits of relationships
middle and high school levels collaboration, including lowered
student-to-teacher ratios, better • Provides specific, practical techniques
• Examines how to merchandise a new accommodation of individual student for managing students in school
library brand and promote revised differences, more physical and library settings
roles for school librarians to reverse personnel resources, and higher • Includes useful forms, summaries,
the trend of marginalization of school student achievement and scenarios for discussion
libraries

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