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MP-ALA American Library Assoc Managing the Successful School Library Strategic Planning and Reflective Practice
To ensure their libraries survive and thrive, school library managers need to be both responsive and proactive. Looking past the day-to-day operations of a school library, Farmer’s book serves as a reality check: school libraries must align with school mission statements and policies, while simultaneously negotiating for proper budgets and resources alongside other departments.
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Public Library Directors HR Toolkit
Complete with illuminating case studies and worksheets that guide readers to develop a personal framework for individual learning, this toolkit is an easy-to-use handbook of the basic HR functions of a public library.
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Mind Motivation and Meaningful Learning Strategies for Teaching Adult Learners
Provides a blueprint that academic librarians can apply to their instructional design that facilitates a change in students' motivation and learning strategies. The book provides the tools necessary to teach learners to identify, evaluate, and apply appropriate cognitive, learning, and motivation strategies.
£87.30
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Licensing Digital Content
Covering the basics of digital licensing for librarians, this third edition provides a freshened look at all the key issues as well as updated sample agreement clauses. Giving library professionals and students the understanding and the tools needed to negotiate and organise license agreements, Harris uses a plain-language approach that demystifies the process.
£66.56
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Metaliterate Learning for the PostTruth World
Examines the newest version of the Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, including the four domains of metaliterate learning, as well as the relationship between metaliteracy and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Academic Librarianship
Ideal for practitioners looking to advance their careers and for use in LIS programs, this ""comprehensive overview"" (Journal of Access Services) has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a timely exploration of the characteristics of academic librarianship and its place in the ever-changing environment of higher education.
£72.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Small Change Big Problems
Outlining specific types of fraud, with tips to combat each, this book also addresses such key questions as: Why are libraries particularly susceptible to fraud? Who commits fraud? How does fraud happen? What have other libraries done to detect and prevent fraud? It is intended for library directors, business managers, board members and trustees.
£38.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Creators in the Academic Library Volume 1 Instruction and Outreach
In four parts, this volume explores how to teach specifically for creator research, motivate learning, and deepen students’ understanding of their own practice. Technology, Tools, and Techniques for Creation; Inspiring Creativity through Research; Creator’s Unique Information Needs; and Grounding Creation in Research.
£69.30
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Fundamentals for the Instruction Coordinator
In a concise, straightforward manner this volume outlines exactly what you need to know as a new instruction coordinator, including an overview of library instruction and the primary stakeholders; guidance on key duties; instruction coordinator best practices; technology management; and tips on how to integrate what you've learned into your program.
£53.10
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Fundamentals of Library Instruction
Being a great teacher is part and parcel of being a great librarian. In this book, veteran instruction services librarian McAdoo lays out the fundamentals of the discipline in easily accessible language. With expert guidance for putting theory into practice, McAdoo’s book helps librarians connect with students as effectively as possible.
£53.10
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Collection Development and Management for 21st C An Introduction
A comprehensive handbook that also shares myriad insightful ideas and approaches valuable to experienced practitioners, this is packed with discussion questions, activities, suggested additional references, selected readings and much more.
£77.40
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook Volume One Essays and Workbook Activities
Examines both theory and practice to help the busy practitioner explore various aspects of teaching for social justice. Volume One, Essays and Workbook Activities, provides short essays reflecting on personal practice, describing projects, and exploring major ideas to provide inspiration as you begin or renew your exploration of critical pedagogy.
£46.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Intellectual Freedom Manual
The newest edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual is more than simply an update of a foundational text that has served as a crucial resource for more than four decades. It is a living document that serves as the authoritative reference for day-to-day guidance on maintaining free and equal access to information for all people.
£67.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Student Wellness and Academic Libraries Case Studies and Activities for Promoting Health and Success
£72.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Communities of Practice in the Academic Library Strategies for Implementation
How can academic librarians strengthen their practice of teaching and provide education through access to information, using intentional efforts to both learn and share in a social context? Building and fostering communities of practice is the ideal way forward, as Reale demonstrates in this inspirational and practical book.
£53.10
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Sharing Spaces and Students Employing Students in Collaborative Partnerships
Helps partners within the library bridge the gap between expectations and outcomes, and hire and train students to deliver high-quality work on behalf of all involved parties. Case studies examine partnerships with academic departments, writing centres, career centres, cultural centres, tutoring services, technology services and IT departments.
£54.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc 209 Big Programming Ideas for Small Budgets
When you're a solo librarian or only have a few volunteers to rely on (with a tiny budget to match) you've got to make the most of everything. With creativity, flexibility, and heart, you can be the anchor your community needs, offering programming that engages people of all ages and backgrounds.
£44.96
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Academic Library Value The Impact Starter Kit
It's up to you to measure the value of your academic library and how it delivers on your institution's goals. The question is how to do it efficiently and effectively. This resource from Megan Oakleaf will help you apply value and impact concepts to your own library. It includes 52 activities designed as part of professional development workshops and in consultation with libraries.
£63.45
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Unframing the Visual Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces
In exploring the discussions and engaging with the activities in Unframing the Visual, you will find new inspiration for how to unframe, adapt, and apply visual literacy pedagogy and praxis in your work.
£120.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Digital Humanities in the Library
Provides a collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in creating, supporting, and promoting digital humanities projects. The book provides valuable discussions around the role of subject specialists in digital humanities, gives practical advice regarding support of and collaboration with digital humanities projects, and describes real-world examples.
£57.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Techniques for Electronic Resource Management
Offering targeted guidance on both basic and complex issues, this book's topics include ways to fold OA management into traditional library practice; accommodating the range of new purchasing models; the relative weight of 13 factors when negotiating with vendors; and understanding deal-breakers and knowing when to walk away.
£54.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Metaliteracy in a Connected World Developing Learners as Producers
Examines the central role of learners as producers of information, a foundational idea for the metaliteracy framework and one that's more important than ever. The authors emphasize the active role today's learners play as individual and collaborative metaliterate producers of information in various forms.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc So You Want to Be an Academic Library Director
Whether you’re a new academic library director or a goal-minded manager, you can take concrete steps to gain and strengthen the leadership skills necessary for the job. That’s the empowering message of this new collection which combines recent data with critical reflection to illuminate the path ahead.
£57.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Zines in Libraries Selecting Purchasing and Processing
Featuring contributions from leaders in the intersection between zines and libraries, this book presents an in-depth look at adding these unique materials successfully to a library collection. The book offeres top-to-bottom guidance for collection and understanding and processing zines for library collections.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Practical Academic Library Instruction
When you stand alone in front of the class, being in command of your content is only the first step. Knowing how to engage students' participation in ways that foster ""ownership"" ensures that learning is both active and lasting. In this guide, Oehrli shares tried and tested techniques honed from 20 years of practice.
£66.56
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Storytimes for Everyone Developing Young Childrens Language and Literacy
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Leading Together Academic Library Consortia and Advocacy
Advocating for the library within your institution, with stakeholders, and across the system in a unified way is an evolving focus of consortia member leadership. Leading Together aims to fill the gap in LIS literature of models of consortia advocacy plans, actions, and assessments.
£52.20
MP-ALA American Library Assoc A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom A Supplement to the Intellectual Freedom Manual
Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom.
£81.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Learning Centers for School Libraries AASL StandardsBased Learning
Presents innovative, engaging, and fun ideas to target the AASL National School Library Standards and content-area standards. The book contains everything needed to set up learning centres in a school library. The ideas are flexible and can fit different grade levels. Suggestions for collaboration with classroom educators are also included.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Teaching with Primary Sources Cookbook
Primary sources reveal something about their creators and cultural context. Combining these two elements is a recipe for a transformative classroom experience. This volume brings together the work of archivists, librarians and museum professionals who evoke the power of primary sources to teach information literacy skills.
£44.96
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Successful Social Networking in Public Libraries
£57.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian
The goal of exposing cultural institutions' records to the web is as important as ever-but for the non-technically minded, linked data can feel like a confusing morass of abstraction, jargon, and acronyms. Get conversant in linked data with this basic introduction from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services.
£61.65
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Government Information Essentials
£72.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The Critical Thinking about Sources Cookbook
Provides lesson plans, resources, ideas, and inspiration to empower librarians in helping students develop the crucial critical thinking and information and media literacy skills they need. 96 recipes explore evaluating information, recognizing scholarly sources, how technology mediates our experiences with information, and more.
£54.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
£144.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Our Enduring Values Librarianship in the 21st Century
A discussion of the core values that are the backbone of the library profession. Defining the role of both library and librarian, Michael Goreman presents the bedrock principles underlying the profession and, in turn, underlying democracy.
£37.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Instructional Identities and Information Literac Volume 1 Transforming Ourselves
In three volumes, Instructional Identities and Information Literacy uses transformative learning theory - a way of understanding adult learning and ourselves - to explore the ways librarians can meaningfully advance how we think about our identities, instructional work, and learning as transformation.
£63.00
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Picture Books Plus
This guide seeks to identify the best picture books for addressing specific areas of the curriculum. After brief book annotations, the authors outline 20 activities for each of the five disciplines. They include materials lists, tips for success, do's and don'ts, and additional resources.
£42.95
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Academic Librarian Burnout Causes and Responses
Helps librarians develop the agency to challenge the assumptions and practices that have led to so much professional burnout. In five thorough parts, this volume offers ways to discuss burnout in our work environments, studies burnout’s nature and causes, and provides preventative intervention and mitigation strategies.
£94.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Workplace Learning Leadership A Handbook for Library and Nonprofit Trainers
£54.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc 200 Original and Adapted Story Program Activities
From storytimes creator Reid comes this delightful assortment of activities ready for use by children's librarians, elementary-level media specialists, and early childhood instructors. Activities include fingerplays, poems, movement and music, participation stories, felt stories, imagination exercises, spoonerism stories, and library raps.
£53.10
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Getting Started in Service Design A HowToDoIt Manual For Librarians
£58.50
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Maximizing School Librarian Leadership Building Connections for Learning and Advocacy
How do school librarians best serve students, classroom teachers, and principals simultaneously? The key, argues Moreillon, is to lead. By embracing a leadership role, school librarians can work collaboratively to positively impact school cultures, curricula, and teaching practices.
£53.10
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries
Argues that the near future of library work will be enormously impacted and perhaps forever changed as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems becoming commonplace. Essays cover both essays theory and predictions of the future of these systems in libraries.
£41.36
MP-ALA American Library Assoc The New University Library Four Case Studies
£54.90
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Recipes for Mindfulness in Your Library Supporting Resilience and Community Engagement
Explores a wide range of approaches that demonstrate how librarians have integrated mindfulness into their teaching, collections, services, programming, spaces, partnerships, and professional development.
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc Small Public Library Management
£48.60
MP-ALA American Library Assoc How to be a Peer Research Consultant A Guide for Librarians and Students
In seven highly readable chapters, How to Be a Peer Research Consultant provides focused support for anyone preparing undergraduate students to serve as peer research consultants, whether you refer to these student workers as research tutors, reference assistants, or research helpers.
£48.60
