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The Makerspace Librarian's Sourcebook
$119.00
edited by Ellyssa Kroski ISBN-13: 9780838915042 400 pages • 6 x 9 Year Published: 2017 Library makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook edited by technology expert Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to...

Canadian Copyright in Schools & School Libraries: A Primer
$19.95
John Tooth ISBN-13: 9780888023452 78 pages • 8½ x 11 2015 Canadian Copyright in Schools and School Libraries addresses copyright issues that typically arise on those educational settings. The goal is to provide some direction to help school staff across Canada answer copyright questions in their daily work. This publication offers some focus fo...

Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises for Creating Information-Literate Learners
$81.00
Joanna M. Burkhardt ISBN-13: 9780838913970 232 pages • 7 x 10 Year Published: 2016 The six threshold concepts outlined in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education are not simply a revision of ACRL's previous Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. They are instead an altogether new way of looking at in...
The Whole School Library Learning Commons: An Educator's Guide
$63.00
Judith Anne Sykes; foreword by David V. Loertscher ISBN-13: 9781440844201 151 pages • 7 x 10 Year Published: 2016 Introduce your teachers, librarians, and administrators to the roles and responsibilities of educators in advocating a whole school library learning commons using this step-by-step guide for creating shared learning space in your sc...

Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics
$133.00
edited by Andy Tattersall ISBN-13: 9781783300105 224 pages • 6 x 9 Year Published: 2016 Alternative metrics for measuring scholarly impact from social networks such as Twitter and blogs to online platforms such as Mendeley, ResearchGate and Altmetrics.org, altmetrics are having a huge impact on how academics and researchers build profiles and sh...

Motivating Students on a Time Budget: Pedagogical Frames and Lesson Plans for In-Person and Online Information Literacy Instruction
$85.50
Sarah Steiner and Miriam Rigby 332 pages 6" x 9" 2019 As librarians, we often find ourselves outside the traditional structure of our education system. Time limits add another layer of complexity; how can we motivate students to learn when we only see them for an hour or two? Motivating Students on a Time Budget begins with a section of researc...

The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide, 2/e
$70.00
Heidi E. Buchanan and Beth A. McDonough ISBN-13: 9780838914861 168 pages 6 x 9 2017 The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education is good news for one-shot instructors. With its six frames and conceptual approach you’re freed from a long list of outcomes and can instead focus on big ideas. The new edition of this concise gu...

Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About the Answers, 2/e
$24.95
Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan ISBN-13: 9781551383019 160 pages • 8½ x 11 2014 Questions and questioning are key skills in successful learning. The original Q Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to give students the tools they need to develop their own questions and build critical thinking and inquiry skills. This new, totally revise...

The First-Year Experience Cookbook
$58.95
edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan for ACRL ISBN-13: 9780838989203 164 pages • 10½ x 8½Year Published: 2017 First-year students face many challenges in adjusting to university life, including making the most of the university library. Librarians are constantly addressing student misconceptions about libraries and locating information, and...

Collaborating for Inquiry-Based Learning: School Librarians and Teachers Partner for Student Achievement, 2/e
$63.00
Virginia L. Wallace and Whitney N. Husid ISBN-13: 9781440852848 134 pages • 8½ x 11 Year Published: 2016 Want to learn how to easily put inquiry theory into practice in your school library? This newly revised and expanded practical resource links pedagogical theory, research, and practical application of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL). An importan...

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, 4/e
$44.95
Douglas R. Buehl ISBN-13: 9781625311702 272 pages • 8½ x 11 Year Published: 2017 Educators across content areas have turned to Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning for almost two decades. This fully updated 4th edition delivers rich, practical, research-based strategies that readers have found invaluable in the context of today's classr...

The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing (Reissued)
$37.95
Ruth Culham ISBN-13: 9781625311412 216 pages • 7 x 9 Year Published: 2016 It's been said that good writers borrow while great writers steal. Writing thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief—and she wants you and your studen...

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians
$67.00
edited by Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, Gayle Schaub for ACRL ISBN-13: 9780838987711 264 pages • 6 x 9 Year Published: 2015 Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detail...

Students Lead the Library: The Importance of Student Contributions to the Academic Library
$86.95
edited by Sara Arnold-Garza and Carissa Tomlinson for ACRL ISBN-13: 9780838988671 322 pages • 6 x 9Year Published: 2017 Academic librarians are driven by the belief that student scholars are at the heart of the library. Our collections, programs, and services become meaningful when students use and learn from them. We build our websites and oth...

Makerspaces: Top Trailblazing Projects, A LITA Guide
$70.00
Caitlin A. Bagley ISBN-13: 9781555709907 128 pages • 6 x 9 Year Published: 2014 Spaces that have been designed to allow users to create, build, and learn new projects and technologies, makerspaces employ a variety of tools such as 3-D printers, AutoCAD design software, and even open-source hardware like Arduino Kits. Developing a community aroun...
Create Your School Library Writing Center: Grades 7–12
$70.00
Timothy Horan ISBN-13: 9781440835780 185 pages • 7 x 10 Year Published: 2016 Colleges typically have writing centers to which students can bring their writing assignments to a peer tutor for assistance, but most high schools and middle schools do not. This book advocates for the creation of writing centers in 7–12 schools and explains why the s...

Coteaching and Collaboration: How and Why Two Heads Are Better Than One
$56.00
David V. Loertscher and Carol Koechlin ISBN-13: 9781617510328 348 pages • 8½ x 11 2015 From both a theoretical and research perspective, coteaching is simply the most powerful foundational program element a teacher librarian can have to make a difference in teaching and learning. This collection of articles from Teacher Librarian magazine bri...
Boost Your STEAM Program with Great Literature and Activities
$58.99
by Liz Knowles, EdD, and Martha Smith Published: June 2018 Pages: 175 Size: 7x10 Books and activities for teaching literacy in your Pre-K through Grade 8 STEAM program. You've created a STEAM program in your library, but how do you work literacy into the curriculum? With this collection of resource recommendations, direction for program deve...
Teaching Coding through Game Creation
$65.50
by Sarah Kepple Published: August 2018 Pages: 197 Size: 7x10 Computer coding education makes perfect sense in libraries. This guidebook shows you how to lead this next revolution in learning. This engaging guide demonstrates how easy, fun, and rewarding it can be to teach and learn coding at the library. In our technology-ob...
Storytime and Beyond: Having Fun with Early Literacy
$58.99
by Kathy Barco and Melanie Borski-Howard Published: October 2018 Pages: 130 Size: 8 1/2 x 11 Techniques for encouraging literacy through fun, imaginative, and musical storytimes. Join the world of balloons, pancakes, and musical instruments—just a few items that can help to improve early literacy in the library, in the classroo...

Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning: Finding the sweet spots in kindergarten literacy
$24.95
Lori Jamison Rog and Donna-Lynn Galloway ISBN-13: 9781551383217 104 pages • 8½ x 11 Year Published: 2017 This practical handbook shows teachers how to nurture a kindergarten learning environment in which children feel safe, comfortable, and able to take risks. It offers innovative ways to encourage children to explore, experiment, discover, solv...
Library Brain Booster Set

Library Brain Booster Set
$12.50
UpstartBooks WL13590220 54 cards 6 x 4 2015 Hunting for new library programming material? Wishing you had fresh ideas for creative, budget-friendly library activities? Yearning for some good advice on keeping your library organized and running smoothly? Look no further than Library Brain, a collection of engaging lessons, activities and organi...

In Defense of Read-Aloud: Sustaining Best Practice
$28.95
Steven L. Layne ISBN-13: 9781625310408 192 pages • 7½ x 9¼ 2015 Researchers and practitioners stand together: the practice of reading aloud throughout the grades is not only viable, it's also best practice. This passionate book reinforces readers' confidence to continue the practice of reading aloud and presents the research base to defend the ...

Guided Inquiry Design in Action: Middle School
$56.00
Leslie K. Maniotes, LaDawna Harrington, and Patrice Lambusta ISBN-13: 9781440837647 140 pages • 8½ x 11 2015 Supplying classroom-tested lessons and unit plans that can serve as templates, this book demonstrates exactly how to integrate and implement Guided Inquiry Design (GID) theory into practice. Guided Inquiry is an approach that many educat...