Getting Lead-Bottomed Administrators Excited About School Library Media Centers (Building Partnerships Series)
An upbeat, inspirational look at ways library media specialists (LMS) and administrators can work together to improve the effectiveness of library-media-center programs. Snyder, an administrator himself, preaches his support of LMSs' role in school reform and is cognizant of the challenges they face (insufficient funding and administrative backing, ill-behaved students, heavy workload, inadequate facilities, and demanding teachers). He continues with an analysis of various personality characteristics of many LMSs and administrators and how they affect job performance. Much of the book outlines the planning process in a useful step-by-step manner. The author uses interesting anecdotes and case studies to drive his points home effectively. He reports that research shows that schools with strong libraries have high student achievement, although he does not tell where to find the research. A helpful, sympathetic look at school library media centers today.Sandra L. Doggett, Urbana High School, Ijamsville, MDCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.