The School Library Media Manager (Library and Information Science Text Series)
People interested in becoming school librarians–or those in the process of doing so–would be well advised to use this text as their primary guide and manual. This edition of the classic text adds material and references utilizing both the AASL guidelines in the updated Information Power and responses pertinent to No Child Left Behind legislation. Organized intuitively as well as logically, the book begins with a history of school libraries, moves into their current and potential uses, and describes the process of becoming a library media teacher. The job itself is presented in subsequent chapters that explain in detail how to manage the program, facility, personnel, information access, budget, and services. Evaluation tools are offered that provide benchmarks for an array of important areas of qualitative as well as quantitative program achievement. Descriptions of collaboration efforts go beyond the classroom into marketing the services within and without the site, creating networks in the community, and developing professional and political contacts. Over 40 pages of appendixes provide examples, formats, and legal underpinnings for everything covered in the text and then some. Anecdotes, graphics, charts, and shaded boxes add to the conversational text, all enhancing a book that will be welcomed, highlighted, underlined, and dog-eared by overwhelmed new librarians and used for years by veterans. Woolls is clearly a woman who knows her stuff, knows how to teach it, and can show others how to do it well.–Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.