Sebanyak 13 item atau buku ditemukan

Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

A new edition of this best-selling textbook reintroduces the topic of library cataloging from a fresh, modern perspective. * Delineates the new cataloging landscape * Shares a principles-based perspective * Provides introductory text for beginners and intermediate students * Emphasizes descriptive and subject cataloging, as well as format-neutral cataloging * Covers new cataloging rules and RDA

A new edition of this best-selling textbook reintroduces the topic of library cataloging from a fresh, modern perspective. * Delineates the new cataloging landscape * Shares a principles-based perspective * Provides introductory text for ...

Dictionary of American Library Biography

Second supplement

Presents profiles of librarians noted for their work in public libraries, academic libraries, and archives.

duties only once more, when she taught cataloging at UNC in the fall of 1958. In
1 956. Akers received the Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and
Classification from ALA, and in 1962, an Honorary Membership in Beta Phi Mu. In
1966, Chi ...

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Principles and Application

This work offers users a complete and definitive guide to a challenging area of study. Chan presents a brief history of the system, analyzes its principles, and describes its vocabulary and subject authority control. She then discusses the application of LC subject headings to LC MARC records and outlines the Library of Congress's policies on the assignment of subject headings in general and the treatment of certain types of materials in particular.

This work offers users a complete and definitive guide to a challenging area of study. Chan presents a brief history of the system, analyzes its principles, and describes its vocabulary and subject authority control.

Action Research

A Practical Guide for Transforming Your School Library

Are you striving or even struggling to keep your school library alive and find support for your programs? This book shows you how to perform qualitative research and use the results effectively to promote your school library and build a shared understanding of the impact of school libraries on student learning. It gives hands-on guidance for performing action research, including how to establish the context, emphasize the main issue, set goals, anticipate research outcomes, create a plan, use tools and techniques for gathering data, involve others, perform an analysis that will lead to a pattern or theme, and develop conclusions based on the data. Includes a complete, ready-made presentation in PowerPoint on an accompanying CD-ROM. A must for teacher-librarians and school library media specialists seeking to secure and transform school library operations.

Promotes the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students. _

100 Most Popular Children's Authors

Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

A guide based on a 1997 survey of popular children's book authors provides biographical sketches and selected bibliographies for such writers as Beverly Cleary, Lois Lawry, Lewis Carroll, Mary Downing Hahn, and C.S. Lewis.

I love reading, British style crossword puzzles, and drawing silly cartoons for my
own amusement. " Always a reader, Alexander's message for those who read his
books is, "Read! Read every book you can get. Each book we read adds ...

The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors

Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

Offers brief biographies, annotated listings of each author's works, and suggestions for additional reading

for a department store, taught high school English, and lectured as a college
English professor. ... Both of our lives are filled with words, whether it's teaching
composition courses, doing crossword puzzles, or fighting our ongoing Scrabble
 ...

Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age

How to Locate and Evaluate Information Sources

One of the most perplexing aspects of research today is what to do when there's too much information on a topic. The key, says Leslie Stebbins, is to know how to find the most promising information, evaluate it, and use it effectively. Individual chapters provide a step-by-step introduction to research and critical evaluation and specific types of information resources, as well as guidance on such skills as note-taking and referencing. Students and librarians alike will benefit from these suggestions, strategies and straightforward examples for developing good filtering instincts and management of search results.

The most challenging aspect of research today is finding too much on a topic and
having to choose which information resources are the most important to include
in your paper. Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age: How to ...

Active Learning Through Drama, Podcasting and Puppetry

Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores, this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement. It discusses how drama, shadow puppetry, and podcasting can be used as tools to meet curriculum objectives in the K-8 media center, as well as the affective and academic benefits of this process-based work. Sample lessons are included.

Learning. Through. the. Arts. -I. NTRODUCTION I was once given a cartoon that
had been duplicated so many times I could no longer read the signature on it.
The cartoon shows a room full of young children playing in a classroom, each
with a ...