Do you ever feel like you're drowning in an overwhelming number of tasks? These ready-to-use lifesavers will help you stay afloat in your job while you successfully manage your facilities. You'll find advice on a variety of subjects, from completing library inventory, handling overdue materials, and establishing a book club to teaching Internet research skills and improving public relations. Each lifesaver contains a tip (guidelines for implementation), a tool (a reproducible handout or form), and talk (advice from practicing professionals). Upbeat and practical, this book will save you time and make your job more manageable.

This book offers a survival guide for media specialists who want to THRIVE-not just SURVIVE-in their busy media centers. Librarians jobs are getting harder and harder, yet few books exist solely to help them identify and deal with stress. Library Lifesavers: A Survival Guide for Stressed Out Librarians fills that gap. This unique self-help book offers today's multitasking media specialists the ready-to-use strategies-Lifesaver Tools-they need to find balance and stay afloat. Identical twins Pamela and Tamora Bacon organized their book around the THRIVE theme, presenting six basic tenets: T - Take Action H - Hurry No More R - Read & Regain Control I - Inspire Yourself & Others V - Vision ... Past, Present & Future E - Exercise Your Mind & Body Each section begins with a real-life question, followed by practical advice and hands-on activities to help librarians "renew" themselves professionally and personally. Whether you read the chapters sequentially or randomly , this unique volume may be the difference between sinking and enjoying the ride. The "Counselor's Corner" offers helpful, practical advice from a licensed school counselor More than 60 ready-to-use reproducibles are accompanied by explanatory narrative to help librarians and teachers (Grades K-12) "renew" themselves and inspire others along the way A complete bibliography including all resources referenced throughout the text An appendix offering dozens of helpful Internet links

Best practice tells us that school librarians must support the needs of classroom teachers and help increase student achievement. This goal can be met through effective teamwork and collaboration with a key literacy focus. Literacy is now everyone's job. School library media specialists are no longer just an important part of the crew-they are the captains With increasing demands and decreasing time, media specialists are feeling like fish out of water when it comes to quality collaboration. Just creating quality lesson plans and surviving the hectic school day is hard enough leaving many educators without the time or energy to collaborate. Busy teacher-librarians will no longer have to sink or swim on their own-this book will allow them to dive into managed independent work stations, literacy stations, collaborative units, and many other literacy-rich activities. Grades K-12.

Best practice tells us that school librarians must support the needs of classroom teachers and help increase student achievement. This goal can be met through effective teamwork and collaboration-with a key literacy focus. Literacy is now everyone's job. School library media specialists are no longer just an important part of the crew-they are the captains With increasing demands and decreasing time, media specialists are feeling like fish out of water when it comes to quality collaboration. Just creating quality lesson plans and surviving the hectic school day is hard enough leaving many educators without the time or energy to collaborate. Busy teacher librarians will no longer have to sink or swim on their own-this book will allow them to dive into managed independent work stations, literacy stations, collaborative units, and many other literacy-rich activities. Grades K-12.

Starting the Beach Club isn't easy--especially when the five junior lifeguards are total opposites. As the girls plan a beach bash, they learn a lot about friendship, love and even themselves. But will the club--and their romances--last?

A career's worth of creative solutions to problems and challenges commonly encountered in school libraries, this second volume to the best-selling 100 Library Lifesavers presents another 100 ready-to-use lifesavers to help you stay on top of your busy schedule and make your library look good! Seasoned school library media specialist Pamela S. Bacon once again shares practical, field-tested advice for just about any task. Each lifesaver includes a brief description, "tips" (helpful suggestions) and "tools" (ready-to-use templates), as well as an added feature called "trips" (Internet links). Grades 6-12. The lifesavers are organized into 10 general sections: Dive into Distance Learning All Aboard! Exceeding the Standards! Dive under Cover: Lessons to Improve Reading Motivation Keep Afloat: Great Library Management Tips Get Below the Surface-Library Skills from the Ground Up! Float through Personal & Professional Development Go Fish! Library Games for All Grade Levels "Sea" What Others are Doing-Library Media Center Best Practices Head Swimming? Get Organized! Sail into Technology-Technology Tools Whether you're a novice or a veteran school librarian, the lifesavers in this upbeat, practical book will help you optimize your time and make the job more manageable.

Media specialists, particularly in large urban high schools, often cannot meet the individual instructional needs of every student. This book outlines an online unit that helps media specialists ensure that every student receives valuable - and consistent - information literacy instruction. The book contains a ten-step orientation course created by author Pamela S. Bacon for her students. It includes reproducible worksheets, explicit instructions, modeling, and patterning necessary to create a similar online orientation program in any secondary school. In addition, the book provides a model and electronic templates on a Web companion site that will enable any school media specialist to construct a customized online orientation. The Web component includes appendix materials, with instructional Powerpoint shows to use with staff and students.