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With a renewed emphasis on facilitating learning, supporting
multiple literacies, and advancing equity and inclusion, the
thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this trusted text
provides models and tools that will enable library staff who serve
youth to create and maintain collections that provide equitable
access to all youth. And as Hughes-Hassell demonstrates, the only
way to do this is for collection managers to be learner-centered,
confidently acting as information guides, change agents, and
leaders. Based on the latest educational theory and research, this
book: presents the argument for why collection management decisions
and practices should focus on equity, exploring systemic
inequities, educational paradigm shifts, developments in the
information environment, and other key factors; lays out the
theoretical foundation for developing and managing a library
collection that facilitates learning, supports the development of
multiple literacies, and provides equitable access to an
increasingly diverse group of young learners; touches upon current
competencies and standards by AASL, YALSA, and ALSC; uses a
learner-centered and equity perspective to cover core issues and
criteria such as selection and removal of materials, budgeting, and
cooperation among libraries; shows how a business viewpoint can
assist the learner-centered collector in articulating the central
significance of the collection to learning; discusses how library
staff can work collaboratively to create policy and negotiate
budgets; and includes customizable tools and templates, including a
Stakeholder Contact/SWOT Analysis, Decision-Making Model for
Selecting Resources and Access Points that Support Learning and
Advance Equity, and Collection Development Analysis Worksheet. This
resource will be as useful to current school librarians and
supervisors, youth librarians in public libraries, and educators as
it will to LIS students.
This third entry in the Principles and Practice series, begun by
Barbara K. Stripling for Libraries Unlimited, enables school
library media specialists to clarify and expand their role in the
national school reform movement. Chapters offer a description of
the school reform initiative and implications for practice and a
discussion of how to implement in your practice. Readers will be
able to: identify current school reform efforts in the United
States; understand the role of the school library media specialist
in school reform; connect current school reform efforts to the
national guidelines for school media programs suggested in
Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (ALA, AECT
1998); and adapt strategies for participating in school reform to
their educational settings by acting as change agents. Grades K-12.
This important book is a call to action for the library community
to address the literacy and life outcome gaps impacting African
American youth. It provides strategies that enable school and
public librarians to transform their services, programs, and
collections to be more responsive to the literacy strengths,
experiences, and needs of African American youth. According to
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP), only 18 percent
of African American fourth graders and 17 percent of African
American eighth graders performed at or above proficiency in
reading in 2013. This book draws on research from various academic
fields to explore the issues surrounding African American literacy
and to aid in developing culturally responsive school and library
programs with the goal of helping to close the achievement gap and
improve the quality of life for African American youth. The book
merges the work of its three authors along with the findings of
other researchers and practitioners, highlighting exemplary
programs, such as the award-winning Pearl Bailey Library Program,
the Maker Jawn initiative at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and
the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate writing institute in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools, among others. Readers will understand
how these culturally responsive programs put theory and
research-based best practices into local action and see how to
adapt them to meet the needs of their communities.
Educators have wrestled with the delineation of "important
curriculum content" for decades. What is important, and how can the
school library help? Written by well-known educators and school
librarians, this new work--the second in the Principles and
Practice Series--explores educational principles and research, and
connects national curriculum trends to current library practice.
The book features eleven chapters, illustrated throughout with
tables and figures. Each chapter explains major concepts and
standards involved with curriculum development, instruction, and
assessment, and presents real-life examples of effective practice.
Chapters include: Inquiry-Based Learning Empowered Learning
Literacy Learning in the Elementary School Promoting Young Adult
Literacy Librarian Morphs into Curriculum Developer Curriculum
Mapping and Collection Mapping Modeling Recursion in Research
Process Instruction Assessment for Learning Building Learning
Communities Using Technology Role of Libraries in Learning
Communities Collaboration and Leadership An essential compendium
filled with research and best practice, this volume provides
important insight into the underlying principles of successful
teaching and learning in the school library media center. Educators
and library practitioners will gain a better understanding of the
library media center's pivotal role and learn how best to empower
students to become independent and lifelong learners.
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