Full Description
Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises.
This fourth edition of Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips acknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary.
Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turn. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K-12 student instruction.
Contents
Part 1: What Is Reference All About?
Chapter 1: Reference and the School Library: An Overview
Chapter 2: Selection, Evaluation, and Maintenance of the Reference Collection
Part 2: Nuts and Bolts
Chapter 3: Bibliographies
Chapter 4: Ready-Reference Tools: Fact Books, Directories, Almanacs, Yearbooks, and Handbooks
Chapter 5: Biographical Sources
Chapter 6: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Geographical Sources
Chapter 8: Electronic Indexes and Abstracts, Periodical and Specialized Databases
Chapter 9: The Reference Interview
Chapter 10: The Internet in Today's Reference Services
Chapter 11: Scenarios and Exercises
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
