Full Description
This book provides a straightforward, easy-to-follow procedural manual that will enable school library aides and new school librarians to develop excellent school library collections.
School Library Day-to-Day Operations: Just the Basics provides essential knowledge for anyone running a school library, explaining how to build and maintain a collection that students and teachers alike will be able to use to easily find materials for research and pleasure reading.
This hands-on manual will be invaluable to library clerks in developing sound procedures for preparing books and a wide range of other items—such as magazines, DVDs and audio books, and instructional materials— ready for circulation. The book also offers practical advice for establishing an efficient ordering process, checking in an order, and staying in compliance with school and district financial policies. And, because even the best library clerk can't always do it all on their own, the author identifies effective strategies for getting support.
Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is a Library Anyway?
Staffing the School Library
The Role of the School Librarian
The Role of the Library Clerk
Embracing the Job
2 Getting to Know the Library
Looking around the Room
Printed Materials
Audiovisuals
Equipment
The Room Itself
Circulation—The Reason Libraries Exist!
3 Keeping It Up to Date, Getting New Things
Selection Policies
Before Making Purchases
Get to Know Your Collection
Get to Know Your Students
Get to Know Your Curriculum
Making Purchases
Keeping the Library Up to Date, the Next Level
4 New Books: What to Do When Your Order Arrives!
Processing Orders—Getting Things Ready for Checkout
Special Processing Considerations
Computerized Reading Programs
Specialty Book Labels
Processing Videos and Other Audiovisuals
Periodicals
5 Handling Instructional Resources: Not the Traditional Librarian's Role
Define the School Librarian's Role with Instructional Resources
Dealing with Instructional Materials—What Is Involved
Logistics—Checking Instructional Resources Out and In
6 The Equipment Factor: Technology Is Not Intimidating!
Computers
Explore the Library's Computers
Multimedia Projectors
Document Cameras
Interactive Whiteboards
The Latest and Greatest
The Tried and the True
Taking Care of the Equipment
7 Putting It All Together: Meeting the Needs of Your Customers
Creating an Inviting School Library
Scheduling Classes: Teaching in the Library
Juggling
Conclusion
Index
