Mona Kerby – författare

Every aspect of our school library profession builds on a quality school library collection. You can’t be a stellar school librarian without access to quality school library materials.""Applying an informal and practical approach, Kerby provides beginning librarians with the essential steps to effectively manage a vibrant school library collection. Kerby argues that building a quality collection is no longer enough and offers strategies to ensure that learners actively engage with the materials. Supported by the National School Library Standards and ALA/AASL/CAEP standards for university preparation programs, this resource introduces the key components that influence collection development today, includingpolicies, practices, and selection sources to evaluate, weed, and build dynamic and diverse school library collections;methods and examples for analyzing collection, curriculum, and community needs;strategies for showcasing the school library collection to learners and stakeholders; andcharts, checklists, worksheets, discussion questions, and tips from practicing school librarians.By focusing on the basics, readers can begin to reflect on and customize plans for action. A timesaver for the busy school librarian, this collection development digest is the tool you need to ensure success.

Tracing the historical development of information literacy skills instruction, Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction supports best practices for today’s librarians.Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction, Fifth Edition, provides insights on improving instruction across contexts drawn from the scholarly literatures of library and information studies, education, communication, psychology, and sociology. This text is useful to school, academic, and public librarians and library and information science students. In the new edition, special attention is given to recent studies of information seeking during the tumultuous times of the pandemic, racial upheaval, and increased censorship. The effects of trauma-informed teaching, the science of reading, and artificial intelligence on the library world are also included. Gen Alpha is added to the previous edition’s discussion of generations X, Y, and Z.Readers will appreciate using updated research to establish best practices in their libraries, LIS classes, and research studies.

Tracing the historical development of information literacy skills instruction, Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction supports best practices for today’s librarians.Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction, Fifth Edition, provides insights on improving instruction across contexts drawn from the scholarly literatures of library and information studies, education, communication, psychology, and sociology. This text is useful to school, academic, and public librarians and library and information science students. In the new edition, special attention is given to recent studies of information seeking during the tumultuous times of the pandemic, racial upheaval, and increased censorship. The effects of trauma-informed teaching, the science of reading, and artificial intelligence on the library world are also included. Gen Alpha is added to the previous edition’s discussion of generations X, Y, and Z.Readers will appreciate using updated research to establish best practices in their libraries, LIS classes, and research studies.