Promoting school libraries

Check out these articles and links to promote your library and illustrate the need for information literacy:

Note:  all of these items are available in the Professional Collection at OLIS

  • "Wild About Harry", by Brian Kenney.  School Library Journal, October 2005, p. 40-42.  - "A principal who sports Jerry Garcia ties and totally digs libraries"
     
  • "Listen to the Voices," by Ross J. Todd and Collier Kuhlthau.  Knowledge Quest, v. 33, n. 4 (March/April 2005). - "Ohio Students Tell Their Stories of School Libraries"
     
  • "Heart of the School" by Angela Pascopella.  District Administration, January 2005. -  "The school library is as valuable as learning how to read and compute. But it's a tough sell for administrators."
     
  • The Power of Reading: Insights into the Research, 2nd edition, by Stephen D. Krashen. Heinemann/Libraries Unlimited, 2004. - Review:  "...The Power of Reading provides the research that connects what we do - getting kids to read - with what the bean counters want - data that shows reading itself improves reading ability."
     
  • "Making the Leap from High School to College" by Mary Ann Fitzgerald.  Knowledge Quest, , v. 32, n. 4 (March/April 2004), p. 19-24. - "Three New Studies about Information Literacy Skills of First-Year College Students"
     
  • "Administration:  Leading and Partnering", entire issue of Knowledge Quest, v. 32, n. 2. (November/December 2003).

 

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