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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.
List of 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 BoltsChapter 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
GlossaryBibliographyIndex
About the author
ANN MARLOW RIEDLING is Associate Professor at Saint Leo University, St. Petersburg. She has worked in the field of library science and information technology since 1974. Her previous books include Reference Skills for the School Library Media Specialist: Tools and Tips, Catalog It! A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials, Learning to Learn: A Guide to Becoming Information Literate, and Helping Teachers Teach: A School Library Media Specialist's Role (3rd ed.), and a trade book, How We Became Camels.
Cynthia Houston is a professor in the Master of Science program in library media education at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.
