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This comprehensive, practical guide covers every aspect of systematic instructional design. By taking a broad, multifaceted approach, rather than concentrating on one model or system, it enables librarians and other information professionals to compare and contrast instructional design, so that they can make the best choices in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes.

Nothing comes as naturally to children as pretending. This harnesses that wonderful capacity to nourish learning, literacy, cognitive development and pure enjoyment. Fifty compelling themes encourage children to use their imaginations to learn about subjects as diverse as camping, the beach, the Old West, pirates, jungle safaris, dinosaur digs, plus 44 more scenarios.

Helps you identify the essential concepts and goals behind great leadership, and effectively implement each one into your library's organizational structure. This book covers key strategies and processes for coaching, team building, and mentoring library staff.

Electronic resource management encompasses much more than turning on and off resources and tracking usage. This guide provides advice on the tools and best practices of the field help you tackle your workload while saving you time, effort, and money.

Explores the unique nature of academic librarianship and guides readers to understand what is required to have a successful career in academic librarianship. Evans and Alire explain the important ways in which the higher education environment distinguishe

Provides guidance in information acquisition including copyright and contract matters. This book covers basic fair trade and contract law concepts, contract formation, compliance, breech and remedy issues; developments in online and information contracting; and the advantages and disadvantages about licensing.

Offers practical steps for search engine optimisation, such as recommended dashboards to increase participation by sharing data; avoiding the four most common crawler errors that lead to low rankings; how to effectively utilise the Google Keyword Tool; and how to use domain settings to generate unit-specific reports for special collections, institutional repositories, and university presses.

This extensively revised, new edition tackles important changes in technology and the increasing financial pressures that have affected both the health care and library industries. From new initiatives, roles, and technologies to assessing the needs of an organization to managing libraries, this volume focuses extensively on the management of the 21st-century health sciences library.

Offering a selection of the very best YA literature as chosen by the members of YALSA-BK, each book entry is fully annotated and generously cross-referenced, creating a rich resource that offers a wealth of ideas for any school or public librarian.Offers ideas for those school or public librarians who work with collection development, readers' advisory, reference or programming for young adults.

Covers various aspects of institutional repository (IR) development. This book includes real-life examples of IR development from respected academic libraries including Cornell University, Colorado State University, and Macalester College.

Aims to offer the answers and approaches you need to make effective choices about video gaming in your library. This work includes topics such as: video game basics - history, formats, and genres; benefits and controversies; selection, collection, and circulation of titles; equipment and vendors; programming ideas; policy and management; and more.

Helps to discover the rich history and future possibilities of public library services. This book covers various aspects of the public library, from its earliest history to its incarnation in the 21st century information environment.

Demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed - and how librarians can keep up with the technologies for successfully completing these tasks.

This is a practical copyright handbook designed to help librarians, media specialists, technology coordinators and specialists, and teachers stay within copyright law while making copyrighted print, non-print, and Web sources available to students and others.