This book offers a survival guide for media specialists who want to THRIVE-not just SURVIVE-in their busy media centers.
Librarians jobs are getting harder and harder, yet few books exist solely to help them identify and deal with stress. Library Lifesavers: A Survival Guide for Stressed Out Librarians fills that gap. This unique self-help book offers today's multitasking media specialists the ready-to-use strategies-Lifesaver Tools-they need to find balance and stay afloat.
Identical twins Pamela and Tamora Bacon organized their book around the THRIVE theme, presenting six basic tenets:
T - Take Action
H - Hurry No More
R - Read & Regain Control
I - Inspire Yourself & Others
V - Vision ... Past, Present & Future
E - Exercise Your Mind & Body
Each section begins with a real-life question, followed by practical advice and hands-on activities to help librarians "renew" themselves professionally and personally. Whether you read the chapters sequentially or randomly , this unique volume may be the difference between sinking and enjoying the ride.
The "Counselor's Corner" offers helpful, practical advice from a licensed school counselor
More than 60 ready-to-use reproducibles are accompanied by explanatory narrative to help librarians and teachers (Grades K-12) "renew" themselves and inspire others along the way
A complete bibliography including all resources referenced throughout the text
An appendix offering dozens of helpful Internet links
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Faced with demands for better organization and time-saving strategies, the Self-Help Sisters have come to the rescue with their survival guide. Each of the sections begins with a real-life question followed by a quick personal assessment and hands-on activities. Each section also offers helpful, practical advice from a licensed school counselor. The sections on controlling e-mail and student discipline were particularly illuminating." - Library Media Connection "A witty self-help book for librarians struggling to maintain sanity and a stress-free work atmosphere. The authors present ready-to-use strategies to help librarians find balance and manage their time better. Often the two sisters give different, but equally useful advice as one twin comes from a school principal background, while the other has been a media specialist and reading coordinator. Each of the six sections includes a real-life question, practical solutions, and hands-on activities, including reproducible documents called lifesaver tools. The authors are concerned with the whole librarian: body, mind, and spirit as evident by their encouraging of journaling, reflecting, and exercising (even dancing!) as stress-reducing activities." - School Library Journal
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Verlagsgruppe
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Maße
Höhe: 280 mm
Breite: 216 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-59158-768-2 (9781591587682)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Pamela S. Bacon, MEd, is a reading coordinator at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, IN, and a freelance writer.
Tamora K. Bacon is the literacy coordinator for Greencastle School Corporation in Greencastle, IN.
