Independent School Libraries
Perspectives on Excellence
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2010
384 pages
978-1-59158-812-2 (ISBN)
Description
The first book published about independent school libraries since 1985, this work offers both the independent school library community and the broader school library community a wealth of insights into excellence in library practice.
Independent School Libraries: Perspectives on Excellence offers readers insights into best practices in library services for school communities, using examples drawn from independent schools of various sizes, descriptions, and locations across the United States. Two overview essays introduce a statistical analysis of independent schools. Each of the remaining essays provides perspective on a different aspect of library practice, including staffing, advocacy, assessment, technology, collaboration, programs beyond the curriculum, intellectual freedom and privacy, budgeting, accreditation, disaster planning, and more.
Because independent school librarians work across divisions and without a mandate to adhere to state or national standards, they have the freedom to explore and refine best practice in a school library setting. Fortunately, the ideas and methods they have developed, many of which are on display here, can be applied in any school library.
Independent School Libraries: Perspectives on Excellence offers readers insights into best practices in library services for school communities, using examples drawn from independent schools of various sizes, descriptions, and locations across the United States. Two overview essays introduce a statistical analysis of independent schools. Each of the remaining essays provides perspective on a different aspect of library practice, including staffing, advocacy, assessment, technology, collaboration, programs beyond the curriculum, intellectual freedom and privacy, budgeting, accreditation, disaster planning, and more.
Because independent school librarians work across divisions and without a mandate to adhere to state or national standards, they have the freedom to explore and refine best practice in a school library setting. Fortunately, the ideas and methods they have developed, many of which are on display here, can be applied in any school library.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-59158-812-2 (9781591588122)
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Person
Dorcas Hand is director of libraries at the Annunciation Orthodox School in Houston, TX.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Essay 1: The Librarian as Gardener
- Essay 2: Where We Fit In: The Library in the Life of the School
- Essay 3: Who Are We? The Independent School Library: A Statistical Profile
- Essay 4: We Are Not Alone
- Essay 5: Who Are We? Staffing in School Libraries
- Essay 6: The Many Faces of Advocacy for School Libraries
- Essay 7: Advocacy Through Assessment: Library Professional Practice and the School Mission
- Essay 8: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Technology in Independent School Libraries
- Essay 9: Sea Changes in Technology Services and Learning
- Essay 10: Information Commons and Independent School Libraries: Opportunities for Excellence
- Essay 11: To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate: It's Not a Question!
- Essay 12: Are They Ready for the Next Step? Bridging High School to College
- Essay 13: What Else Can We Do? Library Programs Beyond Curriculum Foster a Culture of Learning
- Essay 14: Looking Back to the Future: Traditions Reflected
- Essay 15: Choices, Choices: Selection Issues in Independent School Libraries
- Essay 16: Freedom to Think and Learn: Minors' Rights in Independent School Libraries
- Essay 17: What Does It Cost? Budget and Funding
- Essay 18: Role of the Library in Admissions and Institutional Advancement
- Essay 19: If You Build It: School Library Facilities
- Essay 20: Navel Gazing, or How to Survive the Accreditation Process
- Essay 21: Don't Lose It All: Disaster Planning
- Appendix A: NAIS Guidelines of Professional Practice for Librarians
- Appendix B: Librarian's Performance Assessment
- Index
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