(The)school library media specialist as manager : a book of case studies

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Series Editor's Foreword = ⅸ
• Preface = ⅹ
• Acknowledgments = xi
• Ⅰ. Elementary School Library Media Centers
• 1. Leadership, Planning, and Management = 3
• 1.1. Fixed, Flexible, Research Time : It's All in the Terminology = 3
• 1.2. Library Research for Kindergarten Students = 5
• 1.3. Identifying and Responding to Teachers' Needs = 7
• 1.4. Reaching Out from the Shelves : Marketing the Library Media Center and Its Services = 10
• 2. Personnel = 13
• 2.1. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. What To Do About a Job? = 13
• 2.2. Whose Library Media Center Is It? Who's in Charge? = 15
• 2.3. Getting Out-Transfer Solves a Difficult Situation = 18
• 2.4. The Take-Charge Clerk and the Timid Library Media Specialist = 21
• 3. Resources and Equipment = 25
• 3.1. Alternative Professional Collection = 25
• 3.2. Whole Language versus Phonics Resources = 27
• 3.3. How Many CD Workstations Are Enough? = 29
• 3.4. Resources at Annex Facilities = 32
• 4. Facilities = 35
• 4.1. Forty Days and Forty Nights -Damage Beyond Belief = 35
• 4.2. Purposeful Furniture Purchases or Just a Shopping Spree? = 37
• 4.3. The Sky Is Falling : Asbestos Pervades = 40
• 4.4. Czar of the Copier Machine = 42
• 5. District, Regional, and State Leadership = 45
• 5.1. Inventory - The Dreaded "I" Word = 45
• 5.2. The Library Checking Account : Who Uses It, Why, and for What? = 47
• 5.3. "I Just Needed These Titles for a Unit I'm Doing ； No One Else Was Using Them" = 49
• 5.4. The Volunteer with the Pipeline = 51
• Ⅱ. Middle or Junior High School Library Media Centers
• 6. Leadership, Planning, and Management = 57
• 6.1. Let's Get Organized-Time Management on the Job = 57
• 6.2. Professional Responsibility or Just Keeping Up? = 59
• 6.3. You Can't Go Home Again : Ethics of Peer Intervention = 62
• 6.4. Statistics -Friend or Foe? = 65
• 7. Personnel = 69
• 7.1. Quantum Leap-The Transfer from Elementary to Middle School = 69
• 7.2. Student Teacher Blues = 71
• 7.3. Fair and Equitable or Just a Work Ethic Rewarded? = 74
• 7.4. The Revolving Clerk = 76
• 8. Resources and Equipment = 79
• 8.1. Budgeting for School Reform = 79
• 8.2. Circulation of Computers = 81
• 8.3. Time to Move-What Do We Keep? How Do We Pay for Replacements? = 83
• 8.4. Encyclopedia Acquisitions-Paper or CD? Both Types or One? = 86
• 9. Facilities = 89
• 9.1. Computer Equipment That Keeps on Ticking = 89
• 9.2. Partnership with Strings = 91
• 9.3. The Overage Room, Formerly the Library Media Center = 93
• 9.4. The Library Media Center As a Coffee House = 96
• 10. District, Regional, and State Leadership = 99
• 10.1. Who's in Charge Here? = 99
• 10.2. I'm a BRIGHT Teacher, Are You? = 101
• 10.3. Enough Time or Not Enough Time? = 103
• 10.4. Do We Need a Library Media Center in the School? = 105
• Ⅲ. High School or Secondary School Library Media Centers
• 11. Leadership, Planning, and Management = 111
• 11.1. New Services = 111
• 11.2. Crumbs and Cockroaches = 112
• 11.3. Budgets : Coping with a Changing School Population = 114
• 11.4. The Hours in the Day : Flexible Scheduling = 115
• 12. Personnel = 119
• 12.1. Parent Aide Responsibilities : How Far to Go? = 119
• 12.2. Student Volunteers : Scheduling, Duties, and Fun = 120
• 12.3. Resources, Media Specialists, and Teachers : A Perfect Match, or Is It? = 122
• 12.4. Favoritism and the District Supervisor = 123
• 13. Resources and Equipment = 125
• 13.1. Books, Materials, and Such : Budgeting Print and Nonprint Resources = 125
• 13.2. Equipment versus Resources : How to Go Forward? = 126
• 13.3. Cooperative Purchasing-or We Shall Lose! = 128
• 13.4. Bilingual or Multilingual Resources : Which Way to Go? = 130
• 14. Facilities = 133
• 14.1. Whence the Computers : Library or Laboratory? = 133
• 14.2. To Decorate or Not? = 135
• 14.3. Control of the Phone and Fax = 136
• 14.4. The Virtual Library = 137
• 15. District, Regional, and State Leadership = 139
• 15.1. Regional Networks : ToJoinorNottoJoin? = 139
• 15.2. State Conference Presenter : Is It Possible? = 141
• 15.3. Districtwide Cooperation : Is There a Leader? = 142
• 15.4. Serving on a Statewide Task Force : Is It Possible? = 143
• Appendixes
• A. AASL Position Statement on Access to Resources and Services in the School Library Media Program = 145
• B. AASL Position Statement on Information Literacy = 149
• C. AASL Position Statement on Appropriate Staffing for School Library Media Centers = 159
• D. AASL Position Statement on Flexible Scheduling = 161
• E. AASL Position Statement on Preparation of School Library Media Specialists = 163
• F. AASL Position Statement on Resource-Based Instruction = 165
• G. AASL Position Statement on the Role of the Library Media Specialist in Outcomes-Based Education = 167
• H. AASL Position Statement on the Role of the School Library Media Program = 171
• I. AASL Position Statement on the Value of Library Media Programs in Education = 173
• J. Sample Library Media Selection Policy = 175
• K. Sample Library Media Policy for Reevaluation of Selected Materials = 179
• Suggested Readings = 185
• Works Cited = 187
• Selected Bibliography = 189
• Index = 191
• About the Authors = 195