Synopses & Reviews
A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking await you! This guide shows you how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center and help you build a true learning community. In addition to theoretical foundations of collaboration and learning, hands-on guidance is given for teaming up with school members, families, universities, libraries, community agencies, professional organizations, and businesses. A valuable professional reference for school librarians, administrators, teachers, and anyone seeking the skills and intellectual background to nurture a culture of lifelong learning and assume the lead in taking the library media center to the next level.
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Purchase for district centers, REMCs, and collections in library schools and colleges of education.Media Spectrum
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This is a professional title that allows you to watch a teacher-librarian in action. Farmer is well known and her years of experience show in this book about building partnerships and ways to organize and run a solid program....Anyone looking for specific ways to build a school library resource program through partnerships will find useful material here. Bottom line. A consultant in an book!Teacher Librarian
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An important book because it draws together the many facets of collaboration and provides practical ideas for working with the diversity of groups.School Library Journal
Synopsis
A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking await you! This guide shows you how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center and help you build a true learning community. In addition to theoretical foundations of collaboration and learning, hands-on guidance is given for teaming up with school members, families, universities, libraries, community agencies, professional organizations, and businesses. A valuable professional reference for school librarians, administrators, teachers, and anyone seeking the skills and intellectual background to nurture a culture of lifelong learning and assume the lead in taking thelibrary media center to the next level.
About the Author
LESLEY S. J. FARMER is Coordinator of Library Media Teacher Services Credential Program and Professor of Library Media Technology at California State University, Long Beach. A frequent contributor to professional journals, she was selected by CSLA as the 1999 Technology School Librarian of the Year.