Product Description
This book was developed for a course the authors co-teach in essential reference skills knowledge for school library media specialists. It focuses on core reference skills, current electronic and print resources, and leadership in teaching reference in K-12 school libraries. The authors have reviewed the AASL guidelines Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning and focus on how school media specialists can assist students in becoming information literate by teaching core reference and information processing skills and by building an excellent reference collection in their school media centers.

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Essential Reference Services for Today's School Media Specialists

This is a great introductory title for Reference Services as well as serving as an overview of all library related services and resources. Scott Lanning encapsulates information into brief explanations while giving great examples to further understanding. It's a great book for LIS students because Lanning does in one chapter what professors spend an ENTIRE semester teaching, and Lanning does it in a way that's easy to understand! I wish I would have had this resource at the beginning of my Library and Information Science coursework- it really would have helped make all the esoteric theories more concrete and understandable.
September 25, 2005

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