Lessons from Library Power

Dianne M. Hopkins, Norman L. Webb, Gary Wehlage, Douglas L. Zweizig

ISBN 10: 1563088339 / ISBN 13: 9781563088339

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 1999

About this Item

Share the power of our important national initiative! The profound changes instituted by the Library Power Project can also serve as a catalyst for the revitalization of your school library media center. This book offers an abundance of practical and insightful ideas for collaborative planning, flexible scheduling, collection development, professional development, and facility renovation. Compiling research findings of the project as documented in surveys of key players (library media specialists, principals, and teachers) and through direct observation in case studies across the United States, this book provides a valuable instructional model for today's schools. Essential reading for media specialists, teachers, district administrators and principals, it will also benefit students of library science and academics interested in school reform.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons from Library Power
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563088339
• ISBN 13: 9781563088339
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Share the power of our important national initiative! The profound changes instituted by the Library Power Project can also serve as a catalyst for the revitalization of your school library media center. This book offers an abundance of practical and insightful ideas for collaborative planning, flexible scheduling, collection development, professional development, and facility renovation. Compiling research findings of the project as documented in surveys of key players (library media specialists, principals, and teachers) and through direct observation in case studies across the United States, this book provides a valuable instructional model for today's schools. Essential reading for media specialists, teachers, district administrators and principals, it will also benefit students of library science and academics interested in school reform.

About the Author

DOUGLAS L. ZWEIZIG is Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

DIANNE MCAFEE HOPKINS is Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-principal investigator in the evaluation of the National Library Power Program, an initative funded by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. She received AASL's Distinguished Service Award and has served on ALA's Intellectual Freedom Committee. She is a member of the Board of the Library Research Roundtable of ALA.

Zweizig and Hopkins are co-principal investigators in the evaluation of the National Library Power Program, an initiative funded by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.