The School Library Manager, 5th Edition (Library and Information Science Text (Hardcover))

This textbook is simply the ideal guide for preservice school librarians and those new to the field. After a brief introduction that describes the history of the role of the school librarian, the book covers how to choose a credential program, identify the requirements for working in each of the 50 states, and avoid the pitfalls of looking for and choosing a job. The text even supplies a first-week "survival guide" for excelling in that new position from the beginning, covering the challenges of successfully managing collections, facilities, personnel, and technology. Critical subject matter such as librarian/teacher collaboration, curriculum integration, proposal writing, tackling leadership, and the role of a school librarian in the legislative process are addressed as well. This latest version of this established, "go-to" text provides updated coverage of student learning assessment, supplies new information on managing digital and virtual libraries and collections as well as social media in the library media center, and supplies careful attention to key strategies to meet AASL and Common Core standards.

Blanche Woolls is director and professor emerita, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University; and past president of the AASL and IASL.

Ann C. Weeks, PhD, is associate dean for academic programs at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies (CLIS). She also holds an affiliate appointment in the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and a professorship in the University of Maryland's CLIS. Previously, Weeks was director of libraries and information services for Chicago Public Schools, and executive director of multiple divisions of the American Library Association.

Sharon Coatney is senior acquisitions editor for Libraries Unlimited and was a past president of the American Association of School Librarians, a former councilor-at-large of the American Library Association, and was a teacher and school librarian in Kansas for 30 years.