Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips

Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips

by Ann Marlow Riedling Ph.D., Cynthia Houston
Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips

Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips

by Ann Marlow Riedling Ph.D., Cynthia Houston

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Overview

Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises.

This fourth edition of Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips acknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary.

Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turban. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K–12 student instruction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440867095
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/21/2019
Edition description: 4th Revised ed.
Pages: 134
Sales rank: 316,994
Product dimensions: 8.55(w) x 10.95(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ann Marlow Riedling, PhD, served as a professor at numerous universities for over 30 years. She has served four Fulbrights and has written 18 books.

Cynthia Houston, MSLIS, PhD, is professor in the Libraries, Informatics, and Technology in Education program at Western Kentucky University.

Table of Contents

Part 1: What Is Reference All About?
Chapter 1: Reference and the School Library: An Overview
Chapter 2: Selection, Evaluation, and Maintenance of the Reference Collection

Part 2: Nuts and Bolts
Chapter 3: Bibliographies
Chapter 4: Ready-Reference Tools: Fact Books, Directories, Almanacs, Yearbooks, and Handbooks
Chapter 5: Biographical Sources
Chapter 6: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Geographical Sources
Chapter 8: Electronic Indexes and Abstracts, Periodical and Specialized Databases
Chapter 9: The Reference Interview
Chapter 10: The Internet in Today's Reference Services
Chapter 11: Scenarios and Exercises

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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