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Planning and Evaluation

Public Library Data Service: Statistical Report 1999
This annual publication provides invaluable quantitative information on technology, salaries, output measures, and related topics. The 1999 edition features the results of a special survey on public library facilities.

Public Library Association. 1999. 175 p.
ISBN 0-8389-8008-2
List $75

Public Library Data Service: Statistical Report 1998
Features the result of a special survey on public library finance.

Public Library Association. 1998. 175 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7944-0
LIST $75

Public Library Data Service: Statistical Report 1997
Features the result of a special survey on children’s services.

Public Library Association. 1997. 175 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7888-6
LIST $75

Public Library Data Service: Statistical Report 1996
Features the results of a special survey on business services.

Public Library Association. 1996. 167 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7827-4
LIST $75

Repositioning for the Future: Baltimore County Public Library Long Range Plan IV, 1994–1999
The latest in BCPL’s planning series. Use it as a basis for developing your own plan.

Eleanor Jo Rodger. 1994. 23 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7773-1
LIST $24

Policies and Guidelines

Boulder Public Library—MasterPlan
This readable, easy-to-follow, long-range master plan for the Boulder (Colorado) Public Library examines the roles the library plays in the community, identifies areas for improvement and charts a course for the library’s future needs. Includes public survey and results. The MasterPlan examines issues relevant to many libraries and can serve as a model for strategic planning by public libraries across the United States.

1995. 89 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7941-6
LIST $25

Cataloging Nonbook Materials with AARCR2 AND MARC: A Guide for the School Library Media Specialist, 2d ed.
This new edition of the hands-on guide to cataloging nonbook materials in the school library media center includes an expanded section on using the MARC format with nonbook materials. Lists commonly-used MARC fields, subfields, an indicators with examples showing their use. The second edition includes chapters describing cataloging practices for common nonbook formats, with many new examples showing both catalog cards and MARC records.

1999. 176 p.
ISBN 0-8389-8023-6
LIST $28.00

Collected Technology Policies
This collection of technology policies from thirty United States public libraries provides easy reference for public librarians looking to compile or compare technology policies.

1998. 128 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7939-4
LIST $15

Children and the Internet: Guidelines for Developing Public Library Policy
Developed by the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA), the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), and the Public Library Association (PLA), “Children and the Internet” is designed to help trustees and public libraries set children’s Internet policy and develop procedures.

1998. 31 p.
ISBN 8389-7940-8
LIST $22

Curriculum Connections on the Net
Learn to make curriculum connections on the Internet.

1996. 16 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3462-5
LIST $12.00

Curriculum Folio Guidelines for the NCATE Review Process: School Library Media Specialist Basic Preparation, 2d ed.
Guidance for college/university preparing a curriculum folio in the area of school library media education as part of the precondition process for NCATE accreditation.

AASL NCATE Committee. 1994. 47 p.
ISBN 7749-9
LIST $13.00

Directions for Library Service to Young Adults, 2d ed.
Sets a philosophical direction for service to young adults in a variety of library settings, including school and public libraries. The framework in direction can be filled in by using Bare Bones as a companion volume.

YALSA. 1993. 30 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7664-6
LIST $15.00

Fairfax County Public Library Board of Trustees Policy Manual
This volume provides one convenient source for trustee orientation and reference. It addresses the board’s authority, responsibility, structure, and relationship with the director.

Fairfax County Public Library. 1987. 81 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7158-X
LIST $25

Farming and Funding Library Foundations
Covers the basics of forming a library foundation. Sections cover the differences between public and private foundations, choosing a board, various articles of incorporation, bylaws, public relations, and various types of funding. Appendices include sample forms.

Faye Clow. 1993. 31 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7689-1
LIST $21

Guidleines for Establishing Community Information and Referral Services in Public Libraries, 4th ed.
Prepared by the Community Information Section of PLA, and created to assist public librarians considering offering community Information and Referral (I & R) service, the updated and expanded guidelines contains helpful information about all aspects of providing I & R service. Includes a selectively annotated guide to the literature of information and referral.

1997. 39 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7922-X
LIST $26

Help Manual: A Guide for Emergency Procedures
A welcome addition to any library’s procedures collection, the Baltimore County Public Library’s (BCPL) Help Manual is an updated, expanded and revised version of BCPL’s 1981 STEPS Manual. This comprehensive, all-inclusive guide for helping library staff members deal with emergency situations is presented in three-ring binder format, and divided into five main sections: building emergencies, medical emergencies, problem behavior, service inquiries, and theft and loss. Libraries are encouraged to personalize the manual, and space is provided for evacuation plans, equipment locations and other individualized information needs.

Baltimore County Public Library. 1996. 104 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7833-9
LIST $27

How to Connect to the Internet
This first booklet in the ICONnect Publication Series focuses on Internet use skills for school library, media specialists.

1996. 16 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3457-9
LIST $12.00

Information Services Training Checklist—1997, 2d ed.
The updated version of this comprehensive manual covers collection development, merchandising, amd basic reference sources. Includes procedures and forms. Designed in a sequential manner to help information services staff become confident, comfortable, and competent. Contains information services and guidelines.

Fairfax County Public Library. 1997. 114 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7938-6
LIST $24

Internet for Active Learners: Curriculum Based Strategies for K–12
Connects information to learning with technology advice for newbies, advance strategies for Internet pros, and teaching tools such as:

• Web sites especially selected for curriculum integration and active learning;
• five strategies for integrating the Web into the curriculum;
• Web site evaluation checklists for you and for students;
• suggested content checklist for your library home page; and
• advice on Internet workshops for teachers and parents.

Learning on the Internet never stops! To keep you up-to-date on everchanging Web resources, Internet for Active Learners directs you to the ICONnect site for more resources and to guided tours on Berger’s Cybertours site.

Pam Berger. 1998. Approx. 168 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3487-0
LIST $30.00

Unattended Children and the Public Library
This bestseller includes resources for policy development, coalition building, and library programming. Bibliography.

PLA Services to Children Committee, with the Association for Library Services to Children. 1988. 60 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7263-2
LIST $25

Library Personnel Policies
Features a wide variety of personnel policy examples—from compensatory time to emergency closings and tuition reimbursement—that are readily adaptable to other libraries.

Michigan Library Association. Sandra Arden, ed. 1989. 257 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7468-6
LIST $30

National Bookmobile Guidelines—1992
Looking for information on improving your bookmobile program or launching a new bookmobile? This concise volume provides helpful guidelines for managing a successful bookmobile program. Compiled by a team of bookmobile specialists, procedures for everything from funding, staffing, planning stops and evaluating services to marketing/public relations will help librarians and managers run bookmobile operations much more effectively.

State Library of Ohio. 1992. 21 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7779-0
LIST $28

PLA Handbook for Writers of Public Library Policies
Helps librarians think about issues involved in writing a policy manual. For each policy, the book lists needs that the policy should address, gives a sample core statement, suggests issues to be covered, cites sources for further information and gives a sample policy.

PLA Policy Manual Committee. 1993. 72 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7687-5
LIST $23

Problem Behavior Manual, 2d ed.
Outlines procedures for addressing a wide range of situations. For each scenario, the manual defines the problem, lsits the actions to be taken, and designates the people responsible for carrying out each step.

Fairfax County Public Library. 1997. 75 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7937-8
LIST $26

Reference Evaluation Project, rev. ed.
Identifies some of the primary issues confronting reference staff—such as purpose, priorities, statistics, referrals—and outlines a sample policy that librarians can use as a starting point for the development of their own written reference policy. A number of tools for evaluation and improvement of reference services are also described.

Reference Librarians Association. 1992. 37 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7653-0
LIST $18

Selecting Materials for School Library Media Centers, 2d ed.
The revised and updated version of the popular annotated bibliography contains annotated selection tools, an author index, and indexes of sources for grade levels and journals with current reviews.

Dona J. Helmer, comp. and ed. 1993. 111 p.
ISBN 7693-X
LIST $22.00

Service Code for Information Services, 2d ed.
If you’re looking for a model to establish policies and procedures for your library, Prince George’s County (MD) Library System’s Service Code covers all the bases. From individual staff member responsibilities to ethical dilemmas and day-to-day service, this book provides policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, and instructions.

Prince George’s County (MD) Library System. 1991. 28 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7796-0
LIST $24

Smart Training, Smart Librarians: Competency-Based Training for Youth Services
Foolproof step-by-step training manual for conducting excellent workshops for staff development and self- improvement.

ALA. 1998. Approx. 250 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7934-3
LIST $40

Special Collections in Children’s Literature: An International Directory, 3rd ed.
An updated subject index to special collections in children’s literature with a new international section.

Compiled and edited by Dolores Blythe Jones. 1995. 250 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3454-4
LIST $40

Youth Services Librarians as Managers
A series of practical essays written by librarians who are experts in management issues.

Edited and compiled by Kathleen Staerkel, Mary Fellows, and Sue McCleaf Nespeca. 1995. 171 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3446-3
LIST $30.00

Programming/Marketing/Outreach

ALSC Program Support Publications
Evelyn Walker, Series Editor. Guides to a variety of children’s services programs in public libraries. $8 each; members $7.20

Multiculturalism in Library Programming for Children
A discussion of the philosophy of multicultural programming including suggestions on implementation.

Janice N. Harrington. 1994. 16p.
ISBN 0-8389-5765-X

Programming Author Visits
Everything you need to know to have a successful author visit at your school or library.

Jan Watkins. 1996. 20p.
ISBN 0-8389-5766-8

Programming for Young Children: Birth through Age Five
A concise, but complete, “how-to” booklet with descriptions of programs currently conducted around the country.

Prepared by Carole D. Fiore with assistance from Sue McCleaf Nespeca. 1996. 52p.
ISBN 0-8389-5757-9

Programming for Outreach Services to Children.
Guidelines and suggestions for developing programs for use in reaching out to nonlibrary users.

Jane Lenser. 1994. 12 p.
ISBN 0-8389-5764-1

Programming for Serving Children with Special Needs
Guidelines and resources for developing library programs to serve children who have a variety of special needs.

Library Service to Children with Special Needs Committee. 1994. 19 p.
ISBN 0-8389-5763-3

Bare Bones Young Adult Services: Tips for Public Library Generalists
Only a few libraries can afford a full-time young adult specialist. Yet, if your library is like most, a quarter of your patrons are young adults, 12–18 years old. Bare Bones offers a quick-start to superior service for staff and librarians who must fill the gap. Informed by YALSA’s popular “Serving the Underserved” workshops, this handbook answers all the common questions generalists have about working with teens. A friendly, modular design invites you to scan in stolen moments and pick up such tips as:

• Seven developmental needs of young adults
• How to interact with teens
• Readers advisory services for teens
• How to evaluate web sites
• Strategies for dealing with troublesome behavior

With advice on what’s most important, your bare bones service won’t be skimpy.

Renee Vaillancourt. 1999. 142 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3497-8
LIST $35

Bare Bones: Young Adult Services Tips for Public Library Generalists
Gives practical advice for libraries serving young adults without a YA librarian. Sections include adolescent development, identifying and promoting popular materials, supporting homework needs, working with local schools, and coping with issues such as discipline and intellectual freedom. Includes a bibliography.

Mary K. Chelton and James M. Rosinia, with the PLA/YALSA YA Services in Public Libraries Committee. 1993. 73 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7665-4
LIST $15

Campaigning for Libraries
Learn the ins and outs of running a successful library referendum—from selling the need to the legal questions involved. Bibliography.

Suzan Rickert. Judy Zelinski, ed. Central Colorado Library System. 1988. 64 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7505-4
LIST $21

Collaboration: Lessons Learned Series
This eight page booklet defines collaboration, identifies its benefits, and describes the factors necessary for library media specialists, teachers, and administrators to collaborate. Collaboration discusses environmental factors, group membership characteristics, process/structure, communication, purpose, and resources that affect the work of teams. The booklet also analyzes reports submitted by participants of Meeting in the Middle, a five day AASL/HEA Title HB institute held in August 1994. Developed and distributed through a grant from the Bound to Stay Bound Books Foundation.

Robert Grover, ed. 1996.
ISBN 0-8389-7871-1
LIST $25 for 25 books

The Count on Reading Handbook: Tips for Planning Reading Motivation Programs
This publication offers assistance and advice in the planning and implementation of reading motivation programs in schools, libraries, and youth-serving organizations. It features reading programs from participants of Count On Reading, and AASL initiative challenging the nation’s youth to read a billion books. The Count on Reading Handbook and initiative was underwritten by the Follett Software Company.

Susan D. Ballard. 1997. 84 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7892-4
LIST $19.95

Directions for Library Service to Young Adults, 2d ed. YALSA
Sets a philosophical direction for service to young adults in a variety of library settings, including school and public libraries. The framework in directions can be filled in by using Bare Bones as a companion volume.

30 p.
ISBN 7664-6.
LIST $15.00.

Enhancing Cultural Understanding through Historical Fiction: A Multicultural Bibliography for Grades Five Through Eight
This annotated bibliography is comprised of fifty-one works of multicultural historical fiction suitable for middle school students. Indexed by author, title, historical eras, and racial affiliations.

Karen P. Smith and Linda Zoppa. 1994.
ISBN 7755-3
LIST $15

Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults: The Nation’s Top Programs, 2d ed.
This publication highlights the best-of-the-best youth services programs throughout the United States and illustrates the importance of providing quality service to young adults. In a project made possible by a grant from the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust, librarians nationwide submitted their tried-and-true young adult programs for review by the YALSA Executive Committee. The top fifty programs are profiled in this enlightening sourcebook.

Mary K. Chelton, ed. 1997. 115 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3474-9
LIST $22.00

The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts
A reprint edition with foreword and bibliography by Patty Campbell. This revision of the young adult services masterpiece has added special features to make this title an accessible and relevant work for the librarian of the 21st century.

1994. 50 p.
ISBN 0-8389-0635-4
LIST $25.00

Ideas for Promoting Your School Library Media Program
An expansion of AASL’s original On Target, this publication takes program promotion a step further by going beyond School Library Media Month and offering year-round advice and suggestions on all aspects of promotion. This publication assists school librarians in promoting one of the best kept secrets—school library media programs. It answers questions on how to get started and presents ideas for various school library media activities and programs, from cooperative efforts to electronically-inspired activities. Information about other sources and materials helpful in promotional efforts is also included.

Ann Wasman, ed. 1996. 160 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7846-0
LIST $30

Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
To assist you in collaboration and to bolster advocacy for your program, the new standards will also be published separately in a companion publication, Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. This inexpensive publication is designed for distribution to your partners in information power—teachers, principals, boards, and administrators.

AASL/AECT. 1998. Approx. 48 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3471-4
LIST $20.00

Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning
Includes the Information Literacy Standards that will help students become skillful producers and consumers of information along with the guidelines and principles that will help you create a dynamic, student-centered program. The book’s underlying concepts will guide you in:

• Helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation, or disciplinary borders
• Joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a variety of print and non-print resources
• Designing authentic learning tasks and assessments
• Defining your role in student learning

Managing For Results: Effective Resource Allocation for Public Libraries
In order for any library to achiever its mission and goals in the community, it must effectively manage staff, the collection, technology, and the facility itself. Managing for Results will help you identify key resources, make choices among different library priorities, and assign or reallocate resources to achieve results. Numerous workforms are included that will aid you in collecting anf analyzing the information needed to correctly allocate resources, such as:

• Number of professional staff needed
• How to budget for library materials
• Amount of space needed for programs
• Type and amount of software/hardware needed

Using the guidelines and workforms, you can focus on your library’s needs and objectives, and determine how best to accomplish them.

Sandra Nelson, Ellen Altman, and Diane Mayo. 1999. Approx. 320 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3498-6
LIST $45.00

Marketing Plan for the Anne Arundel County Public Library
Outlines specific strategies to help improve services, increase use and enhance awareness, understanding, appreciation, and support by the public.

Crosby Communications Inc. 1992. 63 p.
ISBN 0-8389-7788-X
LIST $26

Youth Participation in School and Public Libraries. It Works.
Updates two previous books about youth participation. Important elements of the two earlier books are included plus an updated list of libraries with youth participation and activities, a video script from an award-winning video, national guidelines, and much more.

126 p.
ISBN 7798-7.
LIST $25.00.

Reading Lists and Programs

ALA’s Guide to Best Reading 2001
This kit, compiled by expert librarians and book reviewers, offers lists of the finest fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry for all ages and interests. Handy camera-ready formats
allow for customization with your library’s name and hours. Buying the package gives you
distribution permission from ALSC, Booklist, RUSA, and YALSA.

ALSC, Booklist, RUSA, and YALSA. 64 p.
Item #9300-0601
LIST $34.95

Hit List: Frequently Challenged Books for Young Adults
This unique, basic source is dedicated to frequently challenged books read by young adults, including both YA literature and adult titles favored by teens. The compact resource identifies the nineteen most frequently challenged titles, according to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom’s database. For each book this essential guide helps you understand the perspectives concerned parents and activists will take by supplying you with complete annotated bibliographies, examples, and explanations of recent challenges, review sources you can point to that support the book, and reading lists and directories that recommend this title.

YALSA. 1996. 104 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3459-5
LIST $22.00

Outstanding Books for the College Bound: Choices for a Generation
What should I read to get ready for college? Millions of high school students ask this question—Outstanding Books for the College Bound offers answers and suggestions, featuring authoritative lists in one handy volume. This essential cumulation of thirty-five years of outstanding book selections organizes more than 1,000 books into five genres—the arts, biography, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and books for the times—with a brief annotation and year of selection for each title. A second section gives you a chronological listing, offering snapshots in history and a glance at the evolution of the selections over the past four decades.

Marjorie Lewis and YALSA. 1996. 240 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3456-0
LIST $22.00

Sizzling Summer Reading Programs for Young Adults
A good summer reading program is sure to attract those who love to read, but a sizzling summer reading program will entice a new teen audience—even those who normally wouldn’t dream of “hanging out” at the library. The book is organized by incentives, thematic programs, novelties, participation, and teens with special needs. There are also illustrations of promotional materials used in the programs described. Start planning your program now and make a teen scene happen in your library next summer.

Katherine I. Kan and YALSA. 1998. 96 p.
ISBN 0-8389-3480-3
LIST $25.00

Other

AASL Electronic Library CD-ROM, 1999 ed.
Boost your information power! The 1999 edition of the AASL Electronic Library CD-ROM includes more than eighty full-text articles referenced in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, plus . . .

• six volumes of School Library Media Quarterly (1990–1995);
• important professional literature on topics like assessment, copyright, distance education, portfolios, reading, technology, and others;
• selected national data on school library media centers from the U.S. Department of Education; and
• articles from AASL Affiliate publications.

And more! Also new, the 1999 CD-ROM is both Mac and Windows compatible!

Daniel Callison and Robert Grover, editors. 1999.
ISBN 0-8389-8043-0
LIST $30.00