Product Description: Here you'll find useable, real-life examples - ones you can access for guidence when particular reference situations arise. With its updated coverage of terminology and techniques, research processes and models, selections, evaluation, maintenance of reference sources, and vast changes in technology, you'll often reach for this invaluable reference...read more

Product Description: Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college...read more

Product Description: Here you'll find useable, real-life examples - ones you can access for guidence when particular reference situations arise. With its updated coverage of terminology and techniques, research processes and models, selections, evaluation, maintenance of reference sources, and vast changes in technology, you'll often reach for this invaluable reference...read more

'This work contains a comprehensive list of informative websites providing a variety of information on each of the 50 states. Each state lists 50 websites that provide information of particular use to teachers, students and librarians. An appendix lists an additional 50 websites, useful for all states, which brings this work to a total of 2,550 entries'--Provided by publisher.Contains a list of websites providing a variety of information on each of the fifty states.

Product Description: This book is designed for courses that prepare college and university students for undergraduate or graduate degrees in school library media. It is also written as a helpful instructional manual or guidebook for practicing school library media specialists...read more

Product Description: How We Became Camels is a personal account of a mother and her fourteen-year-old daughter living in Bahrain, Yemen, and Egypt (with visits to the United Arab Emirates, Hawar Island, and Djibouti). Through humor and irony, this book portrays vivid, enchanting characters, as well as unusual and many times amusing and exhilarating experiences of "mother and Anne" living, working and surviving in the Middle East...read more

Product Description: Today's students and workers need everyday skills only dreamed of by their parents and grandparents. Knowing how to "use" a computer or the Internet is no longer enough. This user-friendly, step-by-step guide is designed to help students from middle school through the beginning college level master the essential information literacy skills and become effective, efficient learners...read more