Description
Here's a book on today's reference sources and services written just for children's and young adult librarians. It includes core reference collections bibliographies targeted to elementary-age children, to middle schoolers, and to teens. Each chapter also includes sidebar exercise and thought experiments, as well as prompts for next action steps
Author: Lesley S. J. Farmer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 09/02/2022
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781538163191
ISBN10: 1538163195
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science | General
About the Author
Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, Professor at California State University (CSU) Long Beach, coordinates the Teacher Librarianship program, and was named as the university's Outstanding Professor. She also manages the CSU ICT Literacy Project. She earned her M.S. in Library Science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and received her doctorate in Adult Education from Temple University. Dr. Farmer chaired the IFLA's School Libraries Section, chairs the International Association of School Librarianship Information Literacy SIG, and is a Fulbright scholar. A frequent presenter and writer for the profession, she won several honors, including American Library Association's Phi Beta Mu Award for library education and the Ken Haycock Leadership Award, the Catholic Library Association St. Katharine Drexel Award, and the AASL Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Farmer's research interests include school librarianship, information and media literacy, digital citizenship, and data analytics.