5+Key+Readings+or+Books


 * 1. //Inquiry Learning through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships// by** **Violet Harada and Joan M. Yoshina**


 * While I did not get a chance to actually look through this book, I previewed it on Amazon and thought that it looked very well designed. It has all the expected things in a book, a table of contents, an index, etc but I also liked that it had profiles of school projects which I assume to mean they outline what the project entailed.


 * This will be helpful if I need to try and advocate implementing inquiry-based learning or (more likely) it will help me catch up to where everyone else is as far as knowing about inquiry.


 * I found this book when reading the article "Moving from Rote to Inquiry: Creating Learning That Counts" by Harada and Yoshina which was in my copy of __School Library Management__.


 * I really don't feel like I should judge the strengths of something I haven't read yet but by looking at the above mentioned article, I really don't think that I would find many weaknesses in the book. In the article they do a nice job of keeping everything very simplified and the figures they use are nice summaries of the inquiry process.

Harada, Violet, and Joan M. Yoshina. //Inquiry Learning through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships//. Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing Inc., 2004. Print


 * 2. "Tips for New Librarians" by Sue Howard**


 * This tool is exactly what the title implies; tips for new librarians.


 * This will be helpful to me in the future when I get my first job managing a library. Even if I don't get a job in a school media center, plenty of these tips could apply to other jobs.


 * I found this in my copy of __School Library Management__ when I was looking for articles for this project.


 * It's a good article because it has a lot of things that you can do to position yourself as an important member of the school community but it leaves out the negative situations you may run into as a new librarian and what strategies you could use to go around those roadblocks which I think would've been helpful.

Howard, Sue. "Tips for New Librarians." //School Library Management, Sixth Edition.// Eds. Judi Repman and Gail K. Dickinson. Columbus: Linworth Publishing Inc., 2007. 4. Print.

3. **"A Tale of Two Libraries: School and Public Librarians Working Together" by Julie Scordato**


 * This is a short article meant to encourage the collaboration between media specialists and public librarians.


 * I think this is helpful because it's a reminder that public librarians have a lot to offer to a school community as well as the greater community so it would be a good idea to take advantage of their services.


 * I found this in my copy of __School Library Management__ when I was looking for articles for this project.


 * It's a strong article because it brings up valid points about public librarians being able to help teach about researching databases and how a public library is a place that students use after school is over either for the day or for the rest of their lives and it's a good thing to learn early on that the public library has just as many resources as a school library.

Scordato, Julie. "A Tale of Two Libraries: School and Public Librarians Working Together." //School Library Management, Sixth Edition.// Eds. Judi Repman and Gail K. Dickinson. Columbus: Linworth Publishing Inc., 2007. 68-68. Print.


 * 4. "Authentic Assessment in the Classroom...and the Library Media Center" by Jon Mueller**


 * This article is basically a summary of what Mueller has created in his website, the [|Authentic Assessment Toolbox]. He discusses what authentic assessment means and how a school librarian can have a role in this process along with the teachers.


 * This will be helpful when developing assessments when teaching and it also gave me the idea to inform teachers of things students should be learning.


 * I found this in my copy of __School Library Management__ when I was looking for articles for this project.


 * It's a strong article because Mueller has done tons a research to back up his claim and he doesn't just say this is what you should do somehow but he gives you a whole website of helpful ideas.

Mueller, Jon. "Authentic Assessment in the Classroom...and the Library Media Center." //School Library Management, Sixth Edition.// Eds. Judi Repman and Gail K. Dickinson. Columbus: Linworth Publishing Inc., 2007. 75-78. Print.

// Many of us are searching continually for that just-right book for each and every one of our students. It is my hope to help you find those books. More importantly, I hope to help you guide students to the next great book and the one after that. That is the purpose of // Reading Ladders//. Because it is not sufficient to find just one book for each reader.// ([|heinemann.com)]
 * 5. //Reading Ladders// by Teri S. Lesesene**
 * About her book Lesesene wrote:


 * This tool will be helpful when try to create a reading program that helps students develop into lifelong readers.


 * I found this on LM_Net from post made by Naomi Bates on March 24th.


 * This book is very intriguing. It is a discussion of creating lifelong readers and the strategies that can be used to mold them. I have not read it yet but this is something I would definitely consider an asset on my bookshelf for developing a reading advocacy strategy.

Lesesene, Teri S. //Reading Ladders: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like Them to Be.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2010. Print.