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LIBRARY MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATION,
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AND LEADERSHIP

COMING SOON
The School Library Manager

Leading through Change

7TH EDITION | BLANCHE WOOLLS, JOYCE KASMAN VALENZA,
AND APRIL M. DAWKINS

Learn how to manage a school library—even
when facing challenges like budget cuts,

reduced staffing, and distance learning.

In an era of budget cuts, reduced staffing, and a global pandemic, it’s
more important than ever for new LIS professionals and established school
librarians and administrators to demonstrate the value of school libraries
to decision makers. May 2023, 340pp, 7x10
Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7999-9
This revised and updated edition of a classic text adds two well-known $95.00, £71.00, €82,00
authors to help lead readers through the many essential management tasks eBook: 978-1-4408-7930-2
and skills required to administer the successful school library program. It Paperback: 978-1-4408-7929-6
emphasizes the importance of the school librarian in providing digital access $65.00, £49.00, €57,00
to information for teachers and students, describes how facilities are being
modified to accommodate new resources and programming, and offers new SAMPLE T OPICS
ways to use AASL standards to evaluate programs. • Advocacy • Management
All chapters are updated, and the text addresses such timely subjects as • Assessment • Online Education
providing information resources when students, teachers, and librarians are • Collection • Outreach
interacting online. A new chapter highlights the importance of the school Development • Personnel
librarian’s leadership in schools, districts, and communities. This invaluable • Curriculum • Professional
textbook teaches practical skills for school library management and offers • Leadership Development
inspiration and guidance for growing LIS careers.
FEATURES
• Provides information that progresses logically from preparing for the BLANCHE WOOLLS is a former school librarian,
profession and seeking a job to working and managing as a school librarian school district supervisor, professor, and LIS
• Teaches school librarians to be effective leaders and advocates director who has served as president of AASL.
• Includes several appendixes of practical information JOYCE KASMAN VALENZA is associate teaching
professor of library and information science at
• Provides newly updated chapters that include timely information on digital Rutgers University.
access and working in an online environment
APRIL M. DAWKINS teaches in the areas of
• Includes an expanded author team with well-known library educators school libraries, intellectual freedom, information
• Emphasizes the value of school librarians in education and literacy, and children’s and young adult literature
student achievement at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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