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SCHOOL LIBRARIANSHIP

Intellectual Freedom Issues

in School Libraries

APRIL M. DAWKINS, EDITOR
School librarians continue to advocate for and champion student privacy and the right to
read and have unfettered access to needed information. Updated and current information
concerning these issues is critical to school librarians working daily with students, parents,
and faculty to manage library programs, services, and print and digital collections. This
volume is an invaluable resource as school librarians revisit collection development,
scheduling, access, and other policies.
Library science professors will find this updated volume useful for information and
discussion with students. Drawing on the archives of School Library Connection, Library November 2020, 217pp, 7x10
Media Connection, and School Library Monthly magazines—and with comprehensive Paperback: 978-1-4408-7236-5
$45.00, £34.00, €39,00
updates throughout—chapters tackle privacy, the right to read, censorship, equal access to eBook: 978-1-4408-7237-2
information, and other intellectual freedom issues.

New laws and legal and ethical opinions continue to appear and help inform the daily APRIL M. DAWKINS , PhD, is assistant
response school librarians have to current issues. This volume updates all included articles professor in library and information studies at
with current legal thought and opinion. Intellectual freedom expert April Dawkins offers the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
practical advice and commentary throughout.

FEATURES
• Includes up-to-date coverage of a wide range of intellectual freedom topics
• Looks at current and applicable laws
• Features important topics for discussion in LIS classes
• Immediately usable in schools and for school district staff development

Evaluating the School Library

Analysis, Techniques, and Research Practices

2ND EDITION | NANCY EVERHART
“ program and collection analysis that will yield lasting change
Offers clear guidance on the kind of fully data-driven approach to
” —Booklist Online, April 30, 2021
and improvement.

This new edition of an important tool for school librarians and administrators describes
how and why to conduct evaluations of school libraries and explains the evaluation of
curriculum, collections, facilities, student programs and services, and library personnel. October 2020, 178pp, 8 1/2x11
The results can be used for strategic planning, curriculum development, and conducting Paperback: 978-1-4408-5586-3
$50.00, £38.00, €44,00
action research. eBook: 978-1-4408-5587-0
New topics to this edition include explorations of community, faculty, students, and school
library research, discussing how to bring all stakeholders to the table when evaluating the NANCY EVERHART is professor at the
school library program, personnel and services, and the collection and facilities. Other new iSchool at Florida State University. She is
topics include information on high-stakes testing, multiculturalism, special needs students, an award-winning researcher and author of
more than 100 professional articles focusing
advocacy, school librarians’ self-evaluation, dispositions for learning, and evidence-based on school librarians and school libraries.
practice. This title will be of value to new school librarians in assessing how their program
compares to others, as well as to school library professors, who will find this book useful
in management and administration courses.

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