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SCHOOL LIBRARIANSHIP

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
May 2023, 382pp, 7x10 to decision makers.
Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7999-9
$95.00, £71.00, €82,00 This revised and updated edition of a classic text adds two well-known
eBook: 978-1-4408-7930-2 authors to help lead readers through the many essential management tasks
Paperback: 978-1-4408-7929-6 and skills required to administer the successful school library program. It
$65.00, £49.00, €57,00
emphasizes the importance of the school librarian in providing digital access
to information for teachers and students, describes how facilities are being
SAMPLE T OPICS modified to accommodate new resources and programming, and offers new
• Advocacy • Management ways to use AASL standards to evaluate programs.
• Assessment • Online Education All chapters are updated, and the text addresses such timely subjects as
• Collection • Outreach providing information resources when students, teachers, and librarians are
Development • Personnel interacting online. A new chapter highlights the importance of the school
• Curriculum • Professional librarian’s leadership in schools, districts, and communities. This invaluable
• Leadership Development textbook teaches practical skills for school library management and offers
inspiration and guidance for growing LIS careers.
FEATURES
BLANCHE WOOLLS is a former school librarian,
school district supervisor, professor, and LIS • Provides information that progresses logically from preparing for the
director who has served as president of AASL. profession and seeking a job to working and managing as a school librarian
JOYCE KASMAN VALENZA is associate teaching • Teaches school librarians to be effective leaders and advocates
professor of library and information science at • Includes several appendixes of practical information
Rutgers University.
• Provides newly updated chapters that include timely information
APRIL M. DAWKINS teaches in the areas of on digital access and working in an online environment
school libraries, intellectual freedom, information
literacy, and children’s and young adult literature • Includes an expanded author team with well-known library educators
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. • Emphasizes the value of school librarians in education and
student achievement

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