BOOKS ABOUT LIBRARY SCIENCE

 

COAST

Subjects to use in COAST:

HINT: To double the number of books you get, don't forget to click on the LINK+ option in the top right hand corner of the screen in COAST.  You can request books from LINK+ and they arrive at CSULB in 3-5 days!!

library science		collection development
school libraries		children books and reading
library orientation		children's literature bibliography

ARTICLES ABOUT LIBRARY SCIENCE

Library Literature & Information Science (CSU Authentication Required)

This database provides the full text of many public relations related articles.  It indexes many marketing journals as well as industry specific publications.  Therefore, you will find public relations articles dealing with both non-profit and commercial perspectives.
 

ERIC (CSU Authentication Required)

ERIC is a good source for researching school libraries as well as finding bibliographies for subject or age specific literature.  Also covers technology in the school issues and funding research.

To find books dealing with teaching information in a school setting search COAST using the subject heading "library orientation..."

Information Literacy for K-16 Settings / Lesley S.J. Farmer.
This website will provide basic groundwork for infusing information literacy into the curriculum at all educational levels.
 

Information Literacy and Workplace Performance, by Tom W. Goad (2002).

An easy to read guide that attends to basic skills, thinking and decision-making, creativity enhancement, innovation and risk taking, computer literacy, subject matter literacy, learning how to learn, and securement of on-the-job help. Goad discusses an unusual but highly relevant topic: how do we place work into the framework of our lives, and how can information literacy help?
 

Teaching Information Literacy Skills, by Patricia Iannuzzi, Charles T. Mangrum II and Stephen S. Strichart (1999).

This book has reproducible activities (for schools and higher education) to help students develop information literacy skills.
 

Information literacy and information skills instruction : applying research to practice in the school library media center / Nancy Pickering Thomas ; edited by Paula Kay Montgomery.

This book will help you with developing an instruction plan at the elementary school level.

Cooperative learning activities in the library media center / Lesley S.J. Farmer.
 

Internet Access In U.S. Public Schools 1994-2000 / NCES

This is a full text report on the internet that discusses access to the internet at public schools nation-wide.

 

Library and Information Science Resources: Collection Development Sites This is part of the ACQ Web out of Vanderbilt.

Contains links for collection development of books as well as web resources.   Has a great link for finding book reviews online.
 

CSULB Children's Literature Research Guide

CSULB has a great selection of children's literature on the 5th floor.  Check out this guide created by John D'Amicantonio to see additional resources.

Collection Development Texts

Collection development for a new century in the school library media center / W. Bernard Lukenbill.

Censorship and selection : issues and answers for schools / Henry Reichman

Collection assessment and management for school libraries : preparing for cooperative collection development / Debra E. Kachel.

Guide to reference materials for school library media centers / Barbara Ripp Safford.

Selecting books for the elementary school library media center : a complete guide / Phyllis Van Orden.

Creating cyber libraries : an instructional guide for school library media specialists / Kathleen W. Craver.

Book Lists

Great books about things kids love : more than 750 recommended books for children 3 to 14 / Kathleen Odean.

Building character through literature : a guide for middle school readers / Rosann Jweid, Margaret Rizzo.

Adventuring with books : a booklist for pre-K-grade 6 / Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, editor ; with Cathy Beck ... [et al.] and the Committee to Revise the Elementary School Booklist ; with a foreword by Jane Yolen.

Children's books from other countries / [sponsored by] United States Board on Books for Young People ; Carl M. Tomlinson, editor.

High interest easy reading : an annotated booklist for middle and senior high school / Patricia Phelan, editor, and the Committee to Revise High Interest Easy Reading of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Your reading : a booklist for junior high and middle school / C. Anne Webb, editor, Paul Hirth, associate editor, and the Committee on the Junior High and Middle School Booklist of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Online Tutorials

HTML

Writing HTML

HTML References

Front Page

Front Page Tutorials (Front page 2000)

Front Page in the Classroom (Front Page 98)

Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver 3.0 Tutorial

JavaScript

Javascript Tutorial

Javascript Generators

How to-Javascript tutorials

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Instruction Manuals (print and e-books*)

*ebooks are restricted to CSULB faculty, students and staff

The complete idiot's guide to creating an HTML 4 Web page / by Paul McFedries

*Sams teach yourself Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in 21 days [electronic resource] / Denise Tyler.

*Practical HTML 4 [electronic resource] / Lee Anne Phillips.

XHTML by example / Ann Navarro.

HTML & XHTML, the definitive guide / Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy.

Creating a power web site : HTML, tables, imagemaps, frames, and forms / by Gail Junion-Metz and Brad Stephens.

*JavaScript : pocket reference [electronic resource]  / David Flanagan

*JavaScript complete [electronic resource] / Steven Holzner.

The Web wizard's guide to JavaScript / Steven Estrella.

Design Guidelines

Web style guide : basic design principles for creating Web sites / Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton.

*Web design:the complete reference [electronic resource] / Thomas A. Powell.

Usability testing for library websites : a hands-on guide / Elaina Norlin, CM! Winters.

The Internet & Web design for teachers : a step-by-step guide to creating a virtual classroom / Dennis Anderson.

Designing Web interfaces to library services and resources / Kristen L. Garlock, Sherry Piontek.

*Cascading style sheets complete [electronic resource] / David D. Busch and J.W. Olsen.

Designing Web usability / Jakob Nielsen.

Graphics

Graphics & Sounds (CSULB)

Small library cataloging / Herbert H. Hoffman. 2002

Wynar's introduction to cataloging and classification /Arlene G. Taylor ; with the assistance of David P. Miller. 2000

Cataloging with copy : a decision-maker's handbook / Arlene G. Taylor, with the assistance of Rosanna M. O'Neil.

The concise AACR2, 1998 revision / prepared by Michael Gorman. 1999

School Library Associations on the Internet / maintained by the International Association of School Librarianship

American Indian Library Association 

Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association

Association of Christian Librarians 

Association of Jewish Libraries 

Black Caucus of the American Library Association 

California Librarians Black Caucus 

California Library Association

California School Library Association

Chinese American Librarians Association 

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table, ALA 

Korean American Librarians Association 

Reforma (National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish Speaking)

Resources for Librarians with Disabilities 

Spectrum Scholarship / American Library Association

Job Opportunities

Use these sites now before going to library school to realize the many different types of specializations, types of positions, and types of organizations (not necessarily a library) where the librarian of the future will play a major role.

• American Library Association Employment Page 
  Under Employment look at the monthly Career Leads
• Library Job Postings on the Internet 
  Maintained by a librarian at Bridgewater State College
• SI Jobfinder Placement Bulletin 
  Made available by the University of Michigan, School of Information
• U.S. State and Regional Library Associations
  In addition to listing of associations, includes local library job lines on the Web