Professional+Books

=Professional Books=

Center for Curriculum and Assessment (Ohio). (2004). Academic content standards: K-12 guidelines library. Columbus: Ohio Dept. of Education.

American Association of School Librarians. (2009). Empowering learners: Guidelines for school library media programs. Chicago, Ill: American Association of School Librarians.

Crane, B. E. (2009). Using WEB 2.0 tools in the K-12 classroom. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers. Talks specifically about blogs, podcasts, wikis, video/digital storytelling and more

Martin, B. S., & Zannier, M. (2009). Fundamentals of school library media management: A how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers. This will be a good reference to help me get started and organized. It has information regarding staffing, budget, circulating, creating websites and other administrative information.

Payne, R. K. (2005). A framework for understanding poverty. Highlands, Tex: aha! Process. This book talks about creating relationships and support systems within a school. I’ll use it as a resource to reach out to students and to understand different types of poverty.

Jones, J. B., & Zambone, A. M. (2008). The power of the media specialist to improve academic achievement and strengthen at-risk students. Columbus, Ohio: Linworth Books. What I found most useful in this book is the research that proves the importance of a good media specialist. I also found the last few chapters helpful by giving examples of things we can do to be effective librarians