Crash Course in Children's Services
Libraries Unlimited | Penny Peck | September 2006
ISBN 10: 1591583527
ISBN 13: 9781591583523
A basic explanation of children’s services for persons working in small libraries with limited staff. Tips include conducting reference interviews, handling homework centers, building collections, and planning story times. Sources of help are provided with age appropriate themes and activitites. Working with parents and teachers can be a major assignment for the children’s librarian. Programming information includes how to conduct tours for school groups and summer reading programs. How to partner with others to share ideas for summer programs is suggested. Providing book discussion groups for students is one method to keep them reading. Issues in providing children’s services are detailed.
The Crash Course series was created for individuals working in small public/museum/church libraries who need basic information on various service-specific topics. Written in lay terms, the tone of the Crash Course series is “how to” with little theory, but providing the fundamentals of day-to-day services. The books may be used for reference, as workshop guides, or as training manuals, and will be useful to staff who may need refresher information, as well as to new librarians and library volunteers.
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