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Research Methods, Statistics, and Data
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Demystifying Scholarly Metrics
A Practical Guide
MARC W. VINYARD AND JAIMIE BETH COLVIN
“Written by librarians for librarians, but equally useful for academics wanting to know more about the wonderous world of scholarly metrics, the book does exactly what it says on the tin: demystifying scholarly metrics. It manages to do so through clear and engaging prose without talking down to its readers.
Quite a feat!” —Anne-Wil Harzing, Professor and Staff Development Lead, Middlesex University, June 29, 2021
With this book, there’s no need to be overwhelmed by scholarly metrics. You’ll learn how to understand and use them to your benefit.
Both librarians and professors can be overwhelmed by the bewildering number of scholarly metrics. This user-friendly book demystifies them, helping librarians become familiar with scholarly metrics and giving them the confidence to assist faculty at their institutions. It also equips faculty authors with the knowledge to evaluate journals and use metrics to track their scholarly impact.
Several controversies exist in the scholarly metrics landscape, including a disagreement between the proponents of altmetrics and traditional bibliometrics. Even more contentious debates are breaking out over predatory journals and open access publishing. Authors Mark Vinyard and Jaimie Beth Colvin, who successfully launched a faculty publishing initiative, explain which aspects of metrics are truly essential to grasp, and they place these numbers in context. They help readers identify the metrics that are the best fit for their scholarship and give librarians and professors the tools to make smart decisions in this changing scholarly metrics landscape.
FEATURES
• Teaches librarians how to demonstrate their value by helping professors succeed as scholars • Teaches faculty how to use scholarly metrics to tell their professional stories • Helps readers develop methods for tracking scholarly metrics and adapt them to the needs of specific researchers • Presents best practices for journal selection • Helps librarians and faculty understand and navigate controversies in the academic publishing world, such as open source publishing, altmetrics, and predatory publishers
February 2022, 220pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Paperback: 978-1-4408-7593-9 $75.00, £56.00, €65,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7594-6
SAMPLE TOPICS
• Altmetrics • Bibliometrics • Journal
Impact Factor • Journal Selection
• Open Access • Predatory Journals • Publishing • Scholarly Citations • Scholarly Impact • Scholarly Metrics • Tenure
MARC W. VINYARD is a research and instruction librarian at Pepperdine University. JAIMIE BETH COLVIN is a research and instruction librarian at Pepperdine University.
August 2023, 165pp, 8 1/2x11 Paperback: 978-1-4408-7645-5 $45.00, £34.00, €39,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7646-2
JOYCE KEELING has been an elementary school librarian for 27 years.
August 2023, 180pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Paperback: 978-1-4408-7851-0 $45.00, £34.00, €39,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7852-7
KARLA COLLINS is an associate professor in the school librarianship program at Longwood University.
COMING SOON
Science
JOYCE KEELING
This book provides targeted and invaluable help for the busy elementary school librarian and the science teacher as they work together to design and co-teach library-based lessons guided by the Next Generation Science Standards, English Literacy Common Core Standards, and the new AASL Standards.
All standards are cited in easy-to-use reproducible lessons. Energy-packed and interactive lessons are coordinated to common elementary science curricula at the grade level indicated and are also adaptable and usable as template lessons as needed. Necessary handouts and other tools, with current lists of recommended resources, are provided.
Elementary school librarians and classroom teachers as well as curriculum coordinators, elementary reading, social studies, and science instructors will find value in this collection of lessons. The highly rated materials recommended in the resource lists are valuable for aiding librarians in collection development to support new and current standards.
FEATURES
• Includes easy-to-teach and reproducible elementary lessons • Applies new AASL library and science standards
COMING SOON
School Libraries and Students with Special Needs
Collaborative Models to Reach All Learners
KARLA BAME COLLINS
While school librarians are experts at collaborating with classroom teachers, too often they overlook the specialists in their buildings as key collaborative partners.
Focusing on the many specialists who work with students, Karla Bame Collins provides information about their roles and responsibilities and discusses how school librarians can collaborate to improve learning for all students, including those with hidden disabilities that are not easily detected and may go undiagnosed. Because librarians work with every student, but may not always be informed about each student’s particular needs, it’s important for them to know whom in the school to turn to for information. Librarians will gain ideas for working with students to provide the best possible learning environment for each.
This practical book looks at the whole school library environment—collection, instruction, space, and programming—and offers many ideas for librarians to collaborate with other educators and specialists for the good of all students.
FEATURES
• Offers ideas for collaboration beyond classroom teachers • Introduces the roles and responsibilities of various specialists in a school building • Includes strategies for working with all students, including those with hidden disabilities
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 to decision makers.
This revised and updated edition of a classic text adds two well-known authors to help lead readers through the many essential management tasks and skills required to administer the successful school library program. It emphasizes the importance of the school librarian in providing digital access to information for teachers and students, describes how facilities are being modified to accommodate new resources and programming, and offers new ways to use AASL standards to evaluate programs.
All chapters are updated, and the text addresses such timely subjects as providing information resources when students, teachers, and librarians are interacting online. A new chapter highlights the importance of the school librarian’s leadership in schools, districts, and communities. This invaluable textbook teaches practical skills for school library management and offers inspiration and guidance for growing LIS careers.
FEATURES
• Provides information that progresses logically from preparing for the profession and seeking a job to working and managing as a school librarian • Teaches school librarians to be effective leaders and advocates • Includes several appendixes of practical information • Provides newly updated chapters that include timely information on digital access and working in an online environment • Includes an expanded author team with well-known library educators • Emphasizes the value of school librarians in education and student achievement
May 2023, 340pp, 7x10 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7999-9 $95.00, £71.00, €82,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7930-2 Paperback: 978-1-4408-7929-6 $65.00, £49.00, €57,00
SAMPLE TOPICS
• Advocacy • Assessment • Collection
Development • Curriculum • Leadership • Management • Online Education • Outreach • Personnel • Professional
Development
BLANCHE WOOLLS is a former school librarian, school district supervisor, professor, and LIS director who has served as president of AASL. JOYCE KASMAN VALENZA is associate teaching professor of library and information science at Rutgers University. APRIL M. DAWKINS teaches in the areas of school libraries, intellectual freedom, information literacy, and children’s and young adult literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
May 2023, 120pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Paperback: 978-1-4408-7919-7 $45.00, £34.00, €39,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7920-3
REBECCA J. MORRIS, MLIS, PhD, is teaching associate professor at University of Pittsburgh. Her recent research has centered on teen access to library services in the pandemic, digital storytelling, and research methods in school librarianship.
COMING SOON
The School Librarian’s Compass
Stories and Reflections to Help You Find Your Way
REBECCA J. MORRIS
In their preparation for school librarianship, library students learn foundational ideals and observe best practices that center and guide their work. However, discussions of aspirational versions of school librarianship often leave out sufficient practice in managing the many challenges and decisions school librarians face on the job. In this book, veteran educator Rebecca J. Morris uses stories of day-to-day librarianship to empower school librarians as they navigate and manage the complex interactions, decisions, and opportunities of their work.
The book’s alignment with the AASL/CAEP standards makes it helpful to school library educators planning curriculum, syllabi, and course activities. Perfect for reading or study groups, graduate classes, and professional development, these stories invite reflection and lively conversation.
FEATURES
• Aligned to the ALA/AASL/CAEP school librarian preparation standards • Appendices include learning exercises, discussion protocols, and course assignments • Stories invite reflection and conversation about applying professional principles and standards to day-to-day librarianship • Stories prepare school librarians to tackle emerging challenges in the profession
March 2022, 315pp, 7x10 Paperback: 978-1-4408-7745-2 $65.00, £49.00, €57,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7746-9
CARL A. HARVEY II, MSED, MLS, is assistant professor of school librarianship at Longwood University. AUDREY P. CHURCH, PhD, is professor of school librarianship at Longwood University.
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School Library Management
8TH EDITION | CARL A. HARVEY II AND AUDREY P. CHURCH, EDITORS
This 8th edition of School Library Management offers a fully updated collection of articles designed to guide both new and practicing school librarians. It gathers information about the issues and trends in the field, programming ideas, and advice from school library leaders. Contemporary articles from the past five years of School Library Connection bring this edition up to the present.
Carefully curated chapters address today’s best practices to improve school library programs, integrating technology considerations throughout each of the sections. Authors cover timely topics such as equity, diversity, and inclusion; budgets; copyright; librarian professional development; evaluation; and advocacy. Each chapter begins with an introduction to put issues into context and ends with activities that will help librarians further explore.
All readers will appreciate this volume as “one-stop shopping” for readings that address best practices in light of major new guiding documents and standards in the school library field.
FEATURES
• Presents a fully updated collection of School Library Connection articles • Reflects the knowledge of authors who teach required school library management courses • Includes questions and activities to aid in instruction
