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Are you striving or even struggling to keep your school library alive and find support for your programs? This book shows you how to perform qualitative research and use the results effectively to promote your school library and build a shared understanding of the impact of school libraries on student learning. It gives hands-on guidance for performing action research, including how to establish the context, emphasize the main issue, set goals, anticipate research outcomes, create a plan, use tools and techniques for gathering data, involve others, perform an analysis that will lead to a pattern or theme, and develop conclusions based on the data. Includes a complete, ready-made presentation in PowerPoint on an accompanying CD-ROM. A must for teacher-librarians and school library media specialists seeking to secure and transform school library operations.

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.,. focuses on how media specialists can convince their constituents of the importance of school libraries to student learning and how they can influence the future of these libraries.... It could be used by media specialists as a motivational tool and to promote the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students. -School Library Journal

.,. focuses on how media specialists can convince their constituents of the importance of school libraries to student learning and how they can influence the future of these libraries.... It could be used by media specialists as a motivational tool and to promote the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students. -School Library Journal ?...focuses on how media specialists can convince their constituents of the importance of school libraries to student learning and how they can influence the future of these libraries.... It could be used by media specialists as a motivational tool and to promote the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students.?-School Library Journal ?For educators interested in doing action research, particularly in the area of teacher-librarianship, this book is a valuable tool. It provides hands-on guidance for doing the research as well as some timely information on the future of school libraries which would be helpful to any teacher-librarian doing advocacy programs within his/her own school or district.?-Resource Links ?Interesting and useful as an example of action research.?-Teacher Librarian ?This work provides a practical model to tackle a transformative library project; Sykes's model would be particularly helpful to implement before being visited and evaluated by an accrediting association. . . Recommended.?-The Book Report For educators interested in doing action research, particularly in the area of teacher-librarianship, this book is a valuable tool. It provides hands-on guidance for doing the research as well as some timely information on the future of school libraries which would be helpful to any teacher-librarian doing advocacy programs within his/her own school or district. -Resource Links Interesting and useful as an example of action research. -Teacher Librarian This work provides a practical model to tackle a transformative library project; Sykes's model would be particularly helpful to implement before being visited and evaluated by an accrediting association. . . Recommended. -The Book Report ... focuses on how media specialists can convince their constituents of the importance of school libraries to student learning and how they can influence the future of these libraries.... It could be used by media specialists as a motivational tool and to promote the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students. -School Library Journal

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JUDITH SYKES, former teacher-librarian, is principal of an elementary school in Calgary, Canada.

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