How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries

Author:   Carol Smallwood ,  Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
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9780810892736


Pages:   298
Publication Date:   05 December 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Carol Smallwood ,  Vera Gubnitskaia
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780810892736


ISBN 10:   0810892731
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   05 December 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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From pre-school to college, programs to funding, this timely collection of how to articles has something helpful for libraries of all kinds. It offers inspiration and ideas even for those not fully versed in STEM. -- Su Epstein, library director, Saxton B. Little Free Library, Columbia, Connecticut Best practice examples and constructive advice will inspire and support STEM in any library, helping to embed the librarian as an indispensible cog in this nationwide initiative. -- Leigh Woznick, library media specialist, Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School, Bridgewater, New Jersey The very comprehensive grant writing chapters for STEM grants are informative, enlightening, and useful in so many ways -- Ann Paietta, director of Essex Free Library, Essex, Vermont Busy librarians will appreciate this timely idea book, which offers many solutions for helping patrons of all ages and experience levels to engage in science, technology, engineering and math at their libraries--even better, there are ideas here for every librarian's budget, no matter how tiny! -- Beth Neiman, youth services librarian, Carlsbad Public Library, Carlsbad, New Mexico A great resource for public and academic librarians who wish to incorporate STEM in their information literacy classes, library programming, events, and outreach -- Mark Aaron Polger, instruction/reference librarian and information literacy instructor, College of Staten Island, CUNY, New York, New York From preschool through high school to providing support in project planning and grant writing, this anthology presents relevant chapters covering the broad spectrum of just about everything the librarian needs to know about STEM. -- Anna Ercoli Schnitzer, disability issues librarian, Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is now a staple of educational planning and program evaluation. This book provides an excellent resource for teachers and librarians interested in the standards, applications, trick, traps, and assumptions of this education standard. -- Jonathan Frater, technical services librarian, Metropolitan College of New York I highly recommend this down to earth treatment of the subject... -- James B. Casey, library director, Bowling Green State University - Fireland, Huron, Ohio Valuable insights from academic and public library practitioners on ways to make our hard and applied sciences collections more relevant to patrons of all ages. -- James B. Casey, retired director of Oak Lawn Public Library, Oak Lawn, Illinois


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Carol Smallwood received a MLS from Western Michigan University, MA in History from Eastern Michigan University. Librarians as Community Partners: an Outreach Handbook; Bringing the Arts into the Library are recent ALA anthologies. Others are: Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012); Marketing Your Library (McFarland, 2012); Library Services for Multicultural Patrons: Strategies to Encourage Library Use (Scarecrow Press, 2013). Her library experience includes school, public, academic, special, as well as administration and being a consultant; she's a poetry Pushcart nominee. Vera Gubnitskaia, a manager at the Orange County Library System, Florida, obtained her library degrees from Moscow Institute of Culture (Russia) and Florida State University. Vera worked in public and academic libraries in Russia and USA. She co-edited Marketing You Library (McFarland 2012) and Continuing Education for Librarians (McFarland 2013). Her chapters appeared in the Librarians as Community Partners (ALA 2010) and in Library Management Tips that Work (ALA 2011). Her reviews were published by the Journal of International Women's Studies and Small Press Review.

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