School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781586833923)

This compilation of media and technology guru Doug Johnson's Library Media Connection columns offers his unique perspective on the role of the library media specialist in today's world.

School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections collects Doug Johnson's wildly popular "Head for the Edge" column for Library Media Connection. In one convenient volume, it brings together the best of Johnson's writing--topical, timely, technical, and theoretical--on the world of school media and the most effective ways libraries can use technology to serve teachers and students.

School Libraries Head for the Edge ranges across the breadth of its critically important subject, with chapters on libraries and education in transition, professional skills and development, building student research and technology skills, technology in the libraries and in education, and bringing an ethical, values-based sensibility to the use of media in school libraries. Throughout, Johnson tells it like it is, with cutting-edge coverage of the latest trends in library media and technology and incisive commentary on everything from the ramifications of Web 2.0 to what's new for tomorrow.

Author: Douglas A. Johnson
ISBN-10: 1586833928
ISBN-13: 9781586833923
Publisher: Linworth Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 188
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2010 - Recommended - Readable
Booklist 04/15/2010 pg. 77
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 299