Co-author of the popular titles "Booktalking Bonanza" and "The Early Literacy Kit", Betsy Diamant-Cohen brings together 18 examples of successful outreach partnerships that children's librarians and administrators can adapt to their own situations. Contributors from the U.S and Canada explain how they partnered with schools,…

This document reviews problems, alternatives, and recent developments in the education of prisoners. The authors state as a guiding argument that while inmates are severely handicapped according to traditional academic measures, in terms of the current movement in education towards individualized instruction nowhere is there a more fertile ground…