This manual guides libraries and librarians in the planning, organization, and procedures of literacy programs. After a review of literacy goals, chapters of the book discuss the specific roles of libraries and librarians in literacy programs; essential steps in planning literacy programs; the implementation of literacy programs in public, school,…

The library program as a support to reading instruction in the primary grades is the focus of this handbook. The first section, "Philosophy and Program Implementation," stresses the key idea of integration of library and reading programs and presents specific suggestions for implementation. The second section, "Administration of the Program,"…

Articulates key changes occurring around information literacy and raises issues just recently considered such as: what libraries will become; what students need to learn about navigating the new library space; how the role of the librarian is changing; and what these new roles and capacities imply for the relation between teacher and librarian and…