HIT: Professional Reading

[Mary Miller <mmiller@LAB.STISAAC.PVT.K12.MI.US>]

Thanks to all who responded to my request for information regarding
professional reading for elementary media/tech specialists.  Here are
some of the responses I received:

Website:  http://www.norwich.net/~jochurch/
(Click on the Technology in Education link)

Teaching Information Literacy Using Electronic Resources and Skills
for Life are both excellent notebook style professional books from
Linworth. Also From Library Skills to Information Literacy from
HiWillow Publishing.

Essential reading is Information Power, the "bible" of school library
media specialists. Available from Libraries Unlimited. Also look for
journal articles by Ken Haycock (The role of the school library media
spec.), Barbara Stripling and the owner/originator of the LM_NET,
Michael Eisenberg.

I find many of the materials from Linworth Publications in Ohio to be
very practical. Home page:  http://linworth.com/

The best stuff isn't necessarily books but magazines - especially
Book Report, Library Talk, Technology Connection, School Library
Journal - and the curriculum frameworks for the grades you will
serve.

You should read Information Power, available from the American Library
Association.