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A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking await you! This guide shows you how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center and help you build a true learning community. In addition to theoretical foundations of collaboration and learning, hands-on guidance is given for teaming up with school members, families, universities, libraries, community agencies, professional organizations, and businesses. A valuable professional reference for school librarians, administrators, teachers, and anyone seeking the skills and intellectual background to nurture a culture of lifelong learning and assume the lead in taking the library media center to the next level.

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9781563088780

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?This is a professional title that allows you to watch a teacher-librarian in action. Farmer is well known and her years of experience show in this book about building partnerships and ways to organize and run a solid program....Anyone looking for specific ways to build a school library resource program through partnerships will find useful material here. Bottom line. A consultant in an book!?-Teacher Librarian

This is a professional title that allows you to watch a teacher-librarian in action. Farmer is well known and her years of experience show in this book about building partnerships and ways to organize and run a solid program....Anyone looking for specific ways to build a school library resource program through partnerships will find useful material here. Bottom line. A consultant in an book! -Teacher Librarian Purchase for district centers, REMCs, and collections in library schools and colleges of education. -Media Spectrum Carefully organized for clarity, this up-to-date guide to forming valuable alliances will be helpful for school media specialists at all levels. -Kliatt An important book because it draws together the many facets of collaboration and provides practical ideas for working with the diversity of groups. -School Library Journal For librarians seriously committed to building community partnerships for their libraries, this book should be within arm's reach at all times. A rich resource of theories, guidance, and case studies, Teaming With Opportunity provides librarians with vital information that will help them plan and implement collaborative efforts with other important actors in their communities. -Colorado Libraries ?Purchase for district centers, REMCs, and collections in library schools and colleges of education.?-Media Spectrum ?Carefully organized for clarity, this up-to-date guide to forming valuable alliances will be helpful for school media specialists at all levels.?-Kliatt ?An important book because it draws together the many facets of collaboration and provides practical ideas for working with the diversity of groups.?-School Library Journal ?For librarians seriously committed to building community partnerships for their libraries, this book should be within arm's reach at all times. A rich resource of theories, guidance, and case studies, Teaming With Opportunity provides librarians with vital information that will help them plan and implement collaborative efforts with other important actors in their communities.?-Colorado Libraries ?This is a professional title that allows you to watch a teacher-librarian in action. Farmer is well known and her years of experience show in this book about building partnerships and ways to organize and run a solid program....Anyone looking for specific ways to build a school library resource program through partnerships will find useful material here. Bottom line. A consultant in an book!?-Teacher Librarian

This is a professional title that allows you to watch a teacher-librarian in action. Farmer is well known and her years of experience show in this book about building partnerships and ways to organize and run a solid program....Anyone looking for specific ways to build a school library resource program through partnerships will find useful material here. Bottom line. A consultant in an book! -Teacher Librarian An important book because it draws together the many facets of collaboration and provides practical ideas for working with the diversity of groups. -School Library Journal Purchase for district centers, REMCs, and collections in library schools and colleges of education. -Media Spectrum Carefully organized for clarity, this up-to-date guide to forming valuable alliances will be helpful for school media specialists at all levels. -Kliatt For librarians seriously committed to building community partnerships for their libraries, this book should be within arm's reach at all times. A rich resource of theories, guidance, and case studies, Teaming With Opportunity provides librarians with vital information that will help them plan and implement collaborative efforts with other important actors in their communities. -Colorado Libraries ?This is a professional title that allows you to watch a teacher-librarian in action. Farmer is well known and her years of experience show in this book about building partnerships and ways to organize and run a solid program....Anyone looking for specific ways to build a school library resource program through partnerships will find useful material here. Bottom line. A consultant in an book!?-Teacher Librarian ?Purchase for district centers, REMCs, and collections in library schools and colleges of education.?-Media Spectrum ?Carefully organized for clarity, this up-to-date guide to forming valuable alliances will be helpful for school media specialists at all levels.?-Kliatt ?An important book because it draws together the many facets of collaboration and provides practical ideas for working with the diversity of groups.?-School Library Journal ?For librarians seriously committed to building community partnerships for their libraries, this book should be within arm's reach at all times. A rich resource of theories, guidance, and case studies, Teaming With Opportunity provides librarians with vital information that will help them plan and implement collaborative efforts with other important actors in their communities.?-Colorado Libraries

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LESLEY S. J. FARMER is Coordinator of Library Media Teacher Services Credential Program and Professor of Library Media Technology at California State University, Long Beach. A frequent contributor to professional journals, she was selected by CSLA as the 1999 Technology School Librarian of the Year.

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