Books by Kathleen W. Craver

By becoming practical futurists, school librarians can help their libraries not only to survive sweeping changes in education but to thrive. This book shows how to spot technological trends and use them to your library's advantage.During this time of rapid modernization of technology and educational reform, this book is a must-read for school librarians tasked with ensuring their libraries meet evolving standards. This title provides the research and organizational techniques and skills they need to gain seats at the table of the three power committees: technology, curricula, and strategic planning.School librarians need to collect and publicize national and local school-based evidence that shows the positive correlations between school librarians and student achievement. Craver notes correlative sources and provides ideas to employ them to ensure that school librarians remain indispensable. In addition, acquiring technological skills and becoming expert at their application are paramount for librarians. Even more important is the need for librarians to assume sole responsibility for designing and integrating information literacy and critical thinking skills throughout the curriculum. Craver analyzes studies that show students' inability to discern fact from fiction, ads from news, and information bias in electronic information sources and recommends six actions that school librarians take to ensure that they become active participants in their future rather than its victims.School librarians will recognize the need to become future forecasters in an age of rapid technological changeSchool librarians will understand the serious employment challenges they face in a time of technological change and understand the steps they need to ensure the continuation and value of the professionSchool librarians will gain confidence that they can cope with predicted trends by following recommendations for instructional and organizational change

School library media specialists who need to plan and make decisions about the future of their school libraries will find this book an invaluable resource. To visualize the future, Craver creates contrasting scenarios of utopian and dystopian school library media centers in the 21st century.

This is a guide for school library media specialists teaching electronic literacy to students and faculty. Step-by-step instruction is provided on how to find and evaluate information from electronic databases and the Internet, formulate search strategies, and interpret and analyze results.

As prices of traditional library materials increase, and space to house them shrinks, savvy school library media specialists are creating cyber libraries, or school libraries on the Internet.

This volume recommends 150 primary source Internet sites in history for teachers and school library media specialists to stimulate critical thinking in students. Each site is accompanied by a summary that describes its contents and usefulness for grades seven to 12.