Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your School Library: Scenarios from the Front Lines - Couverture souple

American Library Association

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0838935818 ISBN 13 : 9780838935811

Editeur : ALA Editions, 2009

Synopsis

Pat Scales uses her experience and expertise to offer an intellectual freedom title tailored to the school library environment. This title presents a number of scenarios in which intellectual freedom is at risk and includes:case studies that provide narrative treatment of common situations tailored to your library type; easy and motivating ways to prepare new hires for handling intellectual freedom issues; sidebars throughout the book that offer sample policies, definitions of key terms, and analysis of important statutes and decisions; and, detailed information on how to handle challenges to materials in your collection.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Pat R. Scales in director of library services at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts. She spent 28 years as a middle school librarian and has taught children's literature at Furman University since 1976. She received ALA's Grolier Foundation Award in 1997, and was honored with the AASL/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award in 1983. She more recently was named one of the five most influential librarians in the 20th century in South Carolina. Scales served as chair of the 1992 Newbery Award Committee and of the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Committee. She writes teacher's guides for children's and young adult novels and is a regular contributor to Book Links.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ALA Editions
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0838935818
• ISBN 13: 9780838935811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible