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The article offers tips on how teacher-librarians can find, use and keep volunteers to assist school library program. They provide the time necessary for librarians to cooperate with teachers to plan for appropriate lessons for students. Volunteers also understand the process of preparing books for the shelf since they are involved in the many procedures. When creating a volunteer program, it is suggested to consider ways to advocate for library volunteer opportunities when talking with parents. It is asserted that the most significant way to keep volunteers is to thank them.

The article focuses on the use of virtual Web settings by school libraries to promote reading habits and research work among students. School children prefer to use library sources and information services through the virtual school library. The library Web page can promote reading habits among students by using online catalog, creating online games based on books and by providing the provision of access to the electronic books. It can support research by creating pathfinders and posting them on the school library Web site.

The article offers the author's insights on the strategies for librarians in classifying fiction books according to genres. The author discusses the factors to be considered in the decision making process of librarians such as the proper designation of books in the catalog, ways in guiding patrons to different sections in the library, and book labeling.

The article offers tips on how to properly and efficiently shelve books by genre. Steps on genre shelving for effective library use when doing research are provided. Shelving plan, genre identification, user information provision, use of automation system and other book title consideration are suggested and discussed.

The article highlights the author's study on teaching effective book-selection strategies and inspiring engaged readers in the library media center. Results show the contrast between book selection strategies of the subject-children. She notes that the contrast highlights the complex nature of book selection and underscores the challenges that children can face when selecting books. She concludes that by teaching children effective strategies, the library media center can play an important role in inspiring children to become engaged readers.

The article reports on the need for libraries to implement guidelines and standards that would focus on providing students what they ought to learn. According to the article, library programs should contain more knowledgeable information as well as manifest modern ways of teaching and make use of technology in the process. In addition, it states that there are two documents being used by experts perfecting information use, which includes the National Educational Technology Standards(NETS) from the International Society for Technology and the enGauge 21st Century Skills: Literacy in the Digital Age from the North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL).

The article presents information on a once-a-week library club meeting which is organized in schools. The meetings are usually held during the lunch hours in the library. The essential tools required for setting the club include scissors equal to the number of club members and a paper cutter. The club members stick bulletin boards on the areas which are covered more often by the students. The club members examine the condition of books in the library and offer suggestions to prevent them from getting damaged.

Provides tips for library media specialists. Problems usually encountered in libraries; Difference of libraries from classrooms; Dealing with difficult faculty; Awareness of who controls the library.

Editorial. Presents samples of the author's collection of information in the United States. Library jobs posted during the 2001 American Library Association Midwinter conference; Financial charges on library patrons by the American Association of Publishers; Report on single-workstation filtering solutions in the Consumer Reports magazine.

The article presents information regarding various suggestions for library policies and practices from school librarians. Suggestions include promoting National Poetry Month through a poetry writing program, creating incentives for frequent library users, and implementing a volunteer program for students who want to assist with library duties.

The article presents the benefits of using the principles of cross-selling and pubic relations to improve libraries, and provides several strategies for implementing it. Suggestions include improving the library experience for existing library patrons, collaborating with schools to offer both books and services, and providing a community meeting space. The author reminds librarians to remain mindful of the library patron's needs and wants at all times.

The article discusses non-commercial ways to promote books to online generation (net-gen) students in a school library based upon readers' reviews. The authors suggest checking library automation vendors for accessible features and making reader's advisory (RA) resources available on one website. Examples of resources include Netvibes, Pageflakes and Jog the Web web construction tools.

The article discusses the value of libraries in the post-literate society. It mentions that libraries still have a place in society, not as just repositories, but also as knowledge service providers and skill builders. It notes that survival in the Internet Age implies the need among librarians to redefine, adopt, understand, and work to fulfill their purpose, so that users will see the worth of libraries.

The article discusses the research project that examines the students dispositions towards the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner at an elementary school library in the U.S. The examination of standard circulation and facility utilization records provides evidence that students are developing dispositions toward long-term usage of libraries and an appreciation of their wealth of resources. The project pointed out the need to discuss issues of ethical use of information in early age.

This article focuses on how the Plymouth Regional High School Library in Plymouth, New Hampshire adopted Web 2.0 technology to enhance services to its students and staff. It explains that students and library patrons' expect to libraries to have easy-to-use information sources and that librarians know how to share these sources. These expection prompted the library at Plymouth Regional High School to adopt Web 2.0 technology. It explains that library also made use of wikis to help students find information and most visited sites easily.

The article provides information relevant to the practice of Internet filtering that school librarians should consider. It discusses the impact of filters on the patrons' access to information. It recommends some actions that librarians may take to maximize their information service to their patrons. These include the utilization of the so called "white list" to unblock sites, the critical selection of a filtering software, and the conduction of a research that investigates the overall performance of the considered filtering software.

The article focuses on how to organize textbooks in school libraries. It relates through library media automation systems, textbooks could be added to automation system. It mentions that by having an organized system to track textbooks, the school district can save money, which can use to provide support staff or materials for the library media program. It was also taken into account that the important thing in dealing with textbook and students is to make sure there are clear set of procedures for check out, check in, lost textbooks, damaged textbooks, new students arriving and students moving away.

The article presents information on the role of book clubs in the library media centers. Book clubs offer a wide range of programs and techniques to grab the interest of readers of all ages. Book clubs boost the image of the media centers. Librarians face difficulties like lack of time, money shortage and lack of administrative support in maintaining a book club. Book clubs promote recreational reading and act as a platform for social interaction. Readers can build a positive relationship by interacting with each other.

The article presents information on the children's book award, Newbery Awards. In 1993, Kennedy Junior High School noticed numerous eager young adult readers who spent endless hours scavenging the library shelves for new books. The Mock Newbery Election became a reading adventure not among those students only but it also became a citywide event and eventually expanding to occur in numerous schools across the country. To select Mock Newbery books, teachers enlisted the assistance of the staff of Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville. Thirty-five students were given the task to choose 25 books from a selection of approximately 50 deemed potential Newbery winners. Now every year students face the daunting task of narrowing 25 Newbery candidates down to five. Anderson's Bookstore ensembles the voting results from all the participating schools in the area. Each of the active schools adapts the program to suit its individual needs. Afterwards, the winning book presenters fax, and e-mail persuasive letters on their book's behalf to the American Library Association hoping that they will influence the adult committee's final decision.

The article offers the author's insights on various factors that influence the hesitance of individuals to go to libraries. Among the key causes of library users' hesitance from libraries include the attitude of library staff members and librarians, policies concerning computer access and computer utilization in libraries, and restriction for library materials according to age and reading ability.

Feedbacks from readers of the journal is presented including one on a 6th grade boy who returned a book in the "Brotherband Chronicles" in Maine and another on the tests taken by students in a library in Georgia.

The author reflects on the concepts of ownership and access and their relationship to librarianship. She notes that libraries purchase and acquire resources that are then made available to library patrons through library policies and procedures. Particular attention is given to the concept of Bring Your Own (BYO), which the author states allows access to information and resources prior to ownership and disturbs the linear library process of providing resources to its patrons.

The author provides rules of advocacy for school librarians. One rule suggests that librarians use materials and studies from American Association of School Librarians (AASL) resources, but do not depend on them. Another is to advocate for library users instead of for libraries. The author reports that librarians should make relationships with faculty and parents to gain support.

The author discusses the usage of bookmarking technique in a library. She states that the technique encourages the student to be independent in the search process. Moreover, she provides instructions on how to make a bookmark by opening a Microsoft Word document, setting up the page in landscape orientation, and creating four or five columns.

The article presents several readers' contributions on tips about library management. It includes how to keep headphones and wires in order, through attaching it on stick hooks on the side of the monitors. Another is getting a list of the students and the books that they are going to borrow, in order to inform them if there is another book that would help them obtain important information. It also include making bookmarks for each grade level at the end of the school year, to be able to present the favorite books of that said year.

The article offers tips on how teacher-librarians can enhance library services for student users. It is suggested that it would be easier to label and barcode the remotes of DVD players for check out rather than machines. It would also be fun to write a puzzle of the day on the library whiteboard for student to answer and reward those winners. While, to add a little fun to a nursery rhyme, it is advised to have them act out the rhyme and interview after. As a way to promote timely book return for kindergarten students, "Race to Return," technique is suggested, in which each of them has a small racetrack displayed on the circulation desk.

The article offers tips on how teacher-librarians can enhance library services to student users. For a student-written book reviews, it is suggested to have students write a five-to six-sentence review, type it up and glue it to construction paper. To help them locate novels which are part of a series, it is proposed to put labels with the name of the series and volume across the top of spines of the books. Also, it is advised to ask students to write their public library patron numbers in their school notebook at the beginning of the school year.

This article presents advice related to the use of digital photography in library media centers. One should use a digital camera to photograph children who use libraries. Digital photography seems to be one of the most simple technologies adopted willingly by classroom teachers. Easy-to-use cameras, basic editing software, and cheap color printers enable teachers to create personalized booklets, posters, and bulletin boards. Along with knowing the operation and downloading procedures of a digital camera, one must learn some basic principles of visual literacy. One should at least learn the qualities that make a photograph a good photograph. With the help of a camera and a little cleverness, important decision-making people can see how children benefit from having a good library media center program. Clever library media specialists use pictures of children using libraries to promote reading by creating personalized posters of both children and the role model adults in the buildings holding their favorite books. They use the pictures to illustrate presentations to the school board, PTOs, and community groups.

Reviews the Web site LibraryInstruction.com.

Presents a survey aimed at students and their use of the library.

Provides a list showing how libraries can help teachers and vice versa. Custom-designing of lessons; Integration of technology lessons with the curriculum; Videotaping of class presentations.

Recommends Web sites and information resources that are of interest to libraries and library users. "Tessy & Tab Reading Club" magazine; Www.sagebrush.com; Gale and Google search engines.