Brimming with detailed lesson plans and reproducible worksheets that help teach library skills, this is the ideal resource for busy librarians. The library skills section covers library orientation, parts of a book, fiction and nonfiction, biography and autobiography, Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal classification, the card and computer catalogs, magazines, newspapers, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, and the vertical file. The reference book section covers lessons on basic reference sources and a Reference Book Roundup and Test. There are ready-to-present reviews of twelve reference books: The Young Reader's Companion; Books in Print; World Almanac of the USA; Lands and Peoples; World Almanac Infopedia; Guinness Book of Records; Great Athletes; Sports Almanac; Anniversaries and Holidays; Famous First Facts; Information Please Almanac; and abridged, unabridged, foreign language, and rhyming dictionaries.
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