The first comprehensive history of American public school librarianship. "Can I get a library pass?" Over the past 120 years, millions of American K–12 public
Filling a huge void in the history of education, American Public School Librarianship provides essential background information to members of the nation's schoo
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important f
This study traces the way in which the librarian as the guardian of the freedom to read came to replace the librarian as moral censor. This shift in ideology is
Provides vision for strong school library programs, including identification of the skills and knowledge essential for students to be information literate. Incl